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Penny Downie
Acting
01 Jan 1954 (72 years)
Queensland, Australia
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.
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Penny Downie's Movies
62%
London Has Fallen
02 Mar 2016
72%
Invictus
11 Dec 2009
65%
Jackie
02 Dec 2016
74%
Breathe
13 Oct 2017
63%
W.E.
01 Sept 2011
70%
The Girl in the Café
25 Jun 2005
62%
The House of Mirth
13 Oct 2000
73%
Hamlet
26 Dec 2009
59%
Wetherby
19 Jun 1985
65%
Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Silk Stocking
26 Dec 2004
54%
Lionheart
14 Aug 1987
65%
Crime and Punishment
11 Oct 1998
43%
Byron
27 Sept 2003
47%
Crosstalk
08 Oct 1982
72%
Falling
06 Mar 2005
30%
Food of Love
19 Oct 1997
70%
Lost for Words
03 Jan 1999
70%
Murder in Rome
04 Mar 2005
0%
Ex
29 Sept 1991
0%
Paradise
17 Aug 1994
Penny Downie's TV Shows
82%
The Crown
04 Nov 2016
81%
Downton Abbey
26 Sept 2010
82%
Agatha Christie's Poirot
08 Jan 1989
76%
The Diplomat
20 Apr 2023
72%
Absentia
25 Sept 2017
75%
Ripper Street
30 Dec 2012
75%
Vera
01 May 2011
79%
Inspector Morse
06 Jan 1987
77%
Spooks
13 May 2002
76%
Father Brown
14 Jan 2013
63%
The Chelsea Detective
07 Feb 2022
75%
Silk
22 Feb 2011
65%
Houdini & Doyle
13 Mar 2016
72%
Back
06 Sept 2017
72%
Waking the Dead
18 Jun 2001
67%
Whitstable Pearl
24 May 2021
70%
Minder
29 Oct 1979
61%
The Ice House
05 Apr 1997
72%
Kavanagh Q.C.
03 Jan 1995
66%
New Street Law
04 May 2006