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