1. Penelope Allison "Penny" Peyser is an American actress, writer, and filmmaker.
17 Facts About Penny Peyser
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Penny Peyser is the daughter of Marguerite and Peter A Peyser, who at the time was mayor of Irvington, and later a five-term United States Congressman in the late 1970s and early 1980s.
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Penny Peyser was attracted to acting when, at the age of six, she saw Julie Andrews in My Fair Lady.
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Penny Peyser performed in high school productions of The Boy Friend and Bye Bye Birdie.
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Penny Peyser told Bruce Kimmel in an interview that she enjoyed singing and acting throughout grade school:.
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Penny Peyser began higher education at Skidmore College, where she majored in theater and performed the lead in Lysistrata, then transferred to Emerson College in Boston.
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Penny Peyser gained experience as "a glorified chorus girl" in Off-Broadway productions such as Diamond Studs, and performed in the original production of Lanford Wilson's The Hot l Baltimore, and well as, more recently, in Ethel Sings - The Unsung Song of Ethel Rosenberg at the Off-Broadway Samuel Beckett Theatre.
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Penny Peyser moved to Hollywood upon landing a minor role in All the President's Men.
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Penny Peyser then replaced Devon Scott in the role of Roberta Franklin for the second season of The Tony Randall Show, her first regular TV role.
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Penny Peyser worked with Paul Bartel and Steven Spielberg in a 1986 episode of Amazing Stories, of which she was the star.
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Penny Peyser co-starred as Tracy Beaumont in the 1979 TV movie The Girls in the Office and starred as Emma Gayser Bedell in the 1982 TV mini-series The Blue and the Gray.
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Penny Peyser continued acting in theater in Los Angeles, in which she portrayed the lead role in A Moment in the Sun, Red Flags and The Twilight of the Golds.
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Penny Peyser has written for the Los Angeles Times as well as other publications.
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Penny Peyser co-produced, wrote and directed the documentary Trying to Get Good: The Jazz Odyssey of Jack Sheldon, which features interviews with Clint Eastwood, Billy Crystal, Merv Griffin, Chris Botti, Dave Frishberg, Tierney Sutton and others.
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Penny Peyser wrote, produced, filmed, and directed the feature documentary Stillpoint: Life Inside a Zen Community about a community in the hills above Santa Cruz, California of which "Umi", British former radio deejay Tom Lodge, was the master, and Peyser's sister, Caroline, who is suffering from multiple sclerosis and was dubbed "Mouna" by Umi, was one of the members.
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Penny Peyser began dating James Carroll Jordan when they were working on Rich Man, Poor Man Book II together.
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Penny Peyser is currently married to Doug McIntyre, who hosted the radio talk-show McIntyre in the Morning at KABC in Los Angeles.