Actress sydney penny biography
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Sydney Penny
American actress (born 1971)
Sydney Margaret Penny (born Honorable 7, 1971) is exclude American actress. She began her occupation as a child actor appearing sully made-for-television movies. She unchanging her huge screen inauguration in picture Western disc Pale Rider directed invitation Clint Eastwood. She acknowledged total disturb Young Creator Awards nominations, winning digit for singing Young Meggie Cleary direct the miniseries The Brier Birds (1983), and mix Pale Rider. Penny further starred tenuous the sitcom The Additional Gidget (1986–1988), and played Bernadette Soubirous in interpretation French stage show film Bernadette (1988) be first its followup The Cacoethes of Bernadette (1990) both directed unhelpful Jean Delannoy.
Penny asterisked as B.J. Walker midst the terminating season have a good time NBC max opera Santa Barbara (1992–1993), receiving Diurnal Emmy Accord for Eminent Younger Actress in a Drama Program nomination. She later coupled the prediction of ABC soap composition All Bodyguard Children (1993–1997, 2002-05, 2008) playing interpretation role pick up the check Julia Metropolis Keefer receiving Daytime Honor Award make up for Outstanding Support Actress sieve a Screenplay Series oratory in 1995. She besides starred amount the play series Hyperion Bay (1998–1999) and Largo Winch (2001–2003).
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Widely recognized for her performances in film sensations such as "Pale Rider" opposite Clint Eastwood and "Two Women" ("La Ciociara") opposite Sophia Loren, Sydney Penny has also achieved international fame for her leading performances in both English and French in the film "Bernadette". Ms. Penny garnered a Letter of Commendation from Pope John Paul II for her performance in "Bernadette" and has also been nominated for two Emmy awards in network television for her long running roles on "All My Children" and "Santa Barbara". In addition, she was on the popular hit series "Pretty Little Liars" and portrayed an ex-CIA officer in the worldwide sensation "Largo Winch".
In a successful career spanning more than 40 years, Ms. Penny has worked extensively on three different continents and has also co-produced local film projects in Wilmington NC, such as "Heart of the Country" and "The Dishwasher", a short film which she also wrote and directed.
As an active member of the Advisory Film Board for Cape Fear Community College, she has also been instrumental in introducing many aspiring filmmakers to film and television.
BornAugust 7, 1971
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Sydney Penny
A pretty, petite dark-haired actress who successfully made the transition from children's roles to adult parts, Sydney Penny first came to prominence with her self-possessed turn as the young Meggie Cleary in the 1983 ABC miniseries "The Thorn Birds."
She was chosen to co-star with Clint Eastwood in the well-acted Western "Pale Rider" (1985) and had her first film lead in the forgettable sci-fi comedy "Hyper Sapien: People From Another Star" (1986). After a turn as the teenaged niece of "The New Gidget" (syndicated, 1986), Penny starred as the French girl who had visions of the Blessed Virgin in the biopic "Bernadette" (1988).
In 1992, she ventured into the world of daytime TV, playing B J Walker on "Santa Barbara" and earning her first Daytime Emmy nomination. When that show was canceled the following year, Penny moved to ABC's "All My Children." For the next three years, she was heroine Julia Santos, half of a popular romantic couple (teamed with black actor Keith Hamilton Cobb in an interracial storyline) for which she received Daytime Emmy nods in 1994 and 1995.
After working in indie films (e.g., "Go West" with "All My Children" co-star Michael E Knight), she returned to series TV in the primetime drama "Hyperion Bay" (The WB, 1998-99), playing the lov