Joanna Lumley
Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Known Credits
181
Gender
Female
Birthday
1946-05-01 (79 years old)
Place of Birth
Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir, British India
Joanna Lumley
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
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
Wednesday
Agatha Christie's Marple
The Graham Norton Show
The One Show
Top Gear
Summer Camp Island
Wogan
Wogan
The Wolf of Wall Street
Me Before You
Champs-Elysées
The Avengers
Eurovision Song Contest
Parkinson
Lewis
Corpse Bride
Absolutely Fabulous
The Last Leg
Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg
Fool Me Once
Nancherrow
RuPaul's Drag Race UK
An Audience with...
Going Live!
Ant & Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway
EuroTrip
The Forgotten Toys
Parting Shots
Coming Home
Games That Lovers Play
On Her Majesty's Secret Service
Are You Being Served?
Bette Midler: One Night Only
The Cat's Meow
Lovejoy
Mirrorball
The New Avengers
Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie
Paddington 2
Twiggy
Standing Room Only
The Great Comic Relief Bake Off
The BAFTA Awards
Curse of the Pink Panther
Celebrity Gogglebox
Boogie Woogie
Electric Blue - The Movie
The Wonderful World of Mickey Mouse
Ella Enchanted
A Ghost Story for Christmas
Mistral's Daughter
Justin Lee Collins: Good Times
Michael Palin: Travels of a Lifetime
Alice in Wonderland
Attenborough at 90
Jam and Jerusalem
James and the Giant Peach
Innocent Lies
Gangsta Granny
Mad Cows
7 Up & Me
The Weather in the Streets
My Dad's the Prime Minister
Mistresses
Blankety Blank
Roseanne
The Foxbusters
Children In Need
Some Girls Do
The Magic Roundabout
Cluedo
Absolutely Anything
The Kenny Everett Television Show
Joanna Lumley's Silk Road Adventure
The Mrs Merton Show
Trail of the Pink Panther
Plunder
She's Funny That Way
Joanna Lumley's Great Cities of the World
Absolutely Fabulous: The Last Shout
Oxbridge Blues
Steptoe and Son
Joanna Lumley's Spice Trail Adventure
Amandaland
A Ghost Story for Christmas
Quentin Blake – The Drawing of My Life
Sapphire & Steel
Comic Relief
Joanna Lumley's Hidden Caribbean: Havana to Haiti
Joanna Lumley's Japan
The Michael McIntyre Chat Show
A Bucket O' French and Saunders
Finding Alice
Netflix Tudum 2025
Joanna Lumley in the Kingdom of the Thunderdragon
Sensitive Skin
Nancherrow
Shirley Valentine
Britain's Busiest Airport: Heathrow
Cold Comfort Farm
The House That Dripped Blood
Frank and Percy
Joanna Lumley's Britain
Jewels of the Med
Joanna Lumley's Postcards
Live from Studio Five
Prince Valiant
Maybe Baby
Joanna Lumley's India
Jewel of the Med: Majorca and Menorca
Coming Home
Joanna Lumley's Danube
The Satanic Rites of Dracula
Joanna Lumley's Trans-Siberian Adventure
Finding Your Feet
Joanna Lumley's Unseen Adventures
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Rosie Jones' Trip Hazard
Late Night Lycett
Posh Nosh
The Ballad of Tam Lin
Doctor Who: The Curse of Fatal Death
Class Act
Stories of Lost Souls
Philip and Elizabeth
The Glory Boys
Joanna Lumley’s Home Sweet Home – Travels in My Own Land
And the Winner Isn't
Whispers: An Elephant's Tale
The Cuckoo Waltz
The National Television Awards Backstage Live
Falling for Figaro
Final Chance to Save
The Forgotten Toys
Joanna Lumley's Greek Odyssey
Betjeman and Me
The Vicar of Dibley: Inside Out
A Ghost in Monte Carlo
The Friday Night Project
British Sitcom: 60 Years of Laughing at Ourselves
Carnage: Swallowing the Past
Don't Just Lie There, Say Something!
The Plank
The Tale of Sweeney Todd
Late Bloomers
Up in Town
Wogan on Wodehouse
Joanna and Jennifer: Absolutely Champers
How to Be Absolutely Fabulous
A Rather English Marriage
A Ghost Story for Christmas: The Room in the Tower
An Audience with Dame Edna Everage
imagine... French & Saunders: Pointed, Bitchy, Bitter
The Making of a Lady
Dr Willoughby
Absolutely Fabulous: Inside Out
The Genius of Roald Dahl
My Favourite Attenborough Moment
50 Years of BBC Two Comedy
In the Best Possible Taste: A Tribute to Kenny Everett
Joanna Lumley in the Land of the Northern Lights
Girl Friday
Ian Fleming: Where Bond Began
Joanna Lumley: Elvis and Me
Absolutely Fabulous: A Life
Coronation Street: 60 Unforgettable Years
The Man You're Not
My Week with Maisy
The Breaking of Bumbo
20 Years of the Black Eyed Peas
Counting Tigers
The Snowman Live Stage Show
The Brave Little Squire
In Search of Dracula
Joanna Lumley: The Search for Noah's Ark
Joanna Lumley and the Human Swan
Joanna Lumley Meets Will.I.Am
Joanna Lumley: My Best Bits - In My Own Words
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