The series is an updated version of The Avengers which also starred Macnee. During the nine-year run, he had three female assistants – Honor Blackman as Cathy Gale, Diana Rigg as Emma Peel and Linda ...

Joanna Lumley is one of the UK's most beloved stars, having appeared in a string of hit movies and TV shows. But what do we ...

Joanna Lumley is reflecting on her life and sharing ... start in Hollywood as Purdey in the ITV action series “The New Avengers” at age 30 in 1976. “It was a proper big part in a series ...

Dame Joanna Lumley is a British film and television icon ... was starring as Purdey in the popular television series The New Avengers in 1976, she was struggling to make ends meet. ' ...

Dame Joanna said they instead wanted to bring back “sexy” Avengers actress Linda Thorson for a planned 1970s sequel to the hit 1960s series. When she wasn’t available, Joanna, then catalogue ...

Joanna Lumley is worried about the younger generation ... her breakout role as Purdey in the 1976 two-season drama The New Avengers, she “was humble as can be, just desperately trying to ...

Joanna Lumley as Meghan Geoffrey-Bishop and Danielle ... As a younger actor, when she starred as Purdey in The New Avengers – a woman so famous she inspired a global hair trend – “even ...

Joanna Lumley, the beloved British actress famed for her roles in The Avengers and Absolutely Fabulous, took a trip down memory lane to her days on Coronation Street back in 1973. Cast as Elaine ...

Lumley also urged young people to worry less ... The actor’s breakout role arrived in The New Avengers (1976), in which she played a former ballerina retrained in the art of Savate (a French ...

Dame Joanna Lumley admits "there's not a lot of time ... on screen includes roles in timeless classics such as The New Avengers and Sapphire and Steel, cult favourite Absolutely Fabulous ...