Joanna Lumley Net Worth

Joanna Lumley's Quotes

• At boarding school I even kept mice in my underclothes drawer. It made me smell most attractive, as you can imagine.
• Giraffes are completely tranquil-they have no predators as adults because there's not an animal in the jungle stupid enough to go for them.
• Giraffes are fairytale animals, almost heraldic-as if from the land of fables. They have extremely beautiful faces, huge eyes, very sensitive nostrils and Oh, blue tongues!
• Hundreds of political prisoners still suffer in Tibetan prisons. Freedom of speech is not allowed in any sense. It is illegal to possess a photo of the Dalai Lama.
• I can't see any difference in having your hair dyed, your teeth fixed, your nose done, or your face smoothed out or lifted.

Interesting Facts about Joanna Lumley

1. Is a vegetarian and an active crusader for animal rights.
2. Born at 7:30pm-IST.
3. Her father was a major in the Gurkha Rifles.
4. She was awarded the OBE (Officer of the Order of the British Empire) in the 1995 Queen's New Year Honours List for her services to drama and charity.
5. She went into modeling after failing her audition at Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. She was told she was "Too fat and too ugly!".
6. Has one son, Jamie Lumley, born in 1967, from a relationship with photographer Michael Claydon.
7. Received an honorary doctorate of letters from the University of Kent at Canterbury in July 1994 "for her contribution to the entertainment industry and her active charitable work".
8. Her grandfather was Colonel Leslie Weir, CIE, a political officer of the British Raj in India, were she was born. Joanna recreated the trip he and his wife made in 1931 to visit the King of Bhutan in Joanna Lumley in the Kingdom of the Thunderdragon (1997).
9. Received an honorary doctorate from Oxford Brookes University in 2002.
10. In an episode of Absolutely Fabulous (1992), her character claims to have been a Bond Girl, then says "Julian Bond". Lumley actually was a Bond Girl in On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969).
11. Is one of the most respected British actresses despite the fact she has had no acting training.
12. Received an honorary doctorate from the University of St Andrews in 2006.
13. In 1991, an Oxford University college changed the name of its common room from Nelson Mandela to Joanna Lumley.
14. The BBC programme Girl Friday (1994) in which Lumley was left to fend for herself on a desert island for 10 days, heralded a new reality television genre, which spawned "Shipwrecked", "Survivor", etc.
15. Despite having a very small role in On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969), she spent two months on the production, dubbing the voices of a whole line up of international beauties in German, Chinese and Norwegian accents.
16. Is a self-confessed huge fan of James Bond and of his creator Ian Fleming, being very proud of her role as a Bond Girl.
17. In April 2009, she became the spokeswoman for the Gurkhas in the United Kingdom and was instrumental in persuading the British government to allow Gurkhas who had served in the Army the right to settle in the United Kingdom. When she visited Nepal in July 2009, she was treated as a heroine and a goddess by crowds of people on the street, and was thanked by Nepal's President and Prime Minister for her work in championing the Gurkhas' cause.
18. Is also "the voice" of AOL in Great Britain. She greets subscribers when they "log on", tells them they have mail, and says goodbye when they "log off". She revealed this on The Graham Norton Show (2007) a couple of years back.
19. Grandmother to Alice Daisy (born April 2003) and Emily Kate (born October 2004) via son Jamie Lumley.
20. She has Scottish, English, Danish (from a maternal great-grandfather), and Irish ancestry.