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Sydney Penny

Highest Rated: 93% Pale Rider (1985)

Lowest Rated: 93% Pale Rider (1985)

Birthday: Aug 7, 1971

Birthplace: Nashville, Tennessee, USA

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 love interest of a computer software mogul (Mark-Paul Gosselaar).

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Highest rated movies

93% 83% Pale Rider
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Two Women
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In the Eye of the Snake
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83% The Fourth Wise Man
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23% The Perfect Summer
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78% Hyper Sapien: People From Another Star
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The Wife He Met Online
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News at Eleven
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39% The Wish List
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55% Hidden Places
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Filmography

Movies

Credit
No Score Yet No Score Yet Birdies Sarah (Character) - 2022
No Score Yet 75% Mountain Top Judge Coberg (Character) - 2017
No Score Yet 43% Heritage Falls Heather Fitzpatrick (Character) - 2016
No Score Yet No Score Yet Girl Obsessed Gabby Emery (Character) - 2014
No Score Yet 23% The Perfect Summer Alyssa (Character) - 2013
No Score Yet 60% Heart of the Country Candace (Character),
Producer
- 2013
No Score Yet 26% Ambush at Dark Canyon Madeleine Donovan (Character) - 2012
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Wife He Met Online Georgia (Character) - 2012
No Score Yet 39% The Wish List Chloe (Character) - 2010
No Score Yet 55% Hidden Places Eliza Monteclaire Wyatt (Character) - 2006
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Pawn Megan (Character) - 1999
No Score Yet No Score Yet Enchanted Natalie Ross (Character) - 1999
No Score Yet No Score Yet Hearts Adrift Max Deerfield (Character) - 1996
No Score Yet No Score Yet In the Eye of the Snake Malika (Character) - 1993
No Score Yet 21% Child of Darkness, Child of Light Margaret Gallagher (Character) - 1991
No Score Yet 90% The Passion of Bernadette Bernadette Soubirous (Character) - 1990
No Score Yet No Score Yet Two Women Rosetta (Character) - 1989
No Score Yet 78% Hyper Sapien: People From Another Star Robyn (Character) - 1986
No Score Yet No Score Yet News at Eleven Melissa Kenley (Character) - 1986
No Score Yet 83% The Fourth Wise Man Shameir (Character) - 1985
93% 83% Pale Rider Megan Wheeler (Character) - 1985
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Capture of Grizzly Adams Peg Adams (Character) - 1982
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Patricia Neal Story Tessa Dahl (Character) - 1981

TV

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81% 81% Pretty Little Liars Unknown (Guest Star) 2014-2015
78% 60% Drop Dead Diva Ms. Kritzer (Guest Star) 2011
No Score Yet 93% Beverly Hills, 90210 Unknown (Guest Star) 2000
50% No Score Yet Hyperion Bay Unknown (Character) 1998-1999
14% No Score Yet Love Boat: The Next Wave Unknown (Guest Star) 1998
No Score Yet No Score Yet Santa Barbara B.J. Walker (Character) 1984-1993