Donna Jean Miller is a Chicago, Illinois-born American actress as well as a film producer who is perhaps best known for playing the role of Abby Cunningham in the soap opera “Knots Landing”. Born on 11 December 1940, Donna is a Daytime Emmy Award-winning actress. A very talented actress, Donna has been active in the field of entertainment since 1966.
One of the most prominent and well-respected actresses in Hollywood as well as American television, how rich is Donna Mills? As estimated by sources, Donna counts her net worth at the amount of $7 million in mid-2016. Needless to say, she has managed to earn this wealth due to her activities in the entertainment sector as a professional actress and producer for more than the past 50 years.
Donna Mills Net Worth $7 million
Chicago-raised Donna attended Garvey Elementary School and matriculated early from Taft High School. Later, she enrolled at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign only to drop out a year later to pursue a career in dancing.
Initially, Donna performed in theatre, and her professional debut was in the play “Come Blow Your Horn”. Later, her career on television started when she appeared in the soap opera “The Secret Storm” in 1966. The next year, she also stepped into Hollywood as Mills debuted in the movie “The Incident”, working alongside actors like Martin Sheen and Thelma Ritter. Her net worth was gradually rising.
Mills earned considerable fame as she was cast as Abby Cunningham in the soap opera “Knots Landing. In the series, Mills worked with famous actors like James Houghton, Michele Lee, Don Murray, and others.
During her career, she also worked with many other popular actors, including alongside Florence Henderson and Pam Grier in the Hallmark TV movie “Ladies Of The House”, and with actors Michael Ontkean and Cindy Williams in the movie “The Stepford Husbands” among many others. She revived her role as Abby Cunningham in the TV miniseries “Knots Landing: Back To The Cul-de-Sac” which aired in 1997.
More recently, she was seen in movies like “Ladies Of The House”, “Joy” and others. However, she earned more fame in 2014 when she joined the cast of the television series “General Hospital” as Madeline Reeves and gave an award-winning guest performance in two of its latest seasons. Her net worth continues to grow.
During her career, Donna has been rewarded with various prestigious awards. She was awarded the Soap Opera Digest Award for Outstanding Villainess three times for her role as Abby Cunningham in “Knot Landings”, and with a 2015 Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Performer in a Drama Series for her role as Madeline Reeves in “General Hospital”.
Apart from acting, Donna owns her line of cosmetics which goes by the name “The Eyes Have It”, which also contributes to her net worth.
Regarding her personal life, 75 years old Donna Mills has not yet been married although she is mother to her adopted daughter Chloe. As of now, Mills enjoys her career as one of the most prominent actresses in American television, while her present net worth of $7 million caters to her daily life.
