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.
2023
as Frances Munning
2020
as Mrs. Pennington
2017
as Tid
2017
as Valerie Chandris
2017
as Ellen
2016
as Janet Lee
2016
as Duchess of Gloucester
2016
as Mrs. Sulzbach
2016
as Home Secretary Rose Kenter
2013
as Rev. Mother Augustine
2012
as Flora Gable
2011
as Dr. Vargas
2011
as Veronica
2010
as Lady Sinderby
2009
as Gertrude
2009
as Mrs. Pienaar
2006
as Honor Scammel
2005
as Evelyn
2005
as Ruth
2005
as Hazel Kent
2005
as Caecilia
2004
as Judith Massingham
2003
as Lady Judith Milbanke
2003
as Self - Narrator
2003
as Lady Judith Milbanke
2002
as Prosecution QC
2001
as Sid
2001
as Bonnie Yorke
2000
as Judy Trenor
1999
as Aileen Longden
1998
as Katerina
1998
as Venetia Aldridge
1997
as Mary
1997
as Phoebe Maybury
1995
as Mrs. Rosalind McEnery
1994
as Linda
1991
as Susan Duke
1991
as Sheila
1989
as Frances Cloade
1988
as Kate Miskin
1987
as Madelaine
1987
as Nurse Wendy Hazlitt
1985
as Chrissie
1983
as Kate Miskin
1982
as Cindy
1982
as Caecilia
1979
as Dee Rogers