Penny Downie
Born
January 1, 1954 (71 years old)
Known For
Acting
Place of Birth
Queensland, Australia
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.
The Diplomat
Frances Munning · (8 episodes)
2023
The Chelsea Detective
Hilary Carmichael · (1 episode)
2022
The Jester from Transylvania
Mrs. Pennington
2020
Breathe
Tid
2017
Absentia
Valerie Chandris · (3 episodes)
2017
Back
Ellen · (12 episodes)
2017
Jackie
Janet Lee
2016
The Crown
Duchess of Gloucester · (9 episodes)
2016
Houdini & Doyle
Mrs. Sulzbach · (1 episode)
2016
London Has Fallen
Home Secretary Rose Kenter
2016
Father Brown
Rev. Mother Augustine · (1 episode)
2013
Ripper Street
Flora Gable · (1 episode)
2012
W.E.
Dr. Vargas
2011
Vera
Veronica · (1 episode)
2011
Downton Abbey
Lady Sinderby · (3 episodes)
2010
Hamlet
Gertrude
2009
Invictus
Mrs. Pienaar
2009
New Street Law
Honor Scammel · (14 episodes)
2006
All About George
Evelyn · (6 episodes)
2005
The Girl in the Café
Ruth
2005
Falling
Hazel Kent
2005
Murder in Rome
Caecilia
2005
Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Silk Stocking
Judith Massingham
2004
Byron
Lady Judith Milbanke
2003
Vivian Stanshall: The Canyons of his Mind
Self - Narrator
2003
Byron
Lady Judith Milbanke · (2 episodes)
2003
Spooks
Prosecution QC · (1 episode)
2002
The Cazalets
Sid · (6 episodes)
2001
Waking the Dead
Bonnie Yorke · (2 episodes)
2001
The House of Mirth
Judy Trenor
2000
Lost for Words
Aileen Longden
1999
Crime and Punishment
Katerina
1998
A Certain Justice
Venetia Aldridge
1998
Food of Love
Mary
1997
The Ice House
Phoebe Maybury · (2 episodes)
1997
Kavanagh Q.C.
Mrs. Rosalind McEnery · (1 episode)
1995
Paradise
Linda
1994
Stanley and the Women
Susan Duke · (4 episodes)
1991
Ex
Sheila
1991
Agatha Christie's Poirot
Frances Cloade · (1 episode)
1989
A Taste for Death
Kate Miskin · (6 episodes)
1988
Lionheart
Madelaine
1987
Inspector Morse
Nurse Wendy Hazlitt · (1 episode)
1987
Wetherby
Chrissie
1985
Dalgliesh
Kate Miskin · (1 episode)
1983
Crosstalk
Cindy
1982
Timewatch
Caecilia · (1 episode)
1982
Minder
Dee Rogers · (1 episode)
1979