Penny Downie
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.
Acting
Movie
London Has Fallen
as Home Secretary Rose Kenter
2016
Movie
Invictus
as Mrs. Pienaar
2009
Movie
Jackie
as Janet Lee
2016
TV
The Crown
as Duchess of Gloucester
2016
TV
Downton Abbey
as Lady Sinderby
2010
Movie
Breathe
as Tid
2017
TV
Agatha Christie's Poirot
as Frances Cloade
1989
TV
The Diplomat
as Frances Munning
2023
TV
Absentia
as Valerie Chandris
2017
Movie
W.E.
as Dr. Vargas
2011
TV
Ripper Street
as Flora Gable
2012
TV
Vera
as Veronica
2011
TV
Spooks
as Prosecution QC
2002
TV
Inspector Morse
as Nurse Wendy Hazlitt
1987
TV
Father Brown
as Rev. Mother Augustine
2013
Movie
The Girl in the Café
as Ruth
2005
Movie
The House of Mirth
as Judy Trenor
2000
Movie
Hamlet
as Gertrude
2009
TV
The Chelsea Detective
as Hilary Carmichael
2022
TV
Silk
as Helen Guthrie
2011
TV
Houdini & Doyle
as Mrs. Sulzbach
2016
TV
Back
as Ellen
2017
Movie
Wetherby
as Chrissie
1985
Movie
Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Silk Stocking
as Judith Massingham
2004