Penny Peyser

Penny Peyser is an American actress who has also worked as a writer and filmmaker. Born in Irvington, New York, she acted in high school musicals and then studied theater in college, graduating in 1973. She began her professional career with the Boston improv group The Proposition and later moved to New York for Off-Broadway productions. After a small part in All the President's Men, she moved to Hollywood and took the role of Ramona Scott on Rich Man, Poor Man Book II. She replaced Devon Scott as Roberta Franklin on The Tony Randall Show. She appeared in the 1979 films The In-Laws and The Frisco Kid. On television, she played Cindy Fox in Crazy Like a Fox from 1984 to 1986. She wrote, directed, and co-produced a documentary, Trying to Get Good: The Jazz Odyssey of Jack Sheldon (2008), which received festival prizes. She also wrote and directed Stillpoint: Life Inside a Zen Community (2014).