Joanna Lumley

7 Up and Me (2019)

As: Narrator (voice)

In celebration of 63 Up, the latest instalment of Michael Apted’s groundbreaking documentary series that began in 1964, a number of British and American celebrity fans now discuss its impact on popular culture and its lasting legacy. The film also candidly explores pivotal moments of celebrities’ own lives - from school days and first loves to family and fulfilled ambitions - while tapping ...

Runtime: 60 min.

Directed by: John Piper | Tim Hopewell

Stars: Michael Sheen | Joanna Lumley | Richard E. Grant | Rula Lenska | William Roache

Finding Your Feet (2017)

As: Jackie

A lady has her prim and proper life turned upside down after discovering her husband's affair.

Runtime: 111 min.

Directed by: Richard Loncraine

Stars: Timothy Spall | Celia Imrie | Joanna Lumley | Imelda Staunton | David Hayman

Joanna and Jennifer: Absolutely Champers (2017)

As: Herself - Presenter

Ab Fab stars Jennifer Saunders & Joanna Lumley share 25 years of friendship. In this tipple-tastic travel show the two funny ladies head to the Champagne region of France to find out how their favourite glass of fizz is made.

Runtime: 60 min.

Directed by: Will Yapp

Stars: Joanna Lumley | Jennifer Saunders

And the Winner Isn't (2017)

As: Herself

A satirical documentary charting Geoffrey Moore and his daughter Ambra’s journey through Hollywood, as the pair track down celebrities and industry insiders in their bid to find out what it takes to become an Academy Award winner.

Runtime: 96 min.

Directed by: Nik Panic

Stars: Geoffrey Moore | J.J. Abrams | Naveen Andrews | Alessandra Ambrosio | Ambra Moore

Paddington 2 (2017)

As: Felicity Fanshaw

Paddington, now happily settled with the Browns, picks up a series of odd jobs to buy the perfect present for his Aunt Lucy, but it is stolen.

Runtime: 103 min.

Directed by: Paul King

Stars: Sally Hawkins | Hugh Bonneville | Ben Whishaw | Samuel Joslin | Madeleine Harris

Carnage: Swallowing the Past (2017)

As: Herself (voice)

It's 2067, the UK is vegan, but older generations are suffering the guilt of their carnivorous past. Simon Amstell asks us to forgive them for the horrors of what they swallowed.

Runtime: 68 min.

Directed by: Simon Amstell

Stars: Eileen Atkins | Linda Bassett | Joanna Lumley | Martin Freeman | Simon Amstell

Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie (2016)

As: Patsy Stone

Edina and Patsy are still oozing glitz and glamor, living the high life they are accustomed to; shopping, drinking and clubbing their way around London's trendiest hot-spots. Blamed for a major incident at an uber fashionable launch party, they become entangled in a media storm and are relentlessly pursued by the paparazzi. Fleeing penniless to the glamorous playground of the super-rich, the French ...

Runtime: 91 min.

Directed by: Mandie Fletcher

Stars: Joanna Lumley | Jennifer Saunders | Jane Horrocks | June Whitfield | Julia Sawalha

Me Before You (2016)

As: Mary Rawlinson

A small town girl is caught between dead-end jobs. A high-profile, successful man becomes wheelchair bound following an accident. The man decides his life is not worth living until the girl is hired for six months to be his new caretaker. Worlds apart and trapped together by circumstance, the two get off to a rocky start. But the girl becomes determined to prove to the man that life is worth living and ...

Runtime: 106 min.

Directed by: Thea Sharrock

Stars: Charles Dance | Brendan Coyle | Janet McTeer | Emilia Clarke | Sam Claflin

Joanna Lumley: Elvis and Me (2015)

As: Presenter

Joanna Lumley travels to the USA to follow in the King of Rock 'n' Roll's footsteps.

Runtime: 60 min.

Directed by: Ian Denyer

Stars: Elvis Presley | Joanna Lumley | Priscilla Presley

Absolutely Anything (2015)

As: Fenella

Eccentric aliens give a man the power to do anything he wants to determine if Earth is worth saving.

