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