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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

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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