Penny Downie
Acting
Born: 1954-01-01 in 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
London Has Fallen
Home Secretary Rose Kenter
Invictus
Mrs. Pienaar
Jackie
Janet Lee
The Crown
Duchess of Gloucester
Downton Abbey
Lady Sinderby
Breathe
Tid
Agatha Christie's Poirot
Frances Cloade
The Diplomat
Frances Munning
Absentia
Valerie Chandris
W.E.
Dr. Vargas
Ripper Street
Flora Gable
Vera
Veronica
Spooks
Prosecution QC
Father Brown
Rev. Mother Augustine
Inspector Morse
Nurse Wendy Hazlitt
The Girl in the Café
Ruth
The House of Mirth
Judy Trenor
Hamlet
Gertrude
The Chelsea Detective
Hilary Carmichael
Back
Ellen
Silk
Helen Guthrie
Houdini & Doyle
Mrs. Sulzbach
Wetherby
Chrissie
Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Silk Stocking
Judith Massingham
Waking the Dead
Bonnie Yorke
Whitstable Pearl
Izzy
Minder
Dee Rogers
Murder in Suburbia
Zenith
Lionheart
Madelaine
Siblings
Dr Barker
The Ice House
Phoebe Maybury
Crime and Punishment
Katerina
Byron
Lady Judith Milbanke
Kavanagh Q.C.
Mrs. Rosalind McEnery
Timewatch
Caecilia
Crosstalk
Cindy
New Street Law
Honor Scammel
A Taste for Death
Kate Miskin
Dalgliesh
Kate Miskin
The Cazalets
Sid