Known For
Acting
Born
Jul 06, 1958
Place of Birth
Sleaford, Lincolnshire, England, UK
Credits
167 titles
Jennifer Saunders
Biography
Jennifer Jane Saunders (born 6 July 1958) 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.
Known For
Filmography
Virginia Woolf's Night & Day
Bess Hilbery
People's Emergency Briefing
Herself
The Magic Faraway Tree
Grandma
The Claudia Winkleman Show
Self
Becoming Victoria Wood
Self
Too Much
Fiona
Only Child
Sally
Absolutely Fabulous: Inside Out
Self / Edina "Eddie" Monsoon
Kirsty MacColl at the BBC
Self (archive footage)
Man and Witch: The Dance of a Thousand Steps
The Goose (voice)
200% Wolf
Max (voice)
We Work for the Dead
The Mother (voice)
Dawn French Is a Huge Twat
Self (uncredited)
imagine... French & Saunders: Pointed, Bitchy, Bitter
Self - Featured Artist
Sumotherhood
DI Brookes
Allelujah
Sister Gilpin
Fantasy Football League
Themselves
The Pentaverate
Maester of Dubrovnik / Saester of Dubrovnik
Death on the Nile
Marie Van Schuyler
The Best Birthday Ever
Mother (voice)
Sing 2
Nana (voice)
French & Saunders: Funny Women
Self
Mel Giedroyc: Unforgivable
Self
Richard Osman's House of Games Night
Self
The Stranger
Heidi Doyle
Completely Bad News
Sally
Mamma Mia! Here We Go Yet Again
Meryl Streep / Cher
Celebrity Gogglebox
Self
There's Something About Movies
Self - Team Captain
Moominvalley
Mymble
Isn't It Romantic
Natalie's Mother
Patrick
Maureen
Chuck Steel: Night of the Trampires
Dr. Alex Cular
Lady Windermere's Fan
The Duchess of Berwick
Grandpa's Great Escape
Miss Dandy
300 Years of French & Saunders
Joanna and Jennifer: Absolutely Champers
Self - Presenter
Comic Relief: Red Nose Day
Self
Let's Sing and Dance for Comic Relief
Self - Judge
Sing
Nana (voice)
British Sitcom: 60 Years of Laughing at Ourselves
Comedy Role (archive footage) (uncredited)
We Love Sitcom
Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie
Edina Monsoon
Insert Name Here
Self - Panelist
Stick Man
Narrator (voice)
Josh
Judith
Minions
Reine Elizabeth II (voice)
The Boy in the Dress
Miss Windsor
Gogglebox
Self
The Last Leg
Self