Penelope Ann Miller

Attractive and pixieish, Miller made her Broadway debut as Daisy in Neil Simon's "Biloxi Blues", a role she reprised in Mike Nichols' 1988 film adaptation. She followed up with leading lady duties in "Big Top Pee-Wee" (1988), "The Freshman" and "Kindergarten Cop" (both 1990) before playing a determined lawyer in "Other People's Money" (1991), the title character in the jokey "The Gun in Betty Lou's Handbag" and silent film star Edna Purviance in the biopic, "Chaplin" (both 1992). Miller received critical acclaim for her portrayal of Al Pacino's girlfriend in "Carlito's Way" (1993) and also played the femme lead opposite Alec Baldwin in "The Shadow" (1994).

This daughter of actor-writer Mark Miller and journalist Bea Miller moved to NYC at age 18 to pursue acting. After brief appearances in TV commercials and daytime soap, Miller landed her breakthrough stage role. She was cast as an intellectual teenager in the short-lived 1987 CBS sitcom "The Popcorn Kid". That same year, a nearly unrecognizable Miller played the geeky runaway friend of Elisabeth Shue in the teen comedy "Adventures in Babysitting". After playing Kevin Anderson's girlfriend in the earnest "Miles From Home" (1988), she earned acclaim for her moving rendition of Emily Webb in the Broadway revival of Thornton Wilder's "Our Town" (1989). On the big screen, Miller has been paired with a number of strong leading men including Marlon Brando and Matthew Broderick in "The Freshman", Arnold Schwarzenegger in "Kindergarten Cop" and Danny De Vito in "Other People's Money". More recently, she headlined the surprise hit thriller "The Relic" (1997) and co-starred opposite Jon Bon Jovi in "Little City" (scheduled for a 1998 release). Miller has also ventured more into TV, co-starring as Joe Mantegna's showgirl wife in the CBS miniseries "Mario Puzo's 'The Last Don'" (CBS, 1997) and playing a rural doctor who employs an escort to keep well-meaning friends from matchmaking in the Lifetime movie "The Hired Heart" (1997). She returned to series TV as a co-star of Tom Selleck's sitcom "The Closer" (CBS, 1998) but left after only five appearances, claiming she was unhappy with the direction of her role.

• Also Credited As:
  Penelope Andrea Miller, Penelope Miller
• Born:
  Penelope Andrea Miller on January 13, 1964 in Los Angeles, California, USA
• Job Titles:
  Actress, Waitress

Family

• Daughter: Eloisa May Huggins. Born Dec. 10, 2000; father, James Huggins
• Daughter: Maria Adela Huggins. Born March 23, 2009; father, James Huggins
• Father: Mark Miller. Appeared as the father in the 1960s sitcom Please Don t Eat the Daisies ; divorced from Miller s mother c. 1974
• Mother: Bea Ammidown. Former editor for Harper s Bazaar ; goddaughter of Aristotle Onassis; divorced from Miller s father c. 1974
• Sister: Marisa Miller. Older
• Sister: Savannah Miller. Younger

Significant Others

• Companion: Al Pacino. Romantically involved during and after filming of Carlito s Way (1993); no longer together
• Companion: Matthew Broderick. Dated when they both appeared in Biloxi Blues on Broadway; no longer together
• Companion: Woody Harrelson. Briefly dated c. 1985; no longer together
• Companion: Al Pacino. were romantically involved during and after filming of Carlito s Way (1993)
• Companion: Matthew Broderick. dated when they both appeared in Biloxi Blues on stage
• Companion: Woody Harrelson. dated c. 1985

Education

• Menlo College, Menlo Park, CA
• HB Studio, New York, NY

Milestones

• 1982 Moved to New York City at the age of 18
• 1984 Appeared in three episodes of the CBS daytime drama, Guiding Light
• 1985 Made Broadway debut, opposite Matthew Broderick, in Neil Simon s Biloxi Blues
• 1987 Made feature acting debut in Adventures in Babysitting
• 1987 TV series debut as Gwen Stottlemeyer on the short-lived CBS sitcom, The Popcorn Kid
• 1988 Reprised stage role for Mike Nichols film version of Biloxi Blues
• 1989 Played Emily Webb in a Broadway revival of Thornton Wilder s Our Town ; earned a Tony nomination (aired on PBS as part of the Great Performances series)
• 1990 Co-starred with Arnold Schwarzenegger in the Ivan Reitman comedy, Kindergarten Cop
• 1990 Co-starred with Robert De Niro and Robin Williams in the Oscar-nominated film, Awakenings
• 1990 Played Marlon Brando s daughter in The Freshman ; also re-teamed with Matthew Broderick
• 1992 Portrayed silent-screen actress Edna Purviance, opposite Robert Downey Jr. in the title role of Chaplin
• 1993 Played the female lead opposite Al Pacino in Brian DePalma s Carlito s Way
• 1994 Cast opposite Alec Baldwin in The Shadow
• 1997 Had featured role in the CBS miniseries, Mario Puzo s The Last Don
• 1997 Played the leading role in the big-budget, The Relic
• 1999 Portrayed scandalous teacher Mary Kay Letourneau in the USA TV-movie, All-American Girl: The Mary Kay Letourneau Story
• 2001 Co-starred with Angus Macfadyen in A Woman s a Helluva Thing
• 2002 Appeared in a two-part episode of the A&E series, A Nero Wolfe Mystery
• 2002 Cast in the TNT movie, Dead in a Heartbeat
• 2006 Cast in the FOX drama Vanished as the senator s ex-wife
• 2007 Appeared in the supernatural thriller, The Messengers
• 2007 Co-starred in the film adaptation of Funny Money with Chevy Chase
• Raised in Paris and Los Angeles