Biography

Darlene Faye Gillespie (born April 8, 1941) is a former child actress, most remembered as a singer and dancer on the original The Mickey Mouse Club television series from 1955-59. Her Irish father and French Canadian mother were a former vaudeville dance team. When Darlene was two years old, her family moved to Los Angeles, where she became a naturalized American citizen in September 1956 at the age of fifteen. After her career in entertainment ended, she became a nurse.