Mia Dillon: Inside the Life of Keir Dullea’s Wife

Mia Dillon is an American actress and the wife of Keir Dullea. Mia Dillon’s husband is an iconic American actor. He gained much of his fame from playing astronaut David Bowman in the 1968 film 2001: A Space Odyssey and its 1984 sequel, 2010: The Year We Make Contact. His other film roles include David and Lisa, Bunny Lake Is Missing, and Black Christmas. Who is Keir Dullea’s Wife?

Mia Dillon: Bio Summary

Who is Mia Dillon?

Mia Dillon was born on July 9, 1955, in Colorado Springs, Colorado, United States to her parents. As of 2023, she is 68 years old. Dillon graduated from Marple-Newtown Senior High School in Newtown Square, Pennsylvania. At a very young age, she developed an interest in acting. Dillon made her Broadway debut as an understudy for the roles of Jill Mason and the Nurse in Peter Shaffer’s Equus in 1977. 

Mia Dillon was nominated for the 1980 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play for Once a Catholic, and the 1982 Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play for Crimes of the Heart. Agnes of God, The Corn is Green, Hay Fever, Come Back, Little Sheba, Three Sisters, and Our Town are among her numerous stage credits. Dillon appeared in a staged reading of the novel Breaker Boys at Pennsylvania’s Showcase Theatre in 1985.

Dillon made an appearance on the made-for-television comedy-drama Mary and Rhoda and has since been in all three current Law & Order programs. Dillon’s husband has also made a number of appearances in Law and Order. In 2000, he appeared in The Audrey Hepburn Story as Hepburn’s father Joseph.

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Her filmography includes roles in The Money Pit, A Shock to the System, Gods and Generals, and Duane Hopwood. Dillon also appeared in the Disney Channel original movie Lots of Luck, opposite Annette Funicello and Martin Mull. She is presently on the staff of StoneStreet Studios (N.Y.), Acting Workshop.

Aside from being an actress, Mia Dillon is also a licensed acupuncturist and has been practicing for more than 20 years now. The actress revealed she went back to school in her 40s to get a master’s degree in oriental medicine.

Mia Dillon and Keir Dullea’s marriage

Dillon is the fourth woman the iconic actor has taken to the alter. His first marriage was to stage and film actress Margot Bennett from 1960 until their divorce in 1968. He was married from 1969 to 1970 to Susan Lessons. In 1972, Dullea married Susie Fuller. She died in 1998 after 26 years of marriage. In 1999, Dullea met and married actress Mia Dillon.

Though it is unclear how the two love birds meet and started their relationship, their marriage is sold as a rock and they have been together for more the two decades. The couple has no known children and they divide their time between an apartment in Manhattan and a house in Connecticut.

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Talking about them being two actor actors married – Keir told The Lambs– “I think the fact that we’re an extremely happily married couple and that just enhances the experience when we’re together I mean it just makes it makes it easier“.

Adding to what her husband said- Mia Dillon said -“when we get to act together it’s just it’s it’s a gift we did Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, his big daddy was amazing and uh I did big mama and we had a fabulous time with a wonderful director” During August and September 2013, Keir Dullea starred as Big Daddy in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, playing opposite wife Mia Dillon in a joint production for Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theater and Provincetown Tennessee Williams Theater Festival.