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