Actress. A star of the silent film era, she will be best remembered for playing plumper older authority figures like matriarchal mother roles and is most notably known for her role as 'Mrs. Lanyon,' in the silent film horror classic, "Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde" (1920). The film which was directed by J. Charles Haydon and also starred Sheldon Lewis and Alex Shannon was based on the novel by the author Robert Louis Stevenson, who also wrote the famous "Treasure Island" (1883), which was also later turned into a couple of Hollywood films. The film tells the story of Dr. Henry Jekyll who experiments with scientific means of revealing the hidden, dark side of the man and releases a murderer from within himself. The film which was made through the Pioneer Film Corporation was released to the general public in April of 1920 and in Japan on December 17, 1920. She was born as Georgina Dora Mills one of four children in Brooklyn, New York, to George R. Mills and his wife Dora A. Reed Mills on October 24, 1874. Not a lot of information is available on her early life but she did pursue an acting career in films starting in New York during the 1910s and it is thought that she may have appeared in vaudeville and on the stage before that but this has never been verified. She made her acting debut as 'Mrs. Moore,' in the film, "Runaway June" (1915). The film which was directed by Oscar Eagle and also stars Norma Phillips and Jack W. Johnston tells the story of a Runaway Bride in 15 episodes during the run of the film. Besides, "Runaway June" (1915), and "Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde" (1920), her many other film credits include, "The Mission Of Morrison" (1915), "The Moth And The Flame" (1915), "My Lady Incog." (1916), "The Summer Girl" (1916), "The Recoil" (1917), "Queen X" (1917), "Married In Name Only" (1917), "Th Square Deceiver" (1917), "The Passing Of The Third Floor Back" (1918), "When Men Betray" (1918), "Ashes Of Love" (1918), "Piccadilly Jim" (1919), "Determination" (1920), "You Find It Everywhere" (1921), "A Pasteboard Clown" (1922), "Mighty Lak'a Rose" (1923), "His Children's Children" (1923), "Flying Fists" (1924), and "Playmates" (1929). In her last film, a short comedy, "How've You Bean?" (1933), she played the 'Mother of the Groom,' alongside Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle and Fritz Hubert who as the dimwitted grocers 'Abner & Willie,' attend a wedding dinner and accidentally serve the guests Mexican jumping beans. She later retired from acting and lived her final days in Brooklyn, New York. She passed away from myocarditis in Brooklyn, New York, on July 31, 1943, at the age of 68. Her funeral was held through Fairchild Sons Inc. and she was buried in the Adams Family Plot with her husband's parents in Woodlawn Cemetery in Bronx, New York. She was married to Lindsay Edwards Mills with whom she had four children including a daughter named Hazel Mills born on April 7, 1901. Her husband Lindsay passed away on March 17, 1945, at the age of 67, and her daughter Hazel passed away on June 15, 1957, at the age of 56. They are also both buried in the Adams Family Plot at Woodlawn Cemetery in Bronx, New York.