Penny Downie
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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
Credits
London Has Fallen (2016)
as Home Secretary Rose Kenter
Invictus (2009)
as Mrs. Pienaar
Breathe (2017)
as Tid
Jackie (2016)
as Janet Lee
W.E. (2011)
as Dr. Vargas
The House of Mirth (2000)
as Judy Trenor
Wetherby (1985)
as Chrissie
The Girl in the Café (2005)
as Ruth
Lionheart (1987)
as Madelaine
Food of Love (1997)
as Mary
Crime and Punishment (1998)
as Katerina
Hamlet (2009)
as Gertrude
Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Silk Stocking (2004)
as Judith Massingham
Murder in Rome (2005)
as Caecilia
Falling (2005)
as Hazel Kent
The Jester from Transylvania (2024)
as Mrs. Pennington
Ex (1991)
as Sheila
Lost for Words (1999)
as Aileen Longden
Crosstalk (1982)
as Cindy
Byron (2003)
as Lady Judith Milbanke
All About George (2005)
as Evelyn
Vivian Stanshall: The Canyons of his Mind (2003)
as Self - Narrator
Paradise (1994)
as Linda
Boss Cat (2026)
as Doris