Personal Info
Birthday
January 1, 1954
Place of Birth
Queensland, Australia
Known For
Acting
Penny Downie
Biography
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.
Acting Filmography (58)
0.0
Boss Cat
Movie2026
0.0
The Jester from Transylvania
Movie2024
7.6
The Diplomat
TV Series2023
6.3
The Chelsea Detective
TV Series2022
6.7
Whitstable Pearl
TV Series2021
7.4
Breathe
Movie2017
7.2
Absentia
TV Series2017
7.2
Back
TV Series2017
6.5
Jackie
Movie2016
8.2
The Crown
TV Series2016
6.5
Houdini & Doyle
TV Series2016
6.2
London Has Fallen
Movie2016
6.1
Siblings
TV Series2014
7.6
Father Brown
TV Series2013
7.4
Ripper Street
TV Series2012
6.3
W.E.
Movie2011
7.4
Vera
TV Series2011
7.5
Silk
TV Series2011
8.1
Downton Abbey
TV Series2010
7.3
Hamlet
Movie2009
7.2
Invictus
Movie2009
6.6
New Street Law
TV Series2006
10.0
All About George
Movie2005
0.0
All About George
TV Series2005
7.1
The Girl in the Café
Movie2005
7.9
Falling
Movie2005
No Backdrop
7.0
Murder in Rome
Movie2005
6.4
Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Silk Stocking
Movie2004
7.6
Murder in Suburbia
TV Series2004
4.8
Byron
Movie2003
6.5
Trust
TV Series2003
No Backdrop
8.0
Vivian Stanshall: The Canyons of his Mind
Movie2003
5.0
Byron
TV Series2003
7.7
Spooks
TV Series2002
8.5
The Cazalets
TV Series2001
7.2
Waking the Dead
TV Series2001
6.3
The House of Mirth
Movie2000
No Backdrop
6.5
Lost for Words
Movie1999
6.5
Crime and Punishment
Movie1998
No Backdrop
6.7
A Certain Justice
TV Series1998
4.0
Food of Love
Movie1997
6.1
The Ice House
TV Series1997
No Backdrop
7.0
Madson
TV Series1996
No Backdrop
7.3
Kavanagh Q.C.
TV Series1995
No Backdrop
0.0
Paradise
Movie1994
No Backdrop
0.0
Underbelly
TV Series1992
No Backdrop
6.5
Stanley and the Women
TV Series1991
No Backdrop
10.0
Ex
Movie1991
7.2
Screen One
TV Series1989
8.2
Agatha Christie's Poirot
TV Series1989
No Backdrop
5.4
A Taste for Death
TV Series1988
5.6
Lionheart
Movie1987
7.9
Inspector Morse
TV Series1987
6.0
Wetherby
Movie1985
6.9
Dalgliesh
TV Series1983
5.2
Crosstalk
Movie1982
6.9
Timewatch
TV Series1982
7.2
Minder
TV Series1979