Donna Mills

Acting

Donna Mills

Born 1940-12-11 · Chicago, Illinois, USA

Donna Mills (born December 11, 1942) is an American actress, most well known for her role as Abby Fairgate Cunningham Ewing Sumner on the primetime soap opera Knots Landing.

Acting credits

Nope poster
6.8

Residents in a lonely gulch of inland California bear witness to an uncanny, chilling discovery.

Nope

2022

Joy poster
6.6

A story based on the life of a struggling Long Island single mom who became one of the country's most successful entrepreneurs.

Joy

2015

Origin poster
6.2

While investigating the global phenomenon of caste and its dark influence on society, a journalist faces unfathomable personal loss and uncovers the beauty of human resilience.

Origin

2023

Play Misty for Me poster
6.6

A brief fling between a late-night radio disc jockey and an obsessed female fan takes a frightening turn when another woman enters the picture.

Play Misty for Me

1971

Ladies of the '80s: A Divas Christmas poster
7.3

Five soap opera divas as they reunite to shoot the final Christmas episode of their long-running sudser. The producer, Alex and director Nell, who happen to be old college friends, do their best to keep things on the rails but as the ladies come together, old rivalries resurface that threaten to tear the production apart.

Ladies of the '80s: A Divas Christmas

2023

Night of 100 Stars II poster
6.8

This special is the second "Night of 100 Stars" to benefit The Actors Fund of America. Edited from a seven-hour live entertainment marathon that was taped February 17, 1985, at New York's Radio City Music Hall, this sequel to the 1982 "Night of 100 Stars" special features 288 celebrities.

Night of 100 Stars II

1985

The Story of Soaps poster
7.0

This ABC/PEOPLE television special highlights the impact of the soap opera. In today's shifting television landscape, "The Story of Soaps" traces how female creators migrated from radio to television to become the dominant force in daytime for more than three decades. Today, the legacy of the soap opera continues all over prime time and reality t.v. An extensive look is taken at this iconic, impactful genre.

The Story of Soaps

2020

Christmas Wishes & Mistletoe Kisses poster
6.4

Single mom Abbey takes a leap of faith to pursue her passion for interior design. When she gets hired to decorate the estate of local businessman Nick, Abbey must complete the job by Christmas Eve. With the holidays fast approaching, Abbey must figure out how to break down the wall between her and Nick, as this could be the opportunity that jump-starts her career.

Christmas Wishes & Mistletoe Kisses

2019

The Incident poster
7.4

Two hoodlums terrorize the passengers of a late-night New York City subway train.

The Incident

1967

Sharknado 4: The 4th Awakens poster
4.5

The new installment of the Sharknado franchise takes place 5 years after Sharknado 3: Oh Hell No! There have been no Sharknados in the intervening years, but now they’re appearing again in unexpected ways.

Sharknado 4: The 4th Awakens

2016

12 Gifts of Christmas poster
6.0

When Anna Parisi, an unemployed fine arts painter, is unable to make ends meet, she is hired to become a personal Christmas shopper for Marc, an uptight corporate exec. As they begin working together, Marc learns that Christmas giving has less to do with the amount of money spent and more to do with the importance of the gift, while Anna discovers she might find success as an artist in a way she never expected. The best gift of all of course is the love they discover with one another.

12 Gifts of Christmas

2015

Happy 100th Birthday, Hollywood poster
6.0

A TV special on the 100th anniversary of the birth of film.

Happy 100th Birthday, Hollywood

1987

The Lady Forgets poster
6.3

After being mugged and taking trauma to her head, Rebecca returns home to discover that she's suffered amnesia and has lost the last two years of her life. She is haunted by dreams of a violent event and starts to remember what transpired prior to her memory loss. Rebecca frantically tries to piece together her missing past, but as the memories come into focus, it increasingly jeopardizes her safety.

The Lady Forgets

1989

My Name Is Kate poster
6.4

Kate (Donna Mills) is an alcoholic--and, as is often the case, she is in full denial regarding her illness. Only when she is threatened with mass desertion by her husband, children and best friend does the sullen Kate agree to seek out treatment.

My Name Is Kate

1994

Curse of the Black Widow poster
5.2

Tony Franciosa plays a detective who's on the trail of a murderer whose mutilated and predominantly male victims are found encased in silken cocoons...

Curse of the Black Widow

1977

Dangerous Intentions poster
7.3

A man stalks his wife and child when they leave for an abused women's shelter.

Dangerous Intentions

1995

Look What's Happened to Rosemary's Baby poster
3.6

Baby Adrian is now all grown up and separated from his mother, wrestling with the occult influences that plague him, and trying to outrun Satan himself.

Look What's Happened to Rosemary's Baby

1976

Cursed Part 3 poster
8.0

A horror comedy that spoofs the narcissistic film director whose delusional vision of her badly written three page treatment (a direct ripoff of The Blair Witch Project), pages she feels are enough to make a complete movie. The director immediately loses its star (Donna Mills) and has to step into the female lead role herself. Not an actor, a beauty, or even a very good director, she is forced to face her limits.

Cursed Part 3

2000

Fire! poster
7.1

The sheer terror and unearthly beauty of a raging forest fire is breathlessly captured in this compelling Irwin Allen production boasting a big-name cast and enough blazing special effects to turn night into day. Involved are a lumber mill owner (Ernest Borgnine), the widowed operator of a forest lodge (Vera Miles), a teacher on a class outing (Donna Mills), a country doctor (Lloyd Nolan), a couple (Patty Duke Astin and Alex Cord) whose shaky marriage is healed when battling the blaze brings out their better natures, and escaping convicts (Neville Brand and Erik Estrada) who use the conflagration to cover their tracks. Like Allen’s crowd-pleasers The Poseidon Adventure and The Towering Inferno, Fire sizzles with suspense and excitement. Turn up the heat!

Fire!

1977

Waikiki poster
5.3

A couple of private eyes, a laid-back Californian and a streetwise New Yorker, team up to track down a killer in Hawaii known as "The Cane Field Murderer" in this unsuccessful pilot to a detective series.

Waikiki

1980

Ladies of the House poster
4.5

When three women are asked to refurbish a house for their church, they find that they must break down their own self-perception in order to build something together.

Ladies of the House

2008

Doctors' Private Lives poster
8.0

Two heart surgeons clash over personal issues and medical ethics in a big-city hospital.

Doctors' Private Lives

1978

A Beauty & the Beast Christmas poster
5.3

Ginger Holiday, a peppy Christmas influencer, is convinced by her agent to fake a holiday romance with viral bad boy Beau Bradley to gain more followers. Ginger and Beau initially can't stand each other, but as they spend more time together they realize the feelings they had to fake at first might just be turning into something heartfelt.

A Beauty & the Beast Christmas

2019

A Very Cool Christmas poster
3.8

16 year-old Lindsay decides to give Santa Claus an extreme makeover.

A Very Cool Christmas

2004