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Penny Downie

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.

The Diplomat

2023

as Frances Munning

The Jester from Transylvania

2020

as Mrs. Pennington

Breathe

2017

as Tid

Absentia

2017

as Valerie Chandris

Back

2017

as Ellen

Jackie

2016

as Janet Lee

The Crown

2016

as Duchess of Gloucester

Houdini & Doyle

2016

as Mrs. Sulzbach

London Has Fallen

2016

as Home Secretary Rose Kenter

Father Brown

2013

as Rev. Mother Augustine

Ripper Street

2012

as Flora Gable

W.E.

2011

as Dr. Vargas

Vera

2011

as Veronica

Downton Abbey

2010

as Lady Sinderby

Hamlet

2009

as Gertrude

Invictus

2009

as Mrs. Pienaar

New Street Law

2006

as Honor Scammel

All About George

2005

as Evelyn

The Girl in the Café

2005

as Ruth

Falling

2005

as Hazel Kent

Murder in Rome

2005

as Caecilia

Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Silk Stocking

2004

as Judith Massingham

Byron

2003

as Lady Judith Milbanke

Vivian Stanshall: The Canyons of his Mind

2003

as Self - Narrator

Byron

2003

as Lady Judith Milbanke

Spooks

2002

as Prosecution QC

The Cazalets

2001

as Sid

Waking the Dead

2001

as Bonnie Yorke

The House of Mirth

2000

as Judy Trenor

Lost for Words

1999

as Aileen Longden

Crime and Punishment

1998

as Katerina

A Certain Justice

1998

as Venetia Aldridge

Food of Love

1997

as Mary

The Ice House

1997

as Phoebe Maybury

Kavanagh Q.C.

1995

as Mrs. Rosalind McEnery

Paradise

1994

as Linda

Stanley and the Women

1991

as Susan Duke

Ex

1991

as Sheila

Agatha Christie's Poirot

1989

as Frances Cloade

A Taste for Death

1988

as Kate Miskin

Lionheart

1987

as Madelaine

Inspector Morse

1987

as Nurse Wendy Hazlitt

Wetherby

1985

as Chrissie

Dalgliesh

1983

as Kate Miskin

Crosstalk

1982

as Cindy

Timewatch

1982

as Caecilia

Minder

1979

as Dee Rogers