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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.
James Lumley (c. 1706 – 14 March 1766) was an English Member of Parliament and landowner. Lumley was the seventh son of Richard Lumley, 1st Earl of Scarbrough and was educated at Eton College in 1718 and King's College, Cambridge in 1723. [1] His biography in The History of Parliament describes him as "uncouth and illiterate".
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.
James Lumley (c. 1706–1766), was an English Member of Parliament. James Lumley may also refer to: Sir James Rutherford Lumley (1773–1846), English soldier of the Bengal Army in British India
Harry Lumley (baseball) (1880–1938) Harry Lumley (ice hockey) James Rutherford Lumley (1773–1846), Bengal Army major-general; Jane Lumley, wife of John Lumley, 1st Baron Lumley; Joanna Lumley, British actress; John Lumley, 1st Baron Lumley; John Lumley (real tennis), British real tennis player; John L. Lumley, American Professor of ...
A son of the Reverend James Lumley and his wife Alice Rutherford, he was baptised on 22 December 1773 at Longford, Shropshire. [1] Lumley was commissioned into the Honourable East India Company’s Bengal Infantry [2] and by 1824 was a lieutenant-colonel. [3] In January 1837 he was promoted to Major-General. [4]
After leaving drama school, she joined the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) in 1965. Over the next six years, she played many small roles with the RSC in a variety of plays, gradually building up to larger parts such as Hoyden in The Relapse and culminating in Peter Brook's acclaimed production of A Midsummer Night's Dream, in which she played Helena as a comic "tour de force".
Born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, [1] Linda Robinson attended Bishop Strachan School, [2] and then moved to the UK in 1965 to study acting. [3] She graduated from the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art with an Honours Diploma, including speaking and singing honours (soprano), on July 1, 1967.