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 The Wonder Years (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.