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Hayley Catherine Rose Vivien Mills (born 18 April 1946) is an English actress. The daughter of Sir John Mills and Mary Hayley Bell, and younger sister of actress Juliet Mills, Mills began her acting career as a child and was hailed as a promising newcomer, winning the BAFTA Award for Most Promising Newcomer for ''Tiger Bay'' (1959), the Academy Juvenile Award for ''Pollyanna'' (1960) and Golden Globe Award for New Star of the Year – Actress in 1961. During her early career, she appeared in six films for Walt Disney, and is perhaps best known for her dual role as twins Susan and Sharon in the Disney film ''The Parent Trap'' (1961). During the late 1960s she began performing in theatrical plays, and played in more mature roles. The age of contracts with studios soon passed. Although she has not maintained the box office success or the Hollywood A-list she experienced as a child actress, she has continued to make films and TV appearances. From 2007 to 2012, Mills played Caroline, a main character in the ITV1 Series ''Wild at Heart''. From 28 May 2015, Mills will tour Australia with her brother-in-law Maxwell Caulfield and her sister Juliet Mills in the comedy ''Legends!'' by Pulitzer Prize winner James Kirkwood. ==Early life and career== Mills was born in London. She was 12 when she was discovered by J. Lee Thompson, who was initially looking for a boy to play the lead role in ''Tiger Bay'', which co-starred her father, veteran British actor Sir John Mills. Bill Anderson, one of Walt Disney's producers, saw her performance and suggested that she be given the lead role in ''Pollyanna''. The role of the orphaned "glad girl" who moves in with her aunt catapulted Mills to stardom in the United States and earned her a special Academy Award (the last person to receive the Juvenile Oscar). Because Mills was not able to be present to receive the trophy, Annette Funicello accepted it for her.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1961 )〕 Disney subsequently cast Mills as twins Sharon and Susan who reunite their divorced parents in ''The Parent Trap''. In the film, Mills sings "Let's Get Together" as a duet with herself. She made four additional films for Disney in a four-year span, including ''In Search of the Castaways'' and ''Summer Magic''. Her final two Disney films, ''The Moon-Spinners'' and ''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, in fact, quite British and very ladylike. The success of "Let's Get Together" (which hit No. 8 on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100 singles chart and No. 17 in Britain) also led to the release of a record album on Disney's Buena Vista label, ''Let's Get Together with Hayley Mills'', which also included her only other hit song, "Johnny Jingo" (Billboard No. 21, 1962). In 1962 British exhibitors voted her the most popular film actress in the country. In addition to her Disney films, Mills starred in several other films, notably ''Whistle Down the Wind'' 1961, (based on the book of the same title written by her mother, Mary Hayley Bell), with Alan Bates, ''The Truth About Spring'' (with her father, John Mills, cast as her father and James MacArthur as the love interest), and ''The Chalk Garden'', 1964 from the play by Enid Bagnold. Mills was considered for the role of Lolita Haze in Stanley Kubrick's 1962 film version of ''Lolita''. However, Walt Disney discouraged the casting, feeling the role was not up to Disney's wholesome standard, and the part eventually went to Sue Lyon. In 1962 Disney announced plans to film ''I Capture the Castle'', from the novel by Dodie Smith, with Hayley Mills in the role of Cassandra. However, Disney never produced the film. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Hayley Mills」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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