The Wonder Years Cast Doesn't Look Like This Anymore

Publish date: 2024-05-17

Alley Mills is widely known for her role as Kevin's caring mother, and Jack's wife, Norma. Her character was the ideal mom – kind, understanding, and always there to support the Arnold clan. But while she often played the put-upon 1970s homemaker part, Norma was a modern character with incredible ambition, who wished to break out of this housewife role. Throughout the series, she returned to school, earned a college degree, and eventually obtained a job at a software company. Her inspiring story-arc was an undeniable reflection of the time's second wave feminism.

Similarly to her former co-stars, Mills is a veteran TV actress who has worked steadily since The Wonder Years concluded. As a Yale graduate, she has guested on several TV series and movies, such as Yes, Dear, Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman, and Sabrina the Teenage Witch. However, her longest-lasting role is her portrayal of Pam Douglas on the soap opera, The Bold and the Beautiful — since joining the cast in 2006, Mills has starred in over a whopping 500 episodes!

Mills is also prolific in the theater world. Over the years, she has often worked as a theater producer in collaboration with her husband, actor and writer Orson Bean, with whom she resides in Venice, California. The two have worked consistently with their local theatrical institution, the Pacific Resident Theatre, and their most recent effort came in 2015, as Broadway World announced, when Mills produced Bean's one-man biographical show Safe At Home.

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