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.
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
Fool Me Once
imagine... French & Saunders: Pointed, Bitchy, Bitter
Joanna Lumley's Spice Trail Adventure
Joanna Lumley: My Best Bits - In My Own Words
Late Night Lycett
Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg
Joanna Lumley's Great Cities of the World
Quentin Blake – The Drawing of My Life
Joanna Lumley and the Human Swan
Blankety Blank
Falling for Figaro
Rosie Jones' Trip Hazard
The Picture of Dorian Gray
The Vicar of Dibley: Inside Out
Joanna Lumley's Britain
Finding Alice
The Wonderful World of Mickey Mouse
Michael Palin: Travels of a Lifetime
Joanna Lumley's Unseen Adventures
Joanna Lumley's Hidden Caribbean: Havana to Haiti
In Search of Dracula
RuPaul's Drag Race UK
Counting Tigers
Celebrity Gogglebox
7 Up & Me
20 Years of the Black Eyed Peas
Joanna Lumley's Silk Road Adventure
Summer Camp Island
Finding Your Feet
Joanna and Jennifer: Absolutely Champers
And the Winner Isn't
Paddington 2
Joanna Lumley's India
Joanna Lumley's Postcards From My Travels
Carnage: Swallowing the Past
British Sitcom: 60 Years of Laughing at Ourselves
Joanna Lumley's Japan
Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie
Me Before You
Attenborough at 90
Joanna Lumley: Elvis and Me
Joanna Lumley's Trans-Siberian Adventure
Absolutely Anything
Britain's Busiest Airport: Heathrow
She's Funny That Way
50 Years of BBC Two Comedy
Joanna Lumley Meets Will.I.Am
The Michael McIntyre Chat Show
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
Gangsta Granny
The Wolf of Wall Street
The Last Leg
The Great Comic Relief Bake Off
Joanna Lumley: The Search for Noah's Ark
The Making of a Lady
The Genius of Roald Dahl
Joanna Lumley's Greek Odyssey
Wogan on Wodehouse
Late Bloomers
Justin Lee Collins: Good Times
Live from Studio Five
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
Boogie Woogie
Ian Fleming: Where Bond Began
Joanna Lumley in the Land of the Northern Lights
Mistresses
A Bucket O' French and Saunders
The Graham Norton Show
Lewis
Jam & Jerusalem
Sensitive Skin
Corpse Bride
Final Chance to Save
The Magic Roundabout
Agatha Christie's Marple
Stories of Lost Souls
Ella Enchanted
EuroTrip
My Dad's the Prime Minister
Posh Nosh
Top Gear
Ant & Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway
Up in Town
The Cat's Meow
The Cazalets
Mirrorball
Whispers: An Elephant's Tale
Maybe Baby
Dr Willoughby
Mad Cows
The Foxbusters
Parting Shots
Nancherrow
Doctor Who: The Curse of Fatal Death
Alice in Wonderland
Nancherrow
A Rather English Marriage
Absolutely Fabulous: A Life
The Tale of Sweeney Todd
Coming Home
Coming Home
Joanna Lumley in the Kingdom of the Thunderdragon
Prince Valiant
Jonathan Creek
The Forgotten Toys
Absolutely Fabulous: The Last Shout
James and the Giant Peach
Innocent Lies
The Mrs Merton Show
How to Be Absolutely Fabulous
The Forgotten Toys
Girl Friday
Class Act
Absolutely Fabulous
Cluedo
A Ghost in Monte Carlo
Shirley Valentine
Roseanne
Going Live!
French & Saunders
Lovejoy
Oxbridge Blues
The Glory Boys
Mistral's Daughter
Electric Blue Special: Nude Celebrity Special
The Weather in the Streets
Curse of the Pink Panther
Trail of the Pink Panther
Wogan
Electric Blue - The Movie
The Kenny Everett Television Show
Champs-Elysées
An Audience with Dame Edna Everage
Electric Blue 002
The Plank
Sapphire & Steel
An Audience with...
The New Avengers
The Cuckoo Waltz
The Satanic Rites of Dracula
Don't Just Lie There, Say Something!
Are You Being Served?
The House That Dripped Blood
Games That Lovers Play
Tam Lin
The Breaking of Bumbo
On Her Majesty's Secret Service
Some Girls Do
Steptoe and Son
Comedy Playhouse
The Avengers
Eurovision Song Contest
Tony Awards
The BAFTA Awards