Biography
Penelope Ann "Penny" Fuller is an American actress. She received two Tony Award nominations for her performances on Broadway: for Applause, and The Dinner Party. For her television performances, Fuller received six Emmy Award nominations, winning once, in 1982 for playing Madge Kendal in The Elephant Man.
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Complete Filmography

Strawberry Mansion
2021
as Arabella “Bella” Isadora
In the not-too-distant future, an all-seeing surveillance state conducts “dream audits” to collect taxes on the unconscious lives of the populace. Mil...

King of the Corner
2004
as Mrs. Hargrove
Leo Spivak is drifting through life without a compass. His father is aging fast, his teenage daughter is rebelling, his protégé is after his job and h...

The Color of Love: Jacey's Story
2000
as Madeleine Porter
Georgia Potter, an old-fashioned widow who lives in a small Southern town, whose life changes drastically when her estranged daughter and the son-in-l...

The Gift of Love
1994
as Leora

La Classe américaine
1993
as Sosso (archive footage) (uncredited)
George Abitbol, the classiest man in the world, dies tragically during a cruise. The director of an American newspaper, wondering about the meaning of...

The Beverly Hillbillies
1993
as Mrs. Margaret Drysdale
Jed Clampett and kin move from Arkansas to Beverly Hills when he becomes a billionaire, after an oil strike. The country folk are very naive with rega...

Star
1993
as Olivia Wyatt
When Crystal Wyatt was 16 her father passed away. From that time her life would never be the same. Crystal is banished from the family ranch, and star...

Rio Shannon
1993
as Beatrice Minister
A widow and her family face new challenges when they relocate to a run-down guest ranch in New Mexico.

Baby Snatcher
1992
as Ruth Benson
A woman is delighted to have given birth to a baby girl but her life is turned into a nightmare when she goes missing. The police mount a frantic sear...

Miss Rose White
1992
as Miss Kate Ryan
Two sisters, one a Polish concentration camp survivor, the other safely relocated to America with her father, are reunited in New York in 1947.

False Arrest
1991
as Marilyn Redmond
A luxury home, a handsome husband and terrific children. But it all comes crashing down when she is accused of being a mastermind behind a brutal trip...

Lies Before Kisses
1991
as Katherine
A wealthy publisher is accused of murdering a prostitute he had once spent the night with. The accusations appear false until his own son testifies ag...

Fire and Rain
1990
as Mrs. Hamilton
This movie is based on the actual events on the tragic day of August 2nd, 1985. Delta Airlines flight 191 en route to Los Angeles Via Dallas Ft Worth ...

Appearances
1990
as Barbara Stilton
A drama centering on the joys, conflicts, and crises on a middle-class family and on its ex-football star father's efforts to keep it on track and int...

License to Kill
1986
as Judith Peterson
A grieving family whose daughter was killed in a car crash with a drunken driver is outraged and frustrated as they encounter the inevitable bureaucra...
George Washington II: The Forging of a Nation
1986
as Eliza Powel
The first U.S. president (Barry Bostwick) and his wife (Patty Duke) endure two terms of turmoil from 1789 to 1797.

As Summers Die
1986
as Marci Holt
Set in a sleepy Southern Louisiana town in 1959, a lawyer, searches for justice as he volunteers to help a black woman whose property is being threate...

Fortune Dane
1986
as Mayor Amanda Harding
Carl Weathers is a former championship athlete turned police officer. He is about to face the most vicious challenge of his life in this action packed...

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
1984
as Mae
An alcoholic ex-football player drinks his days away, having failed to come to terms with his sexuality and his real feelings for his football buddy w...

Intimate Agony
1983
as Joanna Fairmont
Anthony Geary (General Hospital) stars as a compassionate doctor who must treat an STD outbreak at an upscale vacation resort. Judith Light (Law & Or...

Your Place... or Mine?
1983
as Paige
Karen (Tyne Daly) is a San Francisco real estate broker and best friend of psychiatrist Alexandra Benedict (Bonnie Franklin) whose boyfriend leaves he...

Lois Gibbs and the Love Canal
1982
as Jeannie Kolchak
A poorly-educated housewife fights companies polluting her hometown's water table in upstate New York during the 1970s.

A Piano for Mrs. Cimino
1982
as Mrs. Polanski
An elderly widow must find meaning and activity in her life when her son suggests she is no longer capable of handling her own affairs.

The Elephant Man
1982
as Mrs. Kendal
A taped version of the stage play about a hideously deformed 19th-century London man and how he managed to triumph over his disease.

Amber Waves
1980
as Fern Jensen
A drifter stranded in Kansas accepts a job offer from a wheat harvester who, in desperation over his cancer and financial woes, attempts suicide but b...

All the President's Men
1976
as Sally Aiken
During the 1972 elections, two reporters' investigation sheds light on the controversial Watergate scandal that compels President Nixon to resign from...

Applause
1973
as Eve Harrington
An aspiring actress, whose sugar-coated appearance belies her ruthless drive, worms herself into the life of an aging star and schemes to replace her ...

Women in Chains
1972
as Helen Anderson
A parole officer goes undercover to investigate prison brutality but is trapped when the only person on the outside who knows why she's there is kille...