Runtime: 85 min.

Directed by: Terry Jones

Stars: Sanjeev Bhaskar | Simon Pegg | Rob Riggle | Joanna Lumley | Kate Beckinsale

Bette Midler: One Night Only (2014)

Joanna Lumley hosts Bette Midler: One Night Only to celebrate 50 years of a divine career of The Divine Miss M, talking about her upcoming tour and her new album and perform her favourite songs she has recorded for over 50 years.

Runtime: 46 min.

Stars: Joanna Lumley | Bette Midler | Nicolette Hart | Jaqueline Arnold | Christine Poland

She's Funny That Way (2014)

As: Vivian Claremont

On the set of a playwright's new project, a love triangle forms between his wife, her ex-lover, and the call girl-turned-actress cast in the production.

Runtime: 93 min.

Directed by: Peter Bogdanovich

Stars: Owen Wilson | Rhys Ifans | Jennifer Aniston | Imogen Poots | Kathryn Hahn

Joanna Lumley Meets Will.I.Am (2014)

As: Presenter

Joanna Lumley is on a mission to get to know the elusive, slightly eccentric front man of the Black Eyed Peas, will.i.am. She travels to Los Angeles to spend time with The Voice judge, music performer, producer, and social entrepreneur in his home town.

Runtime: 60 min.

Directed by: Adrian Sibley

Stars: Will.i.am | Joanna Lumley

Gangsta Granny (2013)

As: The Queen

A young boy is bored spending time with his dull grandma until he discovers she's an international Jewel thief.

Runtime: 60 min.

Directed by: Matt Lipsey

Stars: Rob Brydon | David Walliams | Miranda Hart | Julia McKenzie | Reece Buttery

The Wolf of Wall Street (2013)

As: Aunt Emma

A New York stockbroker refuses to cooperate in a large securities fraud case involving corruption on Wall Street, corporate banking world and mob infiltration. Based on Jordan Belfort's autobiography.

Runtime: 180 min.

Directed by: Martin Scorsese

Stars: Leonardo DiCaprio | Jonah Hill | Kyle Chandler | Rob Reiner | Margot Robbie

Joanna Lumley: The Search for Noah's Ark (2012)

As: Herself - Presenter

In search of the truth behind the story of Noah's Flood, Joanna Lumley and her team examine the theory that Noah's Ark was preserved on Mount Ararat, in Turkish Armenia.

Runtime: 65 min.

Directed by: Matt Bennett

Stars: Joanna Lumley

The Making of a Lady (2012)

As: Lady Maria Byrne

1901:- Poor but intelligent Emily Fox Seton accepts a marriage proposal from the older Lord James Walderhurst,a widower pushed into providing an heir by his haughty aunt Maria,

Runtime: 95 min.

Directed by: Richard Curson Smith

Stars: Lydia Wilson | Joanna Lumley | Linus Roache | Maggie Fox | Sarah Ridgeway

Wogan on Wodehouse (2011)

As: Self

Terry Wogan looks at the life and work of the writer P.G. Wodehouse, including interviews from rarely seen archive footage.

Runtime: 59 min.

Stars: Joanna Lumley | Stephen Fry | Griff Rhys Jones | Terry Wogan | P.G. Wodehouse

Late Bloomers (2011)

As: Charlotte

Late Bloomers stars Isabella Rossellini and William Hurt as a married couple pulled apart by the threat of old age. Each reacts in a different way: Hurt’s distinguished architect chases after his glory days, while Rossellini’s housewife installs handrails about the house.

Runtime: 95 min.

Directed by: Julie Gavras

Stars: Kate Ashfield | William Hurt | Isabella Rossellini | Aidan McArdle | Doreen Mantle

Boogie Woogie (2009)

As: Mrs. Alfreda Rhinegold

A comedy of manners, its cast of characters devouring each other in a small world awash with big money. Set against the backdrop of contemporary London and the international art scene, it casts an eye over the appetites and morality of some of its major players. Dealers, collectors, artists, wannabees vie with each other in a world in which success and downfall rest on a thin edge.

