Tall, leggy, thinly & light-haired, she began her acting career as a Bond girl in ''On Her Majesty's Secret Service. Her foremost major role wwhen as Purdey in The New Avengers: a revival of the secret professional series The Avengers.

She has specialised around swimming upper-class area, & her distinctive plummy voice has reinforced this. Even so, charted her rise to fame, she revealed that she experienced been an single mother when you took a 1960s when it was socially unacceptable. A foremost of her ii subsequent marriages was to comedy writer, Jeremy Lloyd.

Lumley was awarded an OBE in 1995. Inside 1999 she appeared in The Curse of Fatal Death — a special Comic Relief episode of Doctor Who— as a female version of the Doctor.

She is as well the car enthusiast, whose favorite TV programme is Top Gear. Her favorite car occurs as Triumph Stag convertible.

Television includes:*Absolutely Fabulous Coronation Street The New Avengers Sapphire & Steel Cluedo A Rather English Marriage Up In Town

Films include: The Breaking of Bumbo Curse of the Pink Panther Cold Comfort Farm Don't Just Lie There, Say Something Funny Bones Games That Lovers Play Innocent Lies James and the Giant Peach Mad Cows On Her Majesty's Secret Service Parting Shots Prince Valiant The Satanic Rites of Dracula Shirley Valentine Some Girls Do Sweeney Todd Tam Lin Trail of the Pink Panther''