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Penelope Ann Miller
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Penelope Ann Miller (January 13 1964), sometimes credited as Penelope Miller, is an American actress. She starred in several major Hollywood films during the 1990s, and has continued appearing in supporting roles in both film and television.
Contents
- 1 Biography
- 1.1 Early life
- 1.2 Career
- 1.3 Personal life
- 2 Footnotes
- 3 External links
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Biography
Early life
Miller was born Penelope Andrea Miller in Los Angeles, California, the middle daughter of TV actor and producer Mark Miller and costume designer and publicist Beatrice Ammidown; Miller's mother was the Goddaughter of Aristotle Onassis, and also edited Harper's Bazaar.[1] Miller has two sisters, Marisa and Savannah. Miller moved to New York City to study theater after graduating from high school.
Career
Miller's film debut came in
1987 in
Adventures in Babysitting, while in
1988 her role as Emily in
Our Town garnered her a
Tony award nomination. In 1990 she played Paula in the Academy Awards Best Picture nominee
Awakenings, starring
Robert De Niro and
Robin Williams. She has appeared in a number of TV and theatrical movies since then, notably as Edna Purviance in
Chaplin in
1992 and as Gail in
Carlito's Way in
1993. She appeared alongside
Arnold Schwarzenegger in
Kindergarten Cop. Just prior to this she had a role in the
Gary Sinise directed film
Miles from Home.
In 2002, she was in the film Dead in a Heartbeat, and starred in a two-part episode of the A&E TV series A Nero Wolfe Mystery (Motherhunt). Her 2005 movie Funny Money was the top movie at the Sarasota Film Festival. She appeared in the Fox series Vanished for six episodes, playing the ex-wife of a U.S. Senator whose wife has mysteriously disappeared, and will appear in the upcoming film Blonde Ambition. She also played Fran on Desperate Housewives.
Personal life
In 1994, she married actor
Will Arnett and they divorced in 1995. In 2000, she married James Huggins and later that year had her first child Eloisa May. That same year, she played teacher-turned-rapist
Mary Kay Letourneau in the TV movie,
All-American Girl: The Mary Kay Letourneau Story.
Footnotes