Joanna Lumley
Actor
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Joanna Lamond Lumley, OBE, FRGS (born 1 May 1946) is an English actress, voice-over artist and author, best known for her roles in British television series Absolutely Fabulous portraying Edina Monsoon's best friend, Patsy Stone, as well as parts in The New Avengers, Sapphire & Steel, and Sensitive Skin. She is a former model and Bond girl. Her distinctive voice has been supplied for animated characters, film narration, and AOL's "You have email" notification in the UK. She has spoken out as a human rights activist for Survival International and the Gurkha Justice Campaign, and is now considered a "national treasure" of Nepal because of her support. She is an advocate for a number of charities and animal welfare groups such as CIWF and Viva!. She has won three BAFTA awards and a British comedy award.
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Joanna Lamond Lumley, OBE, FRGS (born 1 May 1946) is an English actress, voice-over artist and author, best known for her roles in British television series Absolutely Fabulous portraying Edina Monsoon's best friend, Patsy Stone, as well as parts in The New Avengers, Sapphire & Steel, and Sensitive Skin. She is a former model and Bond girl. Her distinctive voice has been supplied for animated characters, film narration, and AOL's "You have email" notification in the UK. She has spoken out as a human rights activist for Survival International and the Gurkha Justice Campaign, and is now considered a "national treasure" of Nepal because of her support. She is an advocate for a number of charities and animal welfare groups such as CIWF and Viva!. She has won three BAFTA awards and a British comedy award.
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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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: William Garcia | Deborra-Lee Furness | Illeana Douglas | 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
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
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
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
Andorra ()
As: Mrs. Quay
Alexander Fox leaves the US to start a new life in the tiny nation of Andorra. Quickly drawn to a tall Australian blonde and the heartbroken daughter of the town matriarch, he finds himself the prime suspect in a murder investigation.
Directed by: Michael Rymer
Stars: Guy Pearce | Clive Owen | Gillian Anderson | Joanna Lumley | Toni Collette