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Joanna Lamond Lumley was born on 1 May 1946 in Srinagar, Kashmir, India. Her parents were Major James Rutherford Lumley, who served in the 6th Gurkha Rifles, a regiment of the British Indian Army, and Thya Rose Weir; they married in 1941.
After the independence of India in 1949, the Lumleys settled in Kent, England. Joanna was educated at St Mary's School in Sussex, England, and afterwards attended the Lucie Clayton finishing school. Tall, leggy, slim and blonde, she spent three years as a photographic model, and is said to have made her TV debut in a well-known UK advert for Nimble bread first screened in 1969. She also worked as a house model for Jean Muir.
She is best known for her roles in The New Avengers, Absolutely Fabulous, Sapphire and Steel and Sensitive Skin.
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(Joanna Lumley's Birthday is May 1, 2010)
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Some Girls Do (1969)
This was Joanna Lumley's film debut in 1969's "Some Girls Do". This became her first move from modelling into acting.
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Class Act: Kate (Lumley) is forced to take extreme measures to maintain her privileged lifestyle when her wealthy husband vanishes with all of their money. With the help of an unlikely pair of accomplices--Gloria, a "reformed" cat burglaress, and Jack (Bowe), a journalist--Kate must discover what has happened to her husband, and more importantly, her fortune.
No Room For Secrets: Joanna Lumley has rarely had the opportunity to reveal her true self. Intimate, funny, intriguing and moving, No Room for Secrets is a more surprising and revealing autobiography than any sensational 'kiss and tell' memoir you will ever read. Inside you will find the real Joanna Lumley.
Mad Cows: Maddy, a single mother from Australia is on the hunt for her baby's father. She manages to get sent to prison (with baby Jack in tow!) for stealing a packet of frozen peas from Harrods. Her friend Gillian reluctantly smuggles baby Jack out of prison in her handbag and Maddy escapes in disguise. Then things get really crazy!...
In the Kingdom of the Thunder Dragon: Joanna Lumley explores the Eastern Himalayas: a world which challenges accepted ideas of wealth, progress, happiness, and quality of life.
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The New Avengers on DVD
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Joanna Lumley in The New Avengers: The TV Series
Catch more of Joanna Lumley in this lens dedicated to "The New Avengers".
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The New Avengers: The TV Series
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The New Avengers: The TV Series and how it returned: Actress Linda Thorson (Tara King) was the final partner for John Steed in the original, classic Avengers series which ended in 1969. While American (and to some extent British...
Joanna Lumley: Circa 1976
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Joanna Lumley as action-girl Purdey from "The New Avengers".
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Sapphire & Steel is a British television science-fiction fantasy series starring David McCallum as Steel and Joanna Lumley as Sapphire. Produced by ATV, it ran from 1979 to 1982 on the ITV network. The series was created by Peter J. Hammond who conceived the programme under the working title The Time Menders, after a stay in a haunted castle. Hammond also wrote all the stories except for the fifth, which was co-written by Don Houghton and Anthony Read.
In 2004, Sapphire and Steel returned in a series of audio dramas starring David Warner and Susannah Harker.
Sapphire and Steel - The Complete Series
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The spiritual precursor to The X-Files, Sapphire & Steel is one of the most atmospheric, mysterious and compelling television programs ever made. Joanna Lumley and David McCallum star as alien investigators sent to earth to monitor and police ruptures in time.
Defying convention at every turn, Sapphire & Steel spread six adventures over 34 episodes, keeping viewers constantly in suspense and heightening the tension with its distinctively claustrophobic sets, stark lighting and ethereal music. Combined with the deeply ambiguous stories, this created a distinctly unsettling and riveting experience.
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Absolutely Fabulous: The Facts
Absolutely Fabulous (also known as Ab Fab) is a British sitcom created and written by Jennifer Saunders, who also plays the leading character. Joanna Lumley and Julia Sawalha co-star, along with June Whitfield and Jane Horrocks. It was broadcast on BBC from 1992 to 1996 and 2001 to 2004. A Comic Relief mini episode was broadcast in 2005.
Absolutely Fabulous: Absolutely Everything
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This 9 disc set contains Series 1 to 5, plus the 2002 and 2004 Christmas Specials, and includes more than two and half hours of special features.
Joanna Lumley: Circa - The 1990s
Joanna Lumley 16x20 Fine Art Photograph
Joanna Lumley as aging good-time girl Patsy Stone from Absolutely Fabulous
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Sensitive Skin: The Facts
Sensitive Skin is an English black comedy/drama, produced by Baby Cow Productions for BBC Two. It stars Joanna Lumley and first aired in 2005, with a second series following in 2007. Series 1 and 2 have aired on CBC Country Canada. Series 1 aired in Australia on ABC TV in mid 2007 (repeated 2009).
On April 16, 2008, BBC Video announced a DVD release. Sensitive Skin - The Complete Seasons 1 and 2 ? a 2-disc set including all 12
original episodes from the First and Second Seasons. ? is scheduled for release August 5, 2008.
Sensitive Skin - The Complete Seasons 1 and 2
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Al (Denis Lawson) and Davina Jackson (Joanna Lumley)seem to have the perfect life. At 60 they both look great enjoy their work (he's a music writer for a newspaper; she works in an art gallery) and having finally said au revoir to their son are ready to indulge themsleves with a funky centeral London apartment and a retro 70s Silver Shadow Rolls Royce.
Still something somewhere somehow doesn't feel quite right. Is it that their 30-year-old son Orlando refuses to acknowledge adulthood? Or that Davina's sister Veronica and her husband Roger intimidate them with their confident grasp of life and comprehensive pension plans? And don't forget the sexual temptation the professional jealousy and that burning question: is this the life I wanted?
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- BOBBY.T BOBBY.T Jul 20, 2009 @ 2:00 am
- Wishing you a very happy journey to Nepal.We all are proud of YOU and feeling honoured to have you with us on the 30 ofJuly , 2009 at POKHARA.
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- charlino charlino May 10, 2009 @ 10:23 pm
- Love "Patsy" in AbFab
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- drifter0658 drifter0658 Apr 12, 2009 @ 7:53 pm
- I always thought she was among the classiest of sex symbols from that era, and seeing her on the motorcycle sealed it :)
Thanks!
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- AndyPo AndyPo Nov 27, 2008 @ 6:05 am
- Excellent lens. Joanna Lumley has been very good, but so different in The Avengers and Absolutely Fabulous.
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- jasmineann jasmineann Nov 6, 2008 @ 1:35 pm
- Wonderful lens on Joanna Lumley, I think I liked her in all of these!
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