Joanna Lumley

Joanna Lamond Lumley (Srinagar (India), 1 may 1946) is a British actress who is best known for her role as Patsy Stone in Absolutely Fabulous .



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[show]==ContentEdit== [hide] *1 Biography  ==Biography[ Edit] Edit== Lumley started as photo model and made her film debut as a female robot in the James Bond parody Some Girls Do (1969). Then she was a Bond girl in the James Bond film On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969). Her first major role was as Purdey in the television series The New Avengers (1976-1977), a sequel series of the Avengers.Then she had a starring role in the science fiction television series Sapphire & Steel (1979-1982). In the 1980s she played in two Pink Panther "films and a film version of the play Shirley Valentine.
 * 2 Movies
 * 3 Tv
 * Stage 4
 * 5 Books
 * 6 external links

Lumley played the role from 1992 to 2004 by the hedonistic Patsy Stone in Absolutely Fabulous. She also played in A Rather English Marriage (for which she was nominated for a BAFTAbest actress got) and the BBCseries Jam & Jerusalem (2006) and Sensitive Skin (2005-2007). In 1999, she played a female Doctor Who.

Lumley has one of the most recognizable voices of Great Britain. She lent her voice to AOL, for which they include "Welcome to AOL" and "You have mail" also. She also lent her voice to the Tim Burton films James and the Giant Peach (1996) and Corpse Bride (2005). In 2008-2009, a documentary series from the BBC sent Joanna Lumley in the Land of the Northern Lights, in which Lumley returns to NorthernNorway to personally experience the northern lights .

She has also written several books, including two autobiographies, Stare Back and Smile: Memoirs (1989) and No Room for Secrets (2005). The biography Joanna Lumley-The Biography appeared in 1999.

Joanna Lumley has three times won a BAFTA, in 1993 and 1995 for Absolutely Fabulous and in 2000 a special price for The New Avengers. She also won a British Comedy Award in 1993 for Absolutely Fabulous. In addition, she is four times nominated for a BAFTA and a British Comedy Award for once.

In addition to her work as an actress is very active as Lumley animal rights, environmental and human rights activist. She supports the Gurkha Justice Campaign, those equal rights for Gurkha's as for other British military veterans as objective. Further sponsoring the Joanna Lumley Fellowship in Environmental Science at the University of Oxford.

Lumley is appointed officer of the order of the British Empire and fellow of the Royal Geographical Society. On the Chelsea Flower Show in 2007 a fuchsia was named after her. She has a son, Jamie (born in 1967), two granddaughters, Alice (born in 2003) and Emily (born in 2004) and is married to the composer Stephen Barlow since 1985. Lumley lives in London. ==Movies[ Edit] Edit== ==Tv<span class="mw-editsection" style="margin-left:1em;-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] Edit== ==Stage<span class="mw-editsection" style="margin-left:1em;-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] Edit== ==Books<span class="mw-editsection" style="margin-left:1em;-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] Edit==
 * Some Girls Do 1969
 * On Her Majesty's Secret Service 1969
 * The Breaking of Bumbo 1970
 * Games That Lovers Play 1970
 * Tam Lin 1970
 * Don't Just Lie There, Say Something! 1973
 * The Satanic Rites of Dracula 1973
 * Trail of the Pink Panther 1982
 * Curse of the Pink Panther 1983
 * 1988 Shirley Valentine
 * Cold Comfort Farm 1995
 * 1995 Innocent Lies
 * James and the Giant Peach 1996
 * 1997 Prince Valiant
 * Doctor Who and the Curse of Fatal Death "1999
 * Mad Cows 1999
 * Parting Shots 1999
 * Maybe Baby 2000
 * The cat's Meow 2001
 * 2004 Ella Enchanted
 * 2004 Eurotrip
 * The Magic Roundabout 2005
 * Corpse Bride 2005
 * Dolls 2006
 * The Wolf of Wall Street 2013
 * Steptoe & Son 1972
 * Cornation Street 1973
 * Are You Being Served 1973
 * The New Avengers 1976-1977
 * Sapphire & Steel 1979-1982
 * Cluedo 1990
 * Absoultely Fabulous 1992-2004 and 2011-2012
 * Girl Friday 1994
 * Class Act 1994
 * Cold Comfort Farm 1995
 * The Tale of Sweeney Todd 1997
 * Coming Home 1998
 * A Rather English Marriage 1998
 * Dr Willoughby 1999
 * Nancherrow 1999
 * Whispers: An elephant's Tale 2000
 * Up In Town 2002
 * 2004 Top Gear
 * Sensitive Skin 2005
 * Jam and Jerusalem 2006
 * Joanna Lumley in the Land of the Northern Lights 2008-2009
 * Joanna Lumley's Nile 2011
 * Joanna Lumley's Greek Odyssey 2011
 * Mistresses 2011
 * Blithe Spirit
 * Hedda Gabler -Dundee Rep
 * Noel & Gertie -King's Head
 * Private Lives
 * The Letter by Somerset Maughan, Lyric Hammersmith, 1995
 * Jack and the Beanstalk by Roald Dahl, Royal Albert Hall, december 1996
 * The Cherry Orchard -Sheffield Crucible, March 2007
 * Stare Back and Smile: Memoirs (1989)
 * Forces Sweethearts
 * Girl Friday (1994)
 * In the Kingdom of the Thunder Dragon (1997)
 * No Room for Secrets (2005)