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Jennifer Saunders

Known for: Acting

Biography: 1958-07-06 (66 years old)

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 144

Movies 94

TV Shows 50

self 37

Writer 5

Voice 3

Narrator 1

The Goose (voice)

Jennifer Saunders

Biography

Filmography

all 144

Movies 94

TV Shows 50

self 37

Writer 5

Voice 3

Narrator 1

Man and Witch: The Dance of a Thousand Steps (2024)

200% Wolf (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)

The 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)

Celebrity Gogglebox (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)