Penny Downie

Cast Member

Born: January 1, 1954

Queensland, 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.

Filmography

(57 Titles)

Penny Downie

Biography

Filmography

Agatha Christie's Poirot

The Crown

Vera

Downton Abbey

Minder

Father Brown

Spooks

Waking the Dead

Inspector Morse

Absentia

Silk

The Diplomat

Ripper Street

The Chelsea Detective

Timewatch

Kavanagh Q.C.

Screen One

Dalgliesh

Whitstable Pearl

London Has Fallen

Invictus

Murder in Suburbia

Houdini & Doyle

Back

New Street Law

The Cazalets

Breathe

Jackie

W.E.

Madson

Trust

All About George

Siblings

Byron

A Taste for Death

Stanley and the Women

The Ice House

Lionheart

The House of Mirth

Wetherby

Hamlet

A Certain Justice

Murder in Rome

Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Silk Stocking

The Girl in the Café

Byron

Falling

Crime and Punishment

Food of Love

Crosstalk

Lost for Words

The Jester from Transylvania

Boss Cat

All About George

Paradise

Ex

Vivian Stanshall: The Canyons of his Mind