Penny Downie

Known for: Acting

Born: 1954-01-01 (age 72)

From: 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.

Filmography (58)

MOVIE
Boss Cat
2026
as Doris
MOVIE
The Jester from Transylvania
2024
as Mrs. Pennington
TV★ 7.6
The Diplomat
2023
as Frances Munning
TV★ 6.3
The Chelsea Detective
2022
as Hilary Carmichael
TV★ 6.7
Whitstable Pearl
2021
as Izzy
MOVIE★ 7.4
Breathe
2017
as Tid
TV★ 7.3
Absentia
2017
as Valerie Chandris
TV★ 7.2
Back
2017
as Ellen
MOVIE★ 6.5
Jackie
2016
as Janet Lee
TV★ 8.2
The Crown
2016
as Duchess of Gloucester
TV★ 6.5
Houdini & Doyle
2016
as Mrs. Sulzbach
MOVIE★ 6.2
London Has Fallen
2016
as Home Secretary Rose Kenter
TV★ 6.1
Siblings
2014
as Dr Barker
TV★ 7.6
Father Brown
2013
as Rev. Mother Augustine
TV★ 7.4
Ripper Street
2012
as Flora Gable
MOVIE★ 6.3
W.E.
2011
as Dr. Vargas
TV★ 7.4
Vera
2011
as Veronica
TV★ 7.5
Silk
2011
as Helen Guthrie
TV★ 8.1
Downton Abbey
2010
as Lady Sinderby
MOVIE★ 7.3
Hamlet
2009
as Gertrude
MOVIE★ 7.2
Invictus
2009
as Mrs. Pienaar
TV★ 6.6
New Street Law
2006
as Honor Scammel
MOVIE★ 10.0
All About George
2005
as Evelyn
TV
All About George
2005
as Evelyn
MOVIE★ 7.1
The Girl in the Café
2005
as Ruth
MOVIE★ 7.9
Falling
2005
as Hazel Kent
MOVIE★ 7.0
Murder in Rome
2005
as Caecilia
MOVIE★ 6.4
Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Silk Stocking
2004
as Judith Massingham
TV★ 7.6
Murder in Suburbia
2004
as Zenith
MOVIE★ 4.8
Byron
2003
as Lady Judith Milbanke
TV★ 6.5
Trust
2003
as Anita Matteo
MOVIE★ 8.0
Vivian Stanshall: The Canyons of his Mind
2003
as Self - Narrator
TV★ 5.0
Byron
2003
as Lady Judith Milbanke
TV★ 7.7
Spooks
2002
as Prosecution QC
TV★ 8.5
The Cazalets
2001
as Sid
TV★ 7.2
Waking the Dead
2001
as Bonnie Yorke
MOVIE★ 6.3
The House of Mirth
2000
as Judy Trenor
MOVIE★ 6.5
Lost for Words
1999
as Aileen Longden
MOVIE★ 6.5
Crime and Punishment
1998
as Katerina
TV★ 6.7
A Certain Justice
1998
as Venetia Aldridge
MOVIE★ 4.0
Food of Love
1997
as Mary
TV★ 6.1
The Ice House
1997
as Phoebe Maybury
TV★ 7.0
Madson
1996
as Anderton
TV★ 7.3
Kavanagh Q.C.
1995
as Mrs. Rosalind McEnery
MOVIE
Paradise
1994
as Linda
TV★ 6.5
Stanley and the Women
1991
as Susan Duke
MOVIE★ 10.0
Ex
1991
as Sheila
TV★ 7.2
Screen One
1989
as Sheila
TV★ 8.2
Agatha Christie's Poirot
1989
as Frances Cloade
TV★ 5.4
A Taste for Death
1988
as Kate Miskin
TV
Campaign
1988
as Sarah Copeland
MOVIE★ 5.6
Lionheart
1987
as Madelaine
TV★ 7.9
Inspector Morse
1987
as Nurse Wendy Hazlitt
MOVIE★ 6.0
Wetherby
1985
as Chrissie
TV★ 6.9
Dalgliesh
1983
as Kate Miskin
MOVIE★ 5.2
Crosstalk
1982
as Cindy
TV★ 6.9
Timewatch
1982
as Caecilia
TV★ 7.2
Minder
1979
as Dee Rogers