Joanna Lumley Biography

The daughter of a high-born British military major, actress Joanna Lumley was a model before entering films with 1968's Some Girls Do. In 1976, she took on the Diana Rigg-like female lead on the British TV action series The New Avengers, costarring Patrick MacNee of the old Avengers. Joanna also costarred in two of Blake Edwards' Pink Panther movies of the '80s. Thoroughly jettisoning her previous cool-glamour image, Joanna Lumley costarred with Jennifer Saunders in the 1993 British TV sitcom Absolutely Fabulous as a pair of boozing, bawdy functionaries in the '90s fashion world (the series was picked up by the American cable network Comedy Central in 1994). So popular was Ms. Lumley's characterization of potty-mouthed, cheap-thrill-seeking Patsy that, shortly after the premiere of Absolutely Fabulous, she was being imitated in TV commercials by comic actor John Cleese! ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi

• 1. Victoria Everglot: Oh, Hildegarde, what if....what if Victor and I don't....like each other?
  2. Maudeline Everglot: Ha! As if that has anything to do with marriage. Do you suppose your father and I "like" each other?
  3. Victoria Everglot: Surely you must, a little....
  4. Maudeline Everglot: Of course not!
  5. Finis Everglot: Of course not!
  6. Maudeline Everglot: Get those corsets laced properly. I can hear you speak without gasping.
  From Tim Burton's Corpse Bride. Submitted by Sarah C (25 days ago)

• 1. Finis Everglot: Marvelous news, Victoria, there'll be a wedding after all.
  2. Victoria Everglot: You found him?
  3. Maudeline Everglot: Make haste, my dear, our relatives will arrive at any moment. We must have you looking presentable for Lord Barkis.
  4. Victoria Everglot: Lord Barkis?
  5. Maudeline Everglot: He will make a fine husband.
  6. Finis Everglot: Aye. A fortuitous turn of events indeed.
  7. Maudeline Everglot: A far better prospect this time.
  8. Victoria Everglot: But I do not love him. You cannot make me do this!
  9. Finis Everglot: We must.
  10. Victoria Everglot: Please, I beg of you! There must be another way!
  11. Finis Everglot: Without your marriage to Lord Barkis, we shall be forced penniless into the street. We are destitute.
  12. Victoria Everglot: But...Victor....
  13. Maudeline Everglot: Victor Van Dort is gone, child.
  14. Finis Everglot: You shall marry Lord Barkis tomorrow. *with Maudeline* According to plan!
  From Tim Burton's Corpse Bride. Submitted by Sarah C (25 days ago)