Runtime: 94 min.

Directed by: Duncan Ward

Stars: Christopher Lee | Alan Cumming | Gillian Anderson | Heather Graham | Joanna Lumley

Joanna Lumley in the Land of the Northern Lights (2008)

As: Herself

Comedy icon Joanna Lumley pursues a life-long dream to track down the elusive and beautiful Northern Lights. She travels North across the Arctic Circle, up through Norway and finally to Svalbard, the most northerly permanently inhabited place on Earth, where she has to cope with temperatures approaching minus 30° C. Joanna’s journey takes her from train to boat and huskysled to snowmobile as she is ...

Runtime: 60 min.

Directed by: Archie Baron

Stars: Joanna Lumley

Ian Fleming: Where Bond Began (2008)

As: Herself

Ian Fleming: Where Bond Began

Stars: Joanna Lumley | Jonathan Pryce

Corpse Bride (2005)

As: Maudeline Everglot (voice)

Set in a 19th-century european village, this stop-motion animation feature follows the story of Victor, a young man whisked away to the underworld and wed to a mysterious corpse bride, while his real bride Victoria waits bereft in the land of the living.

Runtime: 77 min.

Directed by: Mike Johnson | Tim Burton

Stars: Helena Bonham Carter | Emily Watson | Johnny Depp | Tracey Ullman | Paul Whitehouse

The Magic Roundabout (2005)

As: Ermintrude

A shaggy, candy-loving puppy named Dougal along with a group of friends embarks on a dangerous journey in an effort to imprison their oppressor -- the evil ice sorcerer ZeeBad (Zebedee's evil twin). As the world is placed in mortal danger Zeebad who wants to turn the world to ice. Doogal and his friends must recover 3 diamonds that are needed to stop him.

Runtime: 85 min.

Directed by: Frank Passingham | Jean Duval | Dave Borthwick

Stars: Ian McKellen | Bill Nighy | Kylie Minogue | Tom Baker | Robbie Williams

Stories of Lost Souls (2004)

As: Last in Line

Seven (or six - depending on the version) short stories of conquest, desperation and the will to overcome.

Runtime: 90 min.

Directed by: Deborra-Lee Furness | Illeana Douglas | William Garcia | Paul Holmes | Mark Palansky | Col Spector | Toa Stappard | Andrew Upton

Stars: Michael Gambon | Josh Hartnett | Hugh Jackman | Jason Acuña | Jacqui Maxwell

Ella Enchanted (2004)

As: Dame Olga

Ella lives in a magical world in which each child, at the moment of their birth, is given a virtuous "gift" from a fairy godmother. Ella's so-called gift, however, is obedience. This birthright proves itself to be quite the curse once Ella finds herself in the hands of several unscrupulous characters whom she quite literally cannot disobey. Determined to gain control of her life and decisions, Ella ...

Runtime: 96 min.

Directed by: Tommy O'Haver

Stars: Anne Hathaway | Vivica A. Fox | Cary Elwes | Hugh Dancy | Joanna Lumley

EuroTrip (2004)

As: Hostel Clerk

When Scott learns that his longtime cyber-buddy from Berlin is a gorgeous young woman, he and his friends embark on a trip across Europe.

Runtime: 92 min.

Directed by: Jeff Schaffer

Stars: Scott Mechlowicz | Kristin Kreuk | Jacob Pitts | Nial Iskhakov | Cathy Meils

The Cat's Meow (2001)

As: Elinor Glyn

Semi-true story of the Hollywood murder that occurred at a star-studded gathering aboard William Randolph Hearst's yacht in 1924.

Runtime: 114 min.

Directed by: Peter Bogdanovich

Stars: Cary Elwes | Joanna Lumley | Kirsten Dunst | Edward Herrmann | Eddie Izzard

Whispers: An Elephant Tale (2000)

As: Half Tusk (voice)

A nameless baby elephant-steer was just getting used to life in the herd, when poachers kill his mother, so he runs and gets lost. He's found by a grouchy female, Groove, the sister of an alpha-female, who walks off disgusted with life in her herd. Not exactly wholehearted, she still takes the orphan under her wing, 'till we find your herd', but fails to find his herd, or a new home with males -who ...

