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Joanna Lumley

Joanna Lumley

Acting · Production

Born May 1, 1946, Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir, British India

Dame Joanna Lamond Lumley DBE FRGS (born 1 May 1946) is a British actress, presenter, former model, author, television producer, and activist. She has won two BAFTA TV Awards for her role as Patsy Stone in the BBC sitcom Absolutely Fabulous (1992–2012), and was nominated for the 2011 Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play for the Broadway revival of La Bête. In 2013, she received the Special Recognition Award at the National Television Awards, and in 2017 she was honoured with the BAFTA Fellowship award. Lumley's other television credits include The New Avengers (1976–1977), Sapphire & Steel (1979–1982), Sensitive Skin (2005–2007), Jam & Jerusalem (2006–2008) and Finding Alice (2021–present) as well as playing Elaine Perkins in Coronation Street in 1973. Her film appearances include On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969), Trail of the Pink Panther (1982), Shirley Valentine (1989), James and the Giant Peach (1996), Ella Enchanted (2004), Corpse Bride (2005), The Wolf of Wall Street (2013), and Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie (2016). She had roles in two episodes of Are You Being Served? (1973–1975) written by Jeremy Lloyd, whom she had married and divorced three years prior to her first appearance on the show. Lumley is an advocate and human rights activist for Survival International and the Gurkha Justice Campaign. She supports charities and animal welfare groups, such as Compassion in World Farming and Vegetarians' International Voice for Animals. Lumley was made a Dame (DBE) in the 2022 New Year Honours for services to drama, entertainment and charity.

Filmography

Appearances as themselves (68)
  • David Frost Vs — self
  • Jewel of the Med: Majorca and Menorca — Self - Narrator (voice)
  • Jewels of the Med — Self - Narrator (voice)
  • Joanna Lumley's Danube — Self - Host
  • 2025Netflix Tudum 2025 — Self
  • 2025The House of Clemens — Self
  • 2025Twiggy — Self
  • 2024Absolutely Fabulous: Inside Out — Self / Patricia "Patsy" Stone
  • Joanna Lumley's Spice Trail Adventure — Self - Presenter
  • 2023Joanna Lumley: My Best Bits - In My Own Words — Self
  • Late Night Lycett — Self - Guest
  • 2023imagine... French & Saunders: Pointed, Bitchy, Bitter — Self
  • 2022Spike Milligan: The Unseen Archive — Self - Friend
  • Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg — Self
  • Joanna Lumley's Britain — Self - Host
  • 2021Quentin Blake – The Drawing of My Life — Self
  • 2021The Vicar of Dibley: Inside Out — Self
  • 2020In Search of Dracula — Herself
  • Joanna Lumley's Hidden Caribbean: Havana to Haiti — Herself - Presenter
  • Michael Palin: Travels of a Lifetime — Self
  • Celebrity Gogglebox — Self
  • RuPaul's Drag Race UK — Self - Guest Judge
  • 201820 Years of the Black Eyed Peas — Herself - Host
  • 2018Saturday Knight Takeaway — Self
  • 2017And the Winner Isn't — Self
  • 2017Carnage: Swallowing the Past — Herself (voice)
  • Joanna Lumley's India — Herself
  • 2017Joanna and Jennifer: Absolutely Champers — Self - Presenter
  • 2017The Missing Crown Jewels — Self
  • 2016Attenborough at 90 — Self
  • Joanna Lumley's Japan — Herself
  • Joanna Lumley's Trans-Siberian Adventure — Self - Presenter
  • 2015Joanna Lumley: Elvis and Me — Self
  • 2014Bette Midler: One Night Only — Self - Host
  • The Michael McIntyre Chat Show — Self - Guest
  • The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon — Self
  • Car S.O.S. — Herself
  • The Great Comic Relief Bake Off — Self - Contestant
  • The Last Leg — Self
  • 2012Joanna Lumley: The Search for Noah's Ark — Herself - Presenter
  • 2012The Genius of Roald Dahl — Herself
  • Joanna Lumley's Greek Odyssey — Herself
  • 2011Wogan on Wodehouse — Self
  • Justin Lee Collins: Good Times — Self
  • Live from Studio Five — Self
  • Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen — Self - Guest
  • 2008Ian Fleming: Where Bond Began — Herself
  • 2008Joanna Lumley in the Land of the Northern Lights — Herself
  • 2007Counting Out Time — Herself
  • The Graham Norton Show — Self
  • 2006My Favourite Attenborough Moment — Self
  • The One Show — Self
  • Final Chance to Save — Herself
  • The Friday Night Project — Self - Host
  • Parkinson — Self - Guest
  • Ant & Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway — Self - Guest Announcer
  • Top Gear — Self
  • Parkinson — Self
  • Joanna Lumley in the Kingdom of the Thunderdragon — Herself
  • The Mrs Merton Show — Self
  • Challenge Anneka — Self
  • Going Live! — Self
  • Champs-Elysées — Self
  • Wogan — Self, Self - Presenter
  • Children In Need — Self
  • An Audience with... — Self
  • Eurovision Song Contest — Self - Spokesperson
  • Tony Awards — Self - Nominee
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