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Dawn French

Known for: Acting

Biography: 1957-10-11 (67 years old)

Biography

Dawn Roma French (born 11 October 1957) is a British actress, comedian, presenter and writer. French is known for writing and starring on the BBC comedy sketch show French and Saunders with her best friend and comedy partner, Jennifer Saunders, and played the lead role as Geraldine Granger in the BBC sitcom The Vicar of Dibley. She has been nominated for seven BAFTA TV Awards and won a BAFTA Fellowship with Saunders in 2009.

Filmography

all 167

Movies 103

TV Shows 64

self 52

Writer 6

Voice 4

Narrator 3

Creator 2

Self (archive footage)

Dawn French

Biography

Filmography

all 167

Movies 103

TV Shows 64

self 52

Writer 6

Voice 4

Narrator 3

Creator 2

Kirsty MacColl at the BBC (2024)

Joan Rivers at the BBC (2024)

The Nevermets (2024)

Dawn French Is a Huge Twat (2023)

imagine... French & Saunders: Pointed, Bitchy, Bitter (2023)

The Magician's Elephant (2023)

Comedy Classics: The Vicar of Dibley (2022)

Red Riding Hood: After Ever After (2022)

Death on the Nile (2022)

Walk the Line (2021)

An Audience with Adele (2021)

The Secret World Of... (2021)

French & Saunders: Funny Women (2021)

The Vicar of Dibley: Inside Out (2021)

Rick Stein's Cornwall (2021)

A Baby Reindeer's First Christmas (2020)

Roald & Beatrix: The Tail of the Curious Mouse (2020)

The Vicar of Dibley: In Lockdown (2020)

Cornwall Air 999 (2020)

The Trouble with Maggie Cole (2020)

Completely Bad News (2019)

RuPaul's Drag Race UK (2019)

300 Years of French & Saunders (2017)

Comic Relief: Red Nose Day (2017)

Little Big Shots (2017)

Confessions of the Paparazzi (2017)

Dawn French Live: 30 Million Minutes (2016)

Delicious (2016)

Darcey Bussell: My Life on the BBC (2016)

British Sitcom: 60 Years of Laughing at Ourselves (2016)

Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie (2016)

Travel Man: 48 Hours in... (2015)

The Wrong Mans (2013)

Heading Out (2013)

Five Go to Rehab (2012)

30 Years of Comic Strip (2012)

Superstar (2012)

Matthew Bourne's Christmas (2011)

Michael Bublé: Home for Christmas (2011)

Catherine Tate: Laughing at the Noughties (2011)

Behind the Britcoms: From Script to Screen (2011)

Gentlemen Prefer French & Saunders (2011)

French & Saunders: The Ingenue Years (2011)

Little Crackers (2010)

Psychoville Halloween Special (2010)

Animals United (2010)

Roger & Val Have Just Got In (2010)

Victoria Wood: Seen on TV (2009)

Coraline: The Making of 'Coraline' (2009)

Psychoville (2009)

Coraline (2009)

French and Saunders: Still Alive (2008)

The Metropolitan Opera: La Fille du Régiment (2008)

Lark Rise to Candleford (2008)

Dawn French's Boys Who Do Comedy (2007)

More Dawn French's Boys Who Do: Comedy (2007)

A Bucket O' French and Saunders (2007)

Donizetti: La Fille du Régiment (2007)

The Graham Norton Show (2007)

Comedy Shuffle (2007)

More Dawn French's Girls Who Do: Comedy (2006)

Jam and Jerusalem (2006)

Love and Other Disasters (2006)

The One Show (2006)

When Comedy Changed Forever (2006)

Davina (2006)

The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (2005)

The F Word (2005)

The Comic Strip - A Retrospective (2005)