Joanna Lumley
(1946-), ActressSitter in 5 portraits
Lumley made her screen debut in 1969 in the film Some Girls Do and was cast as a Bond girl in On Her Majesty's Secret Service, released the same year. Became a household name in 1976 as the karate-chopping 'Purdey' in The New Avengers. Followed by playing Sapphire in television series Sapphire and Steel (1979) and roles in two of the Pink Panther films (1982 and 1983). Lumley is best known as her character Patsy Stone in the long-running television series Absolutely Fabulous. Stage credits include Jonathan Miller's production of The Cherry Orchard(2007) at the Crucible Theatre, Sheffield and David Hirson's La Bête at the Comedy Theatre in 2010.
Watch a film clip on the sitter from the BBC Archive in the Media section below
by Unknown photographer
bromide press print, 1976
NPG x125695
Joanna Lumley; Jennifer Saunders as Edina and Patsy in 'Absolutely Fabulous'
by Trevor Leighton
cibachrome print, 1996
NPG x125837
by Debra Hurford Brown
C-type colour print, June 2005
NPG x135415
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