Trivia

From 1990 to 2022, she was President of the UK Actors' Benevolent Fund.

She was awarded the DBE (Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire) in the 2014 Queen's New Year Honours List for services to the arts and to charity.

She is an avid gardener and even hosted a gardening show on the radio.

Her husband was a detective constable with the West Sussex C.I.D.

Her two sons are adopted.

She lives in a 17th century mansion near Guildford.

She was appointed High Sheriff of Surrey, England in 2002.

Hosted a 2017 television series "Penelope Keith's Coastal Villages," comprised of 3 episodes. Seems to have been a continuation of her "Hidden Villages" series which ran from 2014-16.

She was the 1977 Winner of the UK Variety Club Award for Show Business Personality of the Year.

She was awarded the CBE (Commander of the Order of the British Empire) in the 2007 Queen's New Year Honours List for her services to drama.

She was awarded the OBE (Officer of the Order of the British Empire) in the 1989 Queen's New Year Honours List for her services to drama.

She was approached to play the character Pvt Ffoukes Sharpe in Carry on England (1976). Also, she appeared in Carry on Doctor (1967) but her scenes were deleted from the final print.

She trained at the Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Arts in London, England whose alumni include Terence Stamp, Elizabeth Knowelden, Hugh Bonneville, Rupert Friend, Antony Sher, Daniel Hunt, Matthew Goode, Sue Johnston, Minnie Driver and Julian Fellowes.

Playing Lady Bracknell in "The Importance of Being Earnest" by Oscar Wilde (replaced Stockard Channing) - Dublin's Gaiety Theatre (July 2010)

She studied drama at the Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Arts in London, England for two years, winning amongst other, cups for Shakespeare and Best All Round Student. From there she spent 5 months with Chesterfield Repertory followed by 7 months at Lincoln Repertory.

At the time of marrying her husband he was a detective constable.

She appears briefly in Radox 'party' advertisement as The Mother.

Did a tv Commercial for Benson and Hedges tobacco.

Named BBC TV Personality of the Year for 1977.

Milford, Surrey, England (June 2008)

Plasyed Audrey Fforbes Hamilton in 21 episodes of 'To the Manor Born'.

Named Variety Club Show Business Personality.

Won the Olivier best stage comedy performance award for ' Donkeys Years'.

Mother Constance.

Educated at Seaford.