   juliet maryon mills (born 21 november 1941, london) is an english actress. she is the daughter of actor sir john mills and mary hayley bell and the sister of actress hayley mills. juliet mills began her career as a child actress. she was nominated for a tony award for her stage performance in five finger exercise in 1960. she progressed to film work, and then to television, playing the lead role in the sitcom nanny and the professor in 1970-71. she received golden globe nominations for her work in this series and for her role in the film avanti! in 1972. she won an emmy award for her performance in the television miniseries qb vii (1974). from 1999 until 2008, she had a continuing role in the daytime drama series passions,soapography, "juliet mills and greg vaughn" for which she was nominated for a daytime emmy award. ==career== as a child, mills appeared as an extra in various films, including a role as freda's 11-week-old baby in the 1942 film in which we serve, starring her father. her first major role came in 1958, when she was 16, in the peter shaffer play five finger exercise, as "pamela harrington". the show ran one year in london, and then moved to the music box theatre on broadway. in 1960, mills was nominated for a tony award as "best featured actress" for her performance as pamela. thumb|left|mills with the cast of nanny and the professor. in the 1960s she would act both in films and on television, including the film, the rare breed with james stewart and maureen o'hara, and on television shows such as '
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