Joanna Lumley

Joanna Lumley

CountryIndia India
GenderFemale
BirthdayMay 1, 1946
BiographyDame Joanna Lamond Lumley (born 1 May 1946) is an Indian-born British actress, presenter, author, television producer, activist and former model. 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). She also as played Elaine Perkins in Coronation Street in 1973. Her film appearances include On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969), Trail of the Pink Panther (1982), Curse of the Pink Panther (1983), 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.

Biography from the Wikipedia article Joanna Lumley. Licensed under CC-BY-SA. Full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Known For

Amandaland
Running
BBC Children in Need
Running
Jewels of the Mediterranean
Running
Joanna Lumley's Home Sweet Home: Travels in My Own Land
Running
Joanna Lumley's Spice Trail Adventure
Running
Rosie Jones' Trip Hazard
Running
The British Academy Film Awards
Running
Wednesday
Running
Joanna Lumley's Danube
To Be Determined
Absolutely Fabulous
Ended
Britain's Busiest Airport - Heathrow
Ended
Call My Bluff
Ended
Class Act
Ended
Cluedo
Ended
Doctor Who and the Curse of Fatal Death
Ended
Dr. Willoughby
Ended
Finding Alice
Ended
Gangsta Granny
Ended
Harlan Coben's Fool Me Once
Ended
Jam and Jerusalem
Ended
Joanna Lumley's Great Cities of the World
Ended
Joanna Lumley's Greek Odyssey
Ended
Joanna Lumley's Hidden Caribbean: Havana to Haiti
Ended
Joanna Lumley's India
Ended
Joanna Lumley's Japan
Ended
Joanna Lumley's Nile
Ended
Joanna Lumley's Postcards
Ended
Joanna Lumley's Silk Road Adventure
Ended
Joanna Lumley's Trans-Siberian Adventure
Ended
Joanna Lumley's Unseen Adventures
Ended
Joanna Lumley: Catwoman
Ended
Mistral's Daughter
Ended
Posh Nosh
Ended
Sapphire and Steel
Ended
Sensitive Skin
Ended
Summer Camp Island
Ended
The Foxbusters
Ended
The Glory Boys
Ended
The New Avengers
Ended

Recently Updated Shows

Recently updated shows that might be of your interest.
Invasion
Running

Invasion

Earth is visited by an alien species that threatens humanity's existence. Events unfold in real time through the eyes of five ordinary people across the globe as they struggle to make sense of the chaos unraveling around them.

Skywatch
Upcoming

Skywatch

Skywatch tells the story of an outcast teen, who hacks into a ubiquitous drone delivery system to pull a prank on his school bully, he accidentally crashes a dangerous prototype – and finds himself entangled in a life-and-death conspiracy. Based on the short film by the same name.

Alien: Earth
Upcoming

Alien: Earth

When a mysterious space vessel crash-lands on Earth, a young woman and a ragtag group of tactical soldiers make a fateful discovery that puts them face-to-face with the planet's greatest threat. As members of the crash recovery crew search for survivors among the wreckage of a mysterious crashed space vessel, they encounter mysterious predatory life forms more terrifying than they could have ever imagined. With this new threat unlocked, the search crew must fight for survival and what they choose to do with this discovery could change planet Earth as they know it.

Signs of a Psychopath
Running

Signs of a Psychopath

For every sadistic psychopath...there were signs. Charm. Narcissism. Lack of empathy. Impulsiveness. Manipulation. Deception. These traits and others are the telltale Signs of a Psychopath. This harrowing half-hour archive series revisits some of the most brutal killers in modern history, reviewing news footage and the words of the killers themselves to see which terrifying traits each killer exhibited. What are the signs...of evil?

GenreCrime
Jeopardy!
Running

Jeopardy!

Jeopardy! is a classic game show -- with a twist. The answers are given first, and the contestants supply the questions. Three contestants, including the previous show's champion, compete in six categories and in three rounds (with each round's "answers" being worth more prize money).