Joanna Lumley

Joanna Lumley

Birthday: 1946-05-01

Place of birth: Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir, British India

Also known as: Joanna Lamond Lumley, OBE, FRGS, 조안나 럼리 , Dame Joanna Lamond Lumley, Dame Joanna Lumley, جوانا لاملی, Dame Joanna Lamond Lumley DBE FRGS

imdb_id: nm0525921

Biography:

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.

Played in movies:

Joanna and Jennifer: Absolutely Champers

Score: 10.0

Absolutely Fabulous: A Life

Score: 10.0

Quentin Blake – The Drawing of My Life

Score: 10.0

20 Years of the Black Eyed Peas

Score: 9.0

In Search of Dracula

Score: 8.8

Joanna Lumley in the Land of the Northern Lights

Score: 8.4

The Wolf of Wall Street

Score: 8.0

Mirrorball

Score: 8.0

50 Years of BBC Two Comedy

Score: 8.0

Attenborough at 90

Score: 8.0

Twiggy

Score: 7.9

Me Before You

Score: 7.9

The Forgotten Toys

Score: 7.9

Corpse Bride

Score: 7.6

7 Up & Me

Score: 7.5

Paddington 2

Score: 7.5

The Plank

Score: 7.4

Doctor Who: The Curse of Fatal Death

Score: 7.3

Absolutely Fabulous: The Last Shout

Score: 7.3

Finding Your Feet

Score: 7.1

In the Best Possible Taste: A Tribute to Kenny Everett

Score: 7.0

Ian Fleming: Where Bond Began

Score: 7.0

imagine... French & Saunders: Pointed, Bitchy, Bitter

Score: 7.0

Cold Comfort Farm

Score: 6.8

EuroTrip

Score: 6.6

On Her Majesty's Secret Service

Score: 6.6

James and the Giant Peach

Score: 6.6

Coronation Street: 60 Unforgettable Years

Score: 6.5

Ella Enchanted

Score: 6.5

Carnage: Swallowing the Past

Score: 6.4

Falling for Figaro

Score: 6.4

The House That Dripped Blood

Score: 6.3

Alice in Wonderland

Score: 6.2

Shirley Valentine

Score: 6.2

Gangsta Granny

Score: 6.1

How to Be Absolutely Fabulous

Score: 6.0

Nancherrow

Score: 6.0

The Making of a Lady

Score: 5.9

Netflix Tudum 2025

Score: 5.9

Absolutely Anything

Score: 5.9

She's Funny That Way

Score: 5.9

Whispers: An Elephant's Tale

Score: 5.8

The Cat's Meow

Score: 5.8

And the Winner Isn't

Score: 5.7

British Sitcom: 60 Years of Laughing at Ourselves

Score: 5.7

Some Girls Do

Score: 5.6

Stories of Lost Souls

Score: 5.6

The Satanic Rites of Dracula

Score: 5.6

The Tale of Sweeney Todd

Score: 5.4

The Magic Roundabout

Score: 5.4

Maybe Baby

Score: 5.4

Parting Shots

Score: 5.4

Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie

Score: 5.3

A Rather English Marriage

Score: 5.3

Trail of the Pink Panther

Score: 5.2

Late Bloomers

Score: 5.2

Prince Valiant

Score: 5.2

Coming Home

Score: 5.1

Boogie Woogie

Score: 5.0

A Ghost in Monte Carlo

Score: 5.0

The Ballad of Tam Lin

Score: 4.9

Curse of the Pink Panther

Score: 4.6

Electric Blue 002

Score: 4.5

Innocent Lies

Score: 4.5

Electric Blue - The Movie

Score: 4.5

Don't Just Lie There, Say Something!

Score: 3.6

Mad Cows

Score: 3.4

Games That Lovers Play

Score: 3.3

The Picture of Dorian Gray

Score: 3.0

The Weather in the Streets

Score: 2.3

The Breaking of Bumbo

Score: 2.0

An Audience with Dame Edna Everage

Score: 1.0

Frank and Percy

Score: 0.0

My Favourite Attenborough Moment

Score: 0.0

A Ghost Story for Christmas: The Room in the Tower

Score: 0.0

The Man You're Not

Score: 0.0

Absolutely Fabulous: Inside Out

Score: 0.0

The Vicar of Dibley: Inside Out

Score: 0.0

The Genius of Roald Dahl

Score: 0.0

Wogan on Wodehouse

Score: 0.0

Standing Room Only

Score: 0.0

The Snowman Live Stage Show

Score: 0.0

Joanna Lumley Meets Will.I.Am

Score: 0.0

Joanna Lumley: The Search for Noah's Ark

Score: 0.0

Girl Friday

Score: 0.0

Bette Midler: One Night Only

Score: 0.0

Joanna Lumley: Elvis and Me

Score: 0.0

My Week with Maisy

Score: 0.0

Counting Tigers

Score: 0.0

Joanna Lumley: My Best Bits - In My Own Words

Score: 0.0

Joanna Lumley and the Human Swan

Score: 0.0

Played in tv shows:

