Penny Downie
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.
Known For
All Movies (24)
- Boss Cat2026 · as Doris
- The Jester from Transylvania2024 · as Mrs. Pennington
- Breathe2017 · as Tid
- Jackie2016 · as Janet Lee
- London Has Fallen2016 · as Home Secretary Rose Kenter
- W.E.2011 · as Dr. Vargas
- Hamlet2009 · as Gertrude
- Invictus2009 · as Mrs. Pienaar
- All About George2005 · as Evelyn
- The Girl in the Café2005 · as Ruth
- Falling2005 · as Hazel Kent
- Murder in Rome2005 · as Caecilia
- Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Silk Stocking2004 · as Judith Massingham
- Byron2003 · as Lady Judith Milbanke
- Vivian Stanshall: The Canyons of his Mind2003 · as Self - Narrator
- The House of Mirth2000 · as Judy Trenor
- Lost for Words1999 · as Aileen Longden
- Crime and Punishment1998 · as Katerina
- Food of Love1997 · as Mary
- Paradise1994 · as Linda
- Ex1991 · as Sheila
- Lionheart1987 · as Madelaine
- Wetherby1985 · as Chrissie
- Crosstalk1982 · as Cindy
All TV Shows (33)
- The Diplomat2023 · as Frances Munning
- The Chelsea Detective2022 · as Hilary Carmichael
- Whitstable Pearl2021 · as Izzy
- Absentia2017 · as Valerie Chandris
- Back2017 · as Ellen
- The Crown2016 · as Duchess of Gloucester
- Houdini & Doyle2016 · as Mrs. Sulzbach
- Siblings2014 · as Dr Barker
- Father Brown2013 · as Rev. Mother Augustine
- Ripper Street2012 · as Flora Gable
- Vera2011 · as Veronica
- Silk2011 · as Helen Guthrie
- Downton Abbey2010 · as Lady Sinderby
- New Street Law2006 · as Honor Scammel
- All About George2005 · as Evelyn
- Murder in Suburbia2004 · as Zenith
- Trust2003 · as Anita Matteo
- Byron2003 · as Lady Judith Milbanke
- Spooks2002 · as Prosecution QC
- The Cazalets2001 · as Sid
- Waking the Dead2001 · as Bonnie Yorke
- A Certain Justice1998 · as Venetia Aldridge
- The Ice House1997 · as Phoebe Maybury
- Madson1996 · as Anderton
- Kavanagh Q.C.1995 · as Mrs. Rosalind McEnery
- Stanley and the Women1991 · as Susan Duke
- Screen One1989 · as Sheila
- Agatha Christie's Poirot1989 · as Frances Cloade
- A Taste for Death1988 · as Kate Miskin
- Inspector Morse1987 · as Nurse Wendy Hazlitt
- Dalgliesh1983 · as Kate Miskin
- Timewatch1982 · as Caecilia
- Minder1979 · as Dee Rogers