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Penny Downie

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: Acting

Born: Queensland, Australia, 1954-01-01

Died: null

Film

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1982	Crosstalk	Cindy	46
2	1985	Wetherby	Chrissie	60
3	1987	Lionheart	Madelaine	55
4	1991	Ex	Sheila	0
5	1994	Paradise	Linda	0
6	1997	Food of Love	Mary	35
7	1998	A Certain Justice	Venetia Aldridge	50
8	1998	Crime and Punishment	Katerina	65
9	1999	Lost for Words	Aileen Longden	70
10	2000	The House of Mirth	Judy Trenor	62
11	2003	Vivian Stanshall: The Canyons of his Mind	Self - Narrator	0
12	2003	Byron	Lady Judith Milbanke	46
13	2004	Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Silk Stocking	Judith Massingham	64
14	2005	Murder in Rome	Caecilia	70
15	2005	Falling	Hazel Kent	68
16	2005	The Girl in the Café	Ruth	71
17	2009	Invictus	Mrs. Pienaar	72
18	2009	Hamlet	Gertrude	73
19	2011	W.E.	Dr. Vargas	63
20	2016	London Has Fallen	Home Secretary Rose Kenter	62
21	2016	Jackie	Janet Lee	65
22	2017	Breathe	Tid	74
23	2020	The Jester from Transylvania	Mrs. Pennington	60

Television

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1979	Minder	Dee Rogers	68
2	1982	Timewatch	Caecilia	69
3	1983	Dalgliesh	Kate Miskin	69
4	1987	Inspector Morse	Nurse Wendy Hazlitt	78
5	1988	A Taste for Death	Kate Miskin	47
6	1989	Agatha Christie's Poirot	Frances Cloade	82
7	1991	Stanley and the Women	Susan Duke	60
8	1995	Kavanagh Q.C.	Mrs. Rosalind McEnery	70
9	1997	The Ice House	Phoebe Maybury	64
10	2001	Waking the Dead	Bonnie Yorke	72
11	2001	The Cazalets	Sid	85
12	2002	Spooks	Prosecution QC	77
13	2003	Byron	Lady Judith Milbanke	50
14	2005	All About George	Evelyn	0
15	2006	New Street Law	Honor Scammel	66
16	2010	Downton Abbey	Lady Sinderby	81
17	2011	Vera	Veronica	74
18	2012	Ripper Street	Flora Gable	74
19	2013	Father Brown	Rev. Mother Augustine	75
20	2016	Houdini & Doyle	Mrs. Sulzbach	65
21	2016	The Crown	Duchess of Gloucester	82
22	2017	Back	Ellen	73
23	2017	Absentia	Valerie Chandris	73
24	2022	The Chelsea Detective	Hilary Carmichael	62
25	2023	The Diplomat	Frances Munning	75