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.

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Known For

Agatha Christie's Poirot

1989 • as Frances Cloade

Waking the Dead

2001 • as Bonnie Yorke

The Crown

2016 • as Duchess of Gloucester

Vera

2011 • as Veronica

Downton Abbey

2010 • as Lady Sinderby

Minder

1979 • as Dee Rogers

Filmography

2023

The Diplomat

as Frances Munning

TV - Released: 4/20/2023

2022

The Chelsea Detective

as Hilary Carmichael

TV - Released: 2/7/2022

2020

The Jester from Transylvania

as Mrs. Pennington

Movie - Released: 1/1/2020

2017

Breathe

as Tid

Movie - Released: 10/13/2017

Back

as Ellen

TV - Released: 9/6/2017

Absentia

as Valerie Chandris

TV - Released: 9/25/2017

2016

London Has Fallen

as Home Secretary Rose Kenter

Movie - Released: 3/2/2016

Jackie

as Janet Lee

Movie - Released: 12/2/2016

Houdini & Doyle

as Mrs. Sulzbach

TV - Released: 3/13/2016

The Crown

as Duchess of Gloucester

TV - Released: 11/4/2016

2013

Father Brown

as Rev. Mother Augustine

TV - Released: 1/14/2013

2012

Ripper Street

as Flora Gable

TV - Released: 12/30/2012

2011

W.E.

as Dr. Vargas

Movie - Released: 9/1/2011

Vera

as Veronica

TV - Released: 5/1/2011

2010

Downton Abbey

as Lady Sinderby

TV - Released: 9/26/2010

2009

Hamlet

as Gertrude

Movie - Released: 12/26/2009

Invictus

as Mrs. Pienaar

Movie - Released: 12/11/2009

2006

New Street Law

as Honor Scammel

TV - Released: 5/4/2006

2005

The Girl in the Café

as Ruth

Movie - Released: 6/25/2005

Falling

as Hazel Kent

Movie - Released: 3/6/2005

Murder in Rome

as Caecilia

Movie - Released: 3/4/2005

All About George

as Evelyn

TV - Released: 9/29/2005

2004

Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Silk Stocking

as Judith Massingham

Movie - Released: 12/26/2004

2003

Byron

as Lady Judith Milbanke

Movie - Released: 9/27/2003

Vivian Stanshall: The Canyons of his Mind

as Self - Narrator

Movie - Released: 1/1/2003

Byron

as Lady Judith Milbanke

TV - Released: 1/1/2003

2002

Spooks

as Prosecution QC

TV - Released: 5/13/2002

2001

The Cazalets

as Sid

TV - Released: 6/22/2001

Waking the Dead

as Bonnie Yorke

TV - Released: 6/18/2001

2000

The House of Mirth

as Judy Trenor

Movie - Released: 9/23/2000

1999

Lost for Words

as Aileen Longden

Movie - Released: 1/3/1999

1998

Movie

A Certain Justice

as Venetia Aldridge

Movie - Released: 1/1/1998

Crime and Punishment

as Katerina

Movie - Released: 10/11/1998

1997

Food of Love

as Mary

Movie - Released: 10/19/1997

The Ice House

as Phoebe Maybury

TV - Released: 4/5/1997

1995

Kavanagh Q.C.

as Mrs. Rosalind McEnery

TV - Released: 1/3/1995

1994

Paradise

as Linda

Movie - Released: 8/17/1994

1991

as Sheila

Movie - Released: 9/29/1991

Stanley and the Women

as Susan Duke

TV - Released: 11/28/1991

1989

Agatha Christie's Poirot

as Frances Cloade

TV - Released: 1/8/1989

1988

A Taste for Death

as Kate Miskin

TV - Released: 10/14/1988

1987

Lionheart

as Madelaine

Movie - Released: 8/14/1987

Inspector Morse

as Nurse Wendy Hazlitt

TV - Released: 1/6/1987

1985

Wetherby

as Chrissie

Movie - Released: 6/19/1985

1983

Dalgliesh

as Kate Miskin

TV - Released: 4/8/1983

1982

Crosstalk

as Cindy

Movie - Released: 10/8/1982

Timewatch

as Caecilia

TV - Released: 9/29/1982

1979

Minder

as Dee Rogers

TV - Released: 10/29/1979