Runtime: 72 min.

Directed by: Dereck Joubert

Stars: Joanna Lumley | Anne Archer | Angela Bassett

Maybe Baby (2000)

As: Shiela

Hugh Laurie (Sam) and Joely Richardson (Lucy) star as an irresistible couple who seem to have everything - good looks, successful careers, matching motorbikes and an enthusiastic love life. The only thing they lack is the one thing that they really want - a baby. Sam sets his sights on writing a successful screenplay, a comedy about a couple trying for a baby. The only problem is that Lucy is horrified ...

Runtime: 104 min.

Directed by: Ben Elton

Stars: Matthew Macfadyen | Adrian Lester | Joely Richardson | Hugh Laurie | Yasmin Bannerman

Mad Cows (1999)

As: Gillian

When her TV star husband Alex decides to divorce her so that he can start a career in politics, newly single mother Maddy goes shoplifting and ends up in jail. Losing custody of her infant child, Maddy hatches a scheme to break out of prison with the assistance of her friend Gillian, who's avoiding the law herself for credit card fraud. Now Maddy has to find the couple who ...

Runtime: 90 min.

Directed by: Sara Sugarman

Stars: Anna Friel | Phyllida Law | Joanna Lumley | Anna Massey | Greg Wise

A Rather English Marriage (1999)

As: Liz Franks

A squadron leader and a retired milkman decide to bury their differences and move in together after they are both widowed on the very same night. They become a companionable if odd couple, until their unlikely friendship is threatened by the arrival of an alluring woman with a hidden agenda.

Runtime: 104 min.

Directed by: Paul Seed

Stars: Joanna Lumley | Albert Finney | Joanna Scanlan | Tom Courtenay | John Light

Parting Shots (1999)

As: Freda

Harry Sterndale, a failed photographer, is told that he has only three months to live due to him getting cancer. After thinking things over he decides that since he is dying anyway that he will kill or destroy all the people that has ever crossed or hurt him during his entire life. So Parting Shots becomes literally the shots fired by Harry when he knows he is parting this earth. After all, he will be dead ...

Runtime: 99 min.

Directed by: Michael Winner

Stars: Bob Hoskins | Ben Kingsley | John Cleese | Felicity Kendal | Chris Rea

Comic Relief: Doctor Who - The Curse of Fatal Death (1999)

As: The Doctor

Before the Doctor can settle down to married life, he must face one last confrontation with his deadly enemy of certain death - the Master.

Runtime: 23 min.

Directed by: John Henderson

Stars: Richard E. Grant | Jonathan Pryce | Rowan Atkinson | Jim Broadbent | Julia Sawalha

Alice in Wonderland (1999)

As: the voice of the Tiger Lily (voice)

Alice follows a white rabbit down a rabbit-hole into a whimsical Wonderland, where she meets characters like the delightful Cheshire Cat, the clumsy White Knight, a rude caterpillar, and the hot-tempered Queen of Hearts and can grow ten feet tall or shrink to three inches. But will she ever be able to return home?

Runtime: 150 min.

Directed by: Nick Willing

Stars: Miranda Richardson | Ben Kingsley | Martin Short | Tina Majorino | Robbie Coltrane

The Tale of Sweeney Todd (1998)

As: Mrs. Lovett

The fictional tale of the murderous 19th century barber (Ben Kinglsey) who sold his kills to a neighboring butcher (Joanna Lumley) for her renowned meat pies. A young innocent (Selina Boyack) and the dashing inspector (Campbell Scott) who tries to solve the murders are also thrown into the mix.

Runtime: 92 min.

Directed by: John Schlesinger

Stars: David Wilmot | Ben Kingsley | Joanna Lumley | Campbell Scott | Selina Boyack

Prince Valiant (1997)

As: Morgan Le Fey

An Arthurian legend of young Prince Valiant, son of the King of Scandia. After the King is exiled by an evil leader, the Prince travels to Camelot to secure the aid of King Arthur in helping restore his family to power and prevent a plot by the Black Knight.

