Wissenswertes

Leading "Page 3" girl during the 1970s.

Retired from the entertainment industry and living in London, England. (Juli 2006)

While promoting Das Haus der Peitschen (1974), Penny claimed to have turned down the lead role in a Roger Vadim movie.

Often cast in roles younger than her actual age, Irving was over thirty when she played the main character of a nineteen-year-old model in Das Haus der Peitschen (1974), and two years later she was cast as Miss Bakewell, Young Mr Grace's "nineteen year old secretary" in Are You Being Served? (1972).

Gave a rare interview in 2019 where she confirms that she was born in Scotland, her family hailing from the Paisley area. Some sources claim Irving was born in Hertfordshire in the mid-1950s, but this is due to the birth details of a Penelope J. Irving, whose birth was registered in 1956 in Hitchin, being mistaken for hers. Scottish birth records show Penny was in fact born in Paisley in 1942 with the name Marie Tricki.