Joanna Lumley
Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Known Credits
180
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
Wednesday
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
The Graham Norton Show
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
Top Gear
Mistresses
The Wolf of Wall Street
The One Show
Agatha Christie's Marple
Me Before You
Wogan
Wogan
Tony Awards
The Avengers
Corpse Bride
Lewis
Summer Camp Island
Champs-Elysées
The Last Leg
Eurovision Song Contest
Parkinson
Absolutely Fabulous
On Her Majesty's Secret Service
Paddington 2
An Audience with...
Fool Me Once
Ant & Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway
EuroTrip
The Wonderful World of Mickey Mouse
RuPaul's Drag Race UK
Are You Being Served?
Going Live!
Ella Enchanted
Lovejoy
Prince Valiant
Twiggy
The New Avengers
Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg
Boogie Woogie
James and the Giant Peach
Coming Home
Mirrorball
The Magic Roundabout
The BAFTA Awards
The Plank
Shirley Valentine
Netflix Tudum 2025
Celebrity Gogglebox
Innocent Lies
Alice in Wonderland
Absolutely Anything
Mistral's Daughter
A Ghost Story for Christmas
Nancherrow
Mad Cows
Cluedo
Roseanne
Curse of the Pink Panther
Doctor Who: The Curse of Fatal Death
The House That Dripped Blood
Maybe Baby
Steptoe and Son
The Cat's Meow
Finding Your Feet
The Mrs Merton Show
The Kenny Everett Television Show
Cold Comfort Farm
The Satanic Rites of Dracula
Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie
Blankety Blank
Children In Need
Parting Shots
She's Funny That Way
The Forgotten Toys
Trail of the Pink Panther
Falling for Figaro
And the Winner Isn't
50 Years of BBC Two Comedy
My Week with Maisy
Jam and Jerusalem
Sapphire & Steel
Late Bloomers
Stories of Lost Souls
Whispers: An Elephant's Tale
Gangsta Granny
Electric Blue - The Movie
The Weather in the Streets
A Ghost in Monte Carlo
Class Act
imagine... French & Saunders: Pointed, Bitchy, Bitter
Absolutely Fabulous: The Last Shout
7 Up & Me
The Tale of Sweeney Todd
The Ballad of Tam Lin
Amandaland
The Vicar of Dibley: Inside Out
In the Best Possible Taste: A Tribute to Kenny Everett
Attenborough at 90
A Ghost Story for Christmas: The Room in the Tower
Frank and Percy
Carnage: Swallowing the Past
An Audience with Dame Edna Everage
Standing Room Only
Finding Alice
Britain's Busiest Airport: Heathrow
The Great Comic Relief Bake Off
Justin Lee Collins: Good Times
Sensitive Skin
A Rather English Marriage
Games That Lovers Play
Absolutely Fabulous: Inside Out
The Cuckoo Waltz
Coronation Street: 60 Unforgettable Years
Oxbridge Blues
Comic Relief
Plunder
Some Girls Do
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Quentin Blake – The Drawing of My Life
How to Be Absolutely Fabulous
The Foxbusters
My Dad's the Prime Minister
Absolutely Fabulous: A Life
The Forgotten Toys
The Michael McIntyre Chat Show
Late Night Lycett
Coming Home
Joanna Lumley's Japan
Bette Midler: One Night Only
Final Chance to Save
Nancherrow
Live from Studio Five
Joanna Lumley's Silk Road Adventure
Michael Palin: Travels of a Lifetime
20 Years of the Black Eyed Peas
The Snowman Live Stage Show
Dr Willoughby
A Bucket O' French and Saunders
The Man You're Not
The National Television Awards Backstage Live
Joanna Lumley's Trans-Siberian Adventure
The Glory Boys
Rosie Jones' Trip Hazard
Joanna Lumley's Britain
Joanna Lumley's India
Up in Town
Joanna Lumley's Unseen Adventures
Joanna Lumley's Spice Trail Adventure
Joanna Lumley's Hidden Caribbean: Havana to Haiti
Joanna Lumley's Great Cities of the World
Posh Nosh
Betjeman and Me
The Making of a Lady
Wogan on Wodehouse
My Favourite Attenborough Moment
The Breaking of Bumbo
Jewel of the Med: Majorca and Menorca
Joanna Lumley in the Land of the Northern Lights
Joanna Lumley in the Kingdom of the Thunderdragon
Joanna Lumley's Greek Odyssey
Philip and Elizabeth
Joanna Lumley's Postcards
Joanna Lumley's Danube
In Search of Dracula
Joanna Lumley’s Home Sweet Home – Travels in My Own Land
Joanna Lumley: The Search for Noah's Ark
Joanna and Jennifer: Absolutely Champers
The Friday Night Project
Joanna Lumley Meets Will.I.Am
Don't Just Lie There, Say Something!
Joanna Lumley and the Human Swan
British Sitcom: 60 Years of Laughing at Ourselves
Jewels of the Med
Ian Fleming: Where Bond Began
Joanna Lumley: Elvis and Me
Girl Friday
The Genius of Roald Dahl
Counting Tigers
Joanna Lumley: My Best Bits - In My Own Words
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