Penny Layden

ActorArtProductionWriter UK 2001–2024 (23 year career)

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Biography

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.

Known For

Film

Broken

DC Jenks

Film

Dark Angel

Margaret Stott

Film

South Riding

Mrs Huggins

Film

The Bad Mother's Handbook

Rambler Annie

Film

Poppy Shakespeare

Sue

Film

Call the Midwife

Brenda McEntee

Film

Supacell

Shirley

Film

Father Brown

Nora Banks

Filmography

Acting (18)

Movies (10)

National Theatre Live: London Tide

2024

as Mary Wilfer

National Theatre Live: Paradise

2021

as Nam

Sisters

2020

as Beth

Jolly Girl

2020

as Blossom (voice)

National Theatre Live: Macbeth

2018

as Ross

9.0

My Country: A Work in Progress

2017

as Britannia

National Theatre Live: Everyman

as Knowledge

Broken

as DC Jenks

Poppy Shakespeare

as Sue

The Bad Mother's Handbook

2007

as Rambler Annie

7.0

Television (8)

Supacell

as Shirley

Dark Angel

as Margaret Stott

Father Brown

as Nora Banks

Call the Midwife

as Brenda McEntee

South Riding

as Mrs Huggins

Land Girls

as Hettie Foster

Waterloo Road

as Shelley Baxter

Murphy's Law

as Hammond

Crew (3)

Movies (3)

Jolly Girl

2020

Art Direction

Jolly Girl

2020

Associate Producer

Jolly Girl

2020

Writer