Acting • AGE 72
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 ambass...


Boss Cat
Doris
2026

The Jester from Transylvania
Mrs. Pennington
2024

The Diplomat
Frances Munning
2023

The Chelsea Detective
Hilary Carmichael
2022

Whitstable Pearl
Izzy
2021

Breathe
Tid
2017

Absentia
Valerie Chandris
2017

Back
Ellen
2017

Jackie
Janet Lee
2016

The Crown
Duchess of Gloucester
2016

Houdini & Doyle
Mrs. Sulzbach
2016

London Has Fallen
Home Secretary Rose Kenter
2016

Siblings
Dr Barker
2014

Father Brown
Rev. Mother Augustine
2013

Ripper Street
Flora Gable
2012

W.E.
Dr. Vargas
2011

Vera
Veronica
2011

Silk
Helen Guthrie
2011

Downton Abbey
Lady Sinderby
2010

Hamlet
Gertrude
2009

Invictus
Mrs. Pienaar
2009

New Street Law
Honor Scammel
2006

All About George
Evelyn
2005

All About George
Evelyn
2005

The Girl in the Café
Ruth
2005

Falling
Hazel Kent
2005

Murder in Rome
Caecilia
2005

Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Silk Stocking
Judith Massingham
2004

Murder in Suburbia
Zenith
2004

Byron
Lady Judith Milbanke
2003

Trust
Anita Matteo
2003

Vivian Stanshall: The Canyons of his Mind
Self - Narrator
2003

Byron
Lady Judith Milbanke
2003

Spooks
Prosecution QC
2002

The Cazalets
Sid
2001

Waking the Dead
Bonnie Yorke
2001

The House of Mirth
Judy Trenor
2000

Lost for Words
Aileen Longden
1999

Crime and Punishment
Katerina
1998

A Certain Justice
Venetia Aldridge
1998

Food of Love
Mary
1997

The Ice House
Phoebe Maybury
1997

Madson
Anderton
1996

Kavanagh Q.C.
Mrs. Rosalind McEnery
1995

Paradise
Linda
1994

Stanley and the Women
Susan Duke
1991

Ex
Sheila
1991

Screen One
Sheila
1989

Agatha Christie's Poirot
Frances Cloade
1989

A Taste for Death
Kate Miskin
1988

Lionheart
Madelaine
1987

Inspector Morse
Nurse Wendy Hazlitt
1987

Wetherby
Chrissie
1985

Dalgliesh
Kate Miskin
1983

Crosstalk
Cindy
1982

Timewatch
Caecilia
1982

Minder
Dee Rogers
1979