Joanna Lumley

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.

Known For: Acting

Born: Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir, British India, 1946-05-01

Died: null

Film

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1969	Some Girls Do	Robot Saboteur (uncredited)	59
2	1969	On Her Majesty's Secret Service	The English Girl	66
3	1970	The Breaking of Bumbo	Susie	20
4	1970	The Ballad of Tam Lin	Georgia	54
5	1971	Games That Lovers Play	Fanny Hill	42
6	1971	The House That Dripped Blood		63
7	1973	The Satanic Rites of Dracula	Jessica Van Helsing	56
8	1973	Don't Just Lie There, Say Something!	Miss Parkyn	53
9	1979	The Plank	Hitcher	74
10	1980	Electric Blue 002	(archive footage)	45
11	1980	An Audience with Dame Edna Everage		10
12	1982	Electric Blue - The Movie	(archive footage)	53
13	1982	Trail of the Pink Panther	Marie Jouvet	52
14	1983	Curse of the Pink Panther	Countess Chandra	46
15	1983	The Weather in the Streets	Kate	30
16	1984	Electric Blue Special: Nude Celebrity Special		0
17	1989	Shirley Valentine	Marjorie Majors	63
18	1990	A Ghost in Monte Carlo	Lady Drayton	57
19	1994	Girl Friday	Presenter	0
20	1995	Cold Comfort Farm	Mary Smiling	67
21	1995	The Forgotten Toys	Annie (voice)	79
22	1995	How to Be Absolutely Fabulous	Patsy Stone (archive footage)	60
23	1995	Innocent Lies	Lady Helena Graves	48
24	1996	James and the Giant Peach	Aunt Spiker	66
25	1996	Absolutely Fabulous: The Last Shout	Patsy Stone	73
26	1997	Prince Valiant	Morgan Le Fey	52
27	1998	Coming Home	Diana Carey-Lewis	55
28	1998	The Tale of Sweeney Todd	Mrs. Lovett	57
29	1998	Absolutely Fabulous: A Life	Patsy Stone (archive footage)	100
30	1998	A Rather English Marriage	Liz Franks	57
31	1999	Nancherrow	Diana Carey-Lewis	60
32	1999	Alice in Wonderland	Tiger Lily (voice)	63
33	1999	Doctor Who: The Curse of Fatal Death	The Female Doctor	74
34	1999	Parting Shots	Freda	61
35	1999	Mad Cows	Gillian	39
36	2000	Maybe Baby	Shiela	54
37	2000	Whispers: An Elephant's Tale	Half Tusk (voice)	55
38	2000	Mirrorball	Jackie Riviera	80
39	2001	The Cat's Meow	Elinor Glyn	58
40	2004	Standing Room Only	Last in line	0
41	2004	EuroTrip	Hostel Clerk	66
42	2004	Ella Enchanted	Dame Olga	65
43	2004	Stories of Lost Souls	Last in Line	56
44	2005	The Magic Roundabout	Ermintrude (voice)	54
45	2005	Corpse Bride	Maudeline Everglot (voice)	76
46	2008	Joanna Lumley in the Land of the Northern Lights	Herself	84
47	2008	Ian Fleming: Where Bond Began	Herself	70
48	2009	Boogie Woogie	Mrs. Alfreda Rhinegold	50
49	2011	Late Bloomers	Charlotte	52
50	2011	Wogan on Wodehouse	Self	0
51	2012	The Genius of Roald Dahl	Herself	0
52	2012	The Making of a Lady	Lady Maria Byrne	61
53	2012	Joanna Lumley: The Search for Noah's Ark	Herself - Presenter	0
54	2013	The Wolf of Wall Street	Aunt Emma	80
55	2013	Gangsta Granny	The Queen	61
56	2014	Joanna Lumley Meets Will.I.Am	Presenter	0
57	2014	50 Years of BBC Two Comedy	Narrator (voice)	80
58	2014	Bette Midler: One Night Only	Self - Host	0
59	2015	Absolutely Anything	Fenella	59
60	2015	She's Funny That Way	Vivian Claremont	60
61	2015	Joanna Lumley: Elvis and Me	Self	0
62	2016	Attenborough at 90	Self	80
63	2016	Me Before You	Mary Rawlinson	79
64	2016	Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie	Patsy Stone	53
65	2016	British Sitcom: 60 Years of Laughing at Ourselves	Comedy Role (archive footage) (uncredited)	57
66	2017	Carnage: Swallowing the Past	Herself (voice)	67
67	2017	Paddington 2	Felicity Fanshaw	75
68	2017	And the Winner Isn't	Self	57
69	2017	Finding Your Feet	Jackie	71
70		The Snowman Live Stage Show	Narrator	0
71	2017	Joanna and Jennifer: Absolutely Champers	Self - Presenter	100
72	2018	20 Years of the Black Eyed Peas	Herself - Host	90
73	2019	7 Up & Me	Narrator (voice)	75
74	2019	Counting Tigers	Narrator (voice)	0
75	2020	In Search of Dracula	Herself	90
76	2020	Coronation Street: 60 Unforgettable Years	Narrator	65
77	2021	The Vicar of Dibley: Inside Out	Self	0
78	2021	The Picture of Dorian Gray	Lady Narborough	30
79	2021	Falling for Figaro	Meghan Geoffrey-Bishop	67
80	2021	Joanna Lumley and the Human Swan	Presenter	0
81	2021	Quentin Blake – The Drawing of My Life	Self	100
82	2023	Joanna Lumley: My Best Bits - In My Own Words	Self	0
83	2023	imagine... French & Saunders: Pointed, Bitchy, Bitter	Self	70
84	2024	My Week with Maisy	Mrs. Foster	0
85	2024	Absolutely Fabulous: Inside Out	Self	0
86	2025	Twiggy	Self	0

