Penny Downie
Acting
1954-01-01 · Queensland, Australia
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
TheatersBoss Cat
2026 · Movie
The Jester from Transylvania
2024 · Movie
The Diplomat
2023 · Series
The Chelsea Detective
2022 · Series
Whitstable Pearl
2021 · Series
Breathe
2017 · Movie
Absentia
2017 · Series
Back
2017 · Series
Jackie
2016 · Movie
The Crown
2016 · Series
Houdini & Doyle
2016 · Series
London Has Fallen
2016 · Movie
Siblings
2014 · Series
Father Brown
2013 · Series
Ripper Street
2012 · Series
W.E.
2011 · Movie
Vera
2011 · Series
Silk
2011 · Series
Downton Abbey
2010 · Series
Hamlet
2009 · Movie
Invictus
2009 · Movie
New Street Law
2006 · Series
All About George
2005 · Series
The Girl in the Café
2005 · Movie
Falling
2005 · Movie
Murder in Rome
2005 · Movie
Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Silk Stocking
2004 · Movie
Murder in Suburbia
2004 · Series
Byron
2003 · Movie
Trust
2003 · Series
Byron
2003 · Series
Vivian Stanshall: The Canyons of his Mind
2003 · Movie
Spooks
2002 · Series
The Cazalets
2001 · Series
Waking the Dead
2001 · Series
The House of Mirth
2000 · Movie
Lost for Words
1999 · Movie
Crime and Punishment
1998 · Movie
A Certain Justice
1998 · Series
Food of Love
1997 · Movie
The Ice House
1997 · Series
Madson
1996 · Series
Kavanagh Q.C.
1995 · Series
Paradise
1994 · Movie
Stages
1994 · Series
Underbelly
1992 · Series
Stanley and the Women
1991 · Series
Ex
1991 · Movie
Screen One
1989 · Series
Agatha Christie's Poirot
1989 · Series
A Taste for Death
1988 · Series
Campaign
1988 · Series
Lionheart
1987 · Movie
Inspector Morse
1987 · Series
Wetherby
1985 · Movie
Dalgliesh
1983 · Series
Crosstalk
1982 · Movie
Timewatch
1982 · Series
Minder
1979 · Series
Doobie and a Lil Cup of Coffee
Movie