Penny Downie
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Acting Credits
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
Filmography
Boss Cat
2026
as Doris
The Jester from Transylvania
2024
as Mrs. Pennington
The Diplomat
2023
as Frances Munning
The Chelsea Detective
2022
as Hilary Carmichael
Whitstable Pearl
2021
as Izzy
Breathe
2017
as Tid
Back
2017
as Ellen
Absentia
2017
as Valerie Chandris
London Has Fallen
2016
as Home Secretary Rose Kenter
Jackie
2016
as Janet Lee
Houdini & Doyle
2016
as Mrs. Sulzbach
The Crown
2016
as Duchess of Gloucester
Siblings
2014
as Dr Barker
Father Brown
2013
as Rev. Mother Augustine
Ripper Street
2012
as Flora Gable
W.E.
2011
as Dr. Vargas
Vera
2011
as Veronica
Silk
2011
as Helen Guthrie
Downton Abbey
2010
as Lady Sinderby
Hamlet
2009
as Gertrude
Invictus
2009
as Mrs. Pienaar
New Street Law
2006
as Honor Scammel
The Girl in the Café
2005
as Ruth
Falling
2005
as Hazel Kent
Murder in Rome
2005
as Caecilia
All About George
2005
as Evelyn
Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Silk Stocking
2004
as Judith Massingham
Murder in Suburbia
2004
as Zenith
Byron
2003
as Lady Judith Milbanke
Vivian Stanshall: The Canyons of his Mind
2003
as Self - Narrator
Byron
2003
as Lady Judith Milbanke
Trust
2003
as Anita Matteo
Spooks
2002
as Prosecution QC
The Cazalets
2001
as Sid
Waking the Dead
2001
as Bonnie Yorke
The House of Mirth
2000
as Judy Trenor
Lost for Words
1999
as Aileen Longden
Crime and Punishment
1998
as Katerina
A Certain Justice
1998
as Venetia Aldridge
Food of Love
1997
as Mary
The Ice House
1997
as Phoebe Maybury
Madson
1996
as Anderton
Kavanagh Q.C.
1995
as Mrs. Rosalind McEnery
Paradise
1994
as Linda
Stages
1994
as Linda
Underbelly
1992
as Barbara Manning
Ex
1991
as Sheila
Stanley and the Women
1991
as Susan Duke
Agatha Christie's Poirot
1989
as Frances Cloade
Screen One
1989
as Sheila
A Taste for Death
1988
as Kate Miskin
Campaign
1988
as Sarah Copeland
Lionheart
1987
as Madelaine
Inspector Morse
1987
as Nurse Wendy Hazlitt
Wetherby
1985
as Chrissie
Dalgliesh
1983
as Kate Miskin
Crosstalk
1982
as Cindy
Timewatch
1982
as Caecilia
Minder
1979
as Dee Rogers