ActingBorn: 1954-01-01 in Queensland, Australia

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.

Penny Downie

Featured Movies (23)

Ex

Vivian Stanshall: The Canyons of his Mind

Falling

Breathe

Hamlet

Invictus

The Girl in the Café

Murder in Rome

Lost for Words

Crime and Punishment

Jackie

Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Silk Stocking

W.E.

The House of Mirth

London Has Fallen

Wetherby

Lionheart

Crosstalk

Television & Series (34)

The Cazalets

Agatha Christie's Poirot

The Crown

Downton Abbey

Inspector Morse

Spooks

Father Brown

The Diplomat

Silk

Murder in Suburbia

Ripper Street

Vera

Kavanagh Q.C.

Absentia

Waking the Dead

Screen One

Back

Minder