Mandy Miller | |
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Born | Carmen Isabella Miller 23 July 1944 |
Years active | 1951–1958 |
Spouse | Christopher Davey (m. 1965) |
Children | 3 |
Mandy Miller (born Carmen Isabella Miller on 23 July 1944) is an English former child actress who made a number of films in the 1950s. She is also remembered for her recording of the 1956 song " Nellie the Elephant".
Carmen Isabella Miller, known professionally as Mandy Miller, was born in 1944. [1]
In 1962, at the age of 18, Miller gave up acting and moved to New York City to become an au pair. [2]
Her career tended to involve serious acting roles rather than comedy, even in her first small part in The Man in the White Suit, where she was a sad-faced little girl who helped Alec Guinness escape from his pursuers.
She put in a much-praised performance in her second film, another Ealing production, Mandy (1952), playing a deaf-mute child whose parents (played by Terence Morgan and Phyllis Calvert) did not know how to cope with bringing her up. This briefly made her a leading actress. [3]
Her next film was Background (1953), with two other child actors, in a film about a family breaking up because of an impending divorce. Like Mandy, this was a drama about a well-to-do middle-class family; Valerie Hobson played her mother.
In 1954, she had a starring role in Adventure in the Hopfields, a film made for the Children's Film Foundation.
She also had lighter roles, such as in Raising a Riot (1955) starring Kenneth More. Some of her other co-stars were Joan Greenwood, Cecil Parker, Godfrey Tearle, Thora Hird and Sam Wanamaker.
Miller made two popular single records: "Snowflakes" and " Nellie the Elephant", the latter produced by George Martin.
She also appeared in television dramas.
Miller's sister is the actress Jan Miller, and her niece is actress Amanda Pays. [1]
In 1965, she married Christopher Davey, an architect, and had three children.