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Jennifer Saunders
Sleaford, Lincolnshire, England, UK
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,…
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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.
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2026
Virginia Woolf's Night & Day
Movie Bess Hilbery
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2026
People's Emergency Briefing
Movie Herself
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2026
The Magic Faraway Tree
Movie Grandma
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2026
The Claudia Winkleman Show
TV show Self
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2026
Becoming Victoria Wood
Movie Self
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2025
Too Much
TV show Fiona
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2024
Only Child
TV show Sally
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2024
Absolutely Fabulous: Inside Out
Movie Self / Edina "Eddie" Monsoon
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2024
Kirsty MacColl at the BBC
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2024
Man and Witch: The Dance of a Thousand Steps
Movie The Goose (voice)
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2024
200% Wolf
Movie Max (voice)
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2024
We Work for the Dead
Movie The Mother (voice)
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2023
Dawn French Is a Huge Twat
Movie Self (uncredited)
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2023
imagine... French & Saunders: Pointed, Bitchy, Bitter
Movie Self - Featured Artist
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2023
Sumotherhood
Movie DI Brookes
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2023
Allelujah
Movie Sister Gilpin
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2022
Fantasy Football League
TV show Themselves
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2022
The Pentaverate
TV show Maester of Dubrovnik / Saester of Dubrovnik
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2022
Death on the Nile
Movie Marie Van Schuyler
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2022
The Best Birthday Ever
Movie Mother (voice)
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2021
Sing 2
Movie Nana (voice)
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2021
French & Saunders: Funny Women
Movie Self
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2021
Mel Giedroyc: Unforgivable
TV show Self
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2020
Richard Osman's House of Games Night
TV show Self
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2020
The Stranger
TV show Heidi Doyle
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2019
Completely Bad News
Movie Sally
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2019
Mamma Mia! Here We Go Yet Again
Movie Meryl Streep / Cher
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2019
Celebrity Gogglebox
TV show Self
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2019
There's Something About Movies
TV show Self - Team Captain
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2019
Moominvalley
TV show Mymble
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2019
Isn't It Romantic
Movie Natalie's Mother
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2018
Patrick
Movie Maureen
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2018
Chuck Steel: Night of the Trampires
Movie Dr. Alex Cular
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2018
Lady Windermere's Fan
Movie The Duchess of Berwick
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2018
Grandpa's Great Escape
Movie Miss Dandy
- 2017
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2017
Joanna and Jennifer: Absolutely Champers
Movie Self - Presenter
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2017
Comic Relief: Red Nose Day
Movie Self
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2017
Let's Sing and Dance for Comic Relief
TV show Self - Judge
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2016
Sing
Movie Nana (voice)
