Penny Downie

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.

Cast

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