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

The Girl in the Café

25 June, 2005

Hamlet

26 December, 2009

Ex

29 September, 1991

Falling

6 March, 2005

A Certain Justice

1 January, 1998

Lost for Words

3 January, 1999

Crime and Punishment

11 October, 1998

Paradise

17 August, 1994

Murder in Rome

4 March, 2005

Byron

27 September, 2003

Crosstalk

8 October, 1982

The House of Mirth

23 September, 2000

London Has Fallen

2 March, 2016

Vivian Stanshall: The Canyons of his Mind

1 January, 2003

Invictus

11 December, 2009

Wetherby

19 June, 1985

Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Silk Stocking

26 December, 2004

Jackie

2 December, 2016

Lionheart

14 August, 1987

Food of Love

19 October, 1997

W.E.

1 September, 2011

Breathe

13 October, 2017

The Jester from Transylvania

1 January, 2020

Inspector Morse

1987

New Street Law

2006

Agatha Christie's Poirot

1989

The Cazalets

2001

The Diplomat

2023

Vera

2011

Timewatch

1982

Minder

1979

Father Brown

2013

Waking the Dead

2001

Downton Abbey

2010

Kavanagh Q.C.

1995

Houdini & Doyle

2016

Ripper Street

2012

All About George

2005

Back

2017

Stanley and the Women

1991

Byron

2003

The Ice House

1997

Spooks

2002

A Taste for Death

1988

Dalgliesh

1983

The Crown

2016

Absentia

2017

The Chelsea Detective

2022