Donna Mills Is Ready to Return to Hollywood: ‘I’m Not Done Yet’
By Movieguide® Contributor
Actress Donna Mills, best known for her role in KNOTS LANDING, recently made a splash with her role in Jordan Peele’s latest movie, NOPE.
Mills hopes the new movie will help re-launch her career and put her back on the map in Hollywood.
“I want to look to the future,” she explained. “I’m not done yet. I have had a wonderful career so far. I do not see myself retiring. I want to work for as long as possible.”
Mills put her career on pause for a few years for a very good reason: raising her daughter Chloe.
Movieguide® previously reported:
KNOTS LANDING star Donna Mills recently shared how adopting her first child in her 50s changed her life.
“I was very concentrated on my career, but at a certain point, I realized there was something missing — it was a child,” Mills explained. “So I went after it. I adopted her when she was 4 days old.”
She continued: “By that time, I was 54 and people said, ‘You’re going to be so old [to] have a little toddler running around.’ I never felt that. I never felt older than the other mothers who were probably in their 20s.”
The actress spent her earlier years focused on her acting career, but once she adopted her daughter, Mills dropped everything to be a mother.
“I took off 18 years. I didn’t work,” Mills said. “Well, the first couple of years, I did work. I did some movies for television and stuff like that, because I could take her wherever I went. But then when she started school, I wasn’t going to go out of town for two months at a time. And I didn’t become a mother to give her to a nanny.”
Mills’ daughter, Chloe, is now 27, and the mother and daughter are very close.
“We see each other at least once a week and we talk every day or text,” the actress shared.
Mills’ story of becoming a mother later in life and her devotion to her daughter shows that it is never too late to become a parent!
Mills has slowly begun to pick up more acting roles on shows like GENERAL HOSPITAL and QUEENS OF DRAMA.
“I don’t want to stop,” she said of her acting career. “Not at all. I seriously love acting. I love creating a character and creating a role. Now I’m trying to get back to a ‘network’ level, whatever ‘network TV’ means these days. There are a lot of opportunities for women of my age. As Larry [her manager] says, ‘We have to get you back into the conversation.’ That’s what we’re attempting to do now — so people think about me when they’re casting.”
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What you listen to, watch, and read has power. Movieguide® wants to give you the resources to empower the good and the beautiful. But we can’t do it alone. We need your support.
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