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Joanna Lumley

Joanna Lumley was born on 1 May, 1946 in Kashmir, India, to British parents, Thya Beatrice Rose (Weir) and James Rutherford Lumley. Her father was a major in the Gurkha Rifles, and she spent most of her early childhood in the Far East where her father was posted. An aspiring actress, she first came to fame as a model in London's swinging 1960s, where she was photographed by the greats, including her friend, the late Patrick Lichfield. She was designer Jean Muir's muse and house model for seve

English

Corpse Bride

2005
as Maudeline Everglot (voice)

Me Before You

2016
as Mary Rawlinson

Ella Enchanted

2004
as Dame Olga

EuroTrip

2004
as Hostel Clerk

Fool Me Once

2024
as Judith Burkett

Paddington 2

2017
as Felicity Fanshaw

Parting Shots

1999
as Freda

The Abominable Dr. Phibes

1971
as Laboratory Assistant (Scenes deleted)

Alice in Wonderland

1999
as the voice of the Tiger Lily (voice)

Cold Comfort Farm

1995
as Mary Smiling

Curse of the Pink Panther

1983
as Countess Chandra

Some Girls Do

1969
as Robot

7 Up & Me

2019
as Narrator

Maybe Baby

2000
as Shiela

Whispers: An Elephant's Tale

2000
as Half Tusk (voice)

Stories of Lost Souls

2004
as Last in Line

Andorra

as Mrs. Quay

A Perfect Hero

1991
as Loretta Stone

A Ghost in Monte Carlo

1990
as Lady Drayton

Joanna Lumley's Silk Road Adventure

2018
as Presenter - Herself

Jam and Jerusalem

2006
as Delilah Stagg

Carnage: Swallowing the Past

2017
as Herself (voice)

Nancherrow

1999
as Diana Carey-Lewis

Sensitive Skin

2005
as Davina Jackson

Late Bloomers

2011
as Charlotte

Class Act

1994
as Kate Swift

Innocent Lies

1995
as Lady Helena Graves

The Forgotten Toys

1995
as Annie (voice)

The Magic Roundabout

2005
as Ermintrude

Prince Valiant

1997
as Morgan Le Fey

Finding Alice

2021
as Sarah

Absolutely Fabulous

1992
as Patsy Stone

Cluedo

1990
as Mrs. Elizabeth Peacock (Season 4)

Sapphire and Steel

1979
as Sapphire

Posh Nosh

2003
as Narrator

Mad Cows

1999
as Gillian

Boogie Woogie

2009
as Mrs. Alfreda Rhinegold

The Satanic Rites of Dracula

1973
as Jessica Van Helsing

She's Funny That Way

2014
as Vivian Claremont

Shirley Valentine

1989
as Marjorie Majors

The Making of a Lady

2012
as Lady Maria Byrne

Falling for Figaro

2020
as Meghan Geoffrey-Bishop

Gangsta Granny

2013
as The Queen

The Cat's Meow

2001
as Elinor Glyn

Guest Star

Episode French & Saunders
The Making of The Filming of The Making of Titanic (1998 Christmas Special)
1998
Episode The Bigger Picture with Graham Norton
Dustin Hoffman, Andrew Lloyd Webber, and Joanna Lumley
2006
Episode Doctor Who
Doctor Who and the Curse of Fatal Death (4)
1999
Episode The Graham Norton Show
Episode 11
2010
Episode The ONE Show
Joanna Lumley
2017
Episode Michael Palin: Travels of a Lifetime
Around the World in 80 Days (1989)
2020
Episode Late Night Lycett
Episode 1
2023
Episode The Last Leg
Episode 3
2015
Episode The Sunday Night Project
The Best Of The Sunday Night Project
2009
Episode The Coronation of TM The King and Queen Camilla
The Preparation
2023
Episode Al Murray's Happy Hour
Joanna Lumley, Jesse Metcalfe & Rachel Stevens
2008
Episode Top Gear
Episode 3
2004
Episode The Project (2009)
Monday 01 Aug
2016
Episode The Graham Norton Show
Episode 16
2007
Episode One Night Only
Bette Midler
2014
Episode RuPaul's Drag Race UK
ST4RT Your Engines
2022
Episode Ant & Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway
Episode 4
2020
Episode Lewis
Counter Culture Blues
2009
Episode Jonathan Creek
The Clue of the Savant's Thumb
2013
Episode BBC Documentaries
Joanna Lumley Meets will.i.am
2014
Episode Parkinson
Bobby Charlton, Joanna Lumley, Richard Attenborough, Peter Cincotti
2007
Episode The Kenny Everett Television Show
Show 3
1985
Episode Comic Relief
Doctor Who - The Curse of Fatal Death
1999
Episode Parkinson
Ricky Gervais, Joanna Lumley, Kevin Kline, Beverley Knight
2004
Episode The Jonathan Ross Show
Cate Blanchett, Jack Black, Ashley Banjo, Ray Winstone, Paul Whitehouse, Joanna Lumley, John Legend
2018
Episode Steptoe and Son
Loathe Story
1972
Episode The Last Leg
Episode 6
2023
Episode Are You Being Served?
German Week
1975
Episode RHS Chelsea Flower Show
Episode 4
2017
Episode Agatha Christie's Marple
The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side
2011
Episode Love Your Garden
Canterbury
2016
Episode The Graham Norton Show
Episode 14
2016
Episode BBC Documentaries
Ian Fleming - Where Bond Began
2008
Episode Downton Abbey
Downton Abbey Text Santa Special
2014
Episode Shakespeare Solos
Twelfth Night (Joanna Lumley)
2016
Episode The Last Leg
Episode 1
2017
Episode The Jonathan Ross Show
Usain Bolt, Joanna Lumley, Jamie Dornan, Shalom Brune-Franklin, Holly Willoughby, Damon Albarn
2021
Episode The Last Leg
Episode 2
2019
Episode Bodyguard (2018)
Comic Relief 2019 - Red Nose Bodyguard
2019
Episode Alan Carr: Chatty Man
Ant and Dec, Joanna Lumley, Rylan Clark, The Vaccines
2013
Series Absolutely Fabulous 1992
Episode The Morecambe & Wise Show
Episode 7
1981
Episode ITV Documentaries
Counting Tigers: A Survival Special
2019
Episode The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
Chris Pine, Joanna Lumley, Troye Sivan
2016
Episode The Last Leg
Episode 8
2021
Episode The ONE Show
Joanna Lumley, Sarah Millican, Dan Snow
2017
Episode Roseanne
Satan, Darling
1996
Episode The Cuckoo Waltz
The Babysitter
1976
Episode Walliams & Friend
Joanna Lumley (Pilot)
2015
Episode Agatha Christie's Marple
The Body in the Library
2004