Penny Downie
Born in Queensland, Australia — Jan 01 1954
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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.
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Penny Downie's Credits
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Agatha Christie's Poirot
Frances Cloade
Vera
Veronica
Minder
Dee Rogers
Father Brown
Rev. Mother Augustine
The Crown
Duchess of Gloucester
Spooks
Prosecution QC
Downton Abbey
Lady Sinderby
Waking the Dead
Bonnie Yorke
Ripper Street
Flora Gable
Inspector Morse
Nurse Wendy Hazlitt
Absentia
Valerie Chandris
Silk
Helen Guthrie
Timewatch
Caecilia
The Diplomat
Frances Munning
Kavanagh Q.C.
Mrs. Rosalind McEnery
Whitstable Pearl
Izzy
The Chelsea Detective
Hilary Carmichael
Dalgliesh
Kate Miskin
Houdini & Doyle
Mrs. Sulzbach
Invictus
Mrs. Pienaar
Back
Ellen
London Has Fallen
Home Secretary Rose Kenter
New Street Law
Honor Scammel
The Cazalets
Sid
Jackie
Janet Lee
Madson
Anderton
A Taste for Death
Kate Miskin
Byron
Lady Judith Milbanke
Breathe
Tid
The House of Mirth
Judy Trenor
W.E.
Dr. Vargas
All About George
Evelyn
The Girl in the Café
Ruth
The Ice House
Phoebe Maybury
Hamlet
Gertrude
Lionheart
Madelaine
Stanley and the Women
Susan Duke
Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Silk Stocking
Judith Massingham
A Certain Justice
Venetia Aldridge
Wetherby
Chrissie
Byron
Lady Judith Milbanke
Lost for Words
Aileen Longden
Ex
Sheila
Crime and Punishment
Katerina
Murder in Rome
Caecilia
Food of Love
Mary
Falling
Hazel Kent
Crosstalk
Cindy
The Jester from Transylvania
Mrs. Pennington
Vivian Stanshall: The Canyons of his Mind
Self - Narrator
All About George
Evelyn
Paradise
Linda