Penny Layden

{{short description|British actress}}

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Penny Layden (born 1969) is a British actress and narrator. She has performed at the National Theatre, with the Royal Shakespeare Company,{{Cite book|url=http://www.macmillanihe.com/articles/article-detail/the-rsc-shakespeare-the-tempest/?loc=au&priceCode=au |title=Wayback Machine has not archived that URL. |language=en}}{{Dead Link|date=September 2023}}{{Cite news |last1=Hemming |first1=Sarah |date=12 July 2019 |title=The best new theatre: Measure for Measure, Peter Gynt, Jellyfish |newspaper=Financial Times |url=https://www.ft.com/content/71ad036a-a3bc-11e9-a282-2df48f366f7d |url-access=subscription |access-date=2020-08-02}}{{Cite web|last=Jan 1999|first=12:00AM GMT 07|date=1999-01-07|title=Divine Tempest sweeps all before it|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/4716569/Divine-Tempest-sweeps-all-before-it.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160226190457/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/4716569/Divine-Tempest-sweeps-all-before-it.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=2016-02-26|access-date=2020-08-02|website=www.telegraph.co.uk|language=en}} the Old Vic Theatre, with Shared Experience and the Royal Exchange Theatre.

Her television credits include Call the Midwife, Silent Witness, Poppy Shakespeare and EastEnders; she also performed in The Libertine starring Johnny Depp.IMDB: Penny Layden - https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1752162/