Acting

Penny Downie

Acting · Born 1954-01-01 · Queensland, Australia

Penny Downie is an Australian actress known for her stage and television appearances in the United Kingdom. From 2017 until 2021 she played Ellen in the British TV sitcom Back. She plays the US ambassador’s house manager Frances Munning in the 2023 Netflix political thriller series The Diplomat.

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The Diplomat
2023 · Frances Munning
The Chelsea Detective
2022 · Hilary Carmichael
Whitstable Pearl
2021 · Izzy
Film
Breathe
2017 · Tid
Absentia
2017 · Valerie Chandris
Back
2017 · Ellen
Film
Jackie
2016 · Janet Lee
The Crown
2016 · Duchess of Gloucester
Houdini & Doyle
2016 · Mrs. Sulzbach
Film
London Has Fallen
2016 · Home Secretary Rose Kenter
Siblings
2014 · Dr Barker
Father Brown
2013 · Rev. Mother Augustine
Ripper Street
2012 · Flora Gable
Film
W.E.
2011 · Dr. Vargas
Vera
2011 · Veronica
Silk
2011 · Helen Guthrie
Downton Abbey
2010 · Lady Sinderby
Film
Hamlet
2009 · Gertrude
Film
Invictus
2009 · Mrs. Pienaar
New Street Law
2006 · Honor Scammel
All About George
2005 · Evelyn
Film
The Girl in the Café
2005 · Ruth
Film
Falling
2005 · Hazel Kent
Film
Murder in Rome
2005 · Caecilia
Film
Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Silk Stocking
2004 · Judith Massingham
Murder in Suburbia
2004 · Zenith
Film
Byron
2003 · Lady Judith Milbanke
Trust
2003 · Anita Matteo
Film
Vivian Stanshall: The Canyons of his Mind
2003 · Self - Narrator
Byron
2003 · Lady Judith Milbanke
Spooks
2002 · Prosecution QC
The Cazalets
2001 · Sid
Waking the Dead
2001 · Bonnie Yorke
Film
The House of Mirth
2000 · Judy Trenor
Film
Lost for Words
1999 · Aileen Longden
Film
Crime and Punishment
1998 · Katerina
A Certain Justice
1998 · Venetia Aldridge
Film
Food of Love
1997 · Mary
The Ice House
1997 · Phoebe Maybury
Madson
1996 · Anderton
Kavanagh Q.C.
1995 · Mrs. Rosalind McEnery
Stages
Stages
1994 · Linda
Underbelly
1992 · Barbara Manning
Stanley and the Women
1991 · Susan Duke
Film
Ex
1991 · Sheila
Screen One
1989 · Sheila
Agatha Christie's Poirot
1989 · Frances Cloade
A Taste for Death
1988 · Kate Miskin
Campaign
Campaign
1988 · Sarah Copeland
Film
Lionheart
1987 · Madelaine
Inspector Morse
1987 · Nurse Wendy Hazlitt
Film
Wetherby
1985 · Chrissie
Dalgliesh
1983 · Kate Miskin
Film
Crosstalk
1982 · Cindy
Timewatch
1982 · Caecilia
Minder
1979 · Dee Rogers