Penny Downie
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- January 1, 1954 (age 72)
- 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
Doobie and a Lil Cup of Coffee
Movie · as Iris (voice)
Boss Cat
Movie · as Doris
The Jester from Transylvania
Movie · as Mrs. Pennington
The Diplomat
TV · as Frances Munning · 18 eps
The Chelsea Detective
TV · as Hilary Carmichael · 1 ep
Whitstable Pearl
TV · as Izzy · 1 ep
Breathe
Movie · as Tid
Back
TV · as Ellen · 12 eps
Absentia
TV · as Valerie Chandris · 3 eps
London Has Fallen
Movie · as Home Secretary Rose Kenter
Jackie
Movie · as Janet Lee
Houdini & Doyle
TV · as Mrs. Sulzbach · 1 ep
The Crown
TV · as Duchess of Gloucester · 9 eps
Siblings
TV · as Dr Barker · 1 ep
Father Brown
TV · as Rev. Mother Augustine · 1 ep
Ripper Street
TV · as Flora Gable · 1 ep
W.E.
Movie · as Dr. Vargas
Vera
TV · as Veronica · 1 ep
Silk
TV · as Helen Guthrie · 1 ep
Downton Abbey
TV · as Lady Sinderby · 3 eps
Hamlet
Movie · as Gertrude
Invictus
Movie · as Mrs. Pienaar
New Street Law
TV · as Honor Scammel · 14 eps
The Girl in the Café
Movie · as Ruth
Falling
Movie · as Hazel Kent
Murder in Rome
Movie · as Caecilia
All About George
TV · as Evelyn · 6 eps
Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Silk Stocking
Movie · as Judith Massingham
Murder in Suburbia
TV · as Zenith · 1 ep
Byron
Movie · as Lady Judith Milbanke
Vivian Stanshall: The Canyons of his Mind
Movie · as Self - Narrator
Byron
TV · as Lady Judith Milbanke · 2 eps
Trust
TV · as Anita Matteo · 1 ep
Spooks
TV · as Prosecution QC · 1 ep
The Cazalets
TV · as Sid · 6 eps
Waking the Dead
TV · as Bonnie Yorke · 2 eps
The House of Mirth
Movie · as Judy Trenor
Lost for Words
Movie · as Aileen Longden
Crime and Punishment
Movie · as Katerina
A Certain Justice
TV · as Venetia Aldridge · 1 ep
Food of Love
Movie · as Mary
The Ice House
TV · as Phoebe Maybury · 2 eps
Madson
TV · as Anderton · 1 ep
Kavanagh Q.C.
TV · as Mrs. Rosalind McEnery · 1 ep
Paradise
Movie · as Linda
Stages
TV · as Linda · 1 ep
Underbelly
TV · as Barbara Manning · 4 eps
Ex
Movie · as Sheila
Stanley and the Women
TV · as Susan Duke · 4 eps
Agatha Christie's Poirot
TV · as Frances Cloade · 1 ep
Screen One
TV · as Sheila · 1 ep
A Taste for Death
TV · as Kate Miskin · 6 eps
Campaign
TV · as Sarah Copeland · 6 eps
Lionheart
Movie · as Madelaine
Inspector Morse
TV · as Nurse Wendy Hazlitt · 1 ep
Wetherby
Movie · as Chrissie
Dalgliesh
TV · as Kate Miskin · 1 ep
Crosstalk
Movie · as Cindy
Timewatch
TV · as Caecilia · 1 ep
Minder
TV · as Dee Rogers · 1 ep