"I was very tall and very plain - I wasn't going to get very far on looks - so I thought I'd better be the funny girl."
Dame Penelope Anne Constance Keith, DBE, DL, (2 April 1940), is a British actress best known for playing Margo Leadbetter in The Good Life and Audrey fforbes-Hamilton in To the Manor Born.
From The '60s to the start of The '70s, she made several small roles in sitcoms, before 1975 when she finally achieved fame when she was cast as Margo Leadbetter in The Good Life. Two years later she won a BAFTA for her performance.
In 1979, she landed the starring role of Audrey fforbes-Hamilton in To the Manor Born, which was followed by a further six sitcoms: Sweet Sixteen, Moving, Executive Stress, No Job for a Lady, Law and Disorder, and Next of Kin.
Nowadays, she mostly works in theatre.
Works on TV Tropes she appeared in:
Film
- Carry On Doctor (1967) — Plain Nurse (Deleted Role)
- The Army Game, unknown amount of episodes (1957) — Primrose
- Dixon of Dock Green, episode "A Fine Art" (1965) — Miss Nash
- The Avengers, 3 episodes:
- "The Murder Market" (1965) — Bride (Uncredited Role)
- "Something Nasty in the Nursery" (1967) — Nanny Brown (Deleted Role)
- "Take Me to Your Leader" (1969) — Audrey Long
- The Good Life, 30 episodes (1975-78) — Margo Leadbetter
- Jackanory, 11 episodes (1975-84) — Storyteller
- The Norman Conquests, 3 episodesshow list (1977) — Sarah
- To the Manor Born, 22 episodes (1979-2007) — Audrey fforbes-Hamilton
- Woof!, 2 episodesshow list (1989-92) — Miss Robson
- Next of Kin, 22 episodes (1995-97) — Maggie Prentice
- Teletubbies, episode "See-Saw" (1997) — Bear
- The Secret Show, episode "Commando Babies" (2006) — Nana Poo-Poo
- Death Comes to Pemberley, 1 episode (2013) — Lady Catherine de Bourgh
- Flight of the Amazon Queen (1995) — Temple Guardian
