
Joanna Lumley
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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.
Known For

The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon

Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen

Eurovision Song Contest

The Graham Norton Show

Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg

Tony Awards

Summer Camp Island

Agatha Christie's Marple

Going Live!

Ant & Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway

Roseanne

The One Show

Wogan

The Kenny Everett Television Show

RuPaul's Drag Race UK

Parkinson

Blankety Blank

Top Gear

French & Saunders

Lovejoy

The Great Comic Relief Bake Off

The Michael McIntyre Chat Show

The Wonderful World of Mickey Mouse

Comic Relief

Steptoe and Son

My Dad's the Prime Minister

A Bucket O' French and Saunders

EuroTrip

On Her Majesty's Secret Service

Paddington 2

Attenborough at 90

Me Before You

In the Best Possible Taste: A Tribute to Kenny Everett

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

The Wolf of Wall Street

Mistral's Daughter

Doctor Who: The Curse of Fatal Death

Celebrity Gogglebox

Cold Comfort Farm

Gangsta Granny

Corpse Bride

Twiggy

Carnage: Swallowing the Past

Absolutely Anything

Shirley Valentine

Ella Enchanted

Fool Me Once

Absolutely Fabulous: A Life

James and the Giant Peach

The New Avengers

Quentin Blake – The Drawing of My Life

Whispers: An Elephant's Tale

Absolutely Fabulous

How to Be Absolutely Fabulous

Mirrorball

Amandaland

Girl Friday

50 Years of BBC Two Comedy

Joanna and Jennifer: Absolutely Champers

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