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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
Roseanne
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!
Too Much
Josh
The Magician's House
Comic Relief
Spice World
Sing 2
Death on the Nile
Absolutely Fabulous
Omnibus Presents Comic Relief
Richard Osman's House of Games Night
Kirsty: The Life and Songs of Kirsty MacColl
Shrek 2
Red Nose of Courage
Sing
Isn't It Romantic
Minions
The Pentaverate
South Atlantic Raiders: Part 2 Argie Bargie!
Coraline: The Making of 'Coraline'
Four Men in a Car
Spaghetti Hoops
This Is Jinsy
The Stranger
Wild Turkey
imagine... French & Saunders: Pointed, Bitchy, Bitter
Let Them Eat Cake
GLC: The Carnage Continues
Mamma Mia! Here We Go Yet Again
Coraline
Muppet Treasure Island
Kirsty MacColl at the BBC
Dead Boss
The Silurian Disruption
A Bucket O' French and Saunders
The Boy in the Dress
French & Saunders
The Strike
The Best of French & Saunders
Jealousy
300 Years of French & Saunders
Demonella
French & Saunders: At the Movies
Joanna and Jennifer: Absolutely Champers
Happy Families
Absolutely Fabulous: A Life
Absolutely Fabulous
How to Be Absolutely Fabulous
Oxford
Mirrorball
French & Saunders: The Ingenue Years
Production Credits
Mamma Mia! Here We Go Yet Again
French & Saunders
Absolutely Fabulous: A Life
The Silurian Disruption
How to Be Absolutely Fabulous
The Best of French & Saunders
Mirrorball
Absolutely Fabulous
Absolutely Fabulous
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