Penny Downie
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.
56 acting credits
Acting · 56
Agatha Christie's Poirot
1989
The Crown
2016
Vera
2011
Downton Abbey
2010
Father Brown
2013
Minder
1979
Spooks
2002
Waking the Dead
2001
Inspector Morse
1987
Absentia
2017
The Diplomat
2023
Ripper Street
2012
Silk
2011
The Chelsea Detective
2022
Timewatch
1982
Kavanagh Q.C.
1995
Whitstable Pearl
2021
Dalgliesh
1983
London Has Fallen
2016
Screen One
1989
Houdini & Doyle
2016
Murder in Suburbia
2004
Back
2017
Invictus
2009
New Street Law
2006
The Cazalets
2001
Madson
1996
Breathe
2017
Jackie
2016
Byron
2003
All About George
2005
A Taste for Death
1988
Siblings
2014
The Ice House
1997
W.E.
2011
A Certain Justice
1998
The House of Mirth
2000
Stanley and the Women
1991
Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Silk Stocking
2004
Hamlet
2009
Lionheart
1987
Wetherby
1985
Ex
1991
The Girl in the Café
2005
Byron
2003
Falling
2005
Crosstalk
1982
Crime and Punishment
1998
Food of Love
1997
Lost for Words
1999
Vivian Stanshall: The Canyons of his Mind
2003
The Jester from Transylvania
2024
Murder in Rome
2005
All About George
2005
Paradise
1994
Boss Cat
2026