Hayley Mills's Real Name: Hayley Catherine Rose Vivien Mills

Quick answer: The actress is known professionally as Hayley Mills. Encyclopedia.com and the Internet Broadway Database independently give the full name Hayley Catherine Rose Vivien Mills and date her birth to April 18, 1946, in London, England.

Real name and early life

Independent publishers support the documented full name Hayley Catherine Rose Vivien Mills. Encyclopedia.com gives that full name, dates the birth to April 18, 1946, in London, England, and identifies her as the daughter of the actor Sir John Mills and the actress and writer Mary Hayley Bell, and as a sister of the actress Juliet Mills. The Internet Broadway Database independently lists the birth name Hayley Catherine Rose Vivien Mills, dates the birth to April 18, 1946, in London, England, and identifies her as a daughter of John Mills and Mary Hayley Bell and a sister of Juliet Mills. Encyclopedia.com also says she studied ballet in Camberley, Surrey, and records a later marriage to the director Roy Boulting in June 1971, ending in divorce in 1977, a date independently listed by the Internet Broadway Database as 1971 to 1977.

Career highlights

Encyclopedia.com says she made her film debut opposite her father in Tiger Bay (1959), a performance that brought a Silver Berlin Bear for best actress at the Berlin International Film Festival and a British Academy Film Award as an outstanding newcomer to film in 1960. The same account says she signed with Disney and appeared in Pollyanna (1960), for which she received a Juvenile Academy Award in 1961, and later in The Parent Trap (1961), In Search of the Castaways (1962), Summer Magic (1963), The Moon-Spinners (1964), and That Darn Cat! (1965). Encyclopedia.com also records a Golden Globe Award as most promising newcomer—female in 1961, and later film work including Whistle Down the Wind (1961), The Chalk Garden (1964), and The Trouble with Angels (1966). The same account lists a 1964 Golden Globe nomination for Summer Magic. The Internet Broadway Database independently records a later touring credit as Anna Leonowens in The King and I (1997–98). Encyclopedia.com independently lists a Theatre World Award in 2000 for A Suite in Two Keys.

Name notes for searchers

People looking up Hayley Mills or Hayley Catherine Rose Vivien Mills are looking for the same actress, including the early Disney films most often associated with her work. Encyclopedia.com and the Internet Broadway Database support the full name used in the title.