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Penny Downie
Penny Downie

Penny Downie

ActingBorn January 1, 1954 (age 72)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.

Filmography

2026
Boss Cat

as Doris

Movie
2024Movie
2023
The Diplomat

as Frances Munning

TV
2022
The Chelsea Detective

as Hilary Carmichael

TV
2021TV
2017
Breathe

as Tid

Movie
2017
Absentia

as Valerie Chandris

TV
2017
Back

as Ellen

TV
2016
Jackie

as Janet Lee

Movie
2016
The Crown

as Duchess of Gloucester

TV
2016
Houdini & Doyle

as Mrs. Sulzbach

TV
2016
London Has Fallen

as Home Secretary Rose Kenter

Movie
2014
Siblings

as Dr Barker

TV
2013
Father Brown

as Rev. Mother Augustine

TV
2012
Ripper Street

as Flora Gable

TV
2011
W.E.

as Dr. Vargas

Movie
2011
Vera

as Veronica

TV
2011
Silk

as Helen Guthrie

TV
2010
Downton Abbey

as Lady Sinderby

TV
2009
Hamlet

as Gertrude

Movie
2009
Invictus

as Mrs. Pienaar

Movie
2006
New Street Law

as Honor Scammel

TV
2005Movie
2005TV
2005Movie
2005
Falling

as Hazel Kent

Movie
2005
Murder in Rome

as Caecilia

Movie
2004TV
2003
Byron

as Lady Judith Milbanke

Movie
2003
Trust

as Anita Matteo

TV
2003
Byron

as Lady Judith Milbanke

TV
2002
Spooks

as Prosecution QC

TV
2001TV
2001
Waking the Dead

as Bonnie Yorke

TV
2000
The House of Mirth

as Judy Trenor

Movie
1999
Lost for Words

as Aileen Longden

Movie
1998Movie
1998
A Certain Justice

as Venetia Aldridge

TV
1997Movie
1997
The Ice House

as Phoebe Maybury

TV
1996
Madson

as Anderton

TV
1995
Kavanagh Q.C.

as Mrs. Rosalind McEnery

TV
1994
Paradise

as Linda

Movie
1991TV
1991
Ex

as Sheila

Movie
1989
Screen One

as Sheila

TV
1989
Agatha Christie's Poirot

as Frances Cloade

TV
1988
A Taste for Death

as Kate Miskin

TV
1987
Lionheart

as Madelaine

Movie
1987
Inspector Morse

as Nurse Wendy Hazlitt

TV
1985
Wetherby

as Chrissie

Movie
1983
Dalgliesh

as Kate Miskin

TV
1982
Crosstalk

as Cindy

Movie
1982
Timewatch

as Caecilia

TV
1979
Minder

as Dee Rogers

TV

Personal Info

DepartmentActing
BirthdayJanuary 1, 1954
Place of BirthQueensland, Australia
Popularity1.1