Jennifer Saunders

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.

20 TV shows

TV Shows

Other Credits

French & Saunders, Let Them Eat Cake, Girls On Top, Mel Giedroyc: Unforgivable, The Life and Times of Vivienne Vyle, The Secret Policeman's Ball, The Magician's House, Omnibus Presents Comic Relief, Happy Families, Blandings, A Bucket O' French and Saunders, Pongwiffy, Comic Relief, This Is Jinsy, The Pentaverate, Top Gear, Rita Rudner, Gogglebox, Wogan, Insert Name Here, The Great Comic Relief Bake Off, The Great Sport Relief Bake Off, Let's Sing and Dance for Comic Relief, Fantasy Football League, Dead Boss, Celebrity Gogglebox, Josh, The Dangerous Brothers, Only Child, There's Something About Movies, Roseanne, Jam and Jerusalem, Richard Osman's House of Games Night, The Claudia Winkleman Show