Meaning of name Penelope

The names of some famous persons by the name Penelope (or its variants) are:

Penelope Anne Constance Keith, born on 2 April, a famous actress. Penelope Anne Constance Keith's background: An English actress well known in the United Kingdom for her television career. Having started her television career in the 1950s, Penelope Keith became a household name in the United Kingdom in the 1970s when she played Margo Leadbetter in the sitcom The Good Life. This role earned Keith her first of two BAFTAs, the second being in 1978 for The Norman Conquests. One year after The Good Life's finale, Keith was the lead character in another BBC sitcom, To the Manor Born, a show that received audiences of up to 24 million. During the 1980s and 1990s, she appeared in six other sitcoms, in each the lead character. Since the 1990s, Keith has appeared rarely on television and does more theatre work.

Penelope Ann Miller, born on 13 January, a famous actress. Penelope Ann Miller's background: An American actress. She starred in several major Hollywood films during the 1990s, and has continued appearing in supporting roles in both film and television. Miller was born Penelope Andrea Miller in Los Angeles, California, the middle daughter of Beatrice (née Ammidown), a costume designer, publicist, and journalist, and Mark Miller, a television actor and producer; Miller's mother was the goddaughter of Aristotle Onassis, and also edited Harper's Bazaar. Penelope has two sisters, Marisa and Savannah. She moved to New York City to study theater after graduating from high school. In 1994, she married actor Will Arnett; they divorced in 1995. In 2000, she married James Huggins and had her first child, Eloisa May.

Penelope Cruz Sanchez, born on 28 April, a famous actress. Penelope Cruz Sanchez's background: A Golden Globe- and Academy Award-nominated Spanish actress. Originally a dancer, she soon moved into Spanish television, and since then she has appeared in a string of films in Spanish, English, French, Italian and Portuguese languages. Cruz's first major films were Jamón, jamón and Belle Époque, a film which won an Academy Award for Foreign Language Film. In 1997, she starred as Sofía Pangia, alongside Eduardo Noriega in Abre los ojos, directed by Alejandro Amenábar, and in 2000 she appeared with Matt Damon in All the Pretty Horses. In 1999, she appeared in Pedro Almodóvar's Todo sobre mi madre (All About My Mother), which won an Academy Award for Foreign Language Film. In late 2001, she appeared in the film Vanilla Sky, the Hollywood remake of Abre los ojos. She played the same role, 'Beaky-nose' in both films. Cruz co-starred with her best friend, Salma Hayek in the 2006 film, Bandidas. In 2006, Cruz received highly favourable reviews for her performance in Pedro Almodóvar's Volve