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