Penelope Ann Miller (January 13, 1964), sometimes credited as Penelope Miller, is an American actress. She starred in several major Hollywood films during the 1990s, and has continued appearing in supporting roles in both film and television.
Miller was born Penelope Andrea Miller in Los Angeles, California, the middle daughter of TV actor and producer Mark Miller and costume designer and publicist Beatrice Ammidown; Miller's mother was the Goddaughter of Aristotle Onassis, and also edited Harper's Bazaar. Miller has two sisters, Marisa and Savannah. Miller moved to New York City to study theater after graduating from high school.
Miller's film debut came in 1987 in Adventures in Babysitting, while in 1988 her role as Emily in Our Town garnered her a Tony award nomination. In 1990 she played Paula in the Oscar-nominated Awakenings, starring Robert De Niro and Robin Williams. She has appeared in a number of TV and theatrical movies subsequently, notably as Edna Purviance in Chaplin in 1992 and as Gail in Carlito's Way in 1993. She appeared alongside Arnold Schwarzenegger in Kindergarten Cop. Just prior to this she had a role in the Gary Sinise directed film Miles from Home.
In 2002, she was in the film Dead in a Heartbeat and starred in a two-part episode of the A&E TV series A Nero Wolfe Mystery (Motherhunt). Her 2005 movie Funny Money was the top movie at the Sarasota Film Festival. She appeared in the Fox series Vanished for six episodes, playing the ex-wife of a U.S. Senator whose wife has mysteriously disappeared, and will appear in the upcoming film Blonde Ambition. She also played Fran on Desperate Housewives.
In 1994, she married actor Will Arnett; they divorced in 1995. In 2000, she married James Huggins and had her first child, Eloisa May. That same year, she played teacher/rapist Mary Kay Letourneau in the TV movie, All-American Girl: The Mary Kay Letourneau Story.
