Penny Downie
Acting
Born: 1954-01-01 in Queensland, Australia
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.
Known For
Agatha Christie's Poirot
Frances Cloade
Downton Abbey
Lady Sinderby
Father Brown
Rev. Mother Augustine
The Crown
Duchess of Gloucester
Vera
Veronica
Minder
Dee Rogers
Spooks
Prosecution QC
Absentia
Valerie Chandris
Waking the Dead
Bonnie Yorke
The Diplomat
Frances Munning
Ripper Street
Flora Gable
Inspector Morse
Nurse Wendy Hazlitt
Silk
Helen Guthrie
Timewatch
Caecilia
The Chelsea Detective
Hilary Carmichael
Houdini & Doyle
Mrs. Sulzbach
London Has Fallen
Home Secretary Rose Kenter
Screen One
Sheila
Kavanagh Q.C.
Mrs. Rosalind McEnery
Dalgliesh
Kate Miskin
Whitstable Pearl
Izzy
Invictus
Mrs. Pienaar
Breathe
Tid
Jackie
Janet Lee
Murder in Suburbia
Zenith
A Taste for Death
Kate Miskin
New Street Law
Honor Scammel
Siblings
Dr Barker
W.E.
Dr. Vargas
Back
Ellen
The Cazalets
Sid
Byron
Lady Judith Milbanke
All About George
Evelyn
Stanley and the Women
Susan Duke
Trust
Anita Matteo
Boss Cat
Doris
Underbelly
Barbara Manning
The House of Mirth
Judy Trenor
Madson
Anderton