Acting

Penny Downie

Born 1954-01-01 · 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.

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