Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Gender
Female
Place of Birth
USA
Also Known As
Penny Allen
Penelope Allen
Biography
Penelope Allen, also known as Penny Allen, is an American stage and film actress and acting coach. She is best known as the head bank teller being held hostage in the film Dog Day Afternoon. She also played Annie, the wife of Francis Lionel "Lion" Delbuchi in the film Scarecrow.
Known For
Bad Lieutenant
as Doctor
Scarecrow
as Annie
The Thin Red Line
as Witt's Mother
Resurrection
as Ellie
Dog Day Afternoon
as Sylvia
Things You Can Tell Just by Looking at Her
as Nancy (segment "Fantasies About Rebecca")
Looking for Richard
as Self / Queen Elizabeth
Oh! What a Lovely War
as Solo Chorus Girl
The War at Home
as Marjoree
Doc
as Mattie Earp
The Crossing Guard
as Woman On Bus
Hurlyburly
as Dry Cleaner
A Time for Miracles
as The Farmer's Wife
Inmates: A Love Story
as Gloria
The Bedroom Window
as Judge
37
as Wino
It Ain't Easy
as Jenny
The Gardener's Son
as Mrs. McEvoy
Three Days of Rain
as Helen
Rosy-Fingered Dawn: A Film on Terrence Malick
as Self