Millie Perkins Biography

Millie Perkins is an American film and television actress best known for her first film role as Anne Frank in The Diary of Anne Frank (1959), and for her supporting actress roles in two 1966 westerns, The Shooting and Ride in the Whirlwind, both directed by Monte Hellman.

Millie Perkins Age

Millie Perkins was born in Passaic, New Jersey, U.S. on May 12, 1938. She is 81 years as of 2019. Currently, she resides in Jacksonville, Oregon, U.S.

Millie Perkins Family

She was born in Passaic, New Jersey and brought up in Fair Lawn, New Jersey and attended Fair Lawn High School. Her father was a merchant marine captain.

Millie Perkins Husband

She is quite a renowned actress and with her success in acting, you can tell she has done the same for her personal life. She married actor Dean Stockwell on April 15, 1960, and later divorced on July 30, 1962. Later she married writer and director Robert Thom, who wrote the script for the popular 1968 movie Wild in the Streets, in which she appeared. Together, they had two children: Lillie Thom (born 1966) and Hedy Thom (born 1969). Thom died in 1979.

Millie Perkins Career

Early Career

Perkins was working as a receptionist at a New York City advertising agency when she caught the eye of a visiting photographer with a resultant career as a model. By 1958 she was an international cover girl. In 1958, she was vigorously pursued, and then selected, to appear in her first film, in The Diary of Anne Frank.

George Stevens saw her in Gluck’s photo, on the covers of several magazines and tried to convince her to read for the part however Perkins had never studied nor sought to be an actress. She flew to Hollywood for a screen test and, with much fanfare, landed the role of Anne Frank in George Stevens’ 1959 film The Diary of Anne Frank. Perkins received almost universally excellent reviews for her portrayal of Anne although the film was less of a box office success than expected.

After her work with George Stevens, she was set under contract to Twentieth Century Fox. Moreover, she was one of the promising youthful stars of Hollywood, yet the studio contract framework, which was arriving at an end, was a poor fit for her, who had grown up with the Beat Generation in 1950s New York City. George Stevens would later state: “Millie did not fit in. She was 10 years too soon.”

Suspended for denying the lead in the 1960 film Tess of the Storm Country – Perkins considered the to be as a B-picture and a stage back vocation insightful – Perkins was cast by twentieth Century Fox in the 1961 film Wild in the Country, assuming the supporting job of the sweetheart to star Elvis Presley – she would later play Gladys Presley in the 1990 miniseries Elvis; the studio at that point dropped Perkins.

Joshua Logan actually chose Perkins for the female lead in the 1964 film Ensign Pulver yet the film was a disappointment: Perkins would not show up in another standard film discharge for very nearly twenty years. She played the female lead in both of Jack Nicholson’s debut preparations The Shooting and Ride in the Whirlwind – shot next to each other in 1965 – and in 1968 co-featured in Wild in the Streets which was composed by her then-spouse, Robert Thom.

Perkins moved to Jacksonville, Oregon, in 1976, with her two daughters by Robert Thom: Lillie and Hedy. By 1978 she was sufficiently far off the Hollywood radar that the Screen Actors Guild had her on their inactive list.

In 1983, Perkins came back to highlights to play Jon Voight’s ex in Table for Five and has since been immovably pigeonholed in the mother job, playing Sean Penn’s mom in the reality-based film At Close Range, which co-featured Christopher Walken. She played the mother of Charlie Sheen’s character in the 1987 motion picture Wall Street, and in the Chamber, she played the deprived Jewish mother. She was likewise given a role as Andy García’s mom in The Lost City (2005).

Television work

Perkins made her television first appearance in 1961 as a guest star on Wagon Train. With her television appearances, they were sporadic until the 1980s from which time she had appeared on a variety of television shows, including seven episodes of Knots Landing (over the period 1983–1990) and four episodes of Any Day Now (1998–2002). She portrayed character Glenda Vandervere in Murder, She Wrote (Season 2, Episode 12: “Murder by Appointment Only”) (01/05/1986).

Millie Perkins Net Worth

She is a film and television actress whose estimated net worth is still under review but will be updated as soon as it is clear.

Millie Perkins Filmography

The series she appeared in include:

• Knots Landing (1983-1990)
• A.D. (1985, TV miniseries)
• Elvis (1990 miniseries) as Gladys Presley
• Any Day Now (1998-2002)
• The Young and the Restless (2006) as Rebecca Kaplan

Films from 1981

• Macbeth (1981 video)
• The Trouble with Grandpa (1981 TV short)
• A Gun in the House (1981 TV movie)
• Love in the Present Tense (1982 TV movie)
• Table for Five (1983)
• The Haunting Passions (1983 TV movie)
• License to Kill (1984 TV movie)
• Anatomy of an Illness (1984 TV movie)
• Shattered Vows (1984 TV movie)
• The Other Lover (1985 TV movie)
• At Close Range (1986)
• Jake Speed (1986)
• Penalty Phase (1986 TV movie)
• Slam Dance (1987)
• Strange Voices (1987 TV movie)
• Wall Street (1987)
• Broken Angel (1988 TV movie)
• Two Moon Junction (1988)

From 199o, Millie Perkins appeared in:

• Call Me Anna (1990 TV movie)
• The Pistol: The Birth of a Legend (1991)
• Murder of Innocence (1993 TV movie)
• Necronomicon (1994)
• Midnight Run for Your Life (1994 TV movie)
• Bodily Harm (1995)
• Harvest of Fire (1996 TV movie)
• The Chamber (1996)
• The Summer of Ben Tyler (1996 TV movie)
• A Woman’s a Helluva Thing (2001 TV movie)
• Yesterday’s Dream (2005)
• The Lost City (2005)
• Though None Go with Me (2006 TV movie)