Alley Mills

Infobox actor
name = Alley Mills

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caption = Alley Mills at the 1989 Emmy Awards with Dan Lauria "The Wonder Years".
birthdate = birth date and age|1951|5|9
location = Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
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othername = Allison Mills
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notable role =Norma Arnold in "The Wonder Years"
Marjorie Quinn in Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman

Alley Mills (born May 9, 1951 in Chicago, Illinois) is an American actress best known for her role as Norma Arnold, the mother in the coming-of-age series "The Wonder Years".

She is the daughter of Ted Mills, a television executive who died in August 2003. Her stepmother, Genevieve, whose real name was Ginette Marguerite Auger, died March 2004. Alley's mother was Joan (Paterson) Mills Kerr, an author, as well as an editor for American Heritage Magazine, died 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.

Mills joined the cast of "The Bold and the Beautiful" as Pamela Douglas, the estranged sister of Stephanie Douglas Forrester on December 1, 2006. She was put under contract with the show, but after making only a handful of appearances, her character disappeared. It was in October 2007 that it was discovered why Pamela disappeared. After a furious argument with Stephanie, she and her mother, Ann Douglas (Betty White) returned to their hometown of Chicago. However, in the wake of Stephanie's shooting, Pamela returned in November, accompanied by a Doberman pinscher named "Tiny", intent on paying back Stephanie for the way she was treated when she was first in L.A. (she harbored resentment towards her sister and her mother) and wanted to get Donna (Jennifer Gareis) out of the picture, so she could become Eric's new love. She was unsuccessful in this endeavor and, to her chagrin, Eric ended up marrying Donna. Soon after, he suffered a heart attack under suspicious circumstances -- later revealed to be poisoning. After a large red herring it was revealed that Pamela was responsible for the poisoning and after trying to feed Donna to a bear she disappeared into the woods.

Notable TV roles

*"Sabrina, the Teenage Witch"
*"Girlfriends"
*"The Wonder Years" (as Norma Arnold)
*"Strong Medicine"
*"NYPD Blue"
*"Yes, Dear"
*"Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman"
*"Hill Street Blues"
*"Popular" (as Robin John, mother of Harrison John)
*"The Bold and the Beautiful" (as Pamela Douglas; 2006-)

External links

*imdb name|id=0589896|name=Alley Mills