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Joanna Lumley

Joanna Lumley
Joanna Lumley
Born: May 01, 1946 in Srinagar, Kashmir, India
Occupation: Actor,
Active: '70s, '90s-2000s
Major Genres: Comedy, Spy Film
Career Highlights: Shirley Valentine, Curse of the Pink Panther, The Cazalets
First Major Screen Credit: The New Avengers: The Eagle's Nest (1976)
15 Videos for Joanna Lumley
Tim Burton's Corpse Bride (2005) Maybe Baby (2000) Mistral's Daughter (1984)
Doogal (2004) Coming Home (1998) The Glory Boys (1984)
Ella Enchanted (2004) Coming Home (1998) On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969)
Eurotrip (2004) Coming Home (1998) The New Avengers: Season 01 ()
The Cat's Meow (2001) Cold Comfort Farm (1995) The New Avengers: Season 02 ()
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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, All Movie Guide.