Penny Downie
ActingBiography
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.
Movies
(23 total)
London Has Fallen
as Home Secretary Rose Kenter
Invictus
as Mrs. Pienaar
Jackie
as Janet Lee
Breathe
as Tid
W.E.
as Dr. Vargas
The Girl in the Café
as Ruth
The House of Mirth
as Judy Trenor
Hamlet
as Gertrude
Wetherby
as Chrissie
Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Silk Stocking
as Judith Massingham
Lionheart
as Madelaine
Crime and Punishment
as Katerina
Byron
as Lady Judith Milbanke
Crosstalk
as Cindy
Falling
as Hazel Kent
Food of Love
as Mary
Lost for Words
as Aileen Longden
Murder in Rome
as Caecilia
Ex
as Sheila
Paradise
as Linda
TV Shows
(28 total)
The Crown
as Duchess of Gloucester
Downton Abbey
as Lady Sinderby
Agatha Christie's Poirot
as Frances Cloade
The Diplomat
as Frances Munning
Absentia
as Valerie Chandris
Ripper Street
as Flora Gable
Vera
as Veronica
Inspector Morse
as Nurse Wendy Hazlitt
Spooks
as Prosecution QC
Father Brown
as Rev. Mother Augustine
The Chelsea Detective
as Hilary Carmichael
Silk
as Helen Guthrie
Houdini & Doyle
as Mrs. Sulzbach
Back
as Ellen
Waking the Dead
as Bonnie Yorke
Whitstable Pearl
as Izzy
Minder
as Dee Rogers
The Ice House
as Phoebe Maybury
Kavanagh Q.C.
as Mrs. Rosalind McEnery
New Street Law
as Honor Scammel