Joanna Lumley Joanna Lumley Joanna Lamond Lumley, (born 1 May 1946) is an English actress, former model, author and activist. She 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". In 2013, she received the Special Recognition Award at the National Television Awards and in 2017, she was honoured with the BAFTA Fellowship award. Lumley's other television credits include "The New Avengers" (1976–77), "Sapphire & Steel" (1979–82), "Sensitive Skin" (2005–07), and
Quatermass and the Pit final series of "The Two Ronnies" in 1986: the sketch featured a guest appearance by Joanna Lumley. Notes Citations Bibliography Quatermass and the Pit Quatermass and the Pit is a British television science-fiction serial transmitted live by BBC Television in December 1958 and January 1959. It was the third and last of the BBC's "Quatermass" serials, although the chief character, Professor Bernard Quatermass, reappeared in a 1979 ITV production called "Quatermass". Like its predecessors, "Quatermass and the Pit" was written by Nigel Kneale. The serial continues the loose chronology of the Quatermass adventures. Workmen excavating a site in Knightsbridge, London,