
Photo: Dell Publishing, 1960. Photographer not credited (Topix [1]) / Public domain (source: Wikimedia Commons)
My Take
Hayley Mills is one of those rare child stars who actually made it out the other side intact. Born in 1946 to Sir John Mills and writer Mary Hayley Bell, she broke through with Tiger Bay at 12, then won the Academy Juvenile Award for Disney's Pollyanna and dazzled in The Parent Trap. What gets me is how she kept reinventing herself, moving from movie sweetheart to serious stage work and earning a Theatre World Award decades later. Surviving fame that young and staying a working actress into your seventies takes a quiet toughness I deeply admire.
Overview
Hayley Catherine Rose Vivien Mills (born 18 April 1946) is an English actress. A daughter of Sir John Mills and Mary Hayley Bell and younger sister of actress Juliet Mills, she 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 Pollya…
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1. Profile
- Name (English)
- Hayley Mills
- Name (Japanese)
- ヘイリー・ミルズ
- Reading
- へいりー・みるず
- Born
- April 18, 1946 (age 80)
- Zodiac / Chinese zodiac
- Aries / Dog
- Origin
- Marylebone, United Kingdom
- Blood type
- Private
- Height
- Private
- Agency
- Private
- Occupation
- singer / stage actor / film actor / child actor / actor
2. Background
- Elementary school
- Private
- Junior high
- Private
- High school
- Private
- University
- Private
Awards & achievements
- 1961 Academy Juvenile Award
- 2000 Theatre World Award
- 1998 Disney Legends
- Academy Honorary Award
- 1959 Berlin International Film Festival
- 1961 Laurel Awards
- 1961 Golden Globe Award for New Star of the Year – Actress
3. Relationships
- Spouse
- Private
- Children
- Private
- Parents
- Private
- Siblings
- Private
4. Personality
Motto
Private
5. Works & records
| Category | Title | Role | Year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Notable work | Arthur's Whisky | — | |
| Notable work | Good Morning, Miss Bliss | — |
6. Links
Singer — see all → · Stage actor — see all → · More people from United Kingdom →
7. About this entry
Tags
- Last updated
- 2026-06-02
Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public items are marked "Private / Unknown". English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.