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