Acting · Queensland, Australia · Born January 1, 1954
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.
MovieBoss Cat
2026
as Doris
MovieThe Jester from Transylvania
2024
as Mrs. Pennington
TVThe Diplomat
2023
as Frances Munning
TVThe Chelsea Detective
2022
as Hilary Carmichael
TVWhitstable Pearl
2021
as Izzy
MovieBreathe
2017
as Tid
TVAbsentia
2017
as Valerie Chandris
TVBack
2017
as Ellen
MovieJackie
2016
as Janet Lee
TVThe Crown
2016
as Duchess of Gloucester
TVHoudini & Doyle
2016
as Mrs. Sulzbach
MovieLondon Has Fallen
2016
as Home Secretary Rose Kenter
TVSiblings
2014
as Dr Barker
TVFather Brown
2013
as Rev. Mother Augustine
TVRipper Street
2012
as Flora Gable
MovieW.E.
2011
as Dr. Vargas
TVVera
2011
as Veronica
TVSilk
2011
as Helen Guthrie
TVDownton Abbey
2010
as Lady Sinderby
MovieHamlet
2009
as Gertrude
MovieInvictus
2009
as Mrs. Pienaar
TVNew Street Law
2006
as Honor Scammel
MovieAll About George
2005
as Evelyn
TVAll About George
2005
as Evelyn
MovieThe Girl in the Café
2005
as Ruth
MovieFalling
2005
as Hazel Kent
MovieMurder in Rome
2005
as Caecilia
MovieSherlock Holmes and the Case of the Silk Stocking
2004
as Judith Massingham
TVMurder in Suburbia
2004
as Zenith
MovieByron
2003
as Lady Judith Milbanke
TVTrust
2003
as Anita Matteo
MovieVivian Stanshall: The Canyons of his Mind
2003
as Self - Narrator
TVByron
2003
as Lady Judith Milbanke
TVSpooks
2002
as Prosecution QC
TVThe Cazalets
2001
as Sid
TVWaking the Dead
2001
as Bonnie Yorke
MovieThe House of Mirth
2000
as Judy Trenor
MovieLost for Words
1999
as Aileen Longden
MovieCrime and Punishment
1998
as Katerina
TVA Certain Justice
1998
as Venetia Aldridge
MovieFood of Love
1997
as Mary
TVThe Ice House
1997
as Phoebe Maybury
TVMadson
1996
as Anderton
TVKavanagh Q.C.
1995
as Mrs. Rosalind McEnery
MovieParadise
1994
as Linda
TVUnderbelly
1992
as Barbara Manning
TVStanley and the Women
1991
as Susan Duke
MovieEx
1991
as Sheila
TVScreen One
1989
as Sheila
TVAgatha Christie's Poirot
1989
as Frances Cloade
TVA Taste for Death
1988
as Kate Miskin
Campaign
1988
as Sarah Copeland
MovieLionheart
1987
as Madelaine
TVInspector Morse
1987
as Nurse Wendy Hazlitt
MovieWetherby
1985
as Chrissie
TVDalgliesh
1983
as Kate Miskin
MovieCrosstalk
1982
as Cindy
TVTimewatch
1982
as Caecilia
TVMinder
1979
as Dee Rogers
