Hayley Mills

Biography

Hayley Catherine Rose Vivien Mills (born 18 April 1946) is an English actress. The daughter of Sir John Mills and Mary Hayley Bell, and younger sister of actress Juliet Mills, Mills began her acting career as a child and was hailed as a promising newcomer, winning the BAFTA Award for Most Promising Newcomer for her performance in the British crime drama film Tiger Bay (1959), the Academy Juvenile Award for Disney's Pollyanna (1960) and Golden Globe Award for New Star of the Year – Actress in 1961. During her early career, she appeared in six films for Walt Disney, including her dual role as twins Susan and Sharon in the Disney film The Parent Trap (1961). Her performance in Whistle Down the Wind (a 1961 adaptation of the novel written by her mother) saw Mills nominated for BAFTA Award for Best British Actress.

Known For

The Wheel of Time

as Gitara Moroso

Trap

as Dr. Josephine Grant

Murder, She Wrote

as Cynthia Tate

The Parent Trap

as Susan Evers / Sharon McKendrick

Midsomer Murders

as Lizzy Thornfield

Death in Paradise

as Nancy Martin

Amazing Stories

as Joan Simmons

Pollyanna

as Pollyanna

The Love Boat

as Cheryl Tyson

The Love Boat

as Leila Stanhope