Penny Downie

Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Known Credits

48

Gender

Female

Birthday

1954-01-01 (71 years old)

Place of Birth

Queensland, Australia

Penny Downie

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
6.2%

London Has Fallen

Mar 2, 2016

Invictus
7.2%

Invictus

Dec 11, 2009

Jackie
6.5%

Jackie

Dec 2, 2016

The Crown
8.2%

The Crown

Nov 4, 2016

Downton Abbey
8.1%

Downton Abbey

Sep 26, 2010

Breathe
7.4%

Breathe

Oct 13, 2017

Absentia
7.3%

Absentia

Sep 25, 2017

W.E.
6.4%

W.E.

Sep 1, 2011

The Diplomat
7.5%

The Diplomat

Apr 20, 2023

Ripper Street
7.4%

Ripper Street

Dec 30, 2012

Vera
7.4%

Vera

May 1, 2011

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Acting

2023
The Diplomat as Frances Munning
2022
The Chelsea Detective as Hilary Carmichael
2020
The Jester from Transylvania as Mrs. Pennington
2017
Breathe as Tid
2017
Absentia as Valerie Chandris
2017
Back as Ellen
2016
Jackie as Janet Lee
2016
The Crown as Duchess of Gloucester
2016
Houdini & Doyle as Mrs. Sulzbach
2016
London Has Fallen as Home Secretary Rose Kenter
2013
Father Brown as Rev. Mother Augustine
2012
Ripper Street as Flora Gable
2011
W.E. as Dr. Vargas
2011
Vera as Veronica
2010
Downton Abbey as Lady Sinderby
2009
Hamlet as Gertrude
2009
Invictus as Mrs. Pienaar
2006
New Street Law as Honor Scammel
2005
All About George as Evelyn
2005
The Girl in the Café as Ruth
2005
Falling as Hazel Kent
2005
Murder in Rome as Caecilia
2004
Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Silk Stocking as Judith Massingham
2003
Byron as Lady Judith Milbanke
2003
Byron as Lady Judith Milbanke
2003
Vivian Stanshall: The Canyons of his Mind as Self - Narrator
2002
Spooks as Prosecution QC
2001
The Cazalets as Sid
2001
Waking the Dead as Bonnie Yorke
2000
The House of Mirth as Judy Trenor
1999
Lost for Words as Aileen Longden
1998
Crime and Punishment as Katerina
1998
A Certain Justice as Venetia Aldridge
1997
Food of Love as Mary
1997
The Ice House as Phoebe Maybury
1995
Kavanagh Q.C. as Mrs. Rosalind McEnery
1994
Paradise as Linda
1991
Stanley and the Women as Susan Duke
1991
Ex as Sheila
1989
Agatha Christie's Poirot as Frances Cloade
1988
A Taste for Death as Kate Miskin
1987
Lionheart as Madelaine
1987
Inspector Morse as Nurse Wendy Hazlitt
1985
Wetherby as Chrissie
1983
Dalgliesh as Kate Miskin
1982
Crosstalk as Cindy
1982
Timewatch as Caecilia
1979
Minder as Dee Rogers
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