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Joanna Lumley, OBE (born May 1, 1946 in Srinagar, Kashmir, India) is an English actress and former model who is arguably best known for her portrayal of the chain smoking, boozing, cocaine-sniffing and other drug-taking sexpot Patsy Stone on the British comedy television show Absolutely Fabulous. She is also a noted animal rights campaigner and vegetarian. She was educated at St Mary's School, Sussex. She spent three years as a photographic model and also worked as a house model for the late Jean Muir.

Tall, leggy, thin and blonde, she began her acting career as a Bond girl in On Her Majesty's Secret Service
. Her first major role was as Purdey in The New Avengers: a revival of the secret agent series The Avengers.

She has specialised in playing upper-class parts, and her distinctive plummy voice has reinforced this. However, following her rise to fame, she revealed that she had been an unmarried mother (son James, born 1967) during the 1960s when it was socially unacceptable. James Lumley's natural father is the photographer Michael Claydon and is of Anglo Indian ethnicity. The first of her two subsequent marriages was to comedy writer, Jeremy Lloyd. She is currently married (1986) to conductor Stephen Barlow and lives in London.

Lumley was awarded an OBE in 1995. In 1999 she appeared in The Curse of Fatal Death — a special Comic Relief episode of Doctor Who — as a female version of the Doctor. In 1996 she travelled to Bhutan to film a journey made by her grandparents - 'In the Kingdom of the Thunder Dragon' - and also filmed 'A Rather English Marriage' (nominated for a BAFTA for Best Actress 1999) and 'Dr Willoughby'.

In 2000 she co-produced a new drama series entitled The Cazalet Chronicles.

She is also a car enthusiast, whose favourite TV programme is Top Gear. Her favourite car is a Triumph Stag convertible. She has been involved with a number of charities, including The Born Free Foundation, Mind (the UK mental health charity), Sight Savers, The Friends of Kadzinuni and many others.

Television includes: - She played Purdey in 24 episodes

Absolutely Fabulous - She played Patsy
Coronation Street
The New Avengers
Sapphire & Steel - 34 episodes
Class Act
Cluedo
Dr Willoughby 1996
Coming Home
General Hospital
Girl Friday
Nancherrow
The Persuaders
A Rather English Marriage 1996
Up In Town 2002
Sensitive Skin
Steptoe & Son

Theatre includes:

Blythe Spirit
Hedda Gabler
- Dundee Rep
Noel & Gertie - King's Head
Private Lives

Films include:

The Breaking of Bumbo
The Cat's Meow
2000
Curse of the Pink Panther
1982
Cold Comfort Farm (TV) 1994
Don't Just Lie There, Say Something
Funny Bones 1994
Games That Lovers Play
Innocent Lies 1994
James and the Giant Peach 1994
Mad Cows 1998
Maybe Baby
1999
On Her Majesty's Secret Service
1969
Parting Shots 1997
Prince Valiant 1996
The Satanic Rites of Dracula
1973
Shirley Valentine
1988
Some Girls Do
1968
Sweeney Todd 1997
Tam Lin
Trail of the Pink Panther
1982
Whispers 1998

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Actors - Joanna Lumley

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