Alley Mills was born on May 9, 1951 in Chicago, Illinois and is best known for her role as Norma Arnold in the coming-of-age series The Wonder Years. Her father is Ted Mills, a television executive who passed away August of 2003. Her stepmother was the famed Genevieve whose real name was Ginette Marguerite Auger who passed away a year later. Mills' mother is Joan Paterson Mills Kerr who was an author and editor for American Heritage Magazine. Her stepfather was Chester Kerr, the former director of Yale University Press. Mills is married to Orson Bean, a celebrated film, television and stage actor and author. In 2006, she was cast for the role of Pamela Douglas in the soap opera The Bold and the Beautiful.
Pamela Douglas is played by Alley Mills on the soap opera The Bold and the Beautiful. Pamela is the daughter of the late John Douglas with his wife Ann. She has a younger sister of Stephanie Forrester, the co-founder of Forrester Creations. When they were young, Stephanie was being abused by their father but Pamela never did anything about it since she was the shyer member of the family. However, she took it upon her own shoulders to try to protect her older sister and this bonded Stephanie and Pamela when they were older. Later on, Pamela appears to be Stephanie's new rival for Eric's attention.