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