
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

The Great Comic Relief Bake Off

Gogglebox

The Vicar of Dibley

Going Live!

Comic Relief

The Magician's House

Josh

Spice World

Sing 2

Death on the Nile

Absolutely Fabulous

Omnibus Presents Comic Relief

Richard Osman's House of Games Night

Shrek 2

Kirsty: The Life and Songs of Kirsty MacColl

Red Nose of Courage

Sing

Isn't It Romantic

Minions

South Atlantic Raiders: Part 2 Argie Bargie!

Coraline: The Making of 'Coraline'

Four Men in a Car

The Pentaverate

Spaghetti Hoops

This Is Jinsy

The Stranger

Wild Turkey

imagine... French & Saunders: Pointed, Bitchy, Bitter

Muppet Treasure Island

The Silurian Disruption

GLC: The Carnage Continues

Coraline

Dead Boss

Mamma Mia! Here We Go Yet Again

Let Them Eat Cake

Kirsty MacColl at the BBC

Joanna and Jennifer: Absolutely Champers

The Boy in the Dress

Demonella

French & Saunders

A Bucket O' French and Saunders

French & Saunders: At the Movies

The Strike

300 Years of French & Saunders

Happy Families

Jealousy

The Best of French & Saunders

Oxford

Absolutely Fabulous

How to Be Absolutely Fabulous

French & Saunders: The Ingenue Years

Mirrorball

Absolutely Fabulous: A Life
Production Credits
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