Dorothy Malone

. She sometimes appears in credits as "Penelope Miller". Malone was married and divorced three times and has two daughters from her first marriage. In 2000, she married James Huggins and later that year had her first child Eloisa May. Her last notable screen appearance was as a mother convicted of murdering her family in Basic Instinct (1992), with Michael Douglas and Sharon Stone. She has appeared in a number of TV and theatrical movies since then, notably Carlito's Way in 1993. Malone became a household name when she accepted the lead role of Constance MacKenzie Carson on the ABC primetime serial Peyton Place, on which she starred from 1964 through 1968. 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.

As a result, she was offered meatier roles in better films, including Man of a Thousand Faces (with James Cagney), Tarnished Angels (again with Hudson and Stack, again directed by Sirk), and The Last Voyage (with Stack). She moved to New York City to study theater after graduating from high school. Her portrayal of the dipso-nymphomaniac daughter of a Texas oil baron won her the Academy Award as Best Supporting Actress. Born "Penelope Andrea Miller" in Los Angeles, California, she is the middle daughter of TV star and producer Mark Miller and costume designer / publicist Beatrice Miller. In 1956, Malone dyed her hair blonde to co-star with Rock Hudson, Lauren Bacall, and Robert Stack in director Douglas Sirk's melodrama, Written on the Wind. Penelope Ann Miller (January 13, 1964) is an American actress. Much of her early career was spent in supporting roles in Grade-B Westerns, although on occasion she had the opportunity to play small but memorable roles, such as that of the young, brainy, lusty, bespectacled bookstore clerk in The Big Sleep, with Humphrey Bogart, in 1946.

She was born as Dorothy Eloise Maloney on January 30, 1925. Dorothy Malone is an American actress.