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Dame Joanna Lamond Lumley (born 1 May 1946) is a British actress, presenter, former model, author, television producer and activist. She has won two BAFTA TV Awards for her role as Patsy Stone in the BBC sitcom Absolutely Fabulous (1992–2012) and was nominated for the 2011 Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play for the Broadway revival of La Bête.
Purdey is a fictional character in the British TV series The New Avengers played by Joanna Lumley from 1976 to 1977. She was a spy working for British intelligence, partnered with John Steed (Patrick Macnee) and Mike Gambit (Gareth Hunt).
Patsy was the last of a string of children born to an aging Bohemian mother in Paris, who gave birth "like a sprinkler, scattering bastard babies all over Europe." [6]In a flashback showing Patsy's birth, after telling an attendant to cut the cord, Patsy's mother (Eleanor Bron) exclaims that she names the child Eurydice Colette Clytemnestra Dido Bathsheba Rabelais Patricia Cocteau Stone.
In 1994, Joanna Lumley and Gareth Hunt publicised the launch of the series on domestic videocassette. Sales were stronger than expected, prompting Brian Clemens to consider reuniting the two actors in a "spin-off" series. Although both were keen to participate and a script was written, plans stalled at an early stage for undisclosed reasons.
Joanna Lumley: 1973 Last appeared in 1974. Character Actor(s) Duration ... 1960–2016, 2019 Jessica Hadaway: Wendy Albiston: 2019 Tez Collier: Nick Judge 2019
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During the 1960s the alumni of the school included Sandra Paul, Celia Hammond, Shirley Anne Field and Joanna Lumley, who actually had careers modelling. Many of the students did not expect to enter a modelling career and the business became a de facto finishing school. [1]
Many of the top fashion models of the 1960s were photographed including Twiggy, [20] (Cole appeared in the BBC Documentary Twiggy, the face of the 60s, photographing Twiggy outside St Pancras Station in London), Joanna Lumley, [21] Grace Coddington, [22] Pattie Boyd, Paulene Stone, Linda Keith, Georgia Gold, Caroline Saunders, Shakira Baksh ...