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