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