Joanna Lumley Biography
Joanna Lumley is an actress, presenter, former model, author, television producer, and activist from the United Kingdom who received two BAFTA TV Awards for her performance in Absolutely Fabulous, and she was nominated for a Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play in 2011. She got the Special Recognition Award at the National Television Awards in 2013, and the BAFTA Fellowship award in 2017.
How old is Joanna Lumley? – Age
She is 77 years old as of 1 May 2023. She was born in 1946 in Srinagar. Her real name is Dame Joanna Lamond Lumley.
Does Joanna Lumley have brothers or sisters?? – Family – Education
Thyra Beatrice Rose (née Weir), her mother, was English. Lieutenant Colonel Leslie Weir, her grandpa, was born in Ghazipur and served as an army officer in Kashmir; he was a personal friend of the 13th Dalai Lama. Major James Rutherford Lumley, her father, was born in Lahore (now in Pakistan) and had Scottish and English ancestors. In 1941, Joanna Lumley’s parents married. She has vivid memories of growing up in the tropics.
On leave in England, the family traveled “home” on the HMT Empire Windrush. She stayed after her parents returned to Asia, boarding at Mickledene School in Rolvenden, Kent. She was just eight years old at the time, which she subsequently described as “paralyzingly young.” From the ages of 11 to 17, she attended Holmhurst St Mary’s Convent School on the Ridge, which is managed by the Community of the Holy Family.
James (nicknamed Jamie) Lumley was born in 1967. Michael Claydon, a photographer, is his father. During 1970, she was temporarily married to actor Jeremy Lloyd. In 1986, she married conductor Stephen Barlow, with whom she now lives in London. They also own a home in Dumfriesshire, Scotland, near the community of Penpont.
Is Joanna Lumley in a relationship? – Husband – Children
James (nicknamed Jamie) Lumley was born in 1967. Michael Claydon, a photographer, is his father. During 1970, she was temporarily married to actor Jeremy Lloyd. In 1986, she married conductor Stephen Barlow, with whom she now lives in London. They also own a home in Dumfriesshire, Scotland, near the community of Penpont.
Joanna Lumley Net Worth
She has an estimated net worth of $ 25 million (£ 18 million).
Joanna Lumley The Avengers
Lumley’s first major part was as Purdey in The New Avengers, the sequel to the spy series The Avengers, in which she appeared in all twenty-six episodes from 1976 to 1977. Throughout its existence, the sitcom aired in one-hour installments. On January 7, 1961, the pilot episode “Hot Snow” was broadcast. “Bizarre,” the final episode, aired on April 21, 1969 in the United States and May 17, 1969 in the United Kingdom.
ABC Weekend TV, an ITV network contractor, created The Avengers. In July 1968, ABC Weekend merged with Rediffusion London to form Thames Television, which maintained production of the programme through a subcontract with ABC Television Films. The Avengers had been shown in almost 90 countries by 1969. The New Avengers, an ITV sequel series, starred Patrick Macnee as John Steed and two new partners. The Avengers was voted No. 17 and No. 20 on TV Guide’s Top Cult Shows Ever in 2004 and 2007, respectively.
Joanna Lumley Bond
Her acting career began in 1969 with a brief, uncredited appearance in the film Some Girls Do, and as a Bond girl in On Her Majesty’s Secret Service, in which she got two lines as the English female among the sinister Ernst Stavro Blofeld’s “Angels of Death.”
Joanna Lumley Travel Show
Lumley returned to Greece for ITV in 2011, this time for a four-part series titled Joanna Lumley’s Greek Odyssey. The series premiered on ITV on October 13th. Lumley traveled for ITV once more in 2012, this time in quest of Noah’s Ark. The voyage, which included an adventurous jaunt into Iran, aired in late 2012 as a single 90-minute documentary titled Joanna Lumley’s Ark.
