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Jennifer Saunders

Born · July 6, 1958 (66 years old)

Known For: Acting

Place of Birth: Sleaford, Lincolnshire, England, UK

Bio

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.

Known for

Absolutely Fabulous: Inside Out

Self

0.0

2024

Man and Witch: The Dance of a Thousand Steps

The Goose (voice)

6.1

2024

French & Saunders: Funny Women

Self

8.0

2021

The Magic Faraway Tree

0.0

Kirsty MacColl at the BBC

Self (archive footage)

5.0

2024

The Pentaverate

Maester of Dubrovnik / Saester of Dubrovnik · (6 episodes)

5.9

2022

Mel Giedroyc: Unforgivable

Self · (1 episode)

7.0

2021

Richard Osman's House of Games Night

Self - Contestant · (5 episodes)

6.3

2020

Ghosts

Lavinia · (1 episode)

8.1

2019

We Love Sitcom

0.0

2016

Insert Name Here

Self - Panelist · (1 episode)

7.0

2016

Gogglebox

Self · (1 episode)

6.8

2013

The Great Comic Relief Bake Off

Self - Contestant · (1 episode)

0.0

2013

Blandings

Lady Constance Keeble · (13 episodes)

7.2

2013

The Great Sport Relief Bake Off

Self - Host · (1 episode)

0.0

2012

This Is Jinsy

(8 episodes)

6.8

2010

The Life and Times of Vivienne Vyle

(6 episodes)

6.0

2007

A Bucket O' French and Saunders

(5 episodes)

6.3

2007

Would I Lie to You?

Self · (1 episode)

7.7

2007

The Graham Norton Show

Self · (10 episodes)

7.2

2007

Jam and Jerusalem

Caroline Martin · (19 episodes)

7.0

2006

Top Gear

Self - Star in a Reasonably-Priced Car · (1 episode)

7.5

2002

Pongwiffy

(14 episodes)

0.0

2002

The Magician's House

The Rat (voice) · (12 episodes)

5.5

1999

Let Them Eat Cake

(6 episodes)

6.8

1999

The Vicar of Dibley

Reverend Jen · (1 episode)

7.4

1994

Friends

Andrea Waltham · (2 episodes)

8.4

1994

Absolutely Fabulous

Edina · (39 episodes)

7.5

1992

Rita Rudner

(3 episodes)

0.0

1990

Employees From Hell

0.0

1989

Communicators From Hell

0.0

1989

The Storyteller

Badsister 1 · (1 episode)

8.1

1988

Comic Relief

(2 episodes)

6.0

1988

Going Live!

Self · (2 episodes)

6.0

1987

French & Saunders

Various Characters · (39 episodes)

7.5

1987

Omnibus Presents Comic Relief

(1 episode)

4.0

1986

Girls On Top

Jennifer · (13 episodes)

4.8

1985

Happy Families

Granny Fuddle · (6 episodes)

6.8

1985

The Young Ones

Sue · (1 episode)

7.9

1982

The Young Ones

Helen Mucus · (1 episode)

7.9

1982

Wogan

Self · (2 episodes)

4.5

1982

An Audience with...

Self · (2 episodes)

5.3

1978

The Secret Policeman's Ball

Self · (15 episodes)

5.0

1976

Have I Got a Bit More News for You

Self - Presenter · (4 episodes)

7.0

Have I Got a Bit More News for You

Self - Panellist · (1 episode)

7.0

Only Child

Sally · (1 episode)

9.0

2024

200% Wolf

Max (voice)

5.1

2024

We Work for the Dead

The Mother (voice)

0.0

2024

Dawn French Is a Huge Twat

Self (uncredited)

8.5

2023

imagine... French & Saunders: Pointed, Bitchy, Bitter

Self - featured artist

7.0

2023

Sumotherhood

DI Brookes

5.5

2023

Allelujah

Sister Gilpin

5.3

2023

Fantasy Football League

Themselves · (2 episodes)

7.0

2022

Death on the Nile

Marie Van Schuyler

6.4

2022

Sing 2

Nana (voice)

7.9

2021

The Stranger

Heidi Doyle · (8 episodes)

