Penny Downie
Born: 1954-01-01 in Queensland, Australia
Known For: Acting
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.
Filmography
2026
- Boss Cat as Doris
2024
- The Jester from Transylvania as Mrs. Pennington
2023
- The Diplomat as Frances Munning
2022
- The Chelsea Detective as Hilary Carmichael
2021
- Whitstable Pearl as Izzy
2016
- The Crown as Duchess of Gloucester
- London Has Fallen as Home Secretary Rose Kenter
- Houdini & Doyle as Mrs. Sulzbach
- Jackie as Janet Lee
2014
- Siblings as Dr Barker
2013
- Father Brown as Rev. Mother Augustine
2012
- Ripper Street as Flora Gable
2010
- Downton Abbey as Lady Sinderby
2006
- New Street Law as Honor Scammel
2005
- All About George as Evelyn
- The Girl in the Café as Ruth
- Falling as Hazel Kent
- Murder in Rome as Caecilia
- All About George as Evelyn
2004
- Murder in Suburbia as Zenith
- Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Silk Stocking as Judith Massingham
2003
- Byron as Lady Judith Milbanke
- Byron as Lady Judith Milbanke
- Vivian Stanshall: The Canyons of his Mind as Self - Narrator
2002
- Spooks as Prosecution QC
2001
- Waking the Dead as Bonnie Yorke
- The Cazalets as Sid
2000
- The House of Mirth as Judy Trenor
1999
- Lost for Words as Aileen Longden
1998
- A Certain Justice as Venetia Aldridge
- Crime and Punishment as Katerina
1997
- The Ice House as Phoebe Maybury
- Food of Love as Mary
1996
- Madson as Anderton
1995
- Kavanagh Q.C. as Mrs. Rosalind McEnery
1994
- Paradise as Linda
1991
- Stanley and the Women as Susan Duke
- Ex as Sheila
1989
- Agatha Christie's Poirot as Frances Cloade
- Screen One as Sheila
1988
- A Taste for Death as Kate Miskin
1987
- Inspector Morse as Nurse Wendy Hazlitt
- Lionheart as Madelaine
1985
- Wetherby as Chrissie
1983
- Dalgliesh as Kate Miskin
1979
- Minder as Dee Rogers