Joanna Lumley has not added stand-up comedian to a CV that already includes modelling, acting and globetrotting. Instead It’s All About Me is, as the title suggests, ...

From Purdey to Patsy, Joanna's Ab Fab life ABSOLUTELY: A MEMOIR BY JOANNA LUMLEY (Weidenfeld & Nicolson £20) By JANE SHILLING FOR MAILONLINE Updated: 11:55 EDT, 14 October 2011 ...

Joanna Lumley has revealed that her character in the 1960s television series The Avengers was originally named Charlie. ... Instead, the female sidekick to the suave Steed became Purdey.

Joanna Lumley is worried about the younger generation’s work ethic and feels they need to understand “it’s a tough old world”. In a new interview, the 76-year-old British actor said that ...

Her acting career spans five decades - from a Bond girl in 1969 to the high-kicking spy Purdey in the New Avengers in the 1970s to the drunken Patsy Stone in Absolutely Fabulous in the 1990s.

For five decades Joanna Lumley has lit up screens. Her breakthrough role as Purdey in the 1976 TV series The New Avengers launched her as both a star and a style icon. She went on to appear in TV ...

Lumley as Purdey in The New Avengers. Credit: Getty “They wanted me to do it quite differently and to be a soppy girl with long hair skipping about in stockings, ...

Joanna Lumley is to receive the BAFTA Fellowship, the British Academy’s highest ... Her break-out role came in 1976 as Purdey in hit British spy show “The New Avengers,” opposite Patrick ...

INTERVIEW: In the late 1960s, all she had to do was look pretty. Her comic talent was finally revealed in Ab Fab, but Shakespeare always eluded her. Joanna Lumley talks to Louise East. When Joanna ...

Actress Joanna Lumley is best known for her roles as Patsy in Absolutely Fabulous and Purdey in The New Avengers, but she also starred in Coronation Street back in 1973 ...

Lumley was already a successful model when she had her breakout role as Purdey in The New Avengers in 1976. A title role in ITV’s Sapphire And Steel followed, with the series running for six ...

Joanna Lumley said there was a real bond between her and Patrick Macnee (Steed) and Gareth Hunt Credit: Photo: Geoffrey Swaine / Rex Features However the actress complained that it was the same ...