The BAFTA Awards

Score: 10.0

Wednesday

Score: 8.4

Nancherrow

Score: 8.0

The Forgotten Toys

Score: 8.0

Summer Camp Island

Score: 7.9

Steptoe and Son

Score: 7.8

Agatha Christie's Marple

Score: 7.8

The Avengers

Score: 7.7

Amandaland

Score: 7.7

Lewis

Score: 7.6

The Wonderful World of Mickey Mouse

Score: 7.5

Absolutely Fabulous

Score: 7.5

Top Gear

Score: 7.5

Sapphire & Steel

Score: 7.4

Eurovision Song Contest

Score: 7.3

Michael Palin: Travels of a Lifetime

Score: 7.3

Lovejoy

Score: 7.3

Are You Being Served?

Score: 7.2

The Graham Norton Show

Score: 7.2

Fool Me Once

Score: 7.1

RuPaul's Drag Race UK

Score: 7.1

Blankety Blank

Score: 7.0

The Kenny Everett Television Show

Score: 7.0

Sensitive Skin

Score: 7.0

The New Avengers

Score: 7.0

Up in Town

Score: 7.0

Jam and Jerusalem

Score: 7.0

Roseanne

Score: 6.8

Posh Nosh

Score: 6.7

The Cuckoo Waltz

Score: 6.7

Celebrity Gogglebox

Score: 6.6

Cluedo

Score: 6.4

The Mrs Merton Show

Score: 6.4

Britain's Busiest Airport: Heathrow

Score: 6.4

Champs-Elysées

Score: 6.3

A Bucket O' French and Saunders

Score: 6.2

Joanna Lumley’s Home Sweet Home – Travels in My Own Land

Score: 6.2

Ant & Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway

Score: 6.1

Children In Need

Score: 6.0

Going Live!

Score: 6.0

The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon

Score: 5.9

Tony Awards

Score: 5.9

The Friday Night Project

Score: 5.8

Joanna Lumley's Hidden Caribbean: Havana to Haiti

Score: 5.8

Mistral's Daughter

Score: 5.8

Joanna Lumley's Greek Odyssey

Score: 5.7

Joanna Lumley's Japan

Score: 5.7

Mistresses

Score: 5.7

Comic Relief

Score: 5.7

The Last Leg

Score: 5.7

Finding Alice

Score: 5.6

The Glory Boys

Score: 5.5

My Dad's the Prime Minister

Score: 5.5

An Audience with...

Score: 5.3

Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen

Score: 5.1

Oxbridge Blues

Score: 5.0

Joanna Lumley's Silk Road Adventure

Score: 4.8

Wogan

Score: 4.5

Wogan

Score: 4.5

The One Show

Score: 4.4

Late Night Lycett

Score: 4.3

Joanna Lumley's Spice Trail Adventure

Score: 4.3

Joanna Lumley's Postcards

Score: 4.0

The Michael McIntyre Chat Show

Score: 4.0

Joanna Lumley's India

Score: 4.0

Joanna Lumley's Trans-Siberian Adventure

Score: 4.0

Rosie Jones' Trip Hazard

Score: 3.8

Live from Studio Five

Score: 3.7

Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg

Score: 2.7

Joanna Lumley's Danube

Score: 2.5

Joanna Lumley's Unseen Adventures

Score: 1.0

Joanna Lumley's Great Cities of the World

Score: 1.0

Joanna Lumley in the Kingdom of the Thunderdragon

Score: 1.0

Joanna Lumley's Britain

Score: 1.0

Class Act

Score: 0.0

Jewel of the Med: Majorca and Menorca

Score: 0.0

Jewels of the Med

Score: 0.0

Parkinson

Score: 0.0

Final Chance to Save

Score: 0.0

The Great Comic Relief Bake Off

Score: 0.0

Coming Home

Score: 0.0

The Foxbusters

Score: 0.0

The National Television Awards Backstage Live

Score: 0.0

Justin Lee Collins: Good Times

Score: 0.0

Betjeman and Me

Score: 0.0

Philip and Elizabeth

Score: 0.0

Dr Willoughby

Score: 0.0

Plunder

Score: 0.0