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Penelope Ann Miller (January 13 1964) is an American actress.

Born "Penelope Andrea Miller" in Los Angeles, California, she is the middle daughter of TV star and producer Mark Miller and costume designer and publicist Beatrice Miller. She moved to New York City to study theater after graduating from high school.

Her film debut came in 1987 in Adventures in Babysitting, while in 1988 her role as Emily in Our Town garnered her a Tony award nomination. In 1990 she played Paula in the Academy Awards Best Picture nominee Awakenings, starring Robert De Niro and Robin Williams. She has appeared in a number of TV and theatrical movies since then, notably as Edna Purviance in Chaplin in 1992 and as Gail in Carlito's Way in 1993. She appeared alongside Arnold Schwarzenegger in Kindergarten Cop. Just prior to this she had a role in the Gary Sinise directed film Miles from Home.

In 1994, she married actor Will Arnett and they divorced in 1995.

In 2000, she married James Huggins and later that year had her first child Eloisa May. That same year, she played teacher-turned-rapist Mary Kay Letourneau in the TV movie, All-American Girl: The Mary Kay Letourneau Story.

She sometimes appears in credits as "Penelope Miller".

In 2002, she was in the film Dead in a Heartbeat.

Her 2005 movie Funny Money was the top movie at the Sarasota Film Festival.

It was announced on June 19, 2006 that she would be joining the cast of the Fox series Vanished for six episodes (with an option to become a series regular), playing the ex-wife of a U.S. Senator whose wife has mysteriously disappeared.

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