Person
Penny Downie
Acting · Born 1954-01-01 · 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.
Known for
Agatha Christie's Poirot
Frances Cloade
Downton Abbey
Lady Sinderby
Father Brown
Rev. Mother Augustine
The Crown
Duchess of Gloucester
Vera
Veronica
Minder
Dee Rogers
Spooks
Prosecution QC
Waking the Dead
Bonnie Yorke
Absentia
Valerie Chandris
Ripper Street
Flora Gable
Filmography
- 2026Boss CatDoris
- 2024The Jester from TransylvaniaMrs. Pennington
- 2023The DiplomatFrances Munning
- 2022The Chelsea DetectiveHilary Carmichael
- 2021Whitstable PearlIzzy
- 2017BreatheTid
- 2017AbsentiaValerie Chandris
- 2017BackEllen
- 2016JackieJanet Lee
- 2016The CrownDuchess of Gloucester
- 2016Houdini & DoyleMrs. Sulzbach
- 2016London Has FallenHome Secretary Rose Kenter
- 2014SiblingsDr Barker
- 2013Father BrownRev. Mother Augustine
- 2012Ripper StreetFlora Gable
- 2011W.E.Dr. Vargas
- 2011VeraVeronica
- 2011SilkHelen Guthrie
- 2010Downton AbbeyLady Sinderby
- 2009HamletGertrude
- 2009InvictusMrs. Pienaar
- 2006New Street LawHonor Scammel
- 2005All About GeorgeEvelyn
- 2005All About GeorgeEvelyn
- 2005The Girl in the CaféRuth
- 2005FallingHazel Kent
- 2005Murder in RomeCaecilia
- 2004Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Silk StockingJudith Massingham
- 2004Murder in SuburbiaZenith
- 2003ByronLady Judith Milbanke
- 2003TrustAnita Matteo
- 2003Vivian Stanshall: The Canyons of his MindSelf - Narrator
- 2003ByronLady Judith Milbanke
- 2002SpooksProsecution QC
- 2001The CazaletsSid
- 2001Waking the DeadBonnie Yorke
- 2000The House of MirthJudy Trenor
- 1999Lost for WordsAileen Longden
- 1998Crime and PunishmentKaterina
- 1998A Certain JusticeVenetia Aldridge
- 1997Food of LoveMary
- 1997The Ice HousePhoebe Maybury
- 1996MadsonAnderton
- 1995Kavanagh Q.C.Mrs. Rosalind McEnery
- 1994ParadiseLinda
- 1992UnderbellyBarbara Manning
- 1991Stanley and the WomenSusan Duke
- 1991ExSheila
- 1989Screen OneSheila
- 1989Agatha Christie's PoirotFrances Cloade
- 1988A Taste for DeathKate Miskin
- 1988CampaignSarah Copeland
- 1987LionheartMadelaine
- 1987Inspector MorseNurse Wendy Hazlitt
- 1985WetherbyChrissie
- 1983DalglieshKate Miskin
- 1982CrosstalkCindy
- 1982TimewatchCaecilia
- 1979MinderDee Rogers
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