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Joanna Lumley
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…
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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.
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2026
Frank and Percy
Movie
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2025
A Ghost Story for Christmas: The Room in the Tower
Movie Mrs Stone
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2025
Netflix Tudum 2025
Movie Self
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2025
Joanna Lumley's Danube
TV show Self - Host
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2025
Twiggy
Movie Self
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2025
David Frost Vs
TV show self
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2025
Amandaland
TV show Felicity
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2025
The House of Clemens
Movie Self
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2025
Jewel of the Med: Majorca and Menorca
TV show Self - Narrator (voice)
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2025
Jewels of the Med
TV show Self - Narrator (voice)
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2024
Absolutely Fabulous: Inside Out
Movie Self / Patricia "Patsy" Stone
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2024
My Week with Maisy
Movie Mrs. Foster
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2024
Fool Me Once
TV show Judith Burkett
- 2023
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2023
Joanna Lumley's Spice Trail Adventure
TV show Self - Presenter
- 2023
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2023
Late Night Lycett
TV show Self - Guest
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2022
Spike Milligan: The Unseen Archive
Movie Self - Friend
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2022
Wednesday
TV show Grandmama Hester Frump
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2022
Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg
TV show Self
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2022
Joanna Lumley's Great Cities of the World
TV show Self - Presenter
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2021
Quentin Blake – The Drawing of My Life
Movie Self
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2021
Joanna Lumley and the Human Swan
Movie Presenter
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2021
Blankety Blank
TV show
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2021
Falling for Figaro
Movie Meghan Geoffrey-Bishop
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2021
Rosie Jones' Trip Hazard
TV show Narrator
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2021
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Movie Lady Narborough
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2021
The Vicar of Dibley: Inside Out
Movie Self
- 2021
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2021
Joanna Lumley's Britain
TV show Self - Host
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2021
Finding Alice
TV show Sarah Dillon
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2020
Coronation Street: 60 Unforgettable Years
Movie Narrator
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2020
The Wonderful World of Mickey Mouse
TV show Narrator (voice)
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2020
Michael Palin: Travels of a Lifetime
TV show Self
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2020
Joanna Lumley's Unseen Adventures
TV show Cast
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2020
Joanna Lumley's Hidden Caribbean: Havana to Haiti
TV show Herself - Presenter
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2020
In Search of Dracula
Movie Herself
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2019
RuPaul's Drag Race UK
TV show Self - Guest Judge
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2019
Counting Tigers
Movie Narrator (voice)
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2019
Celebrity Gogglebox
TV show Self
