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Penelope Sudrow is a Actor American born on 1 january 1966 at Los Angeles (USA)
Penelope Sudrow (born 1966) is an American actress who has starred in film and on television. She is perhaps best known for her role in the 1987 horror film A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors as Jennifer Caulfield. Her character is killed by Freddy Krueger as she is watching television. Just before Freddy slams her head into the television set, he says "This is it, Jennifer: your big break in TV. Welcome to prime time, bitch!!"
Sudrow was born and raised in Los Angeles, California.
Her father, Lyle Sudrow, was the original star of the Guiding Light soap opera, in New York, both in radio and on live television for a total of eleven years. He played 'Bill Bauer' on the show, as well as performing in hundreds of radio shows also in New York in the 1940s and 50s.
Her mother, born of Swedish nobility, was a professional dancer also in the 50s in New York who headlined at the Copacabana for several years and was also a June Taylor dancer on the Jackie Gleason Show.
Following in her mother's foot-steps, Penelope started dancing at age three, and made her stage debut at the Hollywood Bowl at the age of five, headlining as 'Twiggy' in a Musical Review of the '20's for A.N.T.A., a performing arts school for children in Studio City.
She did her first commercial, for Oscar Myer Wiener, at age six. At ten, she was asked to join the Danny Daniels Dance America Tap company. As the only child member of the group and their featured soloist, she toured the Western United States with the Co. in 1976 at the age of 10.
This was followed by performances on many television variety shows in the 70s, including The Rich Little Show, Shields & Yarnell, The John Denver Show, and The Gene Kelly Special, "An American In Pasadena".
Sudrow continued to work in television and film until the early 1990s.
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Sudrow was born and raised in Los Angeles, California.
Her father, Lyle Sudrow, was the original star of the Guiding Light soap opera, in New York, both in radio and on live television for a total of eleven years. He played 'Bill Bauer' on the show, as well as performing in hundreds of radio shows also in New York in the 1940s and 50s.
Her mother, born of Swedish nobility, was a professional dancer also in the 50s in New York who headlined at the Copacabana for several years and was also a June Taylor dancer on the Jackie Gleason Show.
Following in her mother's foot-steps, Penelope started dancing at age three, and made her stage debut at the Hollywood Bowl at the age of five, headlining as 'Twiggy' in a Musical Review of the '20's for A.N.T.A., a performing arts school for children in Studio City.
She did her first commercial, for Oscar Myer Wiener, at age six. At ten, she was asked to join the Danny Daniels Dance America Tap company. As the only child member of the group and their featured soloist, she toured the Western United States with the Co. in 1976 at the age of 10.
This was followed by performances on many television variety shows in the 70s, including The Rich Little Show, Shields & Yarnell, The John Denver Show, and The Gene Kelly Special, "An American In Pasadena".
Sudrow continued to work in television and film until the early 1990s.
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, 4hDirected by Daniel Farrands
Origin USA
Genres Documentary, Horror
Themes Films about films, Documentary films about business, Documentary films about the film industry, Serial killer films, Documentary films about films
Actors Heather Langenkamp, Wes Craven, Robert Englund, Robert Shaye, Lisa Wilcox, John Saxon
Roles Self
Rating85%
Depuis des décennies, Freddy Krueger s'est frayé un chemin à travers les rêves d'innombrables jeunes, effrayant plus d'un demi-milliard de dollars au box-office à travers huit films terrifiants et spectaculaires.
After Midnight (1989)
, 1h30Genres Thriller, Horror
Themes Ghost films
Actors Marg Helgenberger, Marc McClure, Pamela Adlon, Tracy Wells, Nadine van der Velde, Penelope Sudrow
Roles Kelly (segment "A Night on the Town")
Rating55%
Allison and Cheryl are two college students in a new class, The Psychology of Fear. It is taught by a strange man named Edward Derek. One of Derek's in class experiments makes a jock wet himself in front of everyone, leading to the censuring of the class. Professor Derek invites his students to his home for a private lesson. There, he tells the students three tales centered around fear. In the meantime, the humiliated jock sneaks over to Derek's home to take revenge.
