- Born
- Place
Jennifer Saunders
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.
As actor
The Magic Faraway Tree
Virginia Woolf's Night & Day
Becoming Victoria Wood
People's Emergency Briefing
We Work for the Dead
200% Wolf
Man and Witch: The Dance of a Thousand Steps
Kirsty MacColl at the BBC
Absolutely Fabulous: Inside Out
Allelujah
Sumotherhood
Dawn French Is a Huge Twat
imagine... French & Saunders: Pointed, Bitchy, Bitter
Death on the Nile
The Best Birthday Ever
Sing 2
French & Saunders: Funny Women
Mamma Mia! Here We Go Yet Again
Isn't It Romantic
Completely Bad News
Chuck Steel: Night of the Trampires
Patrick
Grandpa's Great Escape
Lady Windermere's Fan
Comic Relief: Red Nose Day
300 Years of French & Saunders
Joanna and Jennifer: Absolutely Champers
Sing
Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie
British Sitcom: 60 Years of Laughing at Ourselves