Runtime: 91 min.

Directed by: Anthony Hickox

Stars: Stephen Moyer | Edward Fox | Udo Kier | Katherine Heigl | Thomas Kretschmann

James and the Giant Peach (1996)

As: Aunt Spiker

When the young orphan boy James spills a magic bag of crocodile tongues, he finds himself in possession of a giant peach that flies him away to strange lands.

Runtime: 79 min.

Directed by: Henry Selick

Stars: Pete Postlethwaite | Joanna Lumley | Simon Callow | Miriam Margolyes | Paul Terry

Innocent Lies (1995)

As: Lady Helena Graves

In September 1938 a British detective comes to a small French coastal town in order to investigate the death of a colleague. Prime suspects are the members of English aristocratic family with plenty of skeletons in the closet. This is a loose adaptation of the Agatha Christie novel Towards Zero.

Runtime: 88 min.

Directed by: Patrick Dewolf

Stars: Keira Knightley | Stephen Dorff | Joanna Lumley | Adrian Dunbar | Gabrielle Anwar

The Forgotten Toys (1995)

As: Annie

A festive tale about two lost toys searching for a new home.

Runtime: 25 min.

Directed by: Graham Ralph

Stars: Bob Hoskins | Joanna Lumley | Andrew Sachs

Cold Comfort Farm (1995)

As: Mary Smiling

In this adaptation of the satirical British novel, Flora Poste, a plucky London society girl orphaned at age 19, finds a new home with some rough relatives, the Starkadders of Cold Comfort Farm. With a take-charge attitude and some encouragement from her mischievous friend, Mary, Flora changes the Starkadders' lives forever when she settles into their rustic estate, bringing the backward clan up to ...

Runtime: 105 min.

Directed by: John Schlesinger

Stars: Eileen Atkins | Stephen Fry | Kate Beckinsale | Freddie Jones | Sheila Burrell

Girl Friday (1994)

As: Presenter

Glamorous actress Joanna Lumley undergoes a week's hardship on an isolated island off the coast of Madagascar. She is given a brief lesson in survival by the Royal Marines and is then deposited on the island with few provisions but a large BBC crew for company. With comic results Ms Lumley attempts to build a shelter and forage for food before succumbing to the offers of goodies from the camera crew.

Runtime: 65 min.

Stars: Joanna Lumley

A Ghost in Monte Carlo (1990)

As: Lady Drayton

A chance meeting between British nobleman and lovely young Mistral foils a plot by her manipulating Aunt Emilie to avenge the death of her sister, Mistral's mother, who died in childbirth. But when an unscrupulous blackmailer and a rapacious Rajah enter the plot, the growing attraction between Lord and convent girl becomes yet more fraught with Danger.

Runtime: 91 min.

Stars: Oliver Reed | Christopher Plummer | Lysette Anthony | Samantha Eggar | Sarah Miles

Shirley Valentine (1989)

As: Marjorie Majors

Wondering what has happened to herself, now feeling stagnant and in a rut, Shirley Valentine finds herself regularly talking to the wall while preparing her husband's chips and egg. When her best friend wins a trip-for-two to Greece Shirley begins to see the world, and herself, in a different light.

Runtime: 108 min.

Directed by: Lewis Gilbert

Stars: Tom Conti | Pauline Collins | Joanna Lumley | Alison Steadman | Julia McKenzie

The Weather in the Streets (1983)

As: Kate

Passion comes calling when a man suffering through an unhappy marriage in 1920s England runs into first love.

Runtime: 133 min.

Directed by: Gavin Millar

Stars: Michael York | Joanna Lumley | Rosalind Ayres | Lisa Eichhorn | Faith Brook

Curse of the Pink Panther (1983)

As: Countess Chandra

Inspector Clouseau disappears, and the Surete wants the world's second best detective to look for him. However, Clouseau's enemy, Dreyfus, rigs the Surete's computer to select, instead, the world's WORST detective, NYPD Sgt. Clifton Sleigh. Sleigh obtusely bungles his way past assassins and corrupt officials as though he were Clouseau's American cousin.

