Penelope Ann Miller

Biography: Penelope Ann Miller

The daughter of Mark Miller, an actor best known for his starring role on the mid-1960s TV sitcom Please Don't Eat the Daisies, actress Penelope Ann Miller was born in California and raised in Texas. After a year of attending Menlo College, Miller dropped out to train with acting coach Herbert Berghof. Her first role of note was as ditsy ingenue Daisy in the Neil Simon Broadway comedy Biloxi Blues, a role she would later recreate in the film version. For her role in Our Town she was nominated for a Tony award in 1989. In 1987, the blonde, saucer-eyed actress made her film debut in the wacked-out comedy Adventures in Babysitting, after which she costarred with popular leading men ranging from Pee-Wee Herman (Big Top Pee-Wee) to a GOlden Globe nominated performance alongside Al Pacino in Carlito's Way. Some of Miller's best known film roles have included that of Marlon Brando's enigmatic daughter in The Freshman (1990), a brief turn as silent film actress Edna Purviance in Chaplin (1992), and the svelte 1930s pulp heroine Margot Lane in The Shadow (1994). As the 1990s progressed Miller alternated ever more frequently between television and film, tempering high profile roles in The Shadow (1994) and The Relic (1997) with more intimate small screen roles in mini-series The Last Don (1997) and as the titular character in the true-life television feature The Mary Kay Letorneau Story: All American Girl (2000). If her roles in the following years weren't as high profile as in the previous decade, solid performances in Along Came a Spider (2001) and Rudy: The Rudy Giuliani Story (2003) eventually led to a role in the popular but shortlived Norm Macdonald sitcom A Minute with Stan Hooper. Cast as the titular character's (Macdonald) city-slicker wife, the coupled opted to eschew the city for small town life to Newhart-like effect. Her gift for comedy more obvious than ever, Miller was subsequently cast in the made for television feature National Lampoon's Thanksgiving Family Reunion (2003). ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide less

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Free Style (2008)
Cast: Penelope Ann Miller William Dear Corbin Bleu Jesse Moss Madison Pettis
Tags: Family Sports Drama
Length: 94min
High School Musical's Corbin Bleu trades in his dancing shoes for a helmet in this family film. In Free Style, young Cale (Bleu) gives his all in his effort to be on the Grand National Motocross racing team, while his mother (Penelope Ann Miller),...
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Blonde Ambition (2007)
Cast: Luke Wilson Penelope Ann Miller Andy Dick Rachael Leigh Cook Jamie Kennedy
Tags: Comedy Screwball Comedy Romantic Comedy
Length: 91min
An ambitious young woman (Jessica Simpson) attempting to navigate her way through the cutthroat corporate world becomes the unwitting pawn of two unscrupulous executives seeking to topple and replace the powerful head of an international conglomerate....
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The Messengers (2007)
Cast: Sam Raimi Dylan McDermott Penelope Ann Miller Oxide Pang Chun John Corbett
Tags: Supernatural Horror Horror
Length: 90min
Hong Kong horror specialists Danny and Oxide Pang (The Eye, Bangkok Haunted) ponder the paranormal sensitivities of young innocents in this tale of an unsuspecting family who falls prey to a malevolent entity after moving to into a haunted sunflower...
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Personal Effects (2005)
Cast: Penelope Ann Miller Casper Van Dien Michael Scott Laura Mennell
Tags: Drama
Length: 120min
Multi-tasking attorney Bonnie Locke (Penelope Ann Miller) definitely gets more than she bargained for in this Canadian made-for-cable movie. While trying to locate her brother Chris (Casper Van Dien), who has mysteriously vanished, Bonnie also finds...
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A Woman's A Helluva Thing (2001)
Cast: Ann-Margret Paul Dooley Kathryn Harrold Penelope Ann Miller Mary Kay Place
Tags: Romantic Comedy Comedy of Manners Comedy Romance
Length: 89min
A comedy detailing the war of the sexes with some new twists, this film stars Angus MacFadyen as Houston Blackett, a men's magazine owner whose mother suddenly dies in the Rocky Mountains. His mother has evidently left the estate not to her estranged...
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Scared Silent (2002)
Cast: Penelope Ann Miller Mike Robe Reed Diamond Andrew Jackson
Tags: Drama Social Problem Film
Length: min
Presented as part of the Lifetime cable network's ongoing "Stop Violence Against Women" program, the made-for-TV Scared Silent was based on a true story. Penelope Ann Miller stars as Kathy Clifson, happily married to the police chief (Reed Diamond) of...
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Carry Me Home (2003)
Cast: Kevin Anderson Jane Alexander Penelope Ann Miller Jace Alexander Ashley Rose Orr
Tags: Period Film Drama Childhood Drama
Length: 97min
Television director Jace Alexander directs the feature-length Showtime childhood drama Carry Me Home. Set on a rural farm in upstate New York after WWII, the film follows young Carrie (Ashley Rose Orr) as she attempts to deal with her father's death....
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Funny Money (2006)
Cast: Robert Loggia Bill Butler Armand Assante Chevy Chase Christopher McDonald
Tags: Farce Comedy
Length: 97min
Leslie Greif directs this adaptation of Ray Cooney's hit British play, a throwback farce about mistaken identity. Chevy Chase plays Henry Perkins, a listless late-middle-aged executive in a wax fruit company; his wife, Carol (Penelope Ann Miller), is...
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Full Disclosure (2000)
Cast: Virginia Madsen Penelope Ann Miller Christopher Plummer Rachel Ticotin Fred Ward
Tags: Political Thriller Thriller
Length: 97min
Hard-drinking newspaper reporter John McWhirter (Fred Ward) finds himself in the middle of a messy political assassination plot when he is compelled to keep in his house an on-the-lam Palestinian operative, Armiti Khalq (Rachel Ticotin). McWhirter,...
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The Mary Kay Letourneau Story: All-American Girl (2000)
Cast: Penelope Ann Miller Mercedes Ruehl Lloyd Kramer Greg Spottiswood Rena Owen
Tags: Docudrama Drama
Length: min
This made-for-cable docudrama stars Penelope Ann Miller as the infamous Mary Kay Letourneau, the married-with-children Seattle schoolteacher who made national headlines when she had an affair with one of her sixth-grade students, 13-year-old Vili...
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