7.2

2020

Completely Bad News

Sally

0.0

2019

Mamma Mia! Here We Go Yet Again

Meryl Streep / Cher

7.9

2019

Celebrity Gogglebox

(1 episode)

6.6

2019

Moominvalley

Mymble · (1 episode)

7.3

2019

Isn't It Romantic

Natalie's Mother

6.2

2019

Patrick

Maureen

6.7

2018

Chuck Steel: Night of the Trampires

Dr. Alex Cular

7.2

2018

Lady Windermere's Fan

The Duchess of Berwick

10.0

2018

Grandpa's Great Escape

Miss Dandy

6.1

2018

Judith · (3 episodes)

7.4

2015

Minions

Reine Elizabeth II (voice)

6.4

2015

The Boy in the Dress

Miss Windsor

6.4

2014

The Last Leg

Self · (1 episode)

5.3

2013

The Spice Girls Story: Viva Forever!

Self

8.7

2012

Five Go to Rehab

Anne

0.0

2012

30 Years of Comic Strip

0.0

2012

Dead Boss

Governor Margaret · (6 episodes)

6.7

2012

Celebrity Antiques Road Trip

Self - Participant · (1 episode)

5.0

2011

The Hunt for Tony Blair

Lady Thatcher

7.8

2011

French & Saunders: The Ingenue Years

0.0

2011

Gentlemen Prefer French & Saunders

0.0

2011

Coraline: The Making of 'Coraline'

Self

5.0

2009

Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen

Self - Guest · (1 episode)

5.0

2009

Coraline

April Spink (voice)

7.9

2009

French and Saunders: Still Alive

Self

5.2

2008

L'Entente cordiale

Gwendoline McFarlane

4.6

2006

Remember the Secret Policeman's Ball?

Self

4.8

2004

Shrek 2

Fairy Godmother (voice)

7.3

2004

Top Gear

Self · (1 episode)

7.5

2002

The Best of French & Saunders

Various

0.0

2002

Absolutely Fabulous

Une spectatrice du défilé

5.0

2001

Kirsty: The Life and Songs of Kirsty MacColl

Self

0.0

2001

Mirrorball

Vivienne Keill

8.0

2000

French & Saunders - Live

Various roles

8.5

2000

Fanny & Elvis

Roanna

6.5

1999

Absolutely Fabulous: A Life

Edina "Eddy" Monsoon

10.0

1998

Four Men in a Car

Helen

0.0

1998

Parkinson

Self · (2 episodes)

0.0

1998

Spice World

Fashionable Woman

4.8

1997

Absolutely Fabulous: The Last Shout

Edina Monsoon

7.3

1996

Muppet Treasure Island

Mrs. Bluveridge

6.6

1996

In the Bleak Midwinter

Nancy

7.1

1995

How to Be Absolutely Fabulous

Self / Edina "Eddy" Monsoon (archive footage)

6.0

1995

Dusty

Self - Presenter

8.0

1994

Prince Cinders

Fairy (voice)

0.0

1993

Jealousy

Jane/Margory

0.0

1993

Demonella

The Devil

0.0

1993

Space Virgins from Planet Sex

Needle

0.0

1993

French & Saunders: At the Movies

7.5

1993

Wild Turkey

Neighbour

0.0

1992

Red Nose of Courage

Margaret Thatcher

0.0

1992

Amnesty International's Big 30

Self

4.0

1991

The Tale of Little Pig Robinson

Dorcas

0.0

1990

French & Saunders LIVE

0.0

1990

Spaghetti Hoops

Maria

0.0

1990

Oxford

Hannah

0.0

1990

South Atlantic Raiders: Part 1

Cathy

0.0

1990

South Atlantic Raiders: Part 2 Argie Bargie!

Cathy

0.0

1990

GLC: The Carnage Continues

6.0

1987

Butterfly Stroke

Ruth

0.0

Mr Jolly Lives Next Door

Monica

8.2

1988

Comedians Do It On Stage

Self

0.0

1986

Private Enterprise

Debbie

0.0

1986

Consuela (or, The New Mrs Saunders)

Jessica

0.0

1986

Anne

(46 episodes)

7.3

1982

The Comic Strip

0.0

1981