7.6Acting
Penny Downie
- Born
- 1954-01-01
- Birthplace
- Queensland, Australia
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
60 titles · Newest first · Cast and crew credits
Boss Cat
2026 · Movie
Doris
The Jester from Transylvania
2024 · Movie
Mrs. Pennington
The Diplomat
2023 · TV Show
Frances Munning
The Chelsea Detective
2022 · TV Show
Hilary Carmichael
Whitstable Pearl
2021 · TV Show
Izzy
Absentia
2017 · TV Show
Valerie Chandris
Back
2017 · TV Show
Ellen
Breathe
2017 · Movie
Tid
Houdini & Doyle
2016 · TV Show
Mrs. Sulzbach
Jackie
2016 · Movie
Janet Lee
London Has Fallen
2016 · Movie
Home Secretary Rose Kenter
The Crown
2016 · TV Show
Duchess of Gloucester
Siblings
2014 · TV Show
Dr Barker
Father Brown
2013 · TV Show
Rev. Mother Augustine
Ripper Street
2012 · TV Show
Flora Gable
Silk
2011 · TV Show
Helen Guthrie
Vera
2011 · TV Show
Veronica
W.E.
2011 · Movie
Dr. Vargas
Downton Abbey
2010 · TV Show
Lady Sinderby
Hamlet
2009 · Movie
Gertrude
Invictus
2009 · Movie
Mrs. Pienaar
New Street Law
2006 · TV Show
Honor Scammel
All About George
2005 · TV Show
Evelyn
Falling
2005 · Movie
Hazel Kent
Murder in Rome
2005 · Movie
Caecilia
The Girl in the Café
2005 · Movie
Ruth
Murder in Suburbia
2004 · TV Show
Zenith
Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Silk Stocking
2004 · Movie
Judith Massingham
Byron
2003 · Movie
Lady Judith Milbanke
Byron
2003 · TV Show
Lady Judith Milbanke
Trust
2003 · TV Show
Anita Matteo
Vivian Stanshall: The Canyons of his Mind
2003 · Movie
Self - Narrator
Spooks
2002 · TV Show
Prosecution QC
The Cazalets
2001 · TV Show
Sid
Waking the Dead
2001 · TV Show
Bonnie Yorke
The House of Mirth
2000 · Movie
Judy Trenor
Lost for Words
1999 · Movie
Aileen Longden
A Certain Justice
1998 · TV Show
Venetia Aldridge
Crime and Punishment
1998 · Movie
Katerina
Food of Love
1997 · Movie
Mary
The Ice House
1997 · TV Show
Phoebe Maybury
Madson
1996 · TV Show
Anderton
Kavanagh Q.C.
1995 · TV Show
Mrs. Rosalind McEnery
Paradise
1994 · Movie
Linda
Stages
1994 · TV Show
Linda
Underbelly
1992 · TV Show
Barbara Manning
Ex
1991 · Movie
Sheila
Stanley and the Women
1991 · TV Show
Susan Duke
Agatha Christie's Poirot
1989 · TV Show
Frances Cloade
Screen One
1989 · TV Show
Sheila
A Taste for Death
1988 · TV Show
Kate Miskin
Campaign
1988 · TV Show
Sarah Copeland
Inspector Morse
1987 · TV Show
Nurse Wendy Hazlitt
Lionheart
1987 · Movie
Madelaine
Wetherby
1985 · Movie
Chrissie
Dalgliesh
1983 · TV Show
Kate Miskin
Crosstalk
1982 · Movie
Cindy
Timewatch
1982 · TV Show
Caecilia
Minder
1979 · TV Show
Dee Rogers
Doobie and a Lil Cup of Coffee
Date unknown · Movie
Iris (voice)