Jennifer Saunders
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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.Read full biography
TV Shows
23 Tracked Shows
Other Credits
The Claudia Winkleman Show (2026), Only Child (2024), Fantasy Football League (2022), Mel Giedroyc: Unforgivable (2021), Richard Osman's House of Games Night (2020), There's Something About Movies (2019), Let's Sing and Dance for Comic Relief (2017), Insert Name Here (2016), Josh (2015), Blandings (2013), Gogglebox (2013), The Great Comic Relief Bake Off (2013), The Great Sport Relief Bake Off (2012), Dead Boss (2012), This Is Jinsy (2010), The Life and Times of Vivienne Vyle (2007), A Bucket O' French and Saunders (2007), Jam and Jerusalem (2006), Pongwiffy (2002), Let Them Eat Cake (1999), The Magician's House (1999), Rita Rudner (1990), Comic Relief (1988), Roseanne (1988), French & Saunders (1987), Omnibus Presents Comic Relief (1986), The Dangerous Brothers (1986), Girls On Top (1985), Happy Families (1985), Wogan (1982), The Secret Policeman's Ball (1976)