Penny Downie
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.
As actor 59
Agatha Christie's Poirot
1989
The Crown
2016
Father Brown
2013
Minder
1979
Vera
2011
Downton Abbey
2010
Spooks
2002
Waking the Dead
2001
Inspector Morse
1987
The Diplomat
2023
Absentia
2017
Ripper Street
2012
The Chelsea Detective
2022
Timewatch
1982
Silk
2011
London Has Fallen
2016
Screen One
1989
Houdini & Doyle
2016
Kavanagh Q.C.
1995
Dalgliesh
1983
Invictus
2009
Whitstable Pearl
2021
Murder in Suburbia
2004
Breathe
2017
New Street Law
2006
Jackie
2016
W.E.
2011
The Cazalets
2001
A Taste for Death
1988
Back
2017
Siblings
2014
Trust
2003
All About George
2005
Madson
1996
The House of Mirth
2000
Stanley and the Women
1991
The Ice House
1997
Byron
2003
The Girl in the Café
2005
A Certain Justice
1998
Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Silk Stocking
2004
Crime and Punishment
1998
Wetherby
1985
Boss Cat
2026
Lionheart
1987
Underbelly
1992
Campaign
1988
Stages
1994
The Jester from Transylvania
2024
Hamlet
2009
Byron
2003
Crosstalk
1982
Food of Love
1997
Paradise
1994
Vivian Stanshall: The Canyons of his Mind
2003
Lost for Words
1999
Falling
2005
Ex
1991
Murder in Rome
2005