Penny Downie
ActingPenny 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.
Movies
Doris
Boss Cat
2026
Mrs. Pennington
The Jester from Transylvania
2024
Tid
Breathe
2017
Janet Lee
Jackie
2016
Home Secretary Rose Kenter
London Has Fallen
2016
Dr. Vargas
W.E.
2011
Gertrude
Hamlet
2009
Mrs. Pienaar
Invictus
2009
Ruth
The Girl in the Café
2005
Hazel Kent
Falling
2005
Caecilia
Murder in Rome
2005
Judith Massingham
Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Silk Stocking
2004
Lady Judith Milbanke
Byron
2003
Self - Narrator
Vivian Stanshall: The Canyons of his Mind
2003
Judy Trenor
The House of Mirth
2000
Aileen Longden
Lost for Words
1999
Katerina
Crime and Punishment
1998
Mary
Food of Love
1997
Linda
Paradise
1994
Sheila
Ex
1991
TV Shows
Frances Munning
The Diplomat
2023
Hilary Carmichael
The Chelsea Detective
2022
Izzy
Whitstable Pearl
2021
Valerie Chandris
Absentia
2017
Ellen
Back
2017
Duchess of Gloucester
The Crown
2016
Mrs. Sulzbach
Houdini & Doyle
2016
Dr Barker
Siblings
2014
Rev. Mother Augustine
Father Brown
2013
Flora Gable
Ripper Street
2012
Veronica
Vera
2011
Helen Guthrie
Silk
2011
Lady Sinderby
Downton Abbey
2010
Honor Scammel
New Street Law
2006
Evelyn
All About George
2005
Zenith
Murder in Suburbia
2004
Anita Matteo
Trust
2003
Lady Judith Milbanke
Byron
2003
Prosecution QC
Spooks
2002
Sid
The Cazalets
2001