Penny Downie
Born: 1954/01/01 in Queensland, Australia
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
Movies
- Hamlet
2009
- The Girl in the Café
2005
- Ex
1991
- Falling
2005
- A Certain Justice
1998
- Lost for Words
1999
- Crime and Punishment
1998
- Paradise
1994
- Murder in Rome
2005
- Byron
2003
- Crosstalk
1982
- The House of Mirth
2000
- London Has Fallen
2016
- Vivian Stanshall: The C...
2003
- Invictus
2009
- Wetherby
1985
- Sherlock Holmes and the...
2004
- Jackie
2016
- Lionheart
1987
- Food of Love
1997
- W.E.
2011
- Breathe
2017
- The Jester from Transyl...
2020
TV Shows
- Inspector Morse
1987
- New Street Law
2006
- Agatha Christie's Poirot
1989
- The Cazalets
2001
- The Diplomat
2023
- Vera
2011
- Timewatch
1982
- Minder
1979
- Father Brown
2013
- Waking the Dead
2001
- Downton Abbey
2010
- Kavanagh Q.C.
1995
- Houdini & Doyle
2016
- Ripper Street
2012
- All About George
2005
- Back
2017
- Stanley and the Women
1991
- Byron
2003
- The Ice House
1997
- Spooks
2002
- A Taste for Death
1988
- Dalgliesh
1983
- The Crown
2016
- Absentia
2017
- The Chelsea Detective
2022