Penny Downie
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.
Movie Appearances
The Girl in the Café
as Ruth
2005
Hamlet
as Gertrude
2009
Ex
as Sheila
1991
Falling
as Hazel Kent
2005
Lost for Words
as Aileen Longden
1999
Crime and Punishment
as Katerina
1998
Paradise
as Linda
1994
Murder in Rome
as Caecilia
2005
Byron
as Lady Judith Milbanke
2003
Crosstalk
as Cindy
1982
The House of Mirth
as Judy Trenor
2000
London Has Fallen
as Home Secretary Rose Kenter
2016
Vivian Stanshall: The Canyons of his Mind
as Self - Narrator
2003
Invictus
as Mrs. Pienaar
2009
Wetherby
as Chrissie
1985
Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Silk Stocking
as Judith Massingham
2004
Jackie
as Janet Lee
2016
Lionheart
as Madelaine
1987
Food of Love
as Mary
1997
W.E.
as Dr. Vargas
2011
TV Appearances
Inspector Morse
as Nurse Wendy Hazlitt
1987
New Street Law
as Honor Scammel
2006
Agatha Christie's Poirot
as Frances Cloade
1989
The Cazalets
as Sid
2001
The Diplomat
as Frances Munning
2023
Vera
as Veronica
2011
Timewatch
as Caecilia
1982
Minder
as Dee Rogers
1979
Father Brown
as Rev. Mother Augustine
2013
Waking the Dead
as Bonnie Yorke
2001
Downton Abbey
as Lady Sinderby
2010
Kavanagh Q.C.
as Mrs. Rosalind McEnery
1995