Penny Downie
Acting · 72 years old
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
The Cazalets
Sid
The Crown
Duchess of Gloucester
Agatha Christie's Poirot
Frances Cloade
Downton Abbey
Lady Sinderby
Inspector Morse
Nurse Wendy Hazlitt
Spooks
Prosecution QC
Father Brown
Rev. Mother Augustine
Murder in Suburbia
Zenith
The Diplomat
Frances Munning
Silk
Helen Guthrie
Ripper Street
Flora Gable
Vera
Veronica
Breathe
Tid
Hamlet
Gertrude
Absentia
Valerie Chandris
Back
Ellen
Falling
Hazel Kent
Waking the Dead
Bonnie Yorke
Kavanagh Q.C.
Mrs. Rosalind McEnery
Invictus
Mrs. Pienaar