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Date: 12 December 1940
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Donna Mills Birthday, Date of Birth
Donna Mills (born Donna Jean Miller; December 11, 1940) is an American actress. She began her television career in 1966 with a recurring role on The Secret Storm, and in the same year appeared on Broadway in Woody Allen's comedy Don't Drink the Water. She made her film debut the next year in The Incident. She then starred for three years on the soap opera Love Is a Many Splendored Thing (1967–70), before starring as Tobie Williams, the girlfriend of Clint Eastwood's character in the 1971 cult thriller Play Misty for Me. Mills played the female lead in the heist film Murph the Surf (1975), and had starring roles in a number of made-for-television movies during the 1970s.
In 1980, Mills landed the role of Abby Cunningham on the primetime soap opera Knots Landing, and was a regular on the show until 1989. For this role, she won the Soap Opera Digest Award for Outstanding Villainess three times, in 1986, 1988, and 1989. She has since starred in several TV movies, including The World's Oldest Living Bridesmaid (1990), Dangerous Intentions (1995), The Stepford Husbands (1996), Ladies of the House (2008) and Ladies of the '80s: A Divas Christmas (2023). In 2014, she joined the cast of the long-running daytime soap opera General Hospital as Madeline Reeves, for which she won a Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Special Guest Performer in a Drama Series. In 2023, she starred in the Lifetime limited series V.C. Andrews' Dawn. Mills also appeared in the films Joy (2015), Nope (2022) and Origin (2023).
Read more...- Birthday, Date of Birth
- Wednesday, December 11, 1940
- Place of Birth
- Chicago
- Age
- 84
- Star Sign
- ♐
The December 11, 1940 was a Wednesday under the star sign of ♐. It was the 345 day of the year. President of the United States was Franklin D. Roosevelt.
If you were born on this day, you are 84 years old. Your last birthday was on the Wednesday, December 11, 2024, 271 days ago. Your next birthday is on Thursday, December 11, 2025, in 93 days. You have lived for 30,952 days, or about 742,854 hours, or about 44,571,261 minutes, or about 2,674,275,660 seconds.
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- John Kerry (aircraft pilot, diplomat, lawyer, naval officer, peace activist, politician, born December 11, 1943)
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- McCoy Tyner (bandleader, composer, conductor, jazz musician, pianist, recording artist, born December 11, 1938)
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- Christophe Lemoine (actor, dub actor, born December 11, 1978)
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- James Chau (journalist, born December 11, 1977)
- Ron Carey (film actor, television actor, born December 11, 1935)
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11th of December 1940 News
News as it appeared on the front page of the New York Times on December 11, 1940
NEWS OF WOOD, FIELD AND STREAM; Getting All the News
Date: 12 December 1940
By RAYMOND R. CAMP Special to THE NEW YORK TIMES
Raymond CAMP
News and Notes of the Advertising Field
Date: 11 December 1940
Repr H J Voorhis introduces bill to tax ad and billboards
LONDON PAPER IS FINED; Sunday Publication Convicted of Violating Censorship
Date: 12 December 1940
London Reynolds News fined for censorship violations
NEWS OF WOOD, FIELD AND STREAM; A Diplomatic Silence
Date: 11 December 1940
By RAYMOND R. CAMP
Raymond CAMP
Good News for Tommies; No More Brass Polishing
Date: 11 December 1940
Special Cable to THE NEW YORK TIMES
Brit soldiers ordered to stop polishing brass equipment to make it less liable to observation from air
DOUBTS FORTS IN TANGIER; Official Says Britain Has No News of Spanish Construction
Date: 12 December 1940
Special Cables to THE NEW YORK TIMES
Replies to Commons queries: says Brit watch Tangier developments
NEWS OF THE STAGE; 'Horse Fever' Temporarily Suspends Broadway Run Saturday--Florence Reed Joins 'Flying Gerardos'
Date: 12 December 1940
NEWS OF THE STAGE; 'Flying Gerardos' Arrives Dec. 29--Plymouth Gets 'Flight to the West'--'Yohimbe Tree' Sold
Date: 11 December 1940