Jennifer Saunders
Biography
Jennifer Jane Saunders is an English comedienne, screenwriter, singer and actress. She has won two BAFTAs, an International Emmy Award, a British Comedy Award, a Rose d'Or Light Entertainment Festival Award, two Writers' Guild of Great Britain Awards, and a Peoples Choice Award.
She first came into widespread attention in the 1980s and early 1990s when she became a member of The Comic Strip after graduating from the Central School of Speech and Drama. Along with her comedy partner Dawn French, she writes and stars in their eponymous sketch show, French & Saunders, and has received international acclaim for writing and playing the lead role of Edina Monsoon in the BBC sitcom Absolutely Fabulous.
In her other work, she has guest starred in the American sitcoms Roseanne and Friends, and won the American People's Choice Award for voicing the wicked Fairy Godmother in DreamWorks' animated Shrek 2. More recently, she wrote and starred in Jam & Jerusalem and The Life and Times of Vivienne Vyle.
Personal info
Gender
Female
Birthday
1958-07-06
Place of birth
Sleaford, Lincolnshire, England, UK
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Cast
Shrek 2
2004
7.29
Muppet Treasure Island
1996
6.67
L'Entente cordiale
2006
4.62
Allelujah
2023
5.20
Sumotherhood
2023
5.10
In the Bleak Midwinter
1995
7.10
Coraline
2009
7.89
Sing 2
2021
7.85
Absolutely Fabulous
2001
5.00
We Work for the Dead
2024
0.00
The Hunt for Tony Blair
2011
7.80
French and Saunders: Still Alive
2008
5.20
The Supergrass
1985
6.20
An Audience With Victoria Wood
1988
5.20
Comic Relief: Red Nose Day
2017
9.00
Mamma Mia! Here We Go Yet Again
2019
7.60
The Best of French & Saunders
2002
0.00
French & Saunders LIVE
1990
0.00
Absolutely Fabulous: A Life
1998
10.00
How to Be Absolutely Fabulous
1995
6.00
Demonella
1993
0.00
Summer School
1983
0.00
Jealousy
1993
0.00
Five Go Mad in Dorset
1982
0.00
Four Men in a Car
1998
0.00
Eddie Monsoon - a Life?
1984
0.00
War
1983
10.00
The Beat Generation
1983
0.00
Five Go Mad on Mescalin
1983
0.00
Dirty Movie
1984
0.00
Susie
1984
0.00
Gino: Full Story and Pics
1984
0.00
Slags
1984
0.00
Private Enterprise
1986
0.00
South Atlantic Raiders: Part 1
1990
0.00
Oxford
1990
0.00
Spaghetti Hoops
1990
0.00
Red Nose of Courage
1992
0.00
Wild Turkey
1992
0.00
Five Go to Rehab
2012
0.00
Dawn French Is a Huge Twat
2023
8.50
30 Years of Comic Strip
2012
0.00
The Boy in the Dress
2014
6.40
Amnesty International's Big 30
1991
4.00
Minions
2015
6.41
Eat the Rich
1987
6.06
Sing
2016
7.11
200% Wolf
2024
5.40
Butterfly Stroke
0.00
Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie
2016
5.30
Stick Man
2015
6.80
The Comic Strip
1981
0.00
French & Saunders - Live
2000
8.50
Mr Jolly Lives Next Door
1988
8.20
Comedians Do It On Stage
1986
0.00
Spice World
1997
4.86
The Strike
1988
7.00
Patrick
2018
6.70
Grandpa's Great Escape
2018
6.10
300 Years of French & Saunders
2017
0.00
Lady Windermere's Fan
2018
10.00
Bad News
1983
8.70
More Bad News
1988
9.80
Space Virgins from Planet Sex
1993
0.00
Dusty
1994
8.00
Fanny & Elvis
1999
6.50
Isn't It Romantic
2019
6.21
Death on the Nile
2022
6.43
GLC: The Carnage Continues
1990
0.00
Completely Bad News
2019
0.00
The Tale of Little Pig Robinson
1990
0.00
Prince Cinders
1993
0.00
Mirrorball
2000
8.00
French & Saunders: At the Movies
1993
7.50
A Fistful of Travellers' Cheques
1984
7.00
French & Saunders: Funny Women
2021
8.00
Kirsty MacColl at the BBC
2024
5.00
Employees From Hell
1989
0.00
Communicators From Hell
1989
0.00
Absolutely Fabulous: Inside Out
2024
0.00
We Love Sitcom
2016
0.00
Night and Day
0.00
The Silurian Disruption
1987
0.00