Born and raised in Los Angeles, Penelope Sudrow is an actress who has starred in many films and TV shows. She is perhaps best known for her role in the 1987 horror film A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors, as Jennifer Caulfield. Her character is killed by Robert Englund’s character, Freddy Krueger, as she is watching television. (Just before Freddy slams her head into the television set, he says "This is it, Jennifer: your big break in TV. Welcome to prime time, bitch!!")

Penelope’s father, Lyle Sudrow, was the original star of the Guiding Light soap opera in New York, both on radio and live television for eleven years. He played Bill Bauer on the show, as well as performing in hundreds of radio shows also in New York in the 1940s and ‘50s. Penelope’s mother, born of Swedish nobility, was a professional dancer also in the ‘50s in New York, who headlined at the Copacabana for several years and was also a June Taylor dancer on the Jackie Gleason Show.

Following in her mother's footsteps, Penelope started dancing at age three, and made her stage debut at the Hollywood Bowl at the age of five, headlining as Twiggy in a Musical Review of the 1920's for A.N.T.A., a performing arts school for children in Studio City. She next did her first commercial, for Oscar Myer Wieners, at age six. At ten, she was asked to join the Danny Daniels Dance America Tap company. As the only child member of the group and their featured soloist, she toured the Western United States with the company in 1976.

Penelope has performed on many television variety shows in the 1970s, including The Rich Little Show, Shields & Yarnell, The John Denver Show, and The Gene Kelly Special: An American in Pasadena,” among others. She is a longtime experiencer of numerous paranormal events.