Born January 1, 1954
Queensland, Australia
55 credits
Acting
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.
Agatha Christie's Poirot
1989 · ★ 8.2
The Crown
2016 · ★ 8.2
Downton Abbey
2010 · ★ 8.1
Vera
2011 · ★ 7.4
Father Brown
2013 · ★ 7.6
Minder
1979 · ★ 7.1
Spooks
2002 · ★ 7.7
Absentia
2017 · ★ 7.3
Inspector Morse
1987 · ★ 7.9
Waking the Dead
2001 · ★ 7.3
The Diplomat
2023 · ★ 7.5
Ripper Street
2012 · ★ 7.4
Silk
2011 · ★ 7.5
The Chelsea Detective
2022 · ★ 6.4
London Has Fallen
2016 · ★ 6.2
Kavanagh Q.C.
1995 · ★ 7.3
Dalgliesh
1983 · ★ 6.9
Timewatch
1982 · ★ 6.9
Whitstable Pearl
2021 · ★ 6.7
Invictus
2009 · ★ 7.2
Jackie
2016 · ★ 6.5
Houdini & Doyle
2016 · ★ 6.5
New Street Law
2006 · ★ 6.6
Breathe
2017 · ★ 7.4
Back
2017 · ★ 7.2
Murder in Suburbia
2004 · ★ 7.6
The Cazalets
2001 · ★ 8.5
W.E.
2011 · ★ 6.3
A Taste for Death
1988 · ★ 5.6
Madson
1996 · ★ 7.0
Siblings
2014 · ★ 6.0
The House of Mirth
2000 · ★ 6.2
All About George
2005 · ★ 0.0
The Ice House
1997 · ★ 6.1
Crime and Punishment
1998 · ★ 6.5
Byron
2003 · ★ 5.0
Hamlet
2009 · ★ 7.3
Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Silk Stocking
2004 · ★ 6.4
Lionheart
1987 · ★ 5.6
The Girl in the Café
2005 · ★ 7.0
Wetherby
1985 · ★ 6.0
Stanley and the Women
1991 · ★ 6.5
A Certain Justice
1998 · ★ 6.7
Ex
1991 · ★ 10.0
Falling
2005 · ★ 7.9
Crosstalk
1982 · ★ 5.3
Food of Love
1997 · ★ 4.0
Murder in Rome
2005 · ★ 7.0
Byron
2003 · ★ 4.8
The Jester from Transylvania
2024 · ★ 0.0
Paradise
1994 · ★ 0.0
Lost for Words
1999 · ★ 7.0
Boss Cat
2026 · ★ 0.0
Vivian Stanshall: The Canyons of his Mind
2003 · ★ 8.0
All About George
2005 · ★ 10.0