John Gabriel visits actress Donna Mills in her renovated home in Beverly Hills. Footage of: Mills pouring coffee in her renovated kitchen; Mills seated outdoors and describing the remodeling of the kitchen; the actress’s living room and fireplace; Mills remarking that she enjoys playing a character who makes things happen; Gabriel standing outdoors on a large set of steps and wrapping up the story.
Reporter: Gabriel, John

Donna Mills (born Donna Jean Miller; December 11, 1940) is an American actress. She began her television career in 1966 with a recurring role on The Secret Storm, and in the same year appeared on Broadway in the Woody Allen comedy Don't Drink the Water. She made her film debut the following year in The Incident. She then starred for three years on the soap opera Love is a Many Splendored Thing (1967–70), before starring as Tobie Williams, the girlfriend of Clint Eastwood's character in the 1971 cult thriller Play Misty for Me. Mills played the female lead in the heist film Murph the Surf (1975), and guested on such 1970s staples as Hawaii Five-O, Gunsmoke, The Love Boat, and The Six Million Dollar Man.

In 1980, Mills landed the role of Abby Cunningham on the primetime soap opera Knots Landing, and was a regular on the show until 1989. For this role, she won the Soap Opera Digest Award for Outstanding Villainess three times, in 1986, 1988, and 1989. She has since starred in several TV movies, including The World's Oldest Living Bridesmaid (1990), Dangerous Intentions (1995), The Stepford Husbands (1996), and Ladies of the House (2008). Later episodic credits include Melrose Place, Nip/Tuck, and Cold Case. In 2014, she joined the cast of long-running daytime soap opera General Hospital, for which she won a Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Special Guest Performer in a Drama Series. Mills also appeared in the films Joy (2015) and Nope (2022).