In March 2014, she appeared in an hour-long BBC One documentary with American rapper Will.i.am. Joanna Lumley Meets will.i.am was the title of the show. Bette Midler: One Night Only, a one-off ITV special, aired in December 2014. Lumley’s Trans-Siberian Adventure, a three-part factual programme for ITV, aired in 2015. Lumley traveled 6400 kilometers on the Trans-Siberian Railway from Hong Kong to Moscow for the series.
Joanna Lumley’s Japan, a three-part documentary series for ITV, premiered in September 2016, and Joanna Lumley’s India premiered in July 2017. Joanna Lumley’s Silk Road Adventure, a four-part travelogue visiting eight nations along the old trading route, premiered in 2018.
Joanna Lumley The Wolf of Wall Street
She played Aunt Emma in Martin Scorsese’s criminal film The Wolf of Wall Street in 2013. In 1987, Belfort got a job as a stockbroker for L.F. Rothschild, but Black Monday cost him the job. After that, he took a job at a Long Island boiler room brokerage firm, where he made a small fortune. He made friends with Donnie Azoff and started his own business, training friends in the “hard sell” technique. Jordan Jordan is a successful financier who marries Naomi Lapaglia in 1991 after having an affair with her.
After securing Steve Madden’s IPO in 1993, Jordan illegally makes $22 million in three hours. Jordan uses Naomi’s aunt Emma’s wife and Brad Bodnick’s in-laws to smuggle money into Switzerland through a Swiss bank account opened by a dishonest banker named Jean-Jacques Saurel. When Jordan, Donnie, and their wives learn that Emma has passed away, they are on a yacht trip in 1996. In exchange for leniency, Jordan agrees to gather evidence against his coworkers. Jordan is taken into custody by the FBI in 1998, and Stratton Oakmont is raided and closed.
Jordan receives a reduced sentence of 36 months despite breaking his agreement, and he is released in 2000 after serving 22 months. Jordan makes a living hosting seminars on sales strategies after his release.
Joanna Lumley Class Act
Lumley appeared in the British television show Class Act from 1994 to 1995, opposite Nadine Garner and John Bowe, as Kate Swift, an upper-class lady who had fallen on hard times. ITV aired the series for two seasons, from 7 April 1994 until 19 October 1995. On August 2, 2010, the Network imprint released the whole Class Act series on DVD as a four-disc box set.
Joanna Lumley Movies
♦ 2021 – The Picture of Dorian Gray
♦ 2020 – Falling for Figaro
♦ 2017 – The Man You’re Not
♦ 2017 – Paddington 2
♦ 2017 – Finding Your Feet
♦ 2016 – Me Before You
♦ 2016 – Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie
♦ 2015 – Absolutely Anything
♦ 2014 – Death Knight Love Story
♦ 2014 – She’s Funny That Way
♦ 2013 – The Wolf of Wall Street
♦ 2011 – Late Bloomer
♦ 2010 – Animals United
♦ 2009 – Boogie Woogie
♦ 2009 – Professor Layton and the Eternal Diva
♦ 2006 – Dolls – Madame Muscat
♦ 2005 – The Magic Roundabout
♦ 2005 – Corpse Bride
Joanna Lumley TV Shows
♦ 2004, 2011 – Agatha Christie’s Marple
♦ 2021 – Finding Alice
♦ 2021 – Motherland
♦ 2020 – The Wonderful World of Mickey Mouse
♦ 2019 – Bodyguard
♦ 2017 – Carnage
♦ 2013 – Jonathan Creek
♦ 2013 – Gangsta Granny
♦ 2012 – Little Crackers
♦ 2012 – The Making of a Lady
♦ 2011 – Uptown Downstairs Abbey
♦ 2010 – Mistresses
♦ 2009 – Lewis
♦ 2006–2008 – Jam & Jerusalem
♦ 2005–2007 – Sensitive Skin
♦ 2002 – Up in Town
♦ 2000 – Mirrorball