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.
Known for
Agatha Christie's Poirot
Frances Cloade
Waking the Dead
Bonnie Yorke
Vera
Veronica
The Crown
Duchess of Gloucester
Minder
Dee Rogers
Downton Abbey
Lady Sinderby
Father Brown
Rev. Mother Augustine
Spooks
Prosecution QC
Ripper Street
Flora Gable
Inspector Morse
Nurse Wendy Hazlitt
Timewatch
Caecilia
Absentia
Valerie Chandris
Kavanagh Q.C.
Mrs. Rosalind McEnery
London Has Fallen
Home Secretary Rose Kenter
The Chelsea Detective
Hilary Carmichael
Back
Ellen
The Diplomat
Frances Munning
Dalgliesh
Kate Miskin
Jackie
Janet Lee
Breathe
Tid
Invictus
Mrs. Pienaar
New Street Law
Honor Scammel
W.E.
Dr. Vargas
The House of Mirth
Judy Trenor
Hamlet
Gertrude
Houdini & Doyle
Mrs. Sulzbach
Lionheart
Madelaine
Wetherby
Chrissie
The Cazalets
Sid
Byron
Lady Judith Milbanke
All About George
Evelyn
The Girl in the Café
Ruth
A Certain Justice
Venetia Aldridge
Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Silk Stocking
Judith Massingham
Ex
Sheila
Food of Love
Mary
Crime and Punishment
Katerina
The Jester from Transylvania
Mrs. Pennington
Lost for Words
Aileen Longden
The Ice House
Phoebe Maybury
Byron
Lady Judith Milbanke
Falling
Hazel Kent
Crosstalk
Cindy
A Taste for Death
Kate Miskin
Stanley and the Women
Susan Duke
Murder in Rome
Caecilia
Vivian Stanshall: The Canyons of his Mind
Self - Narrator
Paradise
Linda