, 1h36Directed by Wes Craven, Chuck Russell
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Fantasy, Horror, Slasher
Themes Medical-themed films, Freddy, Serial killer films, Films about psychiatry, Films set in psychiatric hospitals
Actors Heather Langenkamp, Patricia Arquette, Laurence Fishburne, Priscilla Pointer, Craig Wasson, Robert Englund
Roles Jennifer
Rating66%
One year after the events of the second film, Kristen Parker is scolded by her mother Elaine to go to bed after staying up all night making a papier-mâché house. Kristen objects but obeys her mother. As she dreams, she is stalked in her model, which is revealed to be 1428 Elm Street, the home of Nancy Thompson and Jesse Walsh. Running from him, she wakes up in her own bed again and realizes it was a dream. The stalker, who is revealed as Freddy Krueger, then appears to her when she goes to wash her face and proceeds to slash her wrists with his claws. Elaine walks in, and Freddy makes the attack appear as a suicide attempt and has her admitted to the hospital for help. Going into hysterics after an attempt to sedate her, Kristen is calmed when Nancy Thompson, a newly hired member of the hospital staff arrives and earns her trust by finishing Freddy's nursery rhyme.
Some Kind of Wonderful (1987)
, 1h35Directed by Howard Deutch
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes L'adolescence, Films about children, Teen movie
Actors Eric Stoltz, Mary Stuart Masterson, Lea Thompson, Craig Sheffer, John Ashton, Elias Koteas
Roles Friend
Rating69%
The film is set against the strict social hierarchy of an American public high school. Working class misfits Keith Nelson (Eric Stoltz) and the defensively tomboyish Watts (Mary Stuart Masterson) are good friends. But when Keith asks out the most popular girl in school, Amanda Jones (Lea Thompson), Watts realizes her feelings for him are much deeper. Meanwhile, Hardy Jenns (Craig Sheffer), Amanda's Corvette-driving spoiled ex-boyfriend from the rich end of town, plots trouble for Keith by inviting him and Amanda to a party after the date. Elsewhere, Amanda is cut dead by her friends. Keith finds out about the plot, believing Amanda to be party to it, but goes ahead with the date anyway, spending money saved for college and roping in Watts (as chauffeur) to help make the date special. At Jenns's party, the timely arrival of other "misfits" saves Keith from being beaten up. Keith tells Jenns he is "over" and Amanda slaps Jenns's face. In the end, Amanda decides that she needs to learn to stand on her own. Keith catches up to Watts and they kiss and walk on together.
Fire with Fire (1986)
, 1h43Directed by Duncan Gibbins
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Craig Sheffer, Virginia Madsen, Kari Wuhrer, Jon Polito, Tim Russ, D. B. Sweeney
Roles Stephanie
Rating63%
In this fact-based adolescent melodrama, Joe Fisk is a juvenile delinquent who falls in love with Lisa Taylor, a beautiful Catholic girl's school student, in an Oregon forest. The two meet by accident when the troubled young man stumbles upon her while being chased by his peers in a training exercise, and sees the lovely girl floating in a small lake as she works on a photography assignment, recreating the Pre-Raphaelite painting Ophelia by John Everett Millais. The two are immediately drawn to each other, but neither of their custodians encourage contact with the opposite sex, and when their relationship is discovered there is trouble all around, forcing the young lovers to flee. The question then remains: Will they be able to escape the law and other authorities long enough to find happiness?
Fallen Angel (1981)
, 1h36Directed by Robert Michael Lewis
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Melinda Dillon, Richard Masur, Dana Hill, Ronny Cox, Penelope Sudrow
Roles Sharon
Rating68%
As the film opens, a child pornography shoot is disrupted when its young star Michelle refuses to perform, throwing a tantrum over a promised visit to the zoo. The man who recruited her, pedophile Howard "Howie" Nichols (Masur), attempts to reason with director Dennis, claiming he "just needs a few days" (in order for Michelle to have an abortion, as Howard had gotten her pregnant). However, Dennis has already made up his mind to dump Michelle and gives Howard an ultimatum: find a more cooperative young "star" or he'll blow the whistle on the operation and disappear, leaving Howard to take the rap. Faced with this threat, Howard agrees to begin searching for a new girl to take Michelle's place. 12-year-old Jennifer Phillips (Hill), a recent elementary school graduate and aspiring gymnast fits the mold perfectly. She was voted "Most Shy" in her class, her father was recently killed in a robbery of his catering truck, she feels unable to communicate with her mother Sherry (Dillon), and she cannot accept her mother's new boyfriend (who was also her father's co-worker), Frank Dawson (Cox).