Hayley Mills was born Hayley Catherine Rose Vivien Mills. She is a famous English actress. Mills started her career as a child actor later a small interest develop into a dream.
Moreover, She has received many awards like BAFTA Award for Most positive Newcomer for her performance in the British crime drama film Tiger Bay (1959), the Academy Juvenile Award for Disney’s Pollyanna (1960), and the Golden Globe Award for New Star of the Year.
Hayley appeared in six films for Walt Disney, which include her dual role as twins Susan and Sharon in the Disney film The Parent Trap (1961). Mills was nominated for BAFTA Award for Best British Actress for her performance in Whistle Down the Wind.
Mills started performing in theatrical plays in the mid of 60s. She made her stage debut in a 1966 West End revival of Peter Pan. Hayley also played more mature roles. The actress even received the Disney Legend Award for her success with Disney.
Hayley Mills’s Date of Birth and Age
Hayley Mills was born in Marylebone, London, England on 18 April 1946. Currently, she is 76 years old but still looks healthy, energetic, and full of motivation when it comes to her work. Mills has been celebrating her birthday on the 18th of April every year.
Furthermore, Hayley holds a British nationality and belongs to white ethnicity. It seems like she follows Christianity. Her zodiac sign is Aries. She was born and raised in London. Mills was really young when she pursue acting as her career.
Hayley Mills’s Career
Moreover, She has received many awards like 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 the Golden Globe Award for New Star of the Year.
Hayley appeared in six films for Walt Disney, which include her dual role as twins Susan and Sharon in the Disney film The Parent Trap (1961). Mills was nominated for BAFTA Award for Best British Actress for her performance in Whistle Down the Wind.
Mills started performing in theatrical plays in the mid of 60s. She made her stage debut in a 1966 West End revival of Peter Pan. Hayley also played more mature roles. The actress even received the Disney Legend Award for her success with Disney.
The actress received an offer to make a film in Britain for Bryan Forbes, Whistle Down the Wind (1961), which was based on a novel by her mother Mary Hayley Bell, about some children who believe an escaped convict is Jesus.
The movie was a hit at the British box office and she has been voted the biggest star in Britain in 1961. Likewise, Hayley was offered the title role in Lolita by Stanley Kubrick, but her father reject that.
In Addition, in After The Truth About Spring, she appeared with her father and Hywel Bennett in director Roy Boulting’s critically acclaimed film The Family Way (1966), which is a comedy about a couple having difficulty consummating their marriage, featuring a score by Paul McCartney and arrangements by the producer of Beatles George Martin.
Meanwhile, She began a romantic relationship with Boulting, and they eventually married, in 1971.
Later in 1981, Mills came back to acting with a starring role in The Flame Trees of Thika, which is the UK television mini-series based on Elspeth Huxley’s memoir of her childhood in East Africa. The series was loved and appreciated and they got a positive response for that.
Then Mills returned to America and continuously made two appearances on The Love Boat in 1985, and an episode of Murder, She Wrote in 1986.
In the 1996 West End revival of Peter Pan, Mills made her stage debut. Similarly, in 2000 she made her Off-Broadway debut in Sir Noel Coward’s Suite in Two Keys, opposite American actress Judith Ivey. For that, she won a Theatre World Award.
Hayley Mills’s Husband
Hayley Mills was married to Roy Boulting in 1971. The couple met while filming the family way in 1966. Mills was just 20 years old whereas Roy Boulting, a director was 53 years old at the time of marriage.
Crispian Mills is their son and he is the lead singer and guitarist for the raga rock band Kula Shaker. The couple end their marriage in 1977.
Eventually, she was in a relationship with actor Leigh Lawson, with whom she had a son named Jason Lawson born in 1976. The couple broke up in 1980.
Since 1997, Mills is engaged romantically with her boyfriend Firdous Bamji. Bamji is an actor and a writer who is 20 years younger than Mills.
Unfortunately, the actress was diagnosed with breast cancer in April 2008. She had surgery and chemotherapy after only three sessions because of the intensity of the side effects.
Mills credits her survival to the alternative treatments she used. Later in January 2012, she told Good Housekeeping magazine that she had fully recovered.
Hayley Mills’s Social media Handles
Hayley Mills is active on her Instagram with 13.1k followers.