Penny Downie

Jan 01, 1954 (71 years old) in Queensland, Australia

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

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Agatha Christie's Poirot

Frances Cloade

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Minder

Dee Rogers

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The Crown

Duchess of Gloucester

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Waking the Dead

Bonnie Yorke

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Downton Abbey

Lady Sinderby

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Father Brown

Rev. Mother Augustine

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Vera

Veronica

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Timewatch

Caecilia

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Spooks

Prosecution QC

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Ripper Street

Flora Gable

Credits

The Diplomat 2023

Frances Munning

★ 7.5
The Chelsea Detective 2022

Hilary Carmichael

★ 6.3
The Jester from Transylvania 2020

Mrs. Pennington

★ 6
Breathe 2017

Tid

★ 7.4
Absentia 2017

Valerie Chandris

★ 7.3
Back 2017

Ellen

★ 7.3
Jackie 2016

Janet Lee

★ 6.5
The Crown 2016

Duchess of Gloucester

★ 8.2
Houdini & Doyle 2016

Mrs. Sulzbach

★ 6.5
London Has Fallen 2016

Home Secretary Rose Kenter

★ 6.2
Father Brown 2013

Rev. Mother Augustine

★ 7.5
Ripper Street 2012

Flora Gable

★ 7.4
W.E. 2011

Dr. Vargas

★ 6.4
Vera 2011

Veronica

★ 7.4
Downton Abbey 2010

Lady Sinderby

★ 8.1
Hamlet 2009

Gertrude

★ 7.3
Invictus 2009

Mrs. Pienaar

★ 7.2
New Street Law 2006

Honor Scammel

★ 6.6
All About George 2005

Evelyn

★ NR
The Girl in the Café 2005

Ruth

★ 7.1
Falling 2005

Hazel Kent

★ 6.8
Murder in Rome 2005

Caecilia

★ 7
Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Silk Stocking 2004

Judith Massingham

★ 6.4
Byron 2003

Lady Judith Milbanke

★ 5
Vivian Stanshall: The Canyons of his Mind 2003

Self - Narrator

★ NR
Spooks 2002

Prosecution QC

★ 7.6
The Cazalets 2001

Sid

★ 8.5
Waking the Dead 2001

Bonnie Yorke

★ 7.3
The House of Mirth 2000

Judy Trenor

★ 6.2
Lost for Words 1999

Aileen Longden

★ 7
Crime and Punishment 1998

Katerina

★ 6.6
A Certain Justice 1998

Venetia Aldridge

★ 5
Food of Love 1997

Mary

★ 3.5
The Ice House 1997

Phoebe Maybury

★ 6.4
Kavanagh Q.C. 1995

Mrs. Rosalind McEnery

★ 7
Paradise 1994

Linda

★ NR
Stanley and the Women 1991

Susan Duke

★ 6
Ex 1991

Sheila

★ NR
Agatha Christie's Poirot 1989

Frances Cloade

★ 8.1
A Taste for Death 1988

Kate Miskin

★ 4.7
Lionheart 1987

Madelaine

★ 5.2
Inspector Morse 1987

Nurse Wendy Hazlitt

★ 7.8
Wetherby 1985

Chrissie

★ 6
Dalgliesh 1983

Kate Miskin

★ 6.9
Crosstalk 1982

Cindy

★ 4.6
Timewatch 1982

Caecilia

★ 6.9
Minder 1979

Dee Rogers

★ 6.8