Jennifer Saunders
Acting
- Born:
- 1958-07-06
- Place of birth:
- Sleaford, Lincolnshire, England, UK
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
People's Emergency Briefing
The Magic Faraway Tree
The Claudia Winkleman Show
Becoming Victoria Wood
Too Much
Only Child
Absolutely Fabulous: Inside Out
Kirsty MacColl at the BBC
Man and Witch: The Dance of a Thousand Steps
200% Wolf
We Work for the Dead
Dawn French Is a Huge Twat
imagine... French & Saunders: Pointed, Bitchy, Bitter
Sumotherhood
Allelujah
Fantasy Football League
The Pentaverate
Death on the Nile
The Best Birthday Ever
Sing 2
French & Saunders: Funny Women
Mel Giedroyc: Unforgivable
Richard Osman's House of Games Night
The Stranger
Completely Bad News
Mamma Mia! Here We Go Yet Again
Celebrity Gogglebox
There's Something About Movies
Moominvalley
Isn't It Romantic
Patrick
Chuck Steel: Night of the Trampires
Lady Windermere's Fan
Grandpa's Great Escape
300 Years of French & Saunders
Joanna and Jennifer: Absolutely Champers
Comic Relief: Red Nose Day
Let's Sing and Dance for Comic Relief
Sing
British Sitcom: 60 Years of Laughing at Ourselves
We Love Sitcom
Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie
Insert Name Here
Stick Man
Josh
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Minions
The Boy in the Dress
Gogglebox
The Last Leg
The Great Comic Relief Bake Off
Blandings
The Spice Girls Story: Viva Forever!
Five Go to Rehab
30 Years of Comic Strip
Dead Boss
The Great Sport Relief Bake Off
Celebrity Antiques Road Trip
The Hunt for Tony Blair