- Born
- Height1.65 m
- Alley Mills was born on May 9, 1951, in Chicago, Illinois. A graduate of Yale in 1973, she studied acting at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art. While still in college, Alley Mills scored a small role in the film Le Journal intime d'une femme mariée (1970). She got her first lead role in 1979 in a short-lived television series about young lawyers entitled The Associates (1979), opposite a then yet-unknown Martin Short. After another failed sitcom in 1982, she finally caught a big break with a lead role in the critically acclaimed nostalgic 1960s-set family dramedy Les années coup de coeur (1988) playing matriarch Norma Arnold. After the show ended in 1993, Alley Mills continued work in television, landing a recurring role on the western drama Docteur Quinn, femme médecin (1993) as Jane Seymour's sister. She also made numerous guest appearances shows such as New York Police Blues (1993), Sabrina, l'apprentie sorcière (1996)and Oui chérie! (2000). She made the leap to daytime television with a guest role on the CBS soap opera Amour, gloire et beauté (1987) as Pamela Douglas playing along-side Susan Flannery and Betty White in 2006. As the producers were thrilled with her performances, she was eventually offered a contract and continues to star on the show, occasionally taking some time off to do theatre work in the Los Angeles area, often together with her husband. Alley Mills is married to actor Orson Bean since 1993 and the couple lives in Venice, California.- IMDb mini biography by: Torsten B. Tomaschek
- SpouseOrson Bean(April 18, 1993 - February 7, 2020) (his death)
- ChildrenEzekiel Bean
- Parents
- Married actor/comedian Orson Bean when she was 41 (her first marriage) and he was 64 (his third marriage).
- Best remembered as the peace-keeping, blonde-haired mom on the popular coming-of-age series Les années coup de coeur (1988).
- Once was involved with actor David Birney. They broke up in 1991.
- Her parents are Don Mills, a TV executive, and Joan (Paterson) Kerr, former American Heritage magazine editor. He died in 2003 and she died in 1996.
- Appears on the Los Angeles smaller stage these days often co-starring with her husband Orson Bean in such plays as ''Candida'' (1998) "There's One in Every Marriage" (2005) and "Hogan's Goat" (2007) all with the Pacific Resident Theatre in LA.
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