
Penny Downie
January 1, 1954 (71 years old) in 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.
Known For
Credits
- 2023 · The Diplomat as Frances Munning
- 2022 · The Chelsea Detective as Hilary Carmichael
- 2020 · The Jester from Transylvania as Mrs. Pennington
- 2017 · Breathe as Tid
- 2017 · Absentia as Valerie Chandris
- 2017 · Back as Ellen
- 2016 · Jackie as Janet Lee
- 2016 · The Crown as Duchess of Gloucester
- 2016 · Houdini & Doyle as Mrs. Sulzbach
- 2016 · London Has Fallen as Home Secretary Rose Kenter
- 2013 · Father Brown as Rev. Mother Augustine
- 2012 · Ripper Street as Flora Gable
- 2011 · W.E. as Dr. Vargas
- 2011 · Vera as Veronica
- 2010 · Downton Abbey as Lady Sinderby
- 2009 · Hamlet as Gertrude
- 2009 · Invictus as Mrs. Pienaar
- 2006 · New Street Law as Honor Scammel
- 2005 · All About George as Evelyn
- 2005 · The Girl in the Café as Ruth
- 2005 · Falling as Hazel Kent
- 2005 · Murder in Rome as Caecilia
- 2004 · Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Silk Stocking as Judith Massingham
- 2003 · Byron as Lady Judith Milbanke
- 2003 · Byron as Lady Judith Milbanke
- 2003 · Vivian Stanshall: The Canyons of his Mind as Self - Narrator
- 2002 · Spooks as Prosecution QC
- 2001 · The Cazalets as Sid
- 2001 · Waking the Dead as Bonnie Yorke
- 2000 · The House of Mirth as Judy Trenor
- 1999 · Lost for Words as Aileen Longden
- 1998 · Crime and Punishment as Katerina
- 1998 · A Certain Justice as Venetia Aldridge
- 1997 · Food of Love as Mary
- 1997 · The Ice House as Phoebe Maybury
- 1995 · Kavanagh Q.C. as Mrs. Rosalind McEnery
- 1994 · Paradise as Linda
- 1991 · Stanley and the Women as Susan Duke
- 1991 · Ex as Sheila
- 1989 · Agatha Christie's Poirot as Frances Cloade
- 1988 · A Taste for Death as Kate Miskin
- 1987 · Lionheart as Madelaine
- 1987 · Inspector Morse as Nurse Wendy Hazlitt
- 1985 · Wetherby as Chrissie
- 1983 · Dalgliesh as Kate Miskin
- 1982 · Crosstalk as Cindy
- 1982 · Timewatch as Caecilia
- 1979 · Minder as Dee Rogers