ACTOR · BORN 1946
Joanna Lumley
- Born
- 1 May 1946
35 archived facts 4 topics 1 source Last reviewed Sep 2026
10 Facts About Joanna Lumley's Life and Family
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Joanna Lumley has a son, Jamie Lumley (born 1967), from her relationship with the photographer Michael Claydon.
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Through her son Jamie Lumley, Joanna Lumley is the grandmother of Alice Daisy Lumley (born April 2003) and Emily Kate Lumley (born October 2004).
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As Patrick Macnee's female sidekick in The New Avengers (1976), Joanna Lumley mentioned Honor Blackman as Macnee's favourite among his partners in the original The Avengers (1961) series.
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Joanna Lumley's father was a major in the Gurkha Rifles.
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Joanna Lumley received an honorary doctorate of letters from the University of Kent at Canterbury "for her contribution to the entertainment industry and her active charitable work".
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In 1991, a college at Oxford University renamed its common room from Nelson Mandela to Joanna Lumley.
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Joanna Lumley is of Scottish, English, Danish (through a maternal great-great-grandfather) and Irish descent.
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Joanna Lumley received honorary doctorates from Oxford Brookes University (2002), the University of St Andrews (2006), Queen's University Belfast (July 2008) and the University of Chester (March 2019).
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Her grandfather was Colonel Leslie Weir, CIE, a political officer in British India in the India where she was born. In Joanna Lumley in the Kingdom of the Thunder Dragon (1997), Joanna recreated the journey he and his wife made in 1931 to visit the King of Bhutan.
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She received an honorary doctorate from the University of Kent.
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