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Personal Info

Gender

Female

Birthday

1954-01-01 (71 years old)

Place of Birth

Queensland, Australia

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.

Known For

Acting

2023

The Diplomat as Frances Munning

2022

The Chelsea Detective as Hilary Carmichael

2020

The Jester from Transylvania as Mrs. Pennington

2017

Breathe as Tid
Back as Ellen
Absentia as Valerie Chandris

2016

London Has Fallen as Home Secretary Rose Kenter
Jackie as Janet Lee
Houdini & Doyle as Mrs. Sulzbach
The Crown as Duchess of Gloucester

2013

Father Brown as Rev. Mother Augustine

2012

Ripper Street as Flora Gable

2011

W.E. as Dr. Vargas
Vera as Veronica

2010

Downton Abbey as Lady Sinderby

2009

Hamlet as Gertrude
Invictus as Mrs. Pienaar

2006

New Street Law as Honor Scammel

2005

Falling as Hazel Kent
Murder in Rome as Caecilia

2004

2003

Byron as Lady Judith Milbanke
Byron as Lady Judith Milbanke

2002

Spooks as Prosecution QC

2001

Waking the Dead as Bonnie Yorke

2000

The House of Mirth as Judy Trenor

1999

Lost for Words as Aileen Longden

1998

A Certain Justice as Venetia Aldridge

1997

Food of Love as Mary
The Ice House as Phoebe Maybury

1995

Kavanagh Q.C. as Mrs. Rosalind McEnery

1994

Paradise as Linda

1991

Ex as Sheila
Stanley and the Women as Susan Duke

1989

Agatha Christie's Poirot as Frances Cloade

1988

A Taste for Death as Kate Miskin

1987

Lionheart as Madelaine
Inspector Morse as Nurse Wendy Hazlitt

1985

Wetherby as Chrissie

1983

Dalgliesh as Kate Miskin

1982

Crosstalk as Cindy
Timewatch as Caecilia

1979

Minder as Dee Rogers