Carrie Mitchum

ABOUT CARRIE MITCHUM

American actress turned executive chef most well-known for her role as Donna Logan on The Bold and the Beautiful . She also appeared in the Kevin James comedy Paul Blart: Mall Cop .

She made her acting debut in the 1989 TV movie The Karen Carpenter Story. In 1990, she appeared in a TV movie called Dead Silence.

In 2021, she appeared in the documentary Rocking the Couch, an expose of abusive Hollywood executives like Harvey Weinstein . After her acting career, she graduated from Le Cordon Bleu and began working as a chef in locales like Memphis, Tennessee, New York, and Santa Barbara, California

She is the mother of Grace Van Dien , who appeared in Season four of Stranger Things . She was married to Casper Van Dien , with whom she had Grace, from 1993 to 1997. Her niece Allexanne Mitchum died after taking a Xanax that had been laced with fentanyl.

She has worked with chef Alice Waters . She is a longtime friend of actors like Rob Lowe .