Jennifer Saunders
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
Fairy Godmother (voice)
Shrek 2
Mrs. Bluveridge
Muppet Treasure Island
Gwendoline McFarlane
L'Entente cordiale
Sister Gilpin
Allelujah
DI Brookes
Sumotherhood
Nancy
In the Bleak Midwinter
Miss April Spink / Other Spink (voice)
Coraline
Self
Remember the Secret Policeman's Ball?
Self
Kirsty: The Life and Songs of Kirsty MacColl
Nana (voice)
Sing 2
Une spectatrice du défilé
Absolument fabuleux
The Mother (voice)
We Work for the Dead
Lady Thatcher
The Hunt for Tony Blair
Self
French and Saunders: Still Alive
Self
The Secret Policeman’s Biggest Ball
Lesley Reynolds
The Supergrass
Self
An Audience With Victoria Wood
Self
Comic Relief: Red Nose Day
Meryl Streep / Cher
Mamma Mia! Here We Go Yet Again
Various
The Best of French & Saunders
French & Saunders LIVE
Edina Monsoon
Absolutely Fabulous: The Last Shout
Self
The Spice Girls Story: Viva Forever!
Self / Edina "Eddy" Monsoon (archive footage)
How to Be Absolutely Fabulous
Edina "Eddy" Monsoon
Absolutely Fabulous: A Life
The Devil
Demonella
Liz
Summer School
Jane/Margory
Jealousy
Anne
Five Go Mad in Dorset
Helen
Four Men in a Car
Doreen
Eddie Monsoon - a Life?
Various Roles
War
Anne
The Beat Generation
Anne
Five Go Mad on Mescalin
June
Dirty Movie
Lorna
Susie
Angie
Gino: Full Story and Pics
Little Sister
Slags
Jessica
Consuela (or, The New Mrs Saunders)
Debbie
Private Enterprise
Cathy
South Atlantic Raiders: Part 1
Cathy
South Atlantic Raiders: Part 2 Argie Bargie!
Hannah
Oxford
Margaret Thatcher
Red Nose of Courage
Maria
Spaghetti Hoops
Neighbour
Wild Turkey
Anne
Five Go to Rehab
Self (uncredited)
Dawn French Is a Huge Twat
Self - featured artist
imagine... French & Saunders: Pointed, Bitchy, Bitter
30 Years of Comic Strip
Miss Windsor
The Boy in the Dress
Self
Amnesty International's Big 30
Dr. Alex Cular
Chuck Steel: Night of the Trampires
Reine Elizabeth II (voice)
Minions
Lady Caroline
Eat the Rich
Nana (voice)
Sing
Max (voice)
200% Wolf
Ruth
Butterfly Stroke
Edina Monsoon
Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie
Narrator (voice)
Stick Man
The Comic Strip
Various roles
French & Saunders - Live
Monica
Mr Jolly Lives Next Door
Self
Comedians Do It On Stage
Comedy Role (archive footage) (uncredited)
British Sitcom: 60 Years of Laughing at Ourselves
Fashionable Woman
Spice World
Meryl Streep as Mrs Scargill
The Strike
Maureen
Patrick
Miss Dandy
Grandpa's Great Escape
300 Years of French & Saunders
The Duchess of Berwick
Lady Windermere's Fan
Sally
More Bad News
Sally
Bad News
Needle
Space Virgins from Planet Sex
Self - Presenter
Joanna and Jennifer: Absolutely Champers
Self - Presenter
Dusty
Roanna
Fanny & Elvis
Dangerous Brothers Present: World of Danger
Natalie's Mother
Isn't It Romantic
Marie Van Schuyler
Death on the Nile
Brigitte Nielsen as Margaret Thatcher, The Ice Maiden
GLC: The Carnage Continues
Sally
Completely Bad News
Dorcas
The Tale of Little Pig Robinson
Gentlemen Prefer French & Saunders
French & Saunders: The Ingenue Years
Self
Coraline: The Making of 'Coraline'
Fairy (voice)
Prince Cinders
Vivienne Keill
Mirrorball
French & Saunders: At the Movies
Shona
A Fistful of Travellers' Cheques
The Goose (voice)
Man and Witch: The Dance of a Thousand Steps
Self
French & Saunders: Funny Women
The Magic Faraway Tree
Self (archive footage)
Kirsty MacColl at the BBC
Employees From Hell
Communicators From Hell
Self
Absolutely Fabulous: Inside Out
We Love Sitcom
Mrs Hilbery
Night and Day
Silurian #2
The Silurian Disruption
Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Known Credits
100
Gender
Female
Birthday
1958-07-06
Place of Birth
Sleaford, Lincolnshire, England, UK
Also Known As
제니퍼 손더스