Penny Downie

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Penny Downie

Acting 72 January 1, 1954

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. Sh…

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London Has Fallen

London Has Fallen

6.2 2016 Movie
Invictus

Invictus

7.2 2009 Movie
The Crown

The Crown

8.2 2016 TV Show
Jackie

Jackie

6.5 2016 Movie
Downton Abbey

Downton Abbey

8.1 2010 TV Show
Agatha Christie's Poirot

Agatha Christie's Poirot

8.2 1989 TV Show
Breathe

Breathe

7.4 2017 Movie
The Diplomat

The Diplomat

7.6 2023 TV Show
Father Brown

Father Brown

7.6 2013 TV Show
Absentia

Absentia

7.3 2017 TV Show
Vera

Vera

7.4 2011 TV Show
Spooks

Spooks

7.7 2002 TV Show

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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.

Filmography

Movies and shows, newest first

  1. 2026
    Boss Cat

    Movie Doris

  2. 2024
    The Jester from Transylvania

    Movie Mrs. Pennington

  3. 2023
    The Diplomat

    TV show Frances Munning

  4. 2022
    The Chelsea Detective

    TV show Hilary Carmichael

  5. 2021
    Whitstable Pearl

    TV show Izzy

  6. 2017
    Breathe

    Movie Tid

  7. 2017
    Absentia

    TV show Valerie Chandris

  8. 2017
    Back

    TV show Ellen

  9. 2016
    Jackie

    Movie Janet Lee

  10. 2016
    The Crown

    TV show Duchess of Gloucester

  11. 2016
    Houdini & Doyle

    TV show Mrs. Sulzbach

  12. 2016
    London Has Fallen

    Movie Home Secretary Rose Kenter

  13. 2014
    Siblings

    TV show Dr Barker

  14. 2013
    Father Brown

    TV show Rev. Mother Augustine

  15. 2012
    Ripper Street

    TV show Flora Gable

  16. 2011
    W.E.

    Movie Dr. Vargas

More credits
  1. 2011
    Vera

    TV show Veronica

  2. 2011
    Silk

    TV show Helen Guthrie

  3. 2010
    Downton Abbey

    TV show Lady Sinderby

  4. 2009
    Hamlet

    Movie Gertrude

  5. 2009
    Invictus

    Movie Mrs. Pienaar

  6. 2006
    New Street Law

    TV show Honor Scammel

  7. 2005
    All About George

    TV show Evelyn

  8. 2005
    The Girl in the Café

    Movie Ruth

  9. 2005
    Falling

    Movie Hazel Kent

  10. 2005
    Murder in Rome

    Movie Caecilia

  11. 2004
    Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Silk Stocking

    Movie Judith Massingham

  12. 2004
    Murder in Suburbia

    TV show Zenith

  13. 2003
    Byron

    Movie Lady Judith Milbanke

  14. 2003
    Trust

    TV show Anita Matteo

  15. 2003
    Byron

    TV show Lady Judith Milbanke

  16. 2003
    Vivian Stanshall: The Canyons of his Mind

    Movie Self - Narrator

  17. 2002
    Spooks

    TV show Prosecution QC

  18. 2001
    The Cazalets

    TV show Sid

  19. 2001
    Waking the Dead

    TV show Bonnie Yorke

  20. 2000
    The House of Mirth

    Movie Judy Trenor

  21. 1999
    Lost for Words

    Movie Aileen Longden

  22. 1998
    Crime and Punishment

    Movie Katerina

  23. 1998
    A Certain Justice

    TV show Venetia Aldridge

  24. 1997
    Food of Love

    Movie Mary