Penny Downie
Known for: Acting
Born: January 1, 1954
Place of birth: Queensland, Australia
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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Filmography
23 movies · 36 TV shows, newest first
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Boss Cat
2026
NR
The Jester from Transylvania
2024
7.6
The Diplomat
2023
6.3
The Chelsea Detective
2022
6.7
Whitstable Pearl
2021
7.4
Breathe
2017
7.3
Absentia
2017
7.2
Back
2017
6.5
Jackie
2016
8.2
The Crown
2016
6.5
Houdini & Doyle
2016
6.2
London Has Fallen
2016
6.1
Siblings
2014
7.6
Father Brown
2013
7.4
Ripper Street
2012
6.3
W.E.
2011
7.4
Vera
2011
7.5
Silk
2011
8.1
Downton Abbey
2010
7.3
Hamlet
2009
7.2
Invictus
2009
6.6
New Street Law
2006
NR
All About George
2005
7.0
The Girl in the Café
2005
7.9
Falling
2005
7.0
Murder in Rome
2005
6.4
Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Silk Stocking
2004
7.6
Murder in Suburbia
2004
4.8
Byron
2003
6.5
Trust
2003
8.0
Vivian Stanshall: The Canyons of his Mind
2003
5.0
Byron
2003
7.7
Spooks
2002
8.5
The Cazalets
2001
7.2
Waking the Dead
2001
6.3
The House of Mirth
2000
6.5
Lost for Words
1999
6.5
Crime and Punishment
1998
6.7
A Certain Justice
1998
4.0
Food of Love
1997
6.1
The Ice House
1997
7.0
Madson
1996
7.3
Kavanagh Q.C.
1995
NR
Paradise
1994NR
Stages
1994
NR
Underbelly
1992
6.5
Stanley and the Women
1991
10.0
Ex
1991
7.2
Screen One
1989
8.2
Agatha Christie's Poirot
1989
5.4
A Taste for Death
1988NR
Campaign
1988
5.6
Lionheart
1987
7.9
Inspector Morse
1987
6.0
Wetherby
1985
6.9
Dalgliesh
1983
5.3
Crosstalk
1982
6.9
Timewatch
1982
7.1
Minder
1979