Penny Downie
Acting • Born 1954-01-01
Biography
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.
Filmography
51 credits
The Girl in the Café
Movie • 2005
Ruth
Hamlet
Movie • 2009
Gertrude
Ex
Movie • 1991
Sheila
Falling
Movie • 2005
Hazel Kent
Lost for Words
Movie • 1999
Aileen Longden
Crime and Punishment
Movie • 1998
Katerina
Paradise
Movie • 1994
Linda
Murder in Rome
Movie • 2005
Caecilia
Byron
Movie • 2003
Lady Judith Milbanke
Crosstalk
Movie • 1982
Cindy
The House of Mirth
Movie • 2000
Judy Trenor
London Has Fallen
Movie • 2016
Home Secretary Rose Kenter
Vivian Stanshall: The Canyons of his Mind
Movie • 2003
Self - Narrator
Invictus
Movie • 2009
Mrs. Pienaar
Wetherby
Movie • 1985
Chrissie
Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Silk Stocking
Movie • 2004
Judith Massingham
Jackie
Movie • 2016
Janet Lee
Lionheart
Movie • 1987
Madelaine
Food of Love
Movie • 1997
Mary
W.E.
Movie • 2011
Dr. Vargas
Breathe
Movie • 2017
Tid
The Jester from Transylvania
Movie • 2024
Mrs. Pennington
All About George
Movie • 2005
Evelyn
Inspector Morse
TV • 1987
Nurse Wendy Hazlitt
New Street Law
TV • 2006
Honor Scammel
Agatha Christie's Poirot
TV • 1989
Frances Cloade
The Cazalets
TV • 2001
Sid
The Diplomat
TV • 2023
Frances Munning
Vera
TV • 2011
Veronica
Timewatch
TV • 1982
Caecilia
Minder
TV • 1979
Dee Rogers
Father Brown
TV • 2013
Rev. Mother Augustine
Waking the Dead
TV • 2001
Bonnie Yorke
Downton Abbey
TV • 2010
Lady Sinderby
Kavanagh Q.C.
TV • 1995
Mrs. Rosalind McEnery
Houdini & Doyle
TV • 2016
Mrs. Sulzbach
Ripper Street
TV • 2012
Flora Gable
All About George
TV • 2005
Evelyn
Back
TV • 2017
Ellen
Stanley and the Women
TV • 1991
Susan Duke
Byron
TV • 2003
Lady Judith Milbanke
The Ice House
TV • 1997
Phoebe Maybury
Spooks
TV • 2002
Prosecution QC
A Taste for Death
TV • 1988
Kate Miskin
Dalgliesh
TV • 1983
Kate Miskin
The Crown
TV • 2016
Duchess of Gloucester
Absentia
TV • 2017
Valerie Chandris
The Chelsea Detective
TV • 2022
Hilary Carmichael
Whitstable Pearl
TV • 2021
Izzy
Silk
TV • 2011
Helen Guthrie
Madson
TV • 1996
Anderton