Alley Mills

Alley Mills
Mills at the 1989 Emmy Awards with Dan Lauria
Born	(1951-05-09) May 9, 1951 (age 65) Chicago, Illinois, United States
Occupation	Actress
Years active	1965–present
Spouse(s)	Orson Bean (m. 1993)

Allison "Alley" Mills (also known as Alley Bean) born May 9, 1951, is an American actress best known for her role as Norma Arnold, the mother in the coming-of-age series The Wonder Years, and her current role as Pamela Douglas, the sister of late Forrester matriarch Stephanie Forrester (Susan Flannery), on soap opera The Bold and the Beautiful.

Mills was born in Chicago, Illinois. Her father, Ted Mills, a television executive, died in August 2003. Her stepmother, Genevieve, whose real name was Ginette Marguerite Auger, died March 2004. Alley's mother, Joan (Paterson) Mills Kerr, an author as well as an editor for American Heritage Magazine, died in November 1996. Her stepfather was Chester Kerr, former director of Yale University Press. She has one sister, Hilary Mills Loomis, and one brother, Tony Mills. Her first acting role on television was in the short-lived comedy, The Associates, where she played an attorney, opposite a then-unknown Martin Short.

She lives in Los Angeles with her husband, film, television, stage actor, and author Orson Bean. Bean is well known for being a long-term celebrity panelist of To Tell the Truth and Match Game. Mills (who is twenty-three years his junior) is Bean's third wife, and they have been married since 1993. She also appeared on a special "Celebrity TV Moms" episode of the Anne Robinson version of The Weakest Link, in which she was the second one eliminated.

Mills had a recurring role in the television series Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman, as Marjorie Quinn, Dr. Michaela Quinn's sister. She had previously appeared in the series as a saloon girl.