Runtime: 109 min.

Directed by: Blake Edwards

Stars: Joanna Lumley | Robert Wagner | Herbert Lom | David Niven | Capucine

Trail of the Pink Panther (1982)

As: Marie Jouvet

The Pink Panther diamond is stolen once again from Lugash and the authorities call in Chief Inspector Clouseau from France. His plane disappears en-route. This time, famous French TV reporter Marie Jouvet sets out to solve the mystery and starts to interview everybody connected to Clouseau.

Runtime: 96 min.

Directed by: Blake Edwards

Stars: Joanna Lumley | Peter Sellers | Herbert Lom | David Niven | Richard Mulligan

Electric Blue - The Movie (1982)

As: (archive footage)

A compilation of clips, hosted by Marilyn Chambers, taken from the 'Electric Blue' series of video tapes.

Runtime: 96 min.

Directed by: Adam Cole

Stars: Marilyn Chambers | Britt Ekland | Fiona Richmond | Jayne Mansfield | Brigitte Lahaie

The Satanic Rites of Dracula (1974)

As: Jessica Van Helsing

The police and British security forces call in Professor Van Helsing to help them investigate Satanic ritual which has been occurring in a large country house, and which has been attended by a government minister, an eminent scientist and secret service chief. The owner of the house is a mysterious property tycoon who is found to be behind a sinister plot involving a deadly plague. It is in ...

Runtime: 87 min.

Directed by: Alan Gibson

Stars: Christopher Lee | Freddie Jones | Michael Coles | Peter Cushing | William Franklyn

The Abominable Dr. Phibes (1971)

As: Laboratory Assistant

Famous organist Anton Phibes is horribly disfigured in an automobile accident while rushing to the side of his sick wife and presumed to be dead. Once Phibes learns that his wife died on the operating table, he is convinced the doctors are responsible and begins exacting his revenge on all those involved.

Runtime: 94 min.

Directed by: Robert Fuest

Stars: Terry-Thomas | Joseph Cotten | Vincent Price | Sean Bury | Virginia North

The Devil's Widow (1970)

As: Georgia

Based on an ancient Scottish folk song, an older woman uses witchcraft to keep her young jet-set friends.

Runtime: 106 min.

Directed by: Roddy McDowall

Stars: Ian McShane | Ava Gardner | Richard Wattis | Cyril Cusack | Stephanie Beacham

The Breaking of Bumbo (1970)

As: Susie

The hilarious adventures of young Bumbo Bailey, who enlists in the Brigade of Guards and is based in the prestigious Wellington Barracks in London in the Swinging Sixties. He regards his social life as important as his military.

Runtime: 89 min.

Directed by: Andrew Sinclair

Stars: Joanna Lumley | Jeremy Child | Natasha Pyne | Richard Warwick | John Bird

On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969)

As: The English Girl

James Bond tracks archnemesis Ernst Blofeld to a mountaintop retreat where he's training an army of beautiful but lethal women. Along the way, Bond falls for Italian contessa Tracy Draco -- and marries her in order to get closer to Blofeld. Meanwhile, he locates Blofeld in the Alps and embarks on a classic ski chase.

Runtime: 142 min.

Directed by: Peter R. Hunt

Stars: Diana Rigg | Gabriele Ferzetti | George Lazenby | Telly Savalas | Ilse Steppat

Some Girls Do (1969)

As: Robot

A series of unexplainable accidents befall the people and companies responsible for developing the world's first supersonic airliner. A British agent is sent to investigate and with the help of another agent uncovers a plot masterminded by Carl Petersen who stands to gain eight million pounds if the aircraft is not ready by a certain date.

Runtime: 88 min.

Directed by: Ralph Thomas

Stars: James Villiers | Richard Johnson | Robert Morley | Daliah Lavi | Beba Lončar