| Name |
Sydney Penny |
| Height |
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| Naionality |
American |
| Date of Birth |
7-August-1971 |
| Place of Birth |
Nashville, Tennessee, U.S. |
| Famous for |
Acting |
Sydney Margaret Penny is an American Daytime Emmy-nominated actress best known for the roles of Julia Santos Keefer on the soap opera All My Children and Samantha "Sam" Kelly on the CBS soap opera The Bold and the Beautiful.
She was born in Nashville, Tennessee and raised in Chatsworth, California, the daughter of former Western Swing bandleader and comedian Hank Penny and his wife, Shari. An early acting appearance was on the miniseries The Thorn Birds when she was only 12 years old as young Meggie. She also appeared as Dani in The New Gidget and as a pigeon-obsessed youngster in an episode of the cop series TJ Hooker. At the age of 14, Penny played Megan Wheeler in the Clint Eastwood western "Pale Rider", released in 1985.Penny is of part Cherokee descent.She also voiced Lucy van Pelt in the television special It's Magic, Charlie Brown (1981).
She played the role of Julia Santos Keefer on the soap opera All My Children, from 1993 to 1996, with guest appearances in 1997 and 2002 and returned to the show in 2005. Penny left the show May 2008 when Julia was killed off.
Penny has also appeared on the serials Santa Barbara as B.J. Walker during 1992-1993, Sunset Beach as Meg Cummings (filling in for Susan Ward in 1999), "Beverly Hills, 90210" and Hyperion Bay as Jennifer.
