Joanna Lumley

Films include:. Her acting credits include:. Television includes:. She was nominated for the Best Young Actress Guest Starring In A Television Series award at the 11th annual Youth in Film Award in 1988 and 1989. Lumley was awarded an OBE in 1995. She was a student of the Diane Hill Hardin Young Actors Space school, of which her sister Danica and Leonardo DiCaprio were also students. The first of her two subsequent marriages was to comedy writer, Jeremy Lloyd. She and co-star Josh Saviano dated for a little while.

However, following her rise to fame, she revealed that she had been an unmarried mother during the 1960s when it was socially unacceptable. While in Yale too, she was editor of a magazine named Portia. She has specialised in playing upper-class parts, and her distinctive plummy voice has reinforced this. She was at Yale from 1996 to 1999 to study economics and she graduated as a Magna Cum Laude. Her first major role was as Purdey in The New Avengers: a revival of the secret agent series The Avengers. Crystal loves to ski, and when she went to study at Yale, she was on their ski team. Tall, leggy, thin and blonde, she began her acting career as a Bond girl in On Her Majesty's Secret Service. Crystal still ended up participating in the show, as Becky Slater, who, in what was perhaps an irony, became Winnies love rival.

Joanna Lumley (born May 1, 1946 in Srinagar, Kashmir, India) is a British actress and former model who is best known for her portrayal of the chain smoking, boozing, cocaine-sniffing and other drug-taking sexpot Patsy Stone on the British comedy television show Absolutely Fabulous. As a matter of a fact, when Danica got the job as Winnie Cooper in The Wonder Years, directors had strongly considered giving the role of Winnie to Crystal instead before deciding on giving it to Danica. Trail of the Pink Panther. At the age of seven, her family moved up to Los Angeles, and both sisters began to show interest in acting, and would sometimes compete against each other for roles. Tam Lin. She and sister Danica McKellar were both born in San Diego, California. Sweeney Todd. Crystal McKellar (born August 16, 1976) is an American actress.

Some Girls Do. 50 Simple Things Kids Can Do To Save The Earth (1992), television special. Shirley Valentine. Judgement (1990) television movie, as Sabine Guitry. The Satanic Rites of Dracula. Fatal Judgement (1988) television movie. Prince Valiant. The Wonder Years (1988-1993).

Parting Shots. McDonalds television commercial (1985). On Her Majesty's Secret Service. Cabbage Patch Babies television commercial (1985). Mad Cows. Sunbelt Savings radio commercial (1984). James and the Giant Peach. Doubletree Hotel radio commercial (1984).

Innocent Lies. Games That Lovers Play. Funny Bones. Don't Just Lie There, Say Something.

Curse of the Pink Panther. The Breaking of Bumbo. Up In Town. A Rather English Marriage.

Sapphire and Steel. The New Avengers. Coronation Street.