Personal Info
Known For:
Acting
Birthday:
January 1, 1954
Place of Birth:
Queensland, Australia
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Penny Downie
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
| Year | Movie | Role |
|---|---|---|
| 2020 | The Jester from Transylvania | Mrs. Pennington |
| 2017 | Breathe | Tid |
| 2016 | London Has Fallen | Home Secretary Rose Kenter |
| 2016 | Jackie | Janet Lee |
| 2011 | W.E. | Dr. Vargas |
| 2009 | Hamlet | Gertrude |
| 2009 | Invictus | Mrs. Pienaar |
| 2005 | The Girl in the Café | Ruth |
| 2005 | Falling | Hazel Kent |
| 2005 | Murder in Rome | Caecilia |
| 2004 | Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Silk Stocking | Judith Massingham |
| 2003 | Byron | Lady Judith Milbanke |
| 2003 | Vivian Stanshall: The Canyons of his Mind | Self - Narrator |
| 2000 | The House of Mirth | Judy Trenor |
| 1999 | Lost for Words | Aileen Longden |
| 1998 | A Certain Justice | Venetia Aldridge |
| 1998 | Crime and Punishment | Katerina |
| 1997 | Food of Love | Mary |
| 1994 | Paradise | Linda |
| 1991 | Ex | Sheila |
| 1987 | Lionheart | Madelaine |
| 1985 | Wetherby | Chrissie |
| 1982 | Crosstalk | Cindy |
| Year | TV Show | Role |
|---|---|---|
| 2023 | The Diplomat | Frances Munning |
| 2022 | The Chelsea Detective | Hilary Carmichael |
| 2021 | Whitstable Pearl | Izzy |
| 2017 | Back | Ellen |
| 2017 | Absentia | Valerie Chandris |
| 2016 | Houdini & Doyle | Mrs. Sulzbach |
| 2016 | The Crown | Duchess of Gloucester |
| 2013 | Father Brown | Rev. Mother Augustine |
| 2012 | Ripper Street | Flora Gable |
| 2011 | Vera | Veronica |
| 2010 | Downton Abbey | Lady Sinderby |
| 2006 | New Street Law | Honor Scammel |
| 2005 | All About George | Evelyn |
| 2003 | Byron | Lady Judith Milbanke |
| 2002 | Spooks | Prosecution QC |
| 2001 | The Cazalets | Sid |
| 2001 | Waking the Dead | Bonnie Yorke |
| 1997 | The Ice House | Phoebe Maybury |
| 1995 | Kavanagh Q.C. | Mrs. Rosalind McEnery |
| 1991 | Stanley and the Women | Susan Duke |
| 1989 | Agatha Christie's Poirot | Frances Cloade |
| 1988 | A Taste for Death | Kate Miskin |
| 1987 | Inspector Morse | Nurse Wendy Hazlitt |
| 1983 | Dalgliesh | Kate Miskin |
| 1982 | Timewatch | Caecilia |
| 1979 | Minder | Dee Rogers |