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Penny Downie
Acting
Born: 1954
Queensland, Australia
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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.
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| Show / Title | Year | Credit / Role |
|---|---|---|
| The Diplomat | 2023 | Frances Munning |
| The Chelsea Detective | 2022 | Hilary Carmichael |
| Whitstable Pearl | 2021 | Izzy |
| Absentia | 2017 | Valerie Chandris |
| Back | 2017 | Ellen |
| The Crown | 2016 | Duchess of Gloucester |
| Houdini & Doyle | 2016 | Mrs. Sulzbach |
| Siblings | 2014 | Dr Barker |
| Ripper Street | 2012 | Flora Gable |
| Vera | 2011 | Veronica |
| Silk | 2011 | Helen Guthrie |
| Downton Abbey | 2010 | Lady Sinderby |
| New Street Law | 2006 | Honor Scammel |
| Murder in Suburbia | 2004 | Zenith |
| Byron | 2003 | Lady Judith Milbanke |
| Spooks | 2002 | Prosecution QC |
| The Cazalets | 2001 | Sid |
| Waking the Dead | 2001 | Bonnie Yorke |
| Kavanagh Q.C. | 1995 | Mrs. Rosalind McEnery |
| Screen One | 1989 | Sheila |
| Agatha Christie's Poirot | 1989 | Frances Cloade |
| Inspector Morse | 1987 | Nurse Wendy Hazlitt |
| Timewatch | 1982 | Caecilia |
| Minder | 1979 | Dee Rogers |