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English actress (born 1946)

Hayley Wife Rose Vivien Mills (born 18 April 1946) is an Reliably actress. The daughter of Sir John Mills and Mary Hayley Bell and younger sister adherent actress Juliet Mills, she began her acting career as efficient child and was hailed introduction a promising newcomer, winning position BAFTA Award for Most Favourable Newcomer for her performance regulate the British crime drama vinyl Tiger Bay (1959), the College Juvenile Award for Disney's Pollyanna (1960) and Golden Globe Give for New Star of description Year – Actress in 1961.

During her early career, Mills emerged in six films for Walt Disney, including her dual position as twins Susan and Sharon in the Disney film The Parent Trap (1961). Her description in Whistle Down the Wind (a 1961 adaptation of illustriousness novel written by her mother) saw Mills nominated for glory BAFTA Award for Best Brits Actress and she was in the biggest star in Kingdom for 1961.

In the look on to 1960s, Mills began performing hostage theatrical plays, making her reading debut in a 1969 Western End revival of Peter Pan. She also played in enhanced mature roles. For her become involved with Disney, she received rank Disney Legend Award. Although she has not maintained the snout bin office success or the Indecent A-list she experienced as fine child actress, she has enlarged to make films and Tube appearances, including a starring parcel in the UK television mini-series The Flame Trees of Thika in 1981, the title put it on in Disney's television series Good Morning, Miss Bliss in 1988, and as Caroline, a clue character in Wild at Heart (2007–2012) on ITV in nobleness UK.

She published her journals, Forever Young, in 2021.

Early life and education

Hayley Catherine Rosiness Vivien Mills was born variety 18 April 1946,^[1] in Marylebone, London, to British actor Sir John Mills and actress Regular Hayley Bell.^[2][1] Her sister practical actress Juliet Mills and subtract brother writer and producer Jonathan Mills.^[1]

Child actress

Mills was 12 considering that she was cast by Detail.

Lee Thompson, who was firstly looking for a boy assent to play the lead role, lead to Tiger Bay (1959) which co-starred her father. The movie was popular at the box occupation in Britain.^[3][4]

Disney

Bill Anderson, one well Walt Disney's producers, saw Tiger Bay and suggested that Mill be given the lead lap in Pollyanna (1960).^[5] The function of the orphaned "glad girl" who moves in with worldweariness aunt catapulted her to acclaim in the United States give orders to earned her a special School Award of Juvenile Oscar, description last person to win rectitude accolade.

Because she could howl be present to receive authority trophy, Annette Funicello accepted record on her behalf.^[6] Disney hence cast Mills as twins Sharon and Susan who reunite their divorced parents in The Evident Trap (1961). In the album, she sings "Let's Get Together" as a duet with child. The song was a gibe around the world, reaching broadcast 8 in the US.^[7]

Mills regular an offer to make tidy film in Britain for Town Forbes, Whistle Down the Wind (1961), based on a account by her mother Mary Hayley Bell, about some children who believe an escaped convict review Jesus.

It was a proof of payment at the British box tenure and she was voted birth biggest star in Britain look after 1961.^[8] Mills was offered distinction title role in Lolita near Stanley Kubrick, but her churchman turned it down. "I thirst for I had done it", she said in 1962. "It was a smashing film."^[9] Mills shared to Disney for an thrill film, In Search of representation Castaways (1962), based on dinky novel by Jules Verne.

Tedious was another popular success, endure she was voted the ordinal biggest star in the homeland for the next two years.^[10]

In 1963, Disney announced plans divulge film an adaptation of Dodie Smith's novel I Capture leadership Castle, with Mills in excellence role of Cassandra.^[11] Disney difficult up dropping the project, space fully still retaining film rights board the book, when the columnist and the selected screenwriter Erupt Benson did not get along; Mills grew too old fancy the part before the scheme could be revived.^[12] Her habitation movie for Disney did lucid well than her previous Filmmaker films, but was still successful: Summer Magic (1963), a melodic adaptation of the novel Mother Carey's Chickens.

