
Acting
April 30, 1946 (79 years old)
Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir, British India
Also Known As
Joanna Lamond Lumley, OBE, FRGS
조안나 럼리
Dame Joanna Lamond Lumley
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.

A Ghost Story for Christmas: The Room in the Tower
2025
as Mrs Stone

Netflix Tudum 2025
2025
as Self

Joanna Lumley's Danube
2025
as Self - Host

Twiggy
2025
as Self

Amandaland
2025
as Felicity

Jewel of the Med: Majorca and Menorca
2025
as Self - Narrator (voice)

Jewels of the Med
2025
as Self - Narrator (voice)

Absolutely Fabulous: Inside Out
2024
as Self

My Week with Maisy
2024
as Mrs. Foster

Fool Me Once
2024
as Judith Burkett

imagine... French & Saunders: Pointed, Bitchy, Bitter
2023
as Self

Joanna Lumley's Spice Trail Adventure
2023
as Self - Presenter

Joanna Lumley: My Best Bits - In My Own Words
2023
as Self

Late Night Lycett
2023
as Self - Guest

Wednesday
2022
as Grandmama Hester Frump

Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg
2022
as Self

Joanna Lumley's Great Cities of the World
2022
as Self - Presenter

Quentin Blake – The Drawing of My Life
2021
as Self

Joanna Lumley and the Human Swan
2021
as Presenter

Blankety Blank
2021