Hollywood TCL Chinese Theatre Handprints and Footprints, 1964. She next appeared in the psychological thriller ‘Twisted Nerve’ playing the lead role. She played the lead role in the 1961 film ‘Whistle Down the Wind’, which can be regarded as another one of her important works. The film was directed by David Swift. For her role in the film ‘Polyanna’, she won the Juvenile Oscar as well as a Golden Globe Award and a Laurel Award. Who's Your Haley? (1965) was very much a success, as was her first post-Disney film, Columbia's The Trouble with Angels (1966). She was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2008 which she survived with the help of alternative treatments. Hayley Catherine Rose Vivien Mills was born on 18th April 1946 in Marylebone, London, UK. In 1966, she played a main role in the comedy film ‘The Trouble with Angels’. Also Known As: Hayley Catherine Rose Vivien Mills, Spouse/Ex-: Firdous Bamji (1997–present), Leigh Lawson (1975–84), Roy Boulting (m. 1971; div. https://www.thefamouspeople.com/profiles/hayley-mills-33602.php, British Female Film & Theater Personalities, The Top 25 Wrestling Announcers Of All Time, Celebrities Who Are Not In The Limelight Anymore, 20th Century Film & Theater Personalities, 21st Century Film & Theater Personalities, 20th Century British Film & Theater Personalities, 21st Century British Film & Theater Personalities. He signed her to a five-year contract. Then, she shocked her fans by appearing in the comedy The Family Way (1966) with her father. That Darn Cat! Her parents were Sir John Mills and Mary Hayley Bell, both renowned British actors. There was an even bigger surprise in store when she fell in love with the film's director, Roy Boulting, who was 33 years her senior. Her sister is the actress Juliet Mills. Hayley Mills is 73 next month, and she looks wonderful – slim, blonde and pretty. Though she doesn’t consider herself a part of the organization, she said that she has received a lot of spiritual guidance from it. Over the years, she appeared in several TV programs and shows. She had her second son Jason Lawson with him. Other people in … Her debut performance turned heads around the world, from Germany, where she won an award at the Berlin Film Festival, to Hollywood, when Walt Disney came knocking at her door. Born Hayley Catherine Rose Vivien Mills in London, England, on Thursday, April 18th, 1946, she is the daughter of the great actor Sir John Mills and the well-known novelist-playwright Mary Hayley Bell. Hayley Mills (I) Hayley Mills. The show aired from 2007 to 2012. Later, she was in a relationship with British actor Leigh Lawson. Hayley Mills won two awards for her role in ‘Tiger Bay’: a Berlin International Film Festival Award and a BAFTA Award for Most Promising Newcomer to Film in 1959. She would continue to work steadily through her teenage years into adulthood, including landing the title role in the '80s sitcom "Good Morning Miss Bliss." ’Polyanna’, a Walt Disney film which was released in 1960, starred Hayley Mills in one of the lead roles. For her first film for the studio, Pollyanna (1960), she won critical raves, box-office success, and a special Juvenile Academy Award. Though she made very few onscreen appearances over the next two decades, she played a supporting role in the 2011 British comedy film ‘Foster’. She portrayed two twins trying to reunite their divorced parents. So do we. Her work with Disney made her the most popular child actress of that time. Though Disney gave her a somewhat more adult role in the mystery film The Moon-Spinners (1964), she had begun to tire of her sunny, innocent Pollyanna image and personality. She made her film debut at the age of thirteen in the British crime drama 'Tiger Bay' which starred her father in a lead role. By this time, he'd taken control of her career, and, as a result, she made many bad film choices that left critics and audiences cold. She also earned acclaim for her role in the comedy film ‘The Family Way’, in which he starred along with her father. Her extraordinary performance in the film not only made her a star within a short time, but also won her the Juvenile Oscar. She managed to beat it, for which she credits the alternative treatments that she had tried. However, that was nothing compared to the fact that 19-year-old Mills took up with Roy Boulting, the film's 52-year-old director. Her performance was loved by Bill Anderson, who was one of Walt Disney's producers. She was noticed playing at her parent's home in 1958 by director J. Lee Thompson, who immediately cast her opposite, of her father in the thriller Tiger Bay (1959). 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Or Hayley, Hailee, Halle or Hailey? Last person to be awarded a "Juvenile Award" at the Oscars. Though she was born a Christian, she has been involved with ISKCON (International Society for Krishna Consciousness) from the past several years. She grew up in her parents' home, an outgoing, funny child, and, because she spent so much time with her parents and their friends, very intelligent. Their son Crispian Mills is a renowned singer. Over the years she did four more films for Disney: 'In Search of the Castaways', 'Summer Magic', 'The Moon-Spinners', and 'That Darn Cat!'. 1977), See the events in life of Hayley Mills in Chronological Order. She appeared in three TV-movie sequels to The Parent Trap (1961) in the late 1980's, and also appeared in the BBC miniseries The Flame Trees of Thika (1981) and the TV series Good Morning, Miss Bliss (1987), later re-titled Saved by the Bell (1989). She has two siblings, a sister Juliet Mills who went on to become a successful actress, and a brother Jonathan Mills who became a film director. Her latest television appearance was in an episode of the British TV series ‘Moving On’. She was also seen in the TV series ‘Wild at Heart’, in which he played a supporting role.