
Jennifer Jane Saunders (born 6 July 1958) 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.

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

Debbie
Private Enterprise

Jessica
Consuela (or, The New Mrs Saunders)

Cathy
South Atlantic Raiders: Part 1

Hannah
Oxford

Maria
Spaghetti Hoops

Cathy
South Atlantic Raiders: Part 2 Argie Bargie!

Margaret Thatcher
Red Nose of Courage

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

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
Bad News

Sally
More 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

French & Saunders: The Ingenue Years

Gentlemen Prefer French & Saunders

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

Grandma Thompson
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 & Day

Silurian #2
The Silurian Disruption

Self
It’s Lulu

Mother (voice)
Karlchen - Das große Geburtstagsabenteuer

Helen Mucus / Anita Harris (archive footage) (uncredited)
Bottom Mindless Violence

Self
Becoming Victoria Wood

Self
Design on the Nile

Self
Branagh/Poirot

Granny / Cassie / Madeleine / Joyce / Roxanne Fuddle
Happy Families

Badsister 1
The Storyteller: Sapsorrow
Known For
Acting
Known Credits
107
Gender
Female
Birthday
1958-07-06
Place of Birth
Sleaford, Lincolnshire, England, UK
Also Known As
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