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 155
Movies 101
TV Shows 54
self 44
Writer 13
Voice 12
Creator 4
Screenplay 1

Only Child (2024)

Absolutely Fabulous: Inside Out (2024)

Kirsty MacColl at the BBC (2024)

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

200% Wolf (2024)

We Work for the Dead (2024)

Dawn French Is a Huge Twat (2023)

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

Sumotherhood (2023)

Allelujah (2023)

Fantasy Football League (2022)

The Pentaverate (2022)

Death on the Nile (2022)

Sing 2 (2021)

Richard Osman's House of Games Night (2020)

The Stranger (2020)

Mamma Mia! Here We Go Yet Again (2019)

There's Something About Movies (2019)

Hard to Please OAPs (2019)

Moominvalley (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)

Joanna and Jennifer: Absolutely Champers (2017)

Tommy Cooper Forever (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)

The Great Comic Relief Bake Off (2013)

Blandings (2013)

Dead Boss (2012)

The Great Sport Relief Bake Off (2012)

Celebrity Antiques Road Trip (2011)

The Hunt for Tony Blair (2011)

Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen (2009)

Coraline (2009)

French and Saunders: Still Alive (2008)

Jam and Jerusalem (2006)

L'Entente cordiale (2006)

Shrek 2 (2004)

Top Gear (2002)

The Best of French & Saunders (2002)

Absolutely Fabulous (2001)

Mirrorball (2000)

French & Saunders - Live (2000)

The Magician's House (1999)

Absolutely Fabulous: A Life (1998)

Spice World (1997)

Absolutely Fabulous: The Last Shout (1996)

Muppet Treasure Island (1996)

How to Be Absolutely Fabulous (1995)

Friends (1994)

Dusty (1994)

Prince Cinders (1993)

Jealousy (1993)

Demonella (1993)

Wild Turkey (1992)

Absolutely Fabulous (1992)

Red Nose of Courage (1992)

Oxford (1990)

GLC: The Carnage Continues (1990)

The Simpsons (1989)

The Storyteller (1988)

The Strike (1988)

Eat the Rich (1987)

French & Saunders (1987)

Consuela (or, The New Mrs Saunders) (1986)

The Supergrass (1985)

Girls On Top (1985)

Happy Families (1985)

Slags (1984)

Susie (1984)

Bad News (1983)

War (1983)

The Young Ones (1982)

The Comic Strip Presents... (1982)

Wogan (1982)

Have I Got a Bit More News for You

Night and Day
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Known ForActing
GenderFemale
Birthday1958-07-06 (66 years old)
Birth PlaceSleaford, United Kingdom
SpouseAde Edmondson
ChildrenBeattie Edmondson, Ella Edmondson
CitizenshipsUnited Kingdom
Also Known As제니퍼 손더스, Jennifer Jane Saunders, جنیفر ساندرز
AwardsAcademy Fellowship Award
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