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Penny Downie
1.4 Popularity
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.
Known For
7.6
Frances Munning
The Diplomat
2023
6.2
Hilary Carmichael
The Chelsea Detective
2022
6.6
Izzy
Whitstable Pearl
2021
6.0
Mrs. Pennington
The Jester from Transylvania
2020
7.5
Tid
Breathe
2017
7.3
Valerie Chandris
Absentia
2017
7.3
Ellen
Back
2017
6.5
Janet Lee
Jackie
2016
8.2
Duchess of Gloucester
The Crown
2016
6.5
Mrs. Sulzbach
Houdini & Doyle
2016
Credits
The Diplomat
as Frances Munning
2023
7.6
The Chelsea Detective
as Hilary Carmichael
2022
6.2
Whitstable Pearl
as Izzy
2021
6.6
The Jester from Transylvania
as Mrs. Pennington
2020
6.0
Breathe
as Tid
2017
7.5
Absentia
as Valerie Chandris
2017
7.3
Back
as Ellen
2017
7.3
Jackie
as Janet Lee
2016
6.5
The Crown
as Duchess of Gloucester
2016
8.2
Houdini & Doyle
as Mrs. Sulzbach
2016
6.5
London Has Fallen
as Home Secretary Rose Kenter
2016
6.2
Father Brown
as Rev. Mother Augustine
2013
7.6
Ripper Street
as Flora Gable
2012
7.4
W.E.
as Dr. Vargas
2011
6.3
Vera
as Veronica
2011
7.4
Downton Abbey
as Lady Sinderby
2010
8.1
Hamlet
as Gertrude
2009
7.3
Invictus
as Mrs. Pienaar
2009
7.2
New Street Law
as Honor Scammel
2006
6.6
All About George
as Evelyn
2005
0.0
The Girl in the Café
as Ruth
2005
7.0
Falling
as Hazel Kent
2005
7.2
Murder in Rome
as Caecilia
2005
7.0
Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Silk Stocking
as Judith Massingham
2004
6.4
Byron
as Lady Judith Milbanke
2003
4.3
Vivian Stanshall: The Canyons of his Mind
as Self - Narrator
2003
0.0
Byron
as Lady Judith Milbanke
2003
5.0
Spooks
as Prosecution QC
2002
7.7
The Cazalets
as Sid
2001
8.5
Waking the Dead
as Bonnie Yorke
2001
7.2
The House of Mirth
as Judy Trenor
2000
6.1
Lost for Words
as Aileen Longden
1999
7.0
Crime and Punishment
as Katerina
1998
6.5
Food of Love
as Mary
1997
3.0
The Ice House
as Phoebe Maybury
1997
6.1
Kavanagh Q.C.
as Mrs. Rosalind McEnery
1995
7.0
Paradise
as Linda
1994
0.0
Stanley and the Women
as Susan Duke
1991
6.0
Ex
as Sheila
1991
0.0
Agatha Christie's Poirot
as Frances Cloade
1989
8.2
A Taste for Death
as Kate Miskin
1988
4.8
Lionheart
as Madelaine
1987
5.4
Inspector Morse
as Nurse Wendy Hazlitt
1987
7.8
Wetherby
as Chrissie
1985
5.9
Dalgliesh
as Kate Miskin
1983
6.9
Crosstalk
as Cindy
1982
4.7
Timewatch
as Caecilia
1982
6.9
Minder
as Dee Rogers
1979
6.8