Penny Downie
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as Mrs. Pienaar Invictus 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.
Filmography
London Has Fallen
as Home Secretary Rose Kenter
Invictus
as Mrs. Pienaar
Jackie
as Janet Lee
Breathe
as Tid
W.E.
as Dr. Vargas
The Girl in the Café
as Ruth
The House of Mirth
as Judy Trenor
Hamlet
as Gertrude
Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Silk Stocking
as Judith Massingham
Wetherby
as Chrissie
Lionheart
as Madelaine
Crime and Punishment
as Katerina
Byron
as Lady Judith Milbanke
Crosstalk
as Cindy
Falling
as Hazel Kent
Food of Love
as Mary
Ex
as Sheila
Lost for Words
as Aileen Longden
Murder in Rome
as Caecilia
Vivian Stanshall: The Canyons of his Mind
as Self - Narrator