Penny Downie
Acting
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.
Filmography 59
Movies (24)
Boss Cat2026Doris
The Jester from Transylvania2024Mrs. Pennington
Breathe2017Tid
Jackie2016Janet Lee
London Has Fallen2016Home Secretary Rose Kenter
W.E.2011Dr. Vargas
Hamlet2009Gertrude
Invictus2009Mrs. Pienaar
All About George2005Evelyn
The Girl in the Café2005Ruth
Falling2005Hazel Kent
Murder in Rome2005Caecilia
Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Silk Stocking2004Judith Massingham
Byron2003Lady Judith Milbanke
Vivian Stanshall: The Canyons of his Mind2003Self - Narrator
The House of Mirth2000Judy Trenor
Lost for Words1999Aileen Longden
Crime and Punishment1998Katerina
Food of Love1997Mary
Paradise1994Linda
Ex1991Sheila
Lionheart1987Madelaine
Wetherby1985Chrissie
Crosstalk1982Cindy
Shows (35)
The Diplomat2023Frances Munning
The Chelsea Detective2022Hilary Carmichael
Whitstable Pearl2021Izzy
Absentia2017Valerie Chandris
Back2017Ellen
The Crown2016Duchess of Gloucester
Houdini & Doyle2016Mrs. Sulzbach
Siblings2014Dr Barker
Father Brown2013Rev. Mother Augustine
Ripper Street2012Flora Gable
Vera2011Veronica
Silk2011Helen Guthrie
Downton Abbey2010Lady Sinderby
New Street Law2006Honor Scammel
All About George2005Evelyn
Murder in Suburbia2004Zenith
Trust2003Anita Matteo
Byron2003Lady Judith Milbanke
Spooks2002Prosecution QC
The Cazalets2001Sid
Waking the Dead2001Bonnie Yorke
A Certain Justice1998Venetia Aldridge
The Ice House1997Phoebe Maybury
Madson1996Anderton
Kavanagh Q.C.1995Mrs. Rosalind McEnery
Underbelly1992Barbara Manning
Stanley and the Women1991Susan Duke
Screen One1989Sheila
Agatha Christie's Poirot1989Frances Cloade
A Taste for Death1988Kate Miskin