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Dame Penelope Anne Constance Keith, DBE, DL (née Hatfield; born 2 April 1940) is an English actress and presenter, active in film, radio, stage and television and primarily known for her roles in the British sitcoms The Good Life and To the Manor Born.
Penelope Keith. Actress: The Good Life. Early in her career she worked in repertory in Manchester and while there obtained occasional television roles. When offered scripts she can usually tell within 5 pages if it is suitable for her.
Penelope Keith was educated at a convent school in Bedford then spent 2 years at a drama school before going to a reportary theatre at Chesterfield in Derbyshire for 6 months. She's best known for the television series The Good Life and To the Manor Born.
Dame Penelope Anne Constance Keith, DBE, DL ( née Hatfield; born 2 April 1940) is an English actress and presenter, active in film, radio, stage and television and primarily known for her roles in the British sitcoms The Good Life and To the Manor Born.
As she turns 83, we celebrate the career of Penelope Keith, the actress known for The Good Life and To the Manor Born. More recently, she has presented Penelope Keith's Hidden Villages and Penelope Keith's Coastal Villages.
Dame Penelope Anne Constance Keith, DBE, DL is an English actress and presenter, active in all genres, including radio, stage, television and film and primarily known for her roles in the British sitcoms The Good Life and To the Manor Born.
Dame Penelope Keith is best known for creating two of TV's greatest comedy characters: Margo Leadbetter in the 1970s sitcom The Good Life, all outrageous fashions and withering put-downs; and the haughty-but-humorous Audrey fforbes-Hamilton in To The Manor Born in the early 1980s.
Sep 26, 2007 · Penelope Keith. Born 2 April 1940 in Sutton, Surrey, Penelope Keith developed her famously plummy accent at boarding school. Her first major break came playing the chiffon clad snob Margot...
Dec 30, 2006 · Veteran actress Penelope Keith, best known for her roles in The Good Life and To the Manor Born, has been made a CBE in the New Year Honours List. Born Penelope Anne Constance Hatfield...
Since making her network television mark as Margo Leadbetter, the socially-conscious next-door-neighbour of Richard Briers and Felicity Kendal in the sitcom The Good Life (BBC, 1975-78), she has brought a spirit of Noël Coward theatre to single-syllable TV sitcom.
