Jamie Lumley: Who is Joanna Lumley’s son

Who is Joanna Lumley’s son

Jamie Lumley is a British Photographer and the son of Joanna Lumley. Jamie Lumley’s mother is an English actress, presenter, former model, author, television producer, and activist. She has been awarded two BAFTA TV Awards for her role as Patsy Stone in the BBC sitcom Absolutely Fabulous. She was nominated for the 2011 Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play for the Broadway revival of La Bête. She went from small roles including “Curse of the Pink Panther” (1983) and “Shirley Valentine” (1989), and became a worldwide star as the hard-living fashion editor Patsy Stone.

Jamie Lumley: Bio Summary

How old is Jamie Lumley?

Born on October 16, 1967, Jamie Lumley is a British photographer and artist known for his work on The Midnight Sky (2020), Breathtaking (2000), and Harrigan (2013) per his IMDB profile. As of 2024, Jamie Lumley is 57 years old. He worked as a production manager in The Vice of 2001. Jamie Lumley is also popular for being the only son of top British actress Joanna Lumley.

Who is the father of Joanna Lumley’s son Jamie?

Jamie Lumley’s father is photographer Michael Claydon. However, James’ parents never got married. Joana was just 21 years old when Jamie was born, and she had to leave him with his grandparents since she couldn’t afford to help with his expenses per the Guardian. Jamie Lumley’s guardians are perplexed since he is Jeremy Lloyd’s ex-stepson. In addition, he is Stephen Barlow’s stepson.

 Jamie Lumley is married to his significant other Teresa Gibbs. The pair married in 2002 In a beautiful ceremony in the presence of friends, family, and loved ones and are still together. However, there isn’t much information available regarding how their love story started.

Jamie Lumley and his better half Teresa Gibbs have two children. Their senior girl is Alice Daisy, born in 2003, and their younger girl Emily Kate was born in 2004.

Jamie developed a love and passion for photography at a very young age. He started taking photographs when he was six, but his professional career started in 1999 when he studied professional photographic practice at the London College of Printing.

While chatting with Esther Rantzen on her That’s After Life! podcast, the actress revealed how she sent Jamie to boarding school while she was busy with her work. Before sending him away, she had promised to pick him up if he didn’t enjoy it but never got Jamie’s letter pleading for her to rescue him. 

“I made a pact with him,” Joanna Lumley told Esther Rantzen. “I said, “Look, if you hate it, just write to me and say you hate it and I’ll come and sweep you away, it doesn’t matter at all.‘”

She continued-“He wrote me letters but I discovered much later that the headmaster had taken all the letters. The boys had to give all their letters to the headmaster before they were sealed up and posted and he was made to rewrite the ones that said, ‘Please take me away.‘” In a different interview with Australian Women’s Weekly, the actress openly admitted that not receiving Jamie’s letter remains one of her main regrets about his childhood.

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What does Joanna Lumley’s son do?

After school, Joanna Lumley’s son, Jamie Lumley has worked on assignments in Borneo and Nepal, and he frequently travels around the UK – creating informal and formal portraits, capturing corporate events and weddings, detailing locations and long-running construction projects, and presenting urban and rural landscapes for exhibition. His work has been shown in London, Poland, Paris, and Bejing and he exhibits with the Cynthia Corbett Gallery.

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Aside from being an actress, Jamie Lumley’s mother, Joanna supports over 60 charities. She has been a vegetarian for 40 years. She has donated books to Book Aid International. She is a patron of the Born Free Foundation and is passionate about the Free Tibet campaign.