Penny Downie
Department: Acting
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.
Known For
The Girl in the Café
2005
Hamlet
2009
Ex
1991
Falling
2005
Lost for Words
1999
Crime and Punishment
1998
Paradise
1994
Murder in Rome
2005
Byron
2003
Crosstalk
1982
The House of Mirth
2000
London Has Fallen
2016
Vivian Stanshall: The Canyons of his Mind
2003
Invictus
2009
Wetherby
1985
Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Silk Stocking
2004
Jackie
2016
Lionheart
1987
Food of Love
1997
W.E.
2011
Breathe
2017
The Jester from Transylvania
2024
All About George
2005
Inspector Morse
1987
New Street Law
2006
Agatha Christie's Poirot
1989
The Cazalets
2001
The Diplomat
2023
Vera
2011
Timewatch
1982
Minder
1979
Father Brown
2013
Waking the Dead
2001
Downton Abbey
2010
Kavanagh Q.C.
1995
Houdini & Doyle
2016
Ripper Street
2012
All About George
2005
Back
2017
Stanley and the Women
1991
Byron
2003
The Ice House
1997
Spooks
2002
A Taste for Death
1988
Dalgliesh
1983
The Crown
2016
Absentia
2017
The Chelsea Detective
2022
Whitstable Pearl
2021
Silk
2011
Madson
1996
A Certain Justice
1998