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los angeles , california 150px penelope sudrow
 actress
penelope sudrow

penelope sudrow -lrb- born 1966 -rrb- is an american actress who has starred in film and on television .
she is perhaps best known for her role in the 1987 horror film '' '' as jennifer caulfield .
her character is killed by 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 !! ''
sudrow was born and raised in los angeles , california .
her father , lyle sudrow , was the original star of the `` guiding light '' soap opera , in new york , both in radio and on live television for a total of 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 .
her 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 foot-steps , 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 ' 20 's for a.n.t.a. , a performing arts school for children in studio city .
she did her first commercial , for oscar myer wiener , 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 co. in 1976 at the age of 10 .
this was followed by performances on many television variety shows in the 70s , including `` the rich little show '' , `` shields & yarnell '' , `` the john denver show '' , and `` the gene kelly special '' , `` an american in pasadena '' .
sudrow continued to work in television and film until the early 1990s .
