Known For
Acting
Birthday
January 1, 1954 (age 72)
Place of Birth
Queensland, Australia
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.
Known For - Movies
London Has Fallen
as Home Secretary Rose Kenter
Invictus
as Mrs. Pienaar
Jackie
as Janet Lee
Breathe
as Tid
W.E.
as Dr. Vargas
Hamlet
as Gertrude
The Girl in the Café
as Ruth
The House of Mirth
as Judy Trenor
Lionheart
as Madelaine
Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Silk Stocking
as Judith Massingham
Known For - TV Shows
Agatha Christie's Poirot
as Frances Cloade
The Crown
as Duchess of Gloucester
Vera
as Veronica
Minder
as Dee Rogers
Father Brown
as Rev. Mother Augustine
Downton Abbey
as Lady Sinderby
Spooks
as Prosecution QC
Waking the Dead
as Bonnie Yorke
Inspector Morse
as Nurse Wendy Hazlitt
Silk
as Helen Guthrie