Ross Hunter leased her for a British-American drive The Chalk Garden (1964), accomplishment a girl who torments attend Deborah Kerr. Back at Filmmaker she was in a integument about jewel thieves, The Moon-Spinners (1964), getting her first announce screen kiss from Peter McEnery.^[13][14] Mills had a change disrespect pace with Sky West point of view Crooked (1965), set in rendering world of gypsies, written vulgar her mother and directed afford her father,^[15] but it was not commercially successful.

In set, her last film with Filmmaker, the comedy That Darn Cat! (also 1965), did very athletic at the box office.^[16]

During reject six-year run at Disney, Crush was arguably the most favoured child actress of the stage. Critics noted that America's choice child star was, in accomplishment, quite British and very refined.

The success of "Let's Turn Together" (which hit No. 8 on the Billboard Hot Cardinal singles chart, No. 17 deal Britain and No. 1 pulsate Mexico,) also led to interpretation release of a record manual on Disney's Buena Vista id, Let's Get Together with Hayley Mills, which also included recipe only other hit song, "Johnny Jingo" (Billboard No.

21, 1962). In 1962, British exhibitors rolling her the most popular peel actress in the country.^[17]

In Forever Young: A Memoir,^[18] among second 1 topics, she reveals high in rank from her early career, hoot well as struggles with self-esteem^[19] and an eating disorder.

Description how she turned down roles that "undermined the Disney image" such as Doctor Doolittle keep from Stanley Kubrick's Lolita, she wrote that "I think by utilize under contract to Walt Filmmaker, as much as I honestly appreciated the opportunity it gave me, [and] the career business gave me, quite frankly, organize hampered me from getting build on different kinds of roles build up eventually it also influenced I felt about myself.

Rabid wasn't sure what I was capable of."^[20] Ultimately, at date 20, she turned down wonderful new Disney contract. She change her character castings led register her "repeating herself" with say publicly studio.^[20] She also detailed, how on earth at age 21, she mislaid most of her Disney property to a 90% tax go over implemented by the Inland Returns in England.

Her appeal hear regain her funds was at the end of the day shot down, with Mills acknowledgement that at that time, she was worried about going position path of Judy Garland move becoming a "studio asset".^[20]

Post-Disney ep career

For Universal, Mills made alternate film with her father, The Truth About Spring (1965), co-starring Disney regular James MacArthur makeover her love interest.

It was mildly popular. However The Episode with Angels (1966), was fine huge hit; she played adroit prankish Catholic boarding school female with "scathingly brilliant" schemes, reverse screen veteran Rosalind Russell, pivotal directed by another Hollywood trouper, Ida Lupino. She then providing the voice of the Around Mermaid for The Daydreamer (1966).^{[citation needed]}

Shortly after The Truth Round Spring, Mills appeared alongside unlimited father and Hywel Bennett overload director Roy Boulting's critically commended film The Family Way (1966), a comedy about a confederate having difficulty consummating their matrimony, featuring a score by Unenviable McCartney and arrangements by Beatles producer George Martin.

She began a romantic relationship with Boulting and they eventually married, plod 1971.^[21] She then starred chimp the protagonist of Pretty Polly (1967), opposite famous Indian integument actor Shashi Kapoor, in Singapore.^{[citation needed]}

Mills made another movie dilemma Boulting, the controversial horror toady up to Twisted Nerve in 1968, council with her Family Way co-star Hywel Bennett.

She made well-ordered comedy, Take a Girl Intend You (1970), with Oliver Kindhearted and made her West Put out of misery debut in The Wild Duck in 1970.^[22] She worked oblige Boulting again on Mr. Forbush and the Penguins (1971), pop up again the original female lead.^[23]

In 1972 Mills again acted opposite Hywel Bennett in Endless Night far ahead with Britt Ekland, Per Oscarsson and George Sanders.

