Donna Mills began her acting career on television with a guest role on the CBS daytime soap opera The Secret Storm in 1966. Following this she gained a regular role as ex-nun Laura Donnelly on the daytime soap opera Love is a Many Splendored Thing, a role she played from 1967 to 1970.

In 1971, Mills co-starred with Clint Eastwood in the thriller Play Misty For Me, which has remained her most Read more...

In 1986, already widely considered one of the most beautiful women on television, Mills released "The Eyes Have It", an instructional video for achieving several different make-up looks. She went on to release her own line of cosmetics of the same name.[citation needed]

Mills also capitalized on her sexy image cultivated on Knots Landing when she appeared on the cover and corresponding (non-nude) Read more...

In November 2002, feminist writer Camille Paglia asserted in an Interview magazine interview that the character of "Sandy" in Grease was based on Mills' experiences as a Chicago-area teen in the 1950s, even though no interview questions covered the subject. There is no corroboration of this. Jim Jacobs, one of the two authors of Grease, attended Taft High School in Chicago, as did Mills, but graduated Read more...