Penny Downie
Acting
January 1, 1954
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.
Movies
Murder in Rome
2005
London Has Fallen
2016
Invictus
2009
W.E.
2011
Breathe
2017
Jackie
2016
Hamlet
2009
Crime and Punishment
1998
Lionheart
1987
Wetherby
1985
Byron
2003
Falling
2005
Crosstalk
1982
The House of Mirth
2000
Lost for Words
1999
Food of Love
1997
The Girl in the Café
2005
Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Silk Stocking
2004
Paradise
1994
Vivian Stanshall: The Canyons of his Mind
2003
TV Shows
Agatha Christie's Poirot
1989
Absentia
2017
Downton Abbey
2010
Vera
2011
Father Brown
2013
The Crown
2016
Minder
1979
Spooks
2002
The Diplomat
2023
Inspector Morse
1987
Waking the Dead
2001
Ripper Street
2012
The Chelsea Detective
2022
Kavanagh Q.C.
1995
Whitstable Pearl
2021
Houdini & Doyle
2016
Dalgliesh
1983
Timewatch
1982
Back
2017
The Cazalets
2001