Penny Downie: movies and TV shows
Penny Downie has 59 credits in the archive: 24 films and 35 TV series, from 1979 to 2026. Highest rated: The Crown (8.2/10).
Career timeline
1979 – 2026 · busiest year: 2005 (5 credits)
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Full filmography
| Year | Title | Role | Type | Rating | Age then |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | Boss Cat | Doris | Film | — | 72 |
| 2024 | The Jester from Transylvania | Mrs. Pennington | Film | — | 70 |
| 2023 | The Diplomat | Frances Munning | TV | 7.6 | 69 |
| 2022 | The Chelsea Detective | Hilary Carmichael | TV | 6.3 | 68 |
| 2021 | Whitstable Pearl | Izzy | TV | 6.7 | 67 |
| 2017 | Absentia | Valerie Chandris | TV | 7.2 | 63 |
| 2017 | Breathe | Tid | Film | 7.4 | 63 |
| 2017 | Back | Ellen | TV | 7.2 | 63 |
| 2016 | The Crown | Duchess of Gloucester | TV | 8.2 | 62 |
| 2016 | London Has Fallen | Home Secretary Rose Kenter | Film | 6.2 | 62 |
| 2016 | Houdini & Doyle | Mrs. Sulzbach | TV | 6.5 | 62 |
| 2016 | Jackie | Janet Lee | Film | 6.5 | 62 |
| 2014 | Siblings | Dr Barker | TV | 6.1 | 60 |
| 2013 | Father Brown | Rev. Mother Augustine | TV | 7.6 | 59 |
| 2012 | Ripper Street | Flora Gable | TV | 7.4 | 58 |
| 2011 | Vera | Veronica | TV | 7.4 | 57 |
| 2011 | Silk | Helen Guthrie | TV | 7.5 | 57 |
| 2011 | W.E. | Dr. Vargas | Film | 6.3 | 57 |
| 2010 | Downton Abbey | Lady Sinderby | TV | 8.1 | 56 |
| 2009 | Invictus | Mrs. Pienaar | Film | 7.2 | 55 |
| 2009 | Hamlet | Gertrude | Film | 7.3 | 55 |
| 2006 | New Street Law | Honor Scammel | TV | 6.6 | 52 |
| 2005 | All About George | Evelyn | TV | — | 51 |
| 2005 | The Girl in the Café | Ruth | Film | 7.1 | 51 |
| 2005 | All About George | Evelyn | Film | 10.0 | 51 |
| 2005 | Falling | Hazel Kent | Film | 7.9 | 51 |
| 2005 | Murder in Rome | Caecilia | Film | 7.0 | 51 |
| 2004 | Murder in Suburbia | Zenith | TV | 7.6 | 50 |
| 2004 | Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Silk Stocking | Judith Massingham | Film | 6.4 | 50 |
| 2003 | Trust | Anita Matteo | TV | 6.5 | 49 |
| 2003 | Byron | Lady Judith Milbanke | TV | 5.0 | 49 |
| 2003 | Byron | Lady Judith Milbanke | Film | 4.8 | 49 |
| 2003 | Vivian Stanshall: The Canyons of his Mind | Self - Narrator | Film | 8.0 | 49 |
| 2002 | Spooks | Prosecution QC | TV | 7.7 | 48 |
| 2001 | Waking the Dead | Bonnie Yorke | TV | 7.2 | 47 |
| 2001 | The Cazalets | Sid | TV | 8.5 | 47 |
| 2000 | The House of Mirth | Judy Trenor | Film | 6.3 | 46 |
| 1999 | Lost for Words | Aileen Longden | Film | 6.5 | 45 |
| 1998 | Crime and Punishment | Katerina | Film | 6.5 | 44 |
| 1998 | A Certain Justice | Venetia Aldridge | TV | 6.7 | 44 |
| 1997 | The Ice House | Phoebe Maybury | TV | 6.1 | 43 |
| 1997 | Food of Love | Mary | Film | 4.0 | 43 |
| 1996 | Madson | Anderton | TV | 7.0 | 42 |
| 1995 | Kavanagh Q.C. | Mrs. Rosalind McEnery | TV | 7.3 | 41 |
| 1994 | Paradise | Linda | Film | — | 40 |
| 1992 | Underbelly | Barbara Manning | TV | — | 38 |
| 1991 | Stanley and the Women | Susan Duke | TV | 6.5 | 37 |
| 1991 | Ex | Sheila | Film | 10.0 | 37 |
| 1989 | Agatha Christie's Poirot | Frances Cloade | TV | 8.2 | 35 |
| 1989 | Screen One | Sheila | TV | 7.2 | 35 |
| 1988 | A Taste for Death | Kate Miskin | TV | 5.4 | 34 |
| 1988 | Campaign | Sarah Copeland | TV | — | 34 |
| 1987 | Inspector Morse | Nurse Wendy Hazlitt | TV | 7.9 | 33 |
| 1987 | Lionheart | Madelaine | Film | 5.6 | 33 |
| 1985 | Wetherby | Chrissie | Film | 6.0 | 31 |
| 1983 | Dalgliesh | Kate Miskin | TV | 6.9 | 29 |
| 1982 | Timewatch | Caecilia | TV | 6.9 | 28 |
| 1982 | Crosstalk | Cindy | Film | 5.2 | 28 |
| 1979 | Minder | Dee Rogers | TV | 7.2 | 25 |