Television

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1949	The BAFTA Awards	Host	100
2	1956	Tony Awards	Self - Nominee	46
3	1972	Are You Being Served?	Miss French	72
4	1975	The Cuckoo Waltz	Harriet Paulden	67
5	1976	The New Avengers	Purdey	69
6	1978	An Audience with...	Self	53
7	1979	Sapphire & Steel	Sapphire	74
8	1982	The Kenny Everett Television Show	Various	70
9	1984	Mistral's Daughter	Lally Longbridge	63
10	1984	Oxbridge Blues	Gigi	50
11	1986	Lovejoy	Victoria Cavero	73
12	1987	French & Saunders	Self	75
13	1988	Comic Relief		60
14	1988	Roseanne		68
15	1990	Plunder		0
16	1992	Absolutely Fabulous	Patsy	76
17	1994	Class Act	Kate Swift	0
18	1997	Jonathan Creek	Rosalind Tartikoff	75
19	1997	Joanna Lumley in the Kingdom of the Thunderdragon	Herself	10
20	1999	Dr Willoughby	Donna Sinclair	0
21	2002	Up in Town	Madison Blakelock	70
22	2002	Top Gear	Self	75
23	2003	My Dad's the Prime Minister		55
24	2005	Sensitive Skin	Davina Jackson	70
25	2006	Philip and Elizabeth		0
26	2006	The One Show	Self	46
27	2006	Betjeman and Me		0
28	2006	Jam and Jerusalem	Delilah Stagg	70
29	2007	Lewis	Esme Ford	76
30	2007	The Graham Norton Show	Self	72
31	2007	A Bucket O' French and Saunders		63
32	2008	Mistresses	Vivienne Roden	60
33	2009	Live from Studio Five	Self	33
34	2010	The National Television Awards Backstage Live		0
35	2010	Justin Lee Collins: Good Times	Self	0
36	2015	Britain's Busiest Airport: Heathrow	Narrator (voice)	53
37	2015	Joanna Lumley's Trans-Siberian Adventure	Self - Presenter	40
38	2016	Joanna Lumley's Japan	Herself	57
39	2020	The Wonderful World of Mickey Mouse	Narrator (voice)	74
40	2021	Finding Alice	Sarah	55
41	2021	Joanna Lumley’s Home Sweet Home – Travels in My Own Land		57
42		Starting Out	Mrs Robertson	0
43	1956	Eurovision Song Contest	Self - UK’s Spokesperson	71
44	1961	The Avengers	Purdey	77
45	1962	Steptoe and Son	Bunty	78
46	1982	Champs-Elysées	Self	62
47	1982	Wogan	Self	45
48	1982	Wogan	Self - Presenter	45
49	1984	The Glory Boys	Helen	56
50	1987	Going Live!	Self	60
51	1990	Cluedo	Mrs. Peacock	64
52	1995	The Mrs Merton Show	Self	64
53	1997	The Forgotten Toys	Annie (voice)	0
54	1998	Parkinson	Self	0
55	1998	Coming Home	Diana Carey-Lewis	0
56	1999	Nancherrow		75
57	1999	The Foxbusters	Sims / Evita / Voracity (voice)	0
58	2002	Ant & Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway	Self - Guest Announcer	60
59	2003	Posh Nosh	Narrator (voice)	67
60	2004	Agatha Christie's Marple	Dolly Bantry	76
61	2005	Final Chance to Save	Herself	0
62	2006	Jam and Jerusalem	Delilah	70
63	2009	Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen	Self - Guest	48
64	2011	Joanna Lumley's Greek Odyssey	Herself	57
65	2013	The Great Comic Relief Bake Off	Self - Contestant	0
66	2013	The Last Leg	Self	53
67	2014	The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon	Self	58
68	2014	The Michael McIntyre Chat Show	Self - Guest	40
69	2017	Joanna Lumley's Postcards From My Travels		40
70	2017	Joanna Lumley's India	Herself	40
71	2018	Summer Camp Island	Adult Susie (voice)	73
72	2018	Joanna Lumley's Silk Road Adventure	Self - Presenter	40
73	2019	Celebrity Gogglebox	Self	69
74	2019	RuPaul's Drag Race UK	Self - Guest Judge	72
75	2020	Joanna Lumley's Hidden Caribbean: Havana to Haiti	Herself - Presenter	58
76	2020	Joanna Lumley's Unseen Adventures	Cast	10
77	2020	Michael Palin: Travels of a Lifetime	Self	73
78	2021	Joanna Lumley's Britain	Self - Host	10
79	2021	Rosie Jones' Trip Hazard	Narrator	47
80	2021	Blankety Blank		70
81	2022	Joanna Lumley's Great Cities of the World	Self - Presenter	10
82	2022	Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg	Self	27
83	2023	Late Night Lycett	Self - Guest	50
84	2023	Joanna Lumley's Spice Trail Adventure	Self - Presenter	50
85	2024	Fool Me Once	Judith Burkett	72
86	2025	Jewels of the Med	Narrator	0
87	2025	Jewel of the Med: Majorca and Menorca	Narrator	0
88	2025	Amandaland	Felicity	76