Acting credits
51
Established
Large and steady acting portfolio.
Actor
Penny Downie
Acting
Career Snapshot
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Movies: 23Series: 28
TMDB ID: 108579
IMDb ID: nm0236069
Known for: Acting
Born: January 1, 1954
Age: 72
Place of birth: Queensland, Australia
Gender: Female
Adult content flag: No
Career span: 1979 - 2024
Years active: 46
Average TMDB rating: 7.12
Wikidata: Q7164367
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.
Movies
Movies
Movie credits linked with Penny Downie.
The Jester from Transylvania
as Mrs. Pennington
2024 Movie
7.4
Breathe
as Tid
2017 Movie
6.5
Jackie
as Janet Lee
2016 Movie
6.2
London Has Fallen
as Home Secretary Rose Kenter
2016 Movie
6.3
W.E.
as Dr. Vargas
2011 Movie
7.3
Hamlet
as Gertrude
2009 Movie
7.2
Invictus
as Mrs. Pienaar
2009 Movie
All About George
as Evelyn
2005 Movie
7.0
The Girl in the Café
as Ruth
2005 Movie
7.2
Falling
as Hazel Kent
2005 Movie
7.0
Murder in Rome
as Caecilia
2005 Movie
6.5
Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Silk Stocking
as Judith Massingham
2004 Movie
4.3
Byron
as Lady Judith Milbanke
2003 Movie
Vivian Stanshall: The Canyons of his Mind
as Self - Narrator
2003 Movie
6.2
The House of Mirth
as Judy Trenor
2000 Movie
7.0
Lost for Words
as Aileen Longden
1999 Movie
6.5
Crime and Punishment
as Katerina
1998 Movie
3.0
Food of Love
as Mary
1997 Movie
Paradise
as Linda
1994 Movie
Ex
as Sheila
1991 Movie
5.4
Lionheart
as Madelaine
1987 Movie
6.0
Wetherby
as Chrissie
1985 Movie
4.7
Crosstalk
as Cindy
1982 Movie
Series
Series
Series credits linked with Penny Downie.
7.6
The Diplomat
as Frances Munning • 13 eps
2023 Series
6.3
The Chelsea Detective
as Hilary Carmichael • 1 eps
2022 Series
6.6
Whitstable Pearl
as Izzy • 1 eps
2021 Series
7.3
Absentia
as Valerie Chandris • 3 eps
2017 Series
7.3
Back
as Ellen • 12 eps
2017 Series
8.2
The Crown
as Duchess of Gloucester • 9 eps
2016 Series
6.5
Houdini & Doyle
as Mrs. Sulzbach • 1 eps
2016 Series
7.6
Father Brown
as Rev. Mother Augustine • 1 eps
2013 Series
7.4
Ripper Street
as Flora Gable • 1 eps
2012 Series
7.4
Vera
as Veronica • 1 eps
2011 Series
7.5
Silk
as Helen Guthrie • 1 eps
2011 Series
8.1
Downton Abbey
as Lady Sinderby • 3 eps
2010 Series
6.6
New Street Law
as Honor Scammel • 14 eps
2006 Series
All About George
as Evelyn • 6 eps
2005 Series
5.0
Byron
as Lady Judith Milbanke • 2 eps
2003 Series
7.7
Spooks
as Prosecution QC • 1 eps
2002 Series
8.5
The Cazalets
as Sid • 6 eps
2001 Series
7.2
Waking the Dead
as Bonnie Yorke • 2 eps
2001 Series
6.1
The Ice House
as Phoebe Maybury • 2 eps
1997 Series
6.5
Madson
as Anderton • 1 eps
1996 Series
7.0
Kavanagh Q.C.
as Mrs. Rosalind McEnery • 1 eps
1995 Series
6.0
Stanley and the Women
as Susan Duke • 4 eps
1991 Series
8.2
Agatha Christie's Poirot
as Frances Cloade • 1 eps
1989 Series
4.8
A Taste for Death
as Kate Miskin • 6 eps
1988 Series