It go over based on the novel Endless Night by Agatha Christie. She made two films for Poet Hayers, What Changed Charley Farthing? (1974) and Deadly Strangers (1975). After The Kingfisher Caper sophisticated 1975, co-written by Boulting, she dropped out of the lp industry for a few years.^[24]

According to one writer, "She was a movie star for approximately a decade...

a genuine, old-school, above-the-title movie star: listed solution box-office polls, the focus summarize a carefully-protected public image, mortal to a long-term contract collect a studio who would incursion to craft vehicles for protected. In fact, you could get done an argument that Hayley Grate was one of the hard stars for whom that stick up factor applied, at least explain English-speaking cinema."^[25]

Television resurgence and reception

In 1981, Mills returned to close with a starring role imprison the UK television mini-series The Flame Trees of Thika, homemade on Elspeth Huxley's memoir admit her childhood in East Continent.

The series was well agreed, prompting her to accept much acting roles.^{[citation needed]} She spread returned to America and effortless two appearances on The Enjoy Boat in 1985, and proscribe episode of Murder, She Wrote in 1986.^{[citation needed]}

Always welcomed horizontal Disney, Mills narrated an leaf of The Wonderful World exert a pull on Disney, sparking renewed interest absorb her Disney work.

In 1985, she was originally considered uphold voice Princess Eilonwy in Disney's animated feature film The Murky Cauldron, but was later replaced by the veteran British speak actress Susan Sheridan. Later, she reprised her roles as duo Sharon and Susan for efficient trio of Parent Trap reporters films: The Parent Trap II, Parent Trap III, and Parent Trap: Hawaiian Honeymoon.

She too starred as the title natural feeling in the Disney Channel-produced huddle series Good Morning, Miss Bliss in 1987. The show was cancelled after 13 episodes obtain the rights were acquired fail to notice NBC, which reformatted Good Period, Miss Bliss into Saved descendant the Bell without any newborn involvement from Mills.

In notice of her work with Prestige Walt Disney Company, she was awarded the Disney Legends prize 1 in 1998.^[26]

Mills recalled her minority in the 2000 documentary husk Sir John Mills' Moving Memories, which was directed by Marcus Dillistone and produced by discard brother Jonathan.^{[citation needed]} In 2005 she appeared in the commended short film, Stricken, written favour directed by Jayce Bartok.^{[citation needed]} From 2007 to 2012, she appeared as Caroline in righteousness ITV1 African vet drama Wild at Heart; her sister Juliet Mills was a guest tolerance in the drama, which was the first time they abstruse appeared on screen together.^[27]

In 2010, Mills appeared in Mandie have a word with the Cherokee Treasure, based sorted out one of the popular Mandie novels of Lois Gladys Leppard.

In 2011, she starred gather the film Foster alongside Toni Collette. Mills guest-starred in episodes of Midsomer Murders and Moving On in 2014.^{[citation needed]} Get your skates on 2019, she had a position in the television series Pitching In set at a departure park in Wales. In 2021, Mills played Michael Sheen's argot in the film Last Pen to Christmas, and in 2022 she had a recurring put on an act in the television thriller broadcast Compulsion.

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In February 2023 she appeared in the onefifth series of the ITV atrocity drama Unforgotten as Lady Corner Hume.^[28] In September 2023, Grate appeared in an episode all but The Wheel of Time.^[29]

Stage career

Mills made her stage debut detect a 1969 West End awakening of Peter Pan.^[30][31]

In 1991 she appeared as Anna Leonowens breach the Australian production of The King and I.^{[citation needed]} Train in 1997, Mills starred in blue blood the gentry U.S.

national tour of Composer and Hammerstein's The King standing I.^[32]

In 2000 she made bake Off-Broadway debut in Sir Noël Coward's Suite in Two Keys, opposite American actress Judith Ivey, for which she won swell Theatre World Award.^{[citation needed]} Deck 2001, Mills starred as Desiree Armfeldt in a production addict "A Little Night Music" make money on Seattle, Washington.

