ALLEN, Penelope

(Penny Allen)

PERSONAL

Education: Trained for the theatre at Actors Studio in New York City.

Career: Actress. Performed with Theatre Company of Boston, MA, Tyrone Guthrie Theatre, Minneapolis, MN, and Arena Stage, Washington, DC.

CREDITS

Film Appearances:

(As Penny Allen) Solo chorus girl, Oh! What a Lovely War, Paramount, 1969.

Mattie Earp, Doc, United Artists, 1971.

Jenny, It Ain't Easy, Dandelion, 1972.

(As Penny Allen) Annie, Scarecrow, Warner Bros., 1973.

(As Penny Allen) Sylvia, Dog Day Afternoon, Warner Bros., 1975.

Rose, On the Nickel, Rose's Park, 1979.

Ellie, Resurrection, Universal, 1980.

Judge, The Bedroom Window, De Laurentiis Entertainment Group, 1987.

(As Penny Allen) Doctor, The Bad Lieutenant, Aries Film Releasing, 1992.

Department of motor vehicles lady, Schemes, Bristol Entertainment, 1995.

(As Penny Allen) Woman on bus, The Crossing Guard, Miramax, 1995.

(As Penny Allen) Marjoree, The War at Home, Buena Vista, 1996.

Queen Elizabeth, Looking for Richard, Fox Searchlight, 1996.

Witt's mother, The Thin Red Line (also known as La mince ligne rouge), Twentieth Century–Fox, 1998.

Dry cleaner, Hurlyburly, 1998.

Mrs. White, A Visit from the Sergeant Major with Unintended Consequences, 2000.

(As Penny Allen) Nancy, "Fantasies About Rebecca," Things You Can Tell Just by Looking at Her, Metro–Goldwyn–Mayer, 2000.

(As Penny Allen) Herself, Rosy–Fingered Dawn: A Film on Terrence Malick (documentary), 2002.

Helen, 3 Days of Rain, 2002.

Television Appearances; Miniseries:

Mistress Hibbins, Scarlet Letter, PBS, 1979.

Television Appearances; Movies:

Miss Penny, Sybil, NBC, 1976.

The farmer's wife, A Time for Miracles, ABC, 1980.

Gloria, Inmates: A Love Story, ABC, 1981.

Made television debut as Mother, Gardner's Son, PBS; also appeared as Mary, Mother Seton, PBS.

Television Appearances; Specials:

Miss Becker, Until She Talks, PBS, 1983.

Television Appearances; Episodic:

Professor Murdock, "Lucas Illuminus," Cosby, CBS, 1998.

Stage Appearances:

The Criminals, Sheridan Square Playhouse, New York City, 1970.

Peasant woman and understudy for the roles of Agrafena and Tatiana, Enemies, Vivian Beaumont Theatre, Lincoln Center, New York City, 1972.

Nurse and understudy for the role of Blanche du Bois, A Streetcar Named Desire, Vivian Beaumont Theatre, Lincoln Center, 1973.

Woman, Ashes, Anspacher Theatre, Public Theatre, New York City, 1977.

Rita, The Water Engine, Martinson Hall, Public Theatre, New York City, 1977–78.

Lady Ann, Richard III, Lyceum Theatre, New York City, 1979.

Raisa, "The Witch," The Chekhov Sketchbook, Harold Clurman Theater, New York City, 1980–81.

Pixie Shedman, The Captivity of Pixie Shedman, Marymount Manhattan Theatre, New York City, 1981.

"Scraps," Talking With, Manhattan Theatre Club Stage I, New York City, 1982.

Great Days, American Place Theatre, New York City, 1983.

Made stage debut in Under Milk Wood, Circle in the Square, New York City; also appeared in The Good Woman of Setzuan, Circle in the Square.