Full given name: | Penelope Ann Fuller |
Hometown: | Southern Pines and Lumberton, NC and Briercliff Manor, NJ I'm one-half Yankee and one-half Southern |
Zodiac sign: | Cancer |
Special skills: | French, a little Italian cooking |
First Broadway show ever saw: | High Button Shoes – My uncle was in it (William David) |
If you could go back in time and catch any Broadway show, what would it be? | The Glass Menagerie with Laurette Taylor |
Current show you have been recommending to friends: | Until recently [title of show] |
Favorite show tune: | "Make The Man Love Me" |
Most played song on your iPod: | Yoyo Ma's Bach Cello Suites |
Last book you read: | John le Carré's new book – "A Most Wanted Man" |
Must-see TV show: | BBC America's "Wire in the Blood" with Robson Green |
Last good movie you saw: | "Man on Wire" |
Favorite board/card game: | Scrabble (with my daughter) |
Performer you would drop everything to go see: | Daniel Craig but also at one time it was Sammy Davis Jr. |
Pop culture guilty pleasure: | Robson Green |
First stage kiss: | Robert Redford |
Favorite post-show meal: | A scotch with a splash of soda |
How you got your Equity card: | Had a SAG card and got my Equity after I auditioned for my first show - Oh, Kay! |
Worst missed cue/onstage mishap: | When I was in Barefoot in the Park, Kurt Kasznar forgot an entrance; when the stage manager called out "Kurt" backstage, one stage hand thought he said "curtain" and brought the house curtain down. |
Who have you played on "Law & Order"? Which edition? | Mrs. Joyce Pollock, a woman with a much younger husband on "L&O" the original |
Cats or dogs? | Love both but don't have either |
Favorite cereal: | Granola from Le Pain Quotidien |
Who would play you in the movie? | Amy Adams and Blythe Danner (as the contemporary me) |
Worst job you ever had: | Paycheck typist for Revlon |
TV or commercial gig you most enjoyed: | "The Two Mrs. Grenvilles," which was filmed in London |
Leading lady role you've been dying to play: | Cleopatra and Princess Kosmonopolis in Sweet Bird of Youth |