Joanna Lumley

Dame Joanna Lumley, OBE, FRGS (born 1 May 1946 ) is a British actress, born in India. She played the Thirteenth Doctor in the Comic Relief episode The Curse of Fatal Death in 1999; this makes Lumley one of only four women to date who have played the Doctor in a BBC-licensed production. The others are Arabella Weir, who played an alternate universe Doctor in the Big Finish Productions audio drama Exile, Jodie Whittaker, who plays the other Thirteenth Doctor and Jo Martin who played a previously unseen incarnation.

Joanna Lumley was the technically the first woman to portray The Doctor in The Curse of Fatal Death, a special with the Doctor also being played Rowan Atkinson, Jim Broadbent and many others.

Outside of Doctor Who, she is perhaps best known for playing Patsy Stone in Absolutely Fabulous (alongside Jennifer Saunders, Julia Sawalha and June Whitfield), Sapphire in the sci-fi series Sapphire & Steel and Purdey in The New Avengers (a continuation of the series created by Sydney Newman). She also had a small role in the James Bond film On Her Majesty's Secret Service alongside Catherine Schell and also had a role in the two Pink Panther movies produced following the death of Peter Sellers.

She was made a Dame in the New Year Honours list 2022.

In the DWU
once claimed that she knew Joanna Lumley when she was a "Bond girl" in the story Came to Believe.