Joanna Lumley

Films include:. But she silenced her critics in 1958, when four of her films turned out to be superhits - Phagun, Howrah Bridge opposite Ashok Kumar, Kala Pani opposite Dev Anand and Chalti ka Naam Gaadi opposite her future husband Kishore Kumar. Television includes:. This also led to a lean phase in her career. Lumley was awarded an OBE in 1995. Her romance with Dilip Kumar didn't blossom due to opposition by her conservative family. The first of her two subsequent marriages was to comedy writer, Jeremy Lloyd. Madhubala's off-screen life was a tragedy.

However, following her rise to fame, she revealed that she had been an unmarried mother during the 1960s when it was socially unacceptable. Many other hits followed Mahal. She has specialised in playing upper-class parts, and her distinctive plummy voice has reinforced this. The song Aayega Aanewaala made the careers of Madhubala as well as the playback singer Lata Mangeshkar. Her first major role was as Purdey in The New Avengers: a revival of the secret agent series The Avengers. The film became a super hit. Tall, leggy, thin and blonde, she began her acting career as a Bond girl in On Her Majesty's Secret Service. In 1949, Madhubala starred in Bombay Talkies production Mahal.

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. Her big break came when Kidar Sharma gave her a change to act opposite Raj Kapoor in Neel Kamal (1947). Trail of the Pink Panther. Her first film was Basant (1942). Tam Lin. She entered Bollywood as a child-artist under the name Baby Mumtaz. Sweeney Todd. Her birth name was Mumtaz Jahan Begum.

Some Girls Do. Madhubala was born as the 5th child into a poor Muslim family of 11 children. Shirley Valentine. She was married to the famous playback singer and actor Kishore Kumar. The Satanic Rites of Dracula. Her major motion pictures include Mahal and Mughal-e-Azam. Prince Valiant. Madhubala (February 14, 1933 - February 23, 1969) is considered one of most beautiful actresses to have graced the screens of Bollywood.

Parting Shots. On Her Majesty's Secret Service. Mad Cows. James and the Giant Peach.

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.