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Joanna Lumley

Joanna Lumley

3 films · 134 frames · top-billed in 1 · 19962013

Born 1 May 1946 · Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir, British India

Dame Joanna Lamond Lumley DBE FRGS is a British actress, presenter, former model, author, television producer, and activist. She has won two BAFTA TV Awards for her role as Patsy Stone in the BBC sitcom Absolutely Fabulous (1992–2012), and was nominated for the 2011 Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play for the Broadway revival of La Bête.

Awards

On FrameThrower we have: 3 films · 134 frames · top-billed in 1 · 19962013

  • BAFTA Fellowship2017
  • Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire2022
  • Officer of the Order of the British Empire1995
  • Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society

How their films are shot

Measured across 134 frames from the 3 films we hold. This is the look of the work Joanna takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.

Across the 3 films we hold, 53% of their frames are night, 54% low key — the look of the work Joanna takes.

Time of day

Night53%
Day38%
Interior5%

Lighting

Low key54%
Natural27%
High key16%

Shot size

Medium41%
Wide29%
Closeup21%
Establishing5%

Camera angle

Eye level73%
High angle12%
Low angle11%

Mood

Neutral63%
Tense13%
Lonely7%
Ominous6%

Films in the library

Every poster opens that film — stills, cinematography notes and colour palette.

A reference database for filmmakers

FrameThrower is a fully machine-searchable film database and visual reference library — all 134 frames from Joanna Lumley's 3 films, and 5,000+ films besides, indexed frame by frame and readable by AI. Search it in plain language, from a reference image, or by colour; call it from an API, an MCP server or an SDK. It's the reference layer for making the next movie.