Hayley Mills

In Midsomer Murders

Lizzy Thornfield is connected to the family and business tensions surrounding a local relish producer. Mills brings the history of a major screen career to a character embedded in a thoroughly Midsomer mixture of food, land and inheritance.

Performer biography

Hayley Mills became an international star through Disney films including Pollyanna and The Parent Trap, winning the last competitive Academy Juvenile Award. Her later career has included extensive stage, film and television work.

Mills moved from celebrated child-star roles into a sustained adult career on stage and screen. Beyond her Disney films, her credits include Whistle Down the Wind and later television appearances in Britain and abroad. The Midsomer episode Wild Harvest places that long film history inside a contemporary village mystery.