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}} Penelope Allison "Penny" Peyser〔http://www.filmreference.com/film/41/Penny-Peyser.html〕 (born February 9, 1951) is an American actress. ==Early life== Peyser was born in Irvington, New York, United States. Her father, Peter Peyser, former mayor of Irvington, New York, was a five-term United States Congressman in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Peyser was attracted to acting when, at the age of six, she saw Julie Andrews in ''My Fair Lady''. Peyser performed in a high school production of ''The Boy Friend''. She told Bruce Kimmel in an interview that she enjoyed singing and acting throughout grade school: My triumph was in sixth grade when I decided to insert a musical number in our non-musical production of ''Oliver Twist''. I was playing the Artful Dodger and couldn't resist the opportunity to sing ''Consider Yourself'' along with a self-choreographed tap dance. Now that really brought the house down and imagine the director's surprise. She began higher education at Skidmore College, where she majored in theater and performed the lead in ''Lysistrata'' ("while still a virgin and knowing not of what I spoke," she told Kimmel〔), then transferred to Emerson College in Boston. At Emerson, she continued to study drama; she acted in Sam Shepard's ''La Turista'', among other plays. After graduating in 1973 with a degree in theater, she made her professional debut by joining a Boston improv group called The Proposition. Peyser told an interviewer, "They'd take suggestions from the audience and turn them into skits. It was the most high-pressured job I ever had and the lowest paying. I figured it couldn't get any worse than that. After that, I went to New York and began my waitressing career."〔 Peyser did indeed work as a waitress in Manhattan. She also gained experience as "a glorified chorus girl" in Off-Broadway productions such as ''Diamond Studs'', and performed in the original production of Lanford Wilson's ''The Hot l Baltimore''.〔 She took a variety of roles on stage before making a parallel career on film. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Penny Peyser」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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