Penny Downie
Acting1954Queensland, Australia
Biography
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.
Known For
Acting History
2024
The Jester from Transylvania
as Mrs. Pennington
The Chelsea Detective
TVas Hilary Carmichael• 1 eps
Whitstable Pearl
TVas Izzy• 1 eps
2023
The Diplomat
TVas Frances Munning• 13 eps
2016
2014
Downton Abbey
TVas Lady Sinderby• 3 eps
2013
Ripper Street
TVas Flora Gable• 1 eps
Father Brown
TVas Rev. Mother Augustine• 1 eps
2012
Vera
TVas Veronica• 1 eps
2011
2006
Agatha Christie's Poirot
TVas Frances Cloade• 1 eps
New Street Law
TVas Honor Scammel
2005
Falling
as Hazel Kent
Murder in Rome
as Caecilia
The Girl in the Café
as Ruth
All About George
as Evelyn
All About George
TVas Evelyn
2004
Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Silk Stocking
as Judith Massingham
Spooks
TVas Prosecution QC• 1 eps
2003
Byron
as Lady Judith Milbanke
Vivian Stanshall: The Canyons of his Mind
as Self - Narrator
Byron
TVas Lady Judith Milbanke
2001
The Cazalets
TVas Sid
2000
The House of Mirth
as Judy Trenor
1999
Lost for Words
as Aileen Longden
Kavanagh Q.C.
TVas Mrs. Rosalind McEnery• 1 eps
1998
Crime and Punishment
as Katerina
1997
Food of Love
as Mary
The Ice House
TVas Phoebe Maybury
1996
Madson
TVas Anderton
1994
Paradise
as Linda
1993
Inspector Morse
TVas Nurse Wendy Hazlitt• 1 eps
1991
Ex
as Sheila
Stanley and the Women
TVas Susan Duke
1988
A Taste for Death
TVas Kate Miskin
1987
Lionheart
as Madelaine
1985
Wetherby
as Chrissie
1984
Minder
TVas Dee Rogers• 1 eps
1983
Dalgliesh
TVas Kate Miskin