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Penny Downie
ActorBorn January 1, 1954 (71 years)
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
| 2024 | A Gentleman in Moscow (TV Series) · as The Countess |
| 2023 | The Diplomat (TV Series) · as Frances Munning |
| 2022 | The Chelsea Detective (TV Series) · as Hilary Carmichael |
| 2021 | Whitstable Pearl (TV Series) · as Izzy |
| 2017 | Breathe · as Tid |
| 2017 | Absentia (TV Series) · as Valerie Chandris |
| 2017 | Back (TV Series) · as Ellen |
| 2016 | Jackie · as Janet Lee |
| 2016 | The Crown (TV Series) · as Duchess Of Gloucester |
| 2016 | The Secret Agent (2016) (TV Series) · as Lady Blackwood |
| 2016 | Houdini & Doyle (TV Series) · as Mrs. Sulzbach |
| 2016 | London Has Fallen · as Home Secretary Rose Kenter |
| 2014 | Siblings (TV Series) · as Dr. Barker |
| 2014 | Suspects (TV Series) · as Fiona Sullivan |
| 2013 | Breathless (TV Series) · as Penny |
| 2013 | Girl on a Bicycle · as Margaret |
| 2013 | Father Brown (2013) (TV Series) · as Rev. Mother Augustine |
| 2012 | Ripper Street (TV Series) · as Flora Gable |
| 2011 | Threesome (TV Series) · as Judge |
| 2011 | W.E. · as Dr. Vargas |
| 2011 | The Shadow Line (TV Series) · as Caroline Monroe |
| 2011 | Vera (TV Series) · as Veronica |
| 2011 | Silk (TV Series) · as Helen Guthrie |
| 2010 | Downton Abbey (TV Series) · as Lady Sinderby |
| 2009 | Hamlet · as Gertrude |
| 2009 | Invictus · as Mrs. Pienaar |
| 2009 | Law & Order: UK (TV Series) · as Rachel Mathesson |
| 2007 | The Commander: The Fraudster · as Jane Griffith |
| 2006 | New Street Law (TV Series) · as Honor Scammel |
| 2005 | All About George (TV Series) · as Evelyn |
| 2005 | The Girl in the Café · as Ruth |
| 2005 | Falling · as Hazel Kent |
| 2004 | Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Silk Stocking · as Judith Massingham |
| 2004 | Murder in Suburbia (TV Series) · as Zenith |
| 2003 | Byron · as Lady Judith Milbanke |
| 2003 | New Tricks (TV Series) · as Diane King |
| 2003 | Trust (TV Series) · as Anita Matteo |
| 2003 | Byron (TV Series) · as Lady Judith Milbanke |
| 2002 | Spooks (TV Series) · as Prosecution Qc |
| 2001 | The Cazalets (TV Series) · as Sid |
| 2001 | The Inspector Lynley Mysteries (TV Series) · as Dr. Tessa Jellicoe |
| 2001 | Judge John Deed (TV Series) · as Moira Blackthorn |
| 2000 | The House of Mirth · as Judy Trenor |
| 2000 | Waking the Dead (TV Series) · as Bonnie Yorke |
| 2000 | Doctors (TV Series) · as Jessica Boyd |
| 1999 | Lost for Words · as Aileen Longden |
| 1998 | Crime and Punishment · as Katerina |
| 1998 | A Certain Justice (TV Series) · as Venetia Aldridge |
| 1997 | Food of Love · as Mary |
| 1997 | Trial & Retribution (TV Series) · as Mrs. Thorpe |
| 1997 | The Ice House (TV Series) · as Phoebe Maybury |
| 1996 | Madson (TV Series) · as Anderton |
| 1996 | Silent Witness (TV Series) · as Anne Percival |
| 1995 | The Governor (TV Series) · as Christina Knatchbull |
| 1995 | Kavanagh Q.C. (TV Series) · as Mrs. Rosalind Mcenery |
| 1991 | Stanley and the Women (TV Series) · as Susan Duke |
| 1989 | Agatha Christie's Poirot (TV Series) · as Frances Cloade |
| 1988 | A Taste for Death (TV Series) · as Kate Miskin |
| 1987 | Lionheart · as Madelaine |
| 1987 | Inspector Morse (TV Series) · as Nurse Wendy Hazlitt |
| 1985 | Screen One (TV Series) · as Sheila |
| 1985 | |
| 1985 | C.A.T.S. Eyes (TV Series) · as Barbara Dashley |
| 1982 | Crosstalk · as Cindy |
| 1982 | Timewatch (TV Series) · as Caecilia |
| 1981 | Punishment (TV Series) · as Joan Cooper |
| 1980 | Mystery! (TV Series) · as Kate Miskin |
| 1979 | Minder (TV Series) · as Dee Rogers |
| 1979 | Skyways (TV Series) · as Miranda |
| 1979 | Prisoner: Cell Block H (TV Series) · as Kerry Vincent |
| 1977 | Cop Shop (TV Series) · as Sherry Raymond |
| 1976 | The Sullivans (TV Series) · as Patty Spencer |
| 1967 | Bellbird (TV Series) · as Kelly Jamison (1976-1977) |