
Jennifer Saunders
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Biography
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
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