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.
Personal Details
Movies (22)
The Jester from Transylvania
as Mrs. Pennington
2020
Breathe
as Tid
2017
Jackie
as Janet Lee
2016
London Has Fallen
as Home Secretary Rose Kenter
2016
W.E.
as Dr. Vargas
2011
Hamlet
as Gertrude
2009
Invictus
as Mrs. Pienaar
2009
The Girl in the Café
as Ruth
2005
Falling
as Hazel Kent
2005
Murder in Rome
as Caecilia
2005
Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Silk Stocking
as Judith Massingham
2004
Byron
as Lady Judith Milbanke
2003
Vivian Stanshall: The Canyons of his Mind
as Self - Narrator
2003
The House of Mirth
as Judy Trenor
2000
Lost for Words
as Aileen Longden
1999
Crime and Punishment
as Katerina
1998
Food of Love
as Mary
1997
Paradise
as Linda
1994
Ex
as Sheila
1991
Lionheart
as Madelaine
1987
Wetherby
as Chrissie
1985
Crosstalk
as Cindy
1982
TV Shows (26)
The Diplomat
as Frances Munning
2023
The Chelsea Detective
as Hilary Carmichael
2022
Whitstable Pearl
as Izzy
2021
Absentia
as Valerie Chandris
2017
Back
as Ellen
2017
The Crown
as Duchess of Gloucester
2016
Houdini & Doyle
as Mrs. Sulzbach
2016
Father Brown
as Rev. Mother Augustine
2013
Ripper Street
as Flora Gable
2012
Vera
as Veronica
2011
Downton Abbey
as Lady Sinderby
2010
New Street Law
as Honor Scammel
2006
All About George
as Evelyn
2005
Byron
as Lady Judith Milbanke
2003
Spooks
as Prosecution QC
2002
The Cazalets
as Sid
2001
Waking the Dead
as Bonnie Yorke
2001
The Ice House
as Phoebe Maybury
1997
Kavanagh Q.C.
as Mrs. Rosalind McEnery
1995
Stanley and the Women
as Susan Duke
1991
Agatha Christie's Poirot
as Frances Cloade
1989
A Taste for Death
as Kate Miskin
1988
Inspector Morse
as Nurse Wendy Hazlitt
1987
Dalgliesh
as Kate Miskin
1983
Timewatch
as Caecilia
1982
Minder
as Dee Rogers
1979