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.
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 1.0719 |
| Birthday | 1954-01-01 |
| Place of Birth | Queensland, Australia |
| Also Known As |
2009
Hamlet
7.3/76
David Tennant stars in a film of the Royal Shakespeare Company's award-winning production of Shakespeare's great play. Director Gregory Doran's modern...
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Hamlet
2005
The Girl in the Café
7.046/98
Lawrence, an aging, lonely civil servant falls for Gina, an enigmatic young woman. When he takes her to the G8 Summit in Reykjavik, however, their bon...
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The Girl in the Café
1991
Ex
10/1
Griff Rhys Jones stars as a writer on a popular television soap opera who falls in love with the show's leading lady but finds himself unable to break...
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Ex
2005
Falling
7.875/4
Television drama based on the novel by Elizabeth Jane Howard. Author Daisy Langrish buys a tranquil country cottage as a bolt-hole from the pressures...
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Falling
1999
Lost for Words
7/1
Deric Longden and his wife, Aileen, come to terms with the fact that his mother, Annie, is getting too old to live on her own. Annie suffers her first...
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Lost for Words
1998
Crime and Punishment
6.5/14
Former student Raskolnikov is pushed to murder when struggling to pay the rent on his apartment. When the murder is being investigated by the police,...
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Crime and Punishment
1994
Paradise
0/0
A father can't afford to take his family on holiday so he forces them to spend a week in their basement. He sets up lounge chairs and paints palm tree...
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Paradise
2005
Murder in Rome
7/1
Cicero, the future Consul of Rome, is just starting out as a trial lawyer in crime-ridden Rome where assassinations for political advantage and for es...
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Murder in Rome
2003
Byron
4.75/12
Life and adventures of lord George Gordon Byron. BBC dramatization of the poet's final thirteen years
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Byron
1982
Crosstalk
5.25/8
A computer genius is confined to a penthouse after a car accident, with only a nurse to look after him. But the advanced computer systems designed to...
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Crosstalk
2000
The House of Mirth
6.244/86
In early 20th century New York City, an impoverished socialite desperately seeks a suitable husband as she gradually finds herself betrayed by her fri...
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The House of Mirth
2016
London Has Fallen
6.221/5077
In London for the Prime Minister's funeral, Mike Banning discovers a plot to assassinate all the attending world leaders.
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London Has Fallen
2003
Vivian Stanshall: The Canyons of his Mind
8/1
Documentary about the life of the Bonzo Dog Band singer.
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Vivian Stanshall: The Canyons of his Mind
2009
Invictus
7.18/4334
Newly elected President Nelson Mandela knows his nation remains racially and economically divided in the wake of apartheid. Believing he can bring his...
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Invictus
1985
Wetherby
6/43
The mysterious death of an enigmatic young man newly arrived in the suburb of Wetherby releases the long-repressed, dark passions of some of its resid...
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Wetherby
2004
Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Silk Stocking
6.432/44
The corpse of a shabbily dressed young woman has been discovered in the mud flats of the Thames at low tide. Police assume she's a prostitute, but Dr....
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Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Silk Stocking
2016
Jackie
6.5/2429
An account of the days of First Lady, Jacqueline Kennedy, in the immediate aftermath of John F. Kennedy's assassination in 1963.
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Jackie
1987
Lionheart
5.605/19
A young knight sets out to join King Richards crusaders. Along the way, he encounters The Black Prince who captures children and sells them as slaves...
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Lionheart
1997
Food of Love
4/4
A group of ex-university students reunite to perform a Shakespeare play in a quaint English village.
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Food of Love
2011
W.E.
6.3/307
In 1998, an auction of the estate of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor causes great excitement. For one woman, Wally Winthrop, it has much more meaning....
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W.E.
2017
Breathe
7.4/796
Based on the true story of Robin, a handsome, brilliant and adventurous man whose life takes a dramatic turn when polio leaves him paralyzed.
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Breathe
2024
The Jester from Transylvania
0/0
What happens when you pick up a hitchhiker? Michael, an American scriptwriter, soon finds out when he picks up an Englishman in the middle of a Transy...
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The Jester from Transylvania
2005
All About George
10/1
All About George is a British family sitcom which follows the extended family of George Kinsey. The show includes five generations, from George's gran...
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