Penny Downie
Acting
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
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movieBoss Cat
2026
Doris
movieThe Jester from Transylvania
2024
Mrs. Pennington
tvThe Diplomat
2023
Frances Munning
tvThe Chelsea Detective
2022
Hilary Carmichael
tvAbsentia
2017
Valerie Chandris
tvBack
2017
Ellen
movieJackie
2016
Janet Lee
tvThe Crown
2016
Duchess of Gloucester
tvHoudini & Doyle
2016
Mrs. Sulzbach
movieLondon Has Fallen
2016
Home Secretary Rose Kenter
tvSiblings
2014
Dr Barker
tvFather Brown
2013
Rev. Mother Augustine
tvRipper Street
2012
Flora Gable
movieW.E.
2011
Dr. Vargas
tvVera
2011
Veronica
tvSilk
2011
Helen Guthrie
tvDownton Abbey
2010
Lady Sinderby
movieHamlet
2009
Gertrude
movieInvictus
2009
Mrs. Pienaar
tvNew Street Law
2006
Honor Scammel
tvAll About George
2005
Evelyn
movieFalling
2005
Hazel Kent
movieMurder in Rome
2005
Caecilia
movieSherlock Holmes and the Case of the Silk Stocking
2004
Judith Massingham
tvMurder in Suburbia
2004
Zenith
movieByron
2003
Lady Judith Milbanke
tvTrust
2003
Anita Matteo
movieVivian Stanshall: The Canyons of his Mind
2003
Self - Narrator
tvByron
2003
Lady Judith Milbanke
tvSpooks
2002
Prosecution QC
tvWaking the Dead
2001
Bonnie Yorke
movieThe House of Mirth
2000
Judy Trenor
movieLost for Words
1999
Aileen Longden
movieCrime and Punishment
1998
Katerina
tvA Certain Justice
1998
Venetia Aldridge
tvThe Ice House
1997
Phoebe Maybury
tvMadson
1996
Anderton
tvKavanagh Q.C.
1995
Mrs. Rosalind McEnery
movieParadise
1994
Linda
tvUnderbelly
1992
Barbara Manning
tvStanley and the Women
1991
Susan Duke
movieEx
1991
Sheila
tvScreen One
1989
Sheila
tvAgatha Christie's Poirot
1989
Frances Cloade
tvA Taste for Death
1988
Kate Miskin
Campaign
1988
Sarah Copeland
movieLionheart
1987
Madelaine
tvInspector Morse
1987
Nurse Wendy Hazlitt
movieWetherby
1985
Chrissie
tvDalgliesh
1983
Kate Miskin
movieCrosstalk
1982
Cindy
tvTimewatch
1982
Caecilia
tvMinder
1979
Dee Rogers