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.
The Girl in the Café
Ruth
Hamlet
Gertrude
Ex
Sheila
Falling
Hazel Kent
Lost for Words
Aileen Longden
Crime and Punishment
Katerina
Paradise
Linda
Murder in Rome
Caecilia
Byron
Lady Judith Milbanke
Crosstalk
Cindy
The House of Mirth
Judy Trenor
London Has Fallen
Home Secretary Rose Kenter
Vivian Stanshall: The Canyons of his Mind
Self - Narrator
Invictus
Mrs. Pienaar
Wetherby
Chrissie
Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Silk Stocking
Judith Massingham
Jackie
Janet Lee
Lionheart
Madelaine
Food of Love
Mary
W.E.
Dr. Vargas
Breathe
Tid
The Jester from Transylvania
Mrs. Pennington
All About George
Evelyn