Penny Downie
Acting
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.
TV Shows(30)
The Diplomat
Frances Munning
2023
The Chelsea Detective
Hilary Carmichael
2022
Whitstable Pearl
Izzy
2021
Absentia
Valerie Chandris
2017
Back
Ellen
2017
The Crown
Duchess of Gloucester
2016
Houdini & Doyle
Mrs. Sulzbach
2016
Father Brown
Rev. Mother Augustine
2013
Ripper Street
Flora Gable
2012
Vera
Veronica
2011
Silk
Helen Guthrie
2011
Downton Abbey
Lady Sinderby
2010
New Street Law
Honor Scammel
2006
All About George
Evelyn
2005
Murder in Suburbia
Zenith
2004
Byron
Lady Judith Milbanke
2003
Spooks
Prosecution QC
2002
The Cazalets
Sid
2001
Waking the Dead
Bonnie Yorke
2001
A Certain Justice
Venetia Aldridge
1998
The Ice House
Phoebe Maybury
1997
Madson
Anderton
1996
Kavanagh Q.C.
Mrs. Rosalind McEnery
1995
Stanley and the Women
Susan Duke
1991
Agatha Christie's Poirot
Frances Cloade
1989
A Taste for Death
Kate Miskin
1988
Inspector Morse
Nurse Wendy Hazlitt
1987
Dalgliesh
Kate Miskin
1983
Timewatch
Caecilia
1982
Minder
Dee Rogers
1979
Movies(23)
The Jester from Transylvania
Mrs. Pennington
2024
Breathe
Tid
2017
Jackie
Janet Lee
2016
London Has Fallen
Home Secretary Rose Kenter
2016
W.E.
Dr. Vargas
2011
Hamlet
Gertrude
2009
Invictus
Mrs. Pienaar
2009
All About George
Evelyn
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
The House of Mirth
Judy Trenor
2000
Lost for Words
Aileen Longden
1999
Crime and Punishment
Katerina
1998
Food of Love
Mary
1997
Paradise
Linda
1994
Ex
Sheila
1991
Lionheart
Madelaine
1987
Wetherby
Chrissie
1985
Crosstalk
Cindy
1982