Penny Downie
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.
Shows
Agatha Christie's Poirot
The Crown
Father Brown
Vera
Minder
Downton Abbey
Spooks
Absentia
Waking the Dead
Inspector Morse
Silk
The Diplomat
Ripper Street
Kavanagh Q.C.
The Chelsea Detective
Whitstable Pearl
Dalgliesh
Houdini & Doyle
New Street Law
Back
Byron
Madson
The Cazalets
A Taste for Death
The Ice House
All About George
Stanley and the Women
A Certain Justice