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Jennifer Saunders
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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.
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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
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
The Graham Norton Show
The Simpsons
Friends
Have I Got a Bit More News for You
Wogan
Would I Lie to You?
Top Gear
Parkinson
Celebrity Gogglebox
The Storyteller
Ghosts
The Great Sport Relief Bake Off
Let's Sing and Dance for Comic Relief
Gogglebox
The Great Comic Relief Bake Off
The Vicar of Dibley
Going Live!
The Magician's House
Josh
Comic Relief
Spice World
Sing 2
Death on the Nile
Absolutely Fabulous
Omnibus Presents Comic Relief
Richard Osman's House of Games Night
Shrek 2
Sing
Kirsty: The Life and Songs of Kirsty MacColl
Isn't It Romantic
Red Nose of Courage
South Atlantic Raiders: Part 2 Argie Bargie!
The Pentaverate
Minions
Four Men in a Car
Coraline: The Making of 'Coraline'
Spaghetti Hoops
This Is Jinsy
The Stranger
Wild Turkey
Dead Boss
Coraline
Mamma Mia! Here We Go Yet Again
GLC: The Carnage Continues
imagine... French & Saunders: Pointed, Bitchy, Bitter
Muppet Treasure Island
Kirsty MacColl at the BBC
Let Them Eat Cake
The Silurian Disruption
Joanna and Jennifer: Absolutely Champers
The Boy in the Dress
Jealousy
300 Years of French & Saunders
Demonella
The Best of French & Saunders
The Strike
Happy Families
A Bucket O' French and Saunders
French & Saunders: At the Movies
French & Saunders
Absolutely Fabulous
Absolutely Fabulous: A Life
How to Be Absolutely Fabulous
Oxford
Mirrorball
French & Saunders: The Ingenue Years
Production Credits
Absolutely Fabulous
The Best of French & Saunders
Absolutely Fabulous
Mirrorball
Absolutely Fabulous: A Life
French & Saunders
How to Be Absolutely Fabulous
Mamma Mia! Here We Go Yet Again
The Silurian Disruption
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