Penny Downie

Born: 1954-01-01, 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.

Filmography

• Agatha Christie's Poirot (1989)
• Father Brown (2013)
• Downton Abbey (2010)
• The Crown (2016)
• Vera (2011)
• Spooks (2002)
• Absentia (2017)
• Waking the Dead (2001)
• Ripper Street (2012)
• Inspector Morse (1987)
• The Diplomat (2023)
• The Chelsea Detective (2022)
• Silk (2011)
• Timewatch (1982)
• Houdini & Doyle (2016)
• A Taste for Death (1988)
• London Has Fallen (2016)
• Screen One (1989)
• Whitstable Pearl (2021)
• Kavanagh Q.C. (1995)
• Invictus (2009)
• Jackie (2016)
• W.E. (2011)
• Boss Cat (2026)
• The House of Mirth (2000)
• Crime and Punishment (1998)
• Wetherby (1985)
• The Girl in the Café (2005)
• Food of Love (1997)
• Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Silk Stocking (2004)