Updated 05-May-2020.
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My botty best at summarizing from Wikipedia: Hayley Catherine Rose Vivien Mills (born 18 April 1946) is an english actress . she is the daughter of Sir John Mills and Mary Hayley Bell and younger sister of actress Juliet Mills . Mills she was 12 when she was discovered by J. Lee Thompson, who was looking for a boy to play the lead role in Tiger Bay . the movie was popular at the box office in Britain . she has continued to make films and mills was the last person to receive the Juvenile Oscar . the film was a hit around the world . she was offered the title role in Lolita by Stanley Kubrick . “i wish I had done it,” she said in 1962. “it was a smashing film. “Mills would be voted the fifth biggest star in the country for the next two years. ” her last film with Disney, the comedy That Darn Cat!, did very well at the box office . during her six-year run at Disney, Mills was arguably the most popular child actress of the era . critics noted that America’s favourite child star was quite British and ladylike . “Let’s get together” hit No. 8 on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart . the success led to the release of Mills was voted the most popular film actress in the country in 1962 . she played a prankish Catholic boarding school girl with “scathingly brilliant” schemes . the trouble with angels (1966) Mills began a romantic relationship with Roy Boulting, and they eventually married in 1971 . she then starred as the protagonist of Pretty Polly (1967), opposite famous Indian film actor Shashi Kapoor in Singapore . after The Kingfisher Caper in 1975, co-written by Boulting, Mills dropped out of the film industry for a few years . Mills returned to America and made two appearances on the love boat . in 1985, Mills was originally considered to voice Princess Eilonwy in Disney’s 25th animated feature film The Black Cauldron . later, mills reprised her roles as twins Sharon and Susan for a in 2000 she made her Off-Broadway debut in Sir Nol Coward’s Suite in Two Keys . in 1991 she appeared as Anna Leonowens in the Australian production of The King and I. Mills mills starred as Ursula Widdington in the stage production of Ladies in Lavender . she starred in the 2018 Off-Broadway run of Isobel Mahon’s Party Face at City Center crispian mills is the lead singer and guitarist for the raga rock band Kula Shaker . mills’ partner since 1997 is actor and writer firdous Bamji, 20 years her junior . mills has been a pescetarian since the late 1990s . on 18 April 2008, she was diagnosed with breast cancer . she had surgery and started, but quickly abandoned, chemotherapy . the 1985 song ‘Goodbye Lucille’ by the British band Prefab Sprout refers in passing to Mills . Child and Youth Actors: Filmography of Their Entire Careers, 1914-1985