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.
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Films (24)
Boss Cat
2026 · Doris
The Jester from Transylvania
2024 · Mrs. Pennington
Inspire
2017 · Tid
Jackie
2016 · Janet Lee
La Chute de Londres
2016 · Home Secretary Rose Kenter
W.E.
2011 · Dr. Vargas
Hamlet
2009 · Gertrude
Invictus
2009 · Mrs. Pienaar
The Girl in the Café
2005 · Ruth
Falling
2005 · Hazel Kent
Murder in Rome
2005 · Caecilia
La revanche de Sherlock Holmes
2004 · Judith Massingham
Byron
2003 · Lady Judith Milbanke
Vivian Stanshall: The Canyons of his Mind
2003 · Self - Narrator
Chez les heureux du monde
2000 · Judy Trenor
Lost for Words
1999 · Aileen Longden
Crime et châtiment
1998 · Katerina
Food of Love
1997 · Mary
Paradise
1994 · Linda
Ex
1991 · Sheila
Lionheart
1987 · Madelaine
Wetherby
1985 · Chrissie
Crosstalk
1982 · Cindy
Doobie and a Lil Cup of Coffee
· Iris (voice)
Séries (36)
La Diplomate
2023 · Frances Munning
The Chelsea Detective
2022 · Hilary Carmichael
Les Enquêtes de Pearl Nolan
2021 · Izzy
Absentia
2017 · Valerie Chandris
Back
2017 · Ellen
The Crown
2016 · Duchess of Gloucester
Les Mystères de Londres
2016 · Mrs. Sulzbach
Siblings
2014 · Dr Barker
Padre Brown, detective
2013 · Rev. Mother Augustine
Ripper Street
2012 · Flora Gable
Les Enquêtes de Vera
2011 · Veronica
Silk
2011 · Helen Guthrie
Downton Abbey
2010 · Lady Sinderby
New Street Law
2006 · Honor Scammel
All About George
2005 · Evelyn
Ash et Scribbs
2004 · Zenith
Trust
2003 · Anita Matteo
Byron
2003 · Lady Judith Milbanke
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2002 · Prosecution QC
The Cazalets
2001 · Sid
Meurtres en sommeil
2001 · Bonnie Yorke
A Certain Justice
1998 · Venetia Aldridge
The Ice House
1997 · Phoebe Maybury
Madson
1996 · Anderton
Kavanagh
1995 · Mrs. Rosalind McEnery
Stages
1994 · Linda
Underbelly
1992 · Barbara Manning
Stanley and the Women
1991 · Susan Duke
Screen One
1989 · Sheila
Agatha Christie's Poirot
1989 · Frances Cloade
A Taste for Death
1988 · Kate Miskin
Campaign
1988 · Sarah Copeland
Inspector Morse
1987 · Nurse Wendy Hazlitt
Dalgliesh
1983 · Kate Miskin
Timewatch
1982 · Caecilia
Minder
1979 · Dee Rogers