
Joanna Lumley
Acting
🎂 1946-05-01
Dame Joanna Lamond Lumley DBE FRGS 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.
Cast credits(176)

Grandmama Hester Frump
2022

Self
2014

Self
2007

Self - Guest
2009

Self
2002

Self
2006

Dolly Bantry
2004

Self - Nominee
1956

Purdey
1961

Self
1982

Self - Presenter
1982

Aunt Emma
2013

Maudeline Everglot (voice)
2005

Mary Rawlinson
2016

Self
2013

Self
1982

Esme Ford
2007

Adult Susie (voice)
2018

Self
1978

Self - UK’s Spokesperson
1956

Self
1998

Self
2022

Hostel Clerk
2004

Felicity Fanshaw
2017

Patsy
1992

Self - Guest Announcer
2002

Judith Burkett
2024

Self - Contestant
2013

Self
2025

Self - Guest Judge
2019

Dame Olga
2004

The English Girl
1969

Self
1987

Narrator (voice)
2020

Host
1949

Victoria Cavero
1986

Self
2019

Miss French
1972

Purdey
1976

Ermintrude (voice)
2004

Aunt Spiker
1996

Vivienne Roden
2008

Patsy Stone
1988

2021

Fenella
2015

Half Tusk (voice)
2000

Mrs. Peacock
1990

Tiger Lily (voice)
1999

Sapphire
1979

Marie Jouvet
1982

1971

Susie
1970

Various
1982

Morgan Le Fey
1997

Jackie
2017

Countess Chandra
1983

Vivian Claremont
2015

Lally Longbridge
1984

Mrs. Alfreda Rhinegold
2009

Delilah Stagg
2006

Narrator
2020

Last in Line
2004
1990

Bunty
1962

Jessica Van Helsing
1973

Last in line
2004

Lady Helena Graves
1995

Sarah
2021
1988

Sketch Performer (Archive Footage)
1995

Patsy Stone
2016

Sims / Evita / Voracity (voice)
1999

Self
1995

Lady Drayton
1990

Lady Maria Byrne
2012

Comedy Role (archive footage) (uncredited)
2016

Elinor Glyn
2001

Self
2010

Shiela
2000

Herself - Host
2018

Gillian
1999

Narrator (voice)
2014

Marjorie Majors
1989

1999

Diana Carey-Lewis
1998

Annie (voice)
1995

Harriet Paulden
1975

Kate Swift
1994

Narrator (voice)
2015

Self
2023

Meghan Geoffrey-Bishop
2021

Robot Saboteur (uncredited)
1969

Georgia
1970

Self
2017

The Queen
2013

Gigi
1984

Self
2024

Herself (voice)
2017

Herself - Presenter
2020

Mrs. Lovett
1998

Self - Host
2025

Freda
1999

Self - Presenter
2022

Felicity
2025

Self - Presenter
2023

Self - Guest
2023

Self - Guest
2014

Diana Carey-Lewis
1998

Self
2016

Diana Carey-Lewis
1999

1980

Davina Jackson
2005

Self
2025

Annie (voice)
1997

1984

Narrator
2021

Self
2021

2003

Patsy Stone (archive footage)
1995

Narrator (voice)
2019

Kate
1983

Helen
1984

Self - Presenter
2015

Liz Franks
1998

Self - Presenter
2017

Self - Host
2021

Herself
2016

2007

Self - Presenter
2018

Donna Sinclair
1999

Narrator (voice)
2003

2021

Self
2020

Herself
2005
2010

The Female Doctor
1999

Cast
2020

Patsy Stone
1996

Charlotte
2011

(archive footage)
1982

Fanny Hill
1971

Self - Narrator (voice)
2025

Lady Narborough
2021

Herself
1997

Mary Smiling
1995

Miss Parkyn
1973

Self - Narrator (voice)
2025

Herself
2017

Jackie Riviera
2000

Joanna Lumley
2017

Self
2009

Madison Blakelock
2002

Hitcher
1979
2006

Presenter
2014

Herself
2011

2017
2006

Self
2021
Self - Host
2014

Herself
2008

Self
2011

Mrs. Foster
2024

Herself
2020

Narrator
2010

Presenter
1994

Herself
2012

Presenter
2021

Patsy Stone (archive footage)
1998

Self
2015

Self - Host
2005

Herself
2008

Narrator (voice)
2019

Self
2023

Herself - Presenter
2012

(archive footage)
1980