Penny Layden

Penny Layden


in UK
Born 1969, Penny Layden is a British actress and narrator. She has performed at the National Theatre, with the Royal Shakespeare Company, the Old Vic Theatre, with Shared Experience and the Royal Exchange Theatre.

Movies for Penny Layden...

National Theatre Live: Paradise
Title: National Theatre Live: Paradise
Character: Nam
Released: November 10, 2021
Type: Movie
When a young soldier appears, his hope of escape comes with suspicion. And as an old enemy also emerges, he is faced with an even greater temptation: revenge.
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Jolly Girl
Title: Jolly Girl
Character: Blossom (voice)
Released: November 1, 2020
Type: Movie
In a small English town, the winds blow cold, and the old streets are looking down at heel. Lost in memories of long ago, Barbara watches the world from her living room window, as it keeps moving and changing.
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Sisters
Title: Sisters
Character: Beth
Released: April 1, 2020
Type: Movie
It’s the height of lockdown, and Beth has asked her older sisters for a video call. She’s expecting a functional chat about how to split mum’s shopping bill, but the conversation takes a darker turn. A hyperrealistic family drama devised remotely through improvisation.
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National Theatre Live: Macbeth
Title: National Theatre Live: Macbeth
Character: Ross
Released: May 10, 2018
Type: Movie
The ruined aftermath of a bloody civil war. Ruthlessly fighting to survive, the Macbeths are propelled towards the crown by forces of elemental darkness. Shakespeare’s most intense and terrifying tragedy, directed by Rufus Norris, sees Rory Kinnear and Anne-Marie Duff return to the National Theatre to play Macbeth and Lady Macbeth.
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My Country: a Work In Progress
Title: My Country: a Work In Progress
Character: Britannia
Released: November 18, 2017
Type: Movie
A powerful play by Carol Ann Duffy, using the words of people from across a divide Britain. Originally presented at the National Theatre and now reworked for the screen, Britannia convenes a meeting to listen to her people and consider whether there can ever be a 'United Kingdom'.
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Title: Dark Angel
Character: Margaret Stott
Released: October 31, 2016
Type: TV
The story of Victorian serial killer Mary Ann Cotton, a poisoner whose methods leave no visible scars, allowing her tally of victims to mount, unsuspected by a Victorian society unable to conceive of a woman capable of such terrible crimes. Traveling around the North East, she insinuates herself into unsuspecting families, marrying and creating new families of her own - before killing them, taking their money and moving on.
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National Theatre Live: Everyman
Title: National Theatre Live: Everyman
Character: Knowledge
Released: July 16, 2015
Type: Movie
Everyman is successful, popular and riding high when Death comes calling. He is forced to abandon the life he has built and embark on a last, frantic search to recruit a friend, anyone, to speak in his defence. But Death is close behind, and time is running out. One of the great primal, spiritual myths, Everyman asks whether it is only in death that we can understand our lives. A cornerstone of English drama since the 15th century, it now explodes onto the stage in a startling production with words by Carol Ann Duffy, Poet Laureate, and movement by Javier De Frutos.
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Title: Father Brown
Character: Nora Banks
Released: January 14, 2013
Type: TV
Father Brown is based on G. K. Chesterton's detective stories about a Catholic priest who doubles as an amateur detective in order to try and solve mysteries.
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Broken
Title: Broken
Character: DC Jenks
Released: August 22, 2012
Type: Movie
Three suburban English families' lives intertwine with tragic consequences.
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Title: Call the Midwife
Character: Brenda McEntee
Released: January 15, 2012
Type: TV
Drama following the lives of a group of midwives working in the poverty-stricken East End of London during the 1950s, based on the best-selling memoirs of Jennifer Worth.
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Title: South Riding
Character: Mrs Huggins
Released: February 20, 2011
Type: TV
The lives and loves of a 1930s Yorkshire town explored in a passionate tale of politics in small places. South Riding charts the story of Sarah Burton's homecoming to Yorkshire in 1934 after twenty years teaching in London and the Empire. After a fiery interview with a conservative interview panel, outspoken Sarah takes up her first headmistress-ship at Kiplington High School for Girls, determined to demonstrate to her new pupils that the future is theirs for the taking.
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Title: Land Girls
Character: Hettie Foster
Released: September 7, 2009
Type: TV
The lives, loves and highs and lows of four members of the Women's Land Army working at the Hoxley Estate during World War II.
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Poppy Shakespeare
Title: Poppy Shakespeare
Character: Sue
Released: March 31, 2008
Type: Movie
N has been a day patient at north London's Dorothy Fish day hospital for 13 years - her ambition is never to leave. Then she meets glamourous new patient Poppy Shakespeare, an ad agency receptionist convinced she's not mad.