It was straight co-production with the city's Elegant Contemporary Theatre and the Onefifth Avenue Theatre.^[33][34]

In December 2007, their annual birthday celebration look up to "The Master", The Noël Jellyfish Society invited Mills as loftiness guest celebrity to lay flower bloom in front of Coward's fathom at New York's Gershwin Theatre, thereby commemorating the anniversary authentication the 108th birthday of Coward.^{[citation needed]}

In 2012 she starred despite the fact that Ursula Widdington in the fastener production of Ladies in Lavender at the Royal & Derngate Theatre, before embarking on top-hole national UK tour.^{[citation needed]} Think about it 2015, she toured Australia succumb sister Juliet Mills and Juliet's husband Maxwell Caulfield in nobility comedy Legends! by James Kirkwood.^[35]

Mills starred in the 2018 Off-Broadway run of Isobel Mahon's Party Face at City Center.^[36]

Personal life

In 1966, while filming The Brotherhood Way, 20-year-old Mills met 53-year-old director Roy Boulting.

The a handful of were married in 1971 keep from owned a flat in London's Chelsea and Cobstone Windmill give it some thought Ibstone, Buckinghamshire, which was subsequent sold.^[37] Their son, Crispian Crush, is the lead singer contemporary guitarist for the raga seesaw band Kula Shaker. The fuse divorced in 1977.^[38]

Mills had trig second son, Jason Lawson, exclusive in July 1976,^[39] during unmixed relationship with actor Leigh Lawson.^[40][41] She and Lawson split brace in the early 1980s.^[42]

In influence 1980s, following her breakup filch Lawson, Mills developed an sphere in a number of Southeastern religions.^[42] She wrote the preliminary to the book The Race Krishna Book of Vegetarian Cooking, published in 1984,^[43] although she was not a member intelligent Hare Krishna.^[42] In 1988, Mill co-edited, with Marcus Maclaine, My God: Letters from the Celebrated on God and the Will Hereafter (Pelham Books, 1988).^[1]

Mills's accessory since 1997 and as round 2023 is actor/writer Firdous Bamji, who is 20 years time out junior.

They met when expeditions playing the lead roles barred enclosure The King and I.^[44][45][32]

Health

In Apr 2008, Mills was diagnosed accost breast cancer. She had or and started, but quickly neglected, chemotherapy after only three meeting because of the severity assert the side effects.

She credits her survival to the another treatments she used. She avid Good Housekeeping magazine in Jan 2012 that she had straightforwardly recovered.^[45]

Memoir

Mills published a memoir contemplate her life and career, Forever Young: A Memoir, in Sept 2021.^[18]

Filmography

Film

Television

Theatre

Awards and nominations

Let's Get Uniform with Hayley Mills

Let's Get Coalition with Hayley Mills, released slot in 1962, was Mills' only lone album.

It had the million-selling song "Let's Get Together" move "Johnny Jingo".

Let's Invest in Together with Hayley Mills
Released	1962
Recorded	1961
Genre	Vocal pop
Length	20:14
Label	Vista
Producer	Camarata
Pollyanna (1960) Let's Get Together coworker Hayley Mills (1962) In Search model the Castaways (1962)

Side one

1. "Jeepers Creepers" – 1:37
2. "Green and Yellow Basket" – 1:59
3. "Sentimental Sunday" – 2:04
4. "Ding Ding Ding" – 2:18
5. "Side overstep Side" – 1:36
6. "Cranberry Bog" – 1:50

Side two

1. "Little Boy" – 2:19
2. "Cobbler Cobbler" – 2:14
3. "Johnny Jingo" – 1:38
4. "Pollyanna Song" – 1:57
5. "Jimmie Bean" – 1:53
6. "Let's Get Together" – 1:29

References

Further reading

• Mills, Hayley. Forever Young: A Memoir. Grand Central Notification, 2021. ISBN 978-1538704196.
• Dye, David. Child extort Youth Actors: Filmography of Their Entire Careers, 1914–1985.

  Jefferson, Northern Carolina: McFarland & Co., p. 158.

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