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.
Filmography
all 140
Movies 91
TV Shows 49
self 37
Voice 8
Writer 6
Narrator 1
Man and Witch: The Dance of a Thousand Steps (2024)
Dawn French Is a Huge Tw*t (2023)
imagine... French & Saunders: Pointed, Bitchy, Bitter (2023)
Sumotherhood (2023)
Allelujah (2023)
Fantasy Football League (2022)
The Pentaverate (2022)
Death on the Nile (2022)
Best Birthday Ever (2022)
Sing 2 (2021)
French & Saunders: Funny Women (2021)
Mel Giedroyc: Unforgivable (2021)
Richard Osman's House of Games Night (2020)
The Stranger (2020)
Completely Bad News (2019)
Mamma Mia! Here We Go Yet Again (2019)
There's Something About Movies (2019)
Hard to Please OAPs (2019)
Isn't It Romantic (2019)
Patrick (2018)
Chuck Steel: Night of the Trampires (2018)
Lady Windermere's Fan (2018)
Grandpa's Great Escape (2018)
300 Years of French & Saunders (2017)
Joanna and Jennifer: Absolutely Champers (2017)
Tommy Cooper Forever (2017)
Comic Relief: Red Nose Day (2017)
Let's Sing and Dance for Comic Relief (2017)
Sing (2016)
British Sitcom: 60 Years of Laughing at Ourselves (2016)
Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie (2016)
Insert Name Here (2016)
Stick Man (2015)
Josh (2015)
Minions (2015)
The Boy in the Dress (2014)
The Guess List (2014)
Jamie and Jimmy's Friday Night Feast (2014)
Gogglebox (2013)
The Great Comic Relief Bake Off (2013)
Blandings (2013)
The Spice Girls Story: Viva Forever! (2012)
Five Go to Rehab (2012)
30 Years of Comic Strip (2012)
Dead Boss (2012)
The Great Sport Relief Bake Off (2012)
Celebrity Antiques Road Trip (2011)
The Hunt for Tony Blair (2011)
French & Saunders: The Ingenue Years (2011)
Gentlemen Prefer French & Saunders (2011)
This Is Jinsy (2010)
Coraline: The Making of 'Coraline' (2009)
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen (2009)
Coraline (2009)
French and Saunders: Still Alive (2008)
The Life and Times of Vivienne Vyle (2007)
A Bucket O' French and Saunders (2007)
Would I Lie to You? (2007)
The Graham Norton Show (2007)
The Life and Times of Vivienne Vyle (2007)
Jam & Jerusalem (2006)
L'Entente cordiale (2006)
Remember the Secret Policeman's Ball? (2004)
Shrek 2 (2004)
Top Gear (2002)
The Best of French & Saunders (2002)
Pongwiffy (2002)
Absolutely Fabulous (2001)
Kirsty: The Life and Songs of Kirsty MacColl (2001)
Mirrorball (2000)
French & Saunders - Live (2000)
Fanny & Elvis (1999)
The Magician's House (1999)
Let Them Eat Cake (1999)
Comic Relief (1999)
Absolutely Fabulous: A Life (1998)
Four Men in a Car (1998)
First on Four (1998)
Spice World (1997)
Absolutely Fabulous: The Last Shout (1996)
Muppet Treasure Island (1996)
In the Bleak Midwinter (1995)
How to Be Absolutely Fabulous (1995)
Friends (1994)
Dusty (1994)
Prince Cinders (1993)
Jealousy (1993)
Demonella (1993)
Space Virgins from Planet Sex (1993)
French & Saunders: At the Movies (1993)
Wild Turkey (1992)
Absolutely Fabulous (1992)
Red Nose of Courage (1992)
Amnesty International's Big 30 (1991)
The Tale of Little Pig Robinson (1990)
Rita Rudner (1990)
French & Saunders LIVE (1990)
Spaghetti Hoops (1990)
Oxford (1990)
South Atlantic Raiders: Part 2 Argie Bargie! (1990)
South Atlantic Raiders: Part 1 (1990)
GLC: The Carnage Continues (1990)
The Simpsons (1989)
The Secret Policeman’s Biggest Ball (1989)
An Audience With Victoria Wood (1988)
The Storyteller (1988)
Mr Jolly Lives Next Door (1988)
More Bad News (1988)
The Strike (1988)
Eat the Rich (1987)
Going Live! (1987)
French & Saunders (1987)
Omnibus Presents Comic Relief (1986)
Private Enterprise (1986)
Consuela (or, The New Mrs Saunders) (1986)
The Dangerous Brothers (1986)
Dangerous Brothers Present: World of Danger (1986)
The Supergrass (1985)
Girls On Top (1985)
Happy Families (1985)
Slags (1984)
Eddie Monsoon - a Life? (1984)
Gino: Full Story and Pics (1984)
A Fistful of Travellers' Cheques (1984)
Susie (1984)
Dirty Movie (1984)
Five Go Mad on Mescalin (1983)
Summer School (1983)
Bad News Tour (1983)
The Beat Generation (1983)
War (1983)
The Young Ones (1982)
The Comic Strip Presents (1982)
Five Go Mad in Dorset (1982)
Wogan (1982)
The Comic Strip (1981)
An Audience with... (1978)
The Secret Policeman's Ball (1976)
Have I Got a Bit More News for You
We Work for the Dead
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Known ForActing
GenderFemale
Birthday1958-07-06 (65 years old)
Birth PlaceSleaford, United Kingdom
SpouseAde Edmondson
ChildrenBeattie Edmondson, Ella Edmondson
CitizenshipsUnited Kingdom
Also Known As제니퍼 손더스, Jennifer Jane Saunders
AwardsAcademy Fellowship Award
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