Joanna Lumley
Highest Rated: 91% James and the Giant Peach (1996)
Lowest Rated: 8% Doogal (2006)
Birthday: May 1, 1946
Birthplace: Srinagar, Kashmir, India
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!On the big screen she appeared in Cold Comfort Farm, James and the Giant Peach, and The Cat's Meow before returning to her signature role as Patsy Stone for another run of Absolutely Fabulous in 2001. After that she could be seen in Eurotrip, and provided voiceover work in both Doogal and Tim Burton's Corpse Bride. She starred in the series Clatterford, and had a prominent part in the 2011 project Late Bloomers.
Highest Rated Movies
Filmography
Movies
| Credit | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 68% | Finding Your Feet | Jackie | — | 2018 |
| 18% | Absolutely Anything | Fenella | $0.7M | 2017 |
| No Score Yet | Andorra | Mrs. Quay | — | 2017 |
| 58% | Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie | Patsy Stone | $4.8M | 2016 |
| 56% | Me Before You | Mary Rawlinson | $56.3M | 2016 |
| 44% | She's Funny That Way | Vivian Claremont | — | 2015 |
| No Score Yet | The Making Of A Lady | Lady Maria Byrne | — | 2014 |
| 79% | The Wolf of Wall Street | Aunt Emma | $91.4M | 2013 |
| 40% | Late Bloomers | Charlotte | — | 2012 |
| No Score Yet | The Man Who Shot The 60s | Actor | — | 2012 |
| 33% | Boogie Woogie | Alfreda Rhinegold | — | 2010 |
| 25% | Animals United (Konferenz der Tiere) | Actor | $0.6M | 2010 |
| No Score Yet | Girl Friday | Actor | — | 2007 |
| 8% | Doogal | Ermintrude (UK) | $7.4M | 2006 |
| 84% | Tim Burton's Corpse Bride | Maudeline Everglot | $53.4M | 2005 |
| 60% | The Magic Roundabout (Doogal) | Actor | — | 2005 |
| 50% | Ella Enchanted | Dame Olga | $22.9M | 2004 |
| 47% | Eurotrip | Hostel Clerk | $17.8M | 2003 |
| 75% | The Cat's Meow | Elinor Glyn | $3.2M | 2001 |
| 50% | Maybe Baby | Sheila | — | 2000 |
| No Score Yet | Whispers: An Elephant's Tale | Half Tusk | — | 2000 |
| No Score Yet | Mad Cows | Gillian | — | 1999 |
| No Score Yet | Parting Shots | Fred | — | 1999 |
| No Score Yet | Nancherrow | Actor | — | 1999 |
| No Score Yet | Comic Relief: Doctor Who and the Curse of Fatal Death | Actor | — | 1999 |
| No Score Yet | The Tale of Sweeney Todd | Mrs. Lovett | — | 1998 |
| No Score Yet | Coming Home | Actor | — | 1998 |
| No Score Yet | A Rather English Marriage | Lizzie Franks | — | 1998 |
| No Score Yet | Prince Valiant | Morgan Le Fey | — | 1997 |
| 83% | Cold Comfort Farm | Mrs. Smiling | — | 1996 |
| 91% | James and the Giant Peach | Aunt Spiker | — | 1996 |
| No Score Yet | How To Be Absolutely Fabulous | Actor | — | 1996 |
| No Score Yet | Forgotten Toys | Actor | — | 1996 |
| No Score Yet | Innocent Lies | Lady Helena Graves | — | 1995 |
| No Score Yet | Class Act | Actor | — | 1994 |
| No Score Yet | A Ghost in Monte Carlo | Actor | — | 1990 |
| 71% | Shirley Valentine | Marjorie | — | 1989 |
| No Score Yet | The Glory Boys | Director Helen | — | 1984 |
| No Score Yet | Mistral's Daughter | Actor | — | 1984 |
| No Score Yet | Mistral's Daughters | Lally Longbridge | — | 1984 |
| 29% | Curse of the Pink Panther | Countess Chandra | — | 1983 |
| No Score Yet | The Weather in the Streets | Kate | — | 1983 |
| 23% | Trail of the Pink Panther | Marie Jouvet | — | 1982 |
| 20% | The Satanic Rites of Dracula | Actor | — | 1974 |
| No Score Yet | Don't Just Lie There, Say Something! | Miss Parkyn | — | 1973 |
| No Score Yet | Dracula: The Satanic Rites | Jessica | — | 1973 |
| 85% | The House That Dripped Blood | Actor | — | 1971 |
| No Score Yet | Tam Lin | Georgia | — | 1971 |
| No Score Yet | The Breaking of Bumbo | Actor | — | 1970 |
| 82% | On Her Majesty's Secret Service | English Girl | — | 1969 |
| No Score Yet | Some Girls Do | Actor | — | 1969 |
TV
| Credit | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| No Score Yet |
Joanna Lumley's Silk Road Adventure 2018 |
Guest |
2018 |
| No Score Yet |
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon 2014 |
Guest |
2018 2016 |
| No Score Yet |
The View 1997 |
Guest |
2016 |
| No Score Yet |
Watch What Happens Live With Andy Cohen 2009-2019 |
Guest |
2016 |
| No Score Yet |
The Graham Norton Show 2007 |
Guest |
2016 2011 2007 |
| 96% |
Absolutely Fabulous 1992-2012 |
Patsy Stone |
2013 2012 2005 2004 2003 2001 1996 1995 1994 1992 |
| No Score Yet |
Inspector Lewis 2007-2015 |
Esme Ford |
2010 |
| No Score Yet |
Top Gear 2002-2019 |
Guest |
2010 |
| No Score Yet |
Masterpiece 1971-2014 |
Esme Ford Liz |
2010 1999 |
| No Score Yet |
Miss Marple 2004-2013 |
2005 |
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| No Score Yet |
Mystery! 1980-2007 |
Dolly Bantry |
2005 |
| 76% |
Roseanne 1988-2018 |
Patsy |
1996 |
| No Score Yet |
Are You Being Served? 1972-1985 |
Miss French German Lady | |
| No Score Yet |
The Michael McIntyre Chat Show 2014 |
Guest |
QUOTES FROM Joanna Lumley CHARACTERS
Victoria Everglot says: Oh, Hildegarde, what if....what if Victor and I don't....like each other?
Maudeline Everglot says: Ha! As if that has anything to do with marriage. Do you suppose your father and I "like" each other?
Victoria Everglot says: Surely you must, a little....
Maudeline Everglot says: Of course not!
Finis Everglot says: Of course not!
Maudeline Everglot says: Get those corsets laced properly. I can hear you speak without gasping.
Finis Everglot says: Marvelous news, Victoria, there'll be a wedding after all.
Victoria Everglot says: You found him?
Maudeline Everglot says: Make haste, my dear, our relatives will arrive at any moment. We must have you looking presentable for Lord Barkis.
Victoria Everglot says: Lord Barkis?
Maudeline Everglot says: He will make a fine husband.
Finis Everglot says: Aye. A fortuitous turn of events indeed.
Maudeline Everglot says: A far better prospect this time.
Victoria Everglot says: But I do not love him. You cannot make me do this!
Finis Everglot says: We must.
Victoria Everglot says: Please, I beg of you! There must be another way!
Finis Everglot says: Without your marriage to Lord Barkis, we shall be forced penniless into the street. We are destitute.
Victoria Everglot says: But...Victor....
Maudeline Everglot says: Victor Van Dort is gone, child.
Finis Everglot says: You shall marry Lord Barkis tomorrow. *with Maudeline* According to plan!