Penny Downie
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.
Filmography
Ex
1991 · 10.0
The Cazalets
2001 · 8.5
Agatha Christie's Poirot
1989 · 8.2
The Crown
2016 · 8.2
Downton Abbey
2010 · 8.1
Inspector Morse
1987 · 7.9
Falling
2005 · 7.9
Father Brown
2013 · 7.7
Spooks
2002 · 7.7
The Diplomat
2023 · 7.6
Silk
2011 · 7.5
Murder in Suburbia
2004 · 7.5
Vera
2011 · 7.4
Ripper Street
2012 · 7.4
Breathe
2017 · 7.4
Kavanagh Q.C.
1995 · 7.3
Hamlet
2009 · 7.3
Absentia
2017 · 7.3
Minder
1979 · 7.2
Waking the Dead
2001 · 7.2
Screen One
1989 · 7.2
Invictus
2009 · 7.2
Back
2017 · 7.1
Madson
1996 · 7.0
The Girl in the Café
2005 · 7.0
Murder in Rome
2005 · 7.0
Timewatch
1982 · 6.9
Dalgliesh
1983 · 6.9
Whitstable Pearl
2021 · 6.7
A Certain Justice
1998 · 6.7
New Street Law
2006 · 6.6
Houdini & Doyle
2016 · 6.5
Trust
2003 · 6.5
Stanley and the Women
1991 · 6.5
Jackie
2016 · 6.5
Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Silk Stocking
2004 · 6.4
The Chelsea Detective
2022 · 6.3
W.E.
2011 · 6.3
London Has Fallen
2016 · 6.2
The House of Mirth
2000 · 6.2
Siblings
2014 · 6.1
The Ice House
1997 · 6.1
Wetherby
1985 · 6.0
Lionheart
1987 · 5.6
A Taste for Death
1988 · 5.4
Crosstalk
1982 · 5.2
Byron
2003 · 5.0
Byron
2003 · 4.8
Food of Love
1997 · 4.0
Campaign
1988 · 0.0
All About George
2005 · 0.0
Boss Cat
2026 · 0.0
Underbelly
1992 · 0.0
Paradise
1994 · 0.0
Stages
1994 · 0.0
Doobie and a Lil Cup of Coffee
— · 0.0
The Jester from Transylvania
2024 · 0.0