# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/sydney-penny
# Generated: 2026-08-13T23:22:18.288Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/sydney-penny"
name: "Sydney Penny"
slug: "sydney-penny"
description: "Sydney Margaret Penny is an American actress. She began her career as a child performer appearing in made-for-television movies. She made her big screen debut in the Western film Pale Rider directed by Clint Eastwood. She received total six Young Artist Awards nominations, winning two for playing Young Meggie Cleary in the miniseries The Thorn Birds (1983), and for Pale Rider. Penny also starred in the sitcom The New Gidget (1986–1988), and played Bernadette Soubirous in the French drama film Bernadette (1988) and its sequel The Passion of Bernadette (1990) both directed by Jean Delannoy."
tagline: "American actress"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Actors"
  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "Actor"
  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1971-08-07"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           54.37
  momentum:             0
  historical:           17.271668
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  65
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    handle:    "nm0001607"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "https://www.sydneypenny.net"
sources:
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    title: "سڈنی پینی"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "سيدنى بينى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Сидни Пени"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sydney_Penny"
    title: "Sydney Penny"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sydney_Penny"
    title: "Sydney Penny"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sydney_Penny"
    title: "Sydney Penny"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sydney_Penny"
    title: "Sydney Penny"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "سیدنی پنی"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Sydney Penny"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sydney_Penny"
    title: "Sydney Penny"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sydney_Penny"
    title: "Sydney Penny"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Sydney Penny"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sydney_Penny"
    title: "Sydney Penny"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sydney_Penny"
    title: "Sydney Penny"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sydney_Penny"
    title: "Sydney Penny"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Пенни, Сидни"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Sydney Penny"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Сідні Пенні"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/158833"
    title: "Sydney Penny"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump