
Penny Downie
Known for: Acting
Born: January 1, 1954
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

Vivian Stanshall: The Canyons of his Mind
2003

Paradise
1994

Crosstalk
1982

Boss Cat
2026

Hamlet
2009

Ex
1991

Lost for Words
1999

All About George
2005

Murder in Rome
2005

The Jester from Transylvania
2024

Falling
2005

Crime and Punishment
1998

The Girl in the Café
2005

Lionheart
1987

The House of Mirth
2000

Invictus
2009

Wetherby
1985

Food of Love
1997

Byron
2003

Breathe
2017

Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Silk Stocking
2004

Jackie
2016

W.E.
2011

London Has Fallen
2016

Inspector Morse
1987

New Street Law
2006

Agatha Christie's Poirot
1989

The Cazalets
2001

The Diplomat
2023

Vera
2011

Timewatch
1982

Minder
1979

Father Brown
2013

Waking the Dead
2001

Downton Abbey
2010

Kavanagh Q.C.
1995

Houdini & Doyle
2016

Ripper Street
2012

All About George
2005

Back
2017

Stanley and the Women
1991

Byron
2003

The Ice House
1997

Spooks
2002

A Taste for Death
1988

Dalgliesh
1983

The Crown
2016

Absentia
2017

The Chelsea Detective
2022

Whitstable Pearl
2021

Silk
2011

Madson
1996

A Certain Justice
1998

Murder in Suburbia
2004

Siblings
2014

Screen One
1989

Trust
2003
Campaign
1988