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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.

Boss Cat
as Doris

The Jester from Transylvania
as Mrs. Pennington

The Diplomat
as Frances Munning

The Chelsea Detective
as Hilary Carmichael

Whitstable Pearl
as Izzy

Breathe
as Tid

Absentia
as Valerie Chandris

Back
as Ellen

Jackie
as Janet Lee

The Crown
as Duchess of Gloucester

Houdini & Doyle
as Mrs. Sulzbach

London Has Fallen
as Home Secretary Rose Kenter

Siblings
as Dr Barker

Father Brown
as Rev. Mother Augustine

Ripper Street
as Flora Gable

W.E.
as Dr. Vargas

Vera
as Veronica

Silk
as Helen Guthrie

Downton Abbey
as Lady Sinderby

Hamlet
as Gertrude

Invictus
as Mrs. Pienaar

New Street Law
as Honor Scammel

All About George
as Evelyn

All About George
as Evelyn

The Girl in the Café
as Ruth

Falling
as Hazel Kent

Murder in Rome
as Caecilia

Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Silk Stocking
as Judith Massingham

Murder in Suburbia
as Zenith

Byron
as Lady Judith Milbanke

Trust
as Anita Matteo

Vivian Stanshall: The Canyons of his Mind
as Self - Narrator

Byron
as Lady Judith Milbanke

Spooks
as Prosecution QC

The Cazalets
as Sid

Waking the Dead
as Bonnie Yorke

The House of Mirth
as Judy Trenor

Lost for Words
as Aileen Longden

Crime and Punishment
as Katerina

A Certain Justice
as Venetia Aldridge

Food of Love
as Mary

The Ice House
as Phoebe Maybury

Madson
as Anderton

Kavanagh Q.C.
as Mrs. Rosalind McEnery

Paradise
as Linda

Stanley and the Women
as Susan Duke

Ex
as Sheila

Screen One
as Sheila

Agatha Christie's Poirot
as Frances Cloade

A Taste for Death
as Kate Miskin

Lionheart
as Madelaine

Inspector Morse
as Nurse Wendy Hazlitt

Wetherby
as Chrissie

Dalgliesh
as Kate Miskin

Crosstalk
as Cindy

Timewatch
as Caecilia

Minder
as Dee Rogers