Penelope Ann Miller
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Los Angeles, California, USA
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).
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Highest Rated Movies
Filmography
MOVIES
RATING | TITLE | CREDIT | BOX OFFICE | YEAR |
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83% | Adverse |
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— | 2021 |
71% | The College Admissions Scandal |
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— | 2019 |
No Score Yet | The Bronx Bull |
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— | 2017 |
No Score Yet | Ucieczka z wi?zienia: Uwiedziona Joyce Mitchell |
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— | 2017 |
No Score Yet | New York Prison Break: The Seduction of Joyce Mitchell |
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— | 2017 |
73% | The Birth of a Nation |
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$15.9M | 2016 |
No Score Yet | Cody the Robosapien |
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— | 2013 |
83% | About Sunny |
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— | 2013 |
27% | Saving Lincoln |
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— | 2013 |
14% | Saving Grace B. Jones |
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— | 2012 |
95% | The Artist |
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$44.7M | 2011 |
54% | Flipped |
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$1.8M | 2010 |
33% | Free Style |
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$98.3k | 2009 |
14% | Blonde Ambition |
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— | 2007 |
No Score Yet | Brando |
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— | 2007 |
12% | The Messengers |
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$35.4M | 2007 |
43% | Funny Money |
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— | 2006 |
No Score Yet | The Deal |
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— | 2006 |
No Score Yet | National Lampoon's Thanksgiving Family Reunion (National Lampoon's Holiday Reunion) |
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— | 2004 |
No Score Yet | Carry Me Home |
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— | 2004 |
No Score Yet | Rudy - The Rudy Giuliani Story |
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— | 2003 |
No Score Yet | Dead in a Heartbeat |
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— | 2002 |
43% | Lisa Picard Is Famous |
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— | 2001 |
No Score Yet | A Woman's a Helluva Thing |
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— | 2001 |
32% | Along Came a Spider |
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$73.6M | 2001 |
No Score Yet | Dodson's Journey |
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— | 2001 |
No Score Yet | Killing Moon |
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— | 2000 |
No Score Yet | Mary Kay Letourneau Story: All-American Girl |
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— | 2000 |
No Score Yet | Forever Lulu |
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— | 2000 |
No Score Yet | Chapter Zero |
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— | 1999 |
No Score Yet | Arnold Schwarzenegger: Hollywood Hero |
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— | 1999 |
25% | Outside Ozona |
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— | 1999 |
No Score Yet | Full Disclosure |
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— | 1999 |
33% | Rocky Marciano |
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— | 1999 |
No Score Yet | Little City |
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— | 1998 |
No Score Yet | Rhapsody in Bloom |
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— | 1998 |
No Score Yet | The Break Up |
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— | 1998 |
No Score Yet | The Hired Heart |
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— | 1997 |
No Score Yet | The Last Don |
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— | 1997 |
36% | The Relic |
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— | 1997 |
83% | Ruby Bridges |
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— | 1997 |
No Score Yet | Intimate Portrait |
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— | 1995 |
No Score Yet | Witch Hunt |
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— | 1994 |
35% | The Shadow |
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— | 1994 |
81% | Carlito's Way |
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— | 1993 |
59% | Chaplin |
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— | 1992 |
14% | The Gun in Betty Lou's Handbag |
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— | 1992 |
0% | Year of the Comet |
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— | 1992 |
31% | Other People's Money |
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— | 1991 |
51% | Kindergarten Cop |
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— | 1990 |
88% | Awakenings |
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— | 1990 |
94% | The Freshman |
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— | 1990 |
43% | Flashback |
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— | 1990 |
No Score Yet | Downtown |
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— | 1990 |
33% | Dead Bang |
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— | 1989 |
60% | Miles from Home |
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— | 1988 |
38% | Big Top Pee-wee |
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— | 1988 |
78% | Biloxi Blues |
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— | 1988 |
72% | Adventures in Babysitting |
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— | 1987 |
TV
RATING | TITLE | CREDIT | YEAR |
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86% |
Riverdale
2017
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No Score Yet |
Criminal Minds
2005-2020
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96% |
American Crime
2015-2017
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No Score Yet |
The Chew
2011-2018
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No Score Yet |
The View
1997
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No Score Yet |
Mistresses
2013-2016
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94% |
Men of a Certain Age
2009-2011
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62% |
Vanished
2006
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No Score Yet |
CSI: NY
2004-2013
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50% |
The Closer
1998
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No Score Yet |
Family Ties
1982-1989
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72% |
Miami Vice
1984-1990
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No Score Yet |
The Facts of Life
1979-1988
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No Score Yet |
St. Elsewhere
1982-1988
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No Score Yet |
Late Show With David Letterman
1993-2015
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Quotes from Penelope Ann Miller's Characters
Doris: | I'm unhappy. George Valentin: So are millions of us. |
George Valentin: | So are millions of us. |
Jess Solomon: | Please believe me I'm not making this up! |
Denise Solomon: | Jess just stop! |
Jess Solomon: | Dad I'm really scared can't we just go home? |
Roy Solomon: | Jessica this 'is' home, you have to get used to that |
Roy Solomon: | Jessica this is home, you have to get used to that. |
Doris: | I'm unhappy George. |
George Valentin: | So are millions of us. |
Doris: | Why do you refuse to talk? |
Doris: | I'm unhappy. |
George Valentin: | So are millions of us. |
Gail: | That's the last time I wipe up your blood! |
Gail: | [crying] That's the last time I wipe up your blood! |