Penny Downie
Acting
Born 1954-01-01 · 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
8.2
The Crown
2016 · TV
8.2
Agatha Christie's Poirot
1989 · TV
8.1
Downton Abbey
2010 · TV
7.9
Inspector Morse
1987 · TV
7.7
Spooks
2002 · TV
7.6
The Diplomat
2023 · TV
7.6
Father Brown
2013 · TV
7.4
Ripper Street
2012 · TV
7.4
Vera
2011 · TV
7.5
Silk
2011 · TV
7.2
Absentia
2017 · TV
7.6
Murder in Suburbia
2004 · TV
8.5
The Cazalets
2001 · TV
7.2
Waking the Dead
2001 · TV
7.2
Back
2017 · TV
7.2
Minder
1979 · TV
7.3
Kavanagh Q.C.
1995 · TV
7.2
Screen One
1989 · TV
All About George
2005 · TV
Underbelly
1992 · TV
7.0
Madson
1996 · TV
6.9
Dalgliesh
1983 · TV
6.5
Trust
2003 · TV
6.5
Stanley and the Women
1991 · TV
6.7
A Certain Justice
1998 · TV
6.9
Timewatch
1982 · TV
5.0
Byron
2003 · TV
6.6
New Street Law
2006 · TV
6.7
Whitstable Pearl
2021 · TV
5.4
A Taste for Death
1988 · TV
6.1
The Ice House
1997 · TV
6.1
Siblings
2014 · TV
6.5
Houdini & Doyle
2016 · TV
6.3
The Chelsea Detective
2022 · TV