Jennifer Saunders
Biography
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.
Movies (108)
Virginia Woolf's Night & Day
2026
People's Emergency Briefing
2026
The Magic Faraway Tree
2026
Becoming Victoria Wood
2026
Absolutely Fabulous: Inside Out
2024
Kirsty MacColl at the BBC
2024
Man and Witch: The Dance of a Thousand Steps
2024
200% Wolf
2024
We Work for the Dead
2024
Dawn French Is a Huge Twat
2023
imagine... French & Saunders: Pointed, Bitchy, Bitter
2023
Sumotherhood
2023
Allelujah
2023
Death on the Nile
2022
The Best Birthday Ever
2022
Sing 2
2021
French & Saunders: Funny Women
2021
Completely Bad News
2019
Mamma Mia! Here We Go Yet Again
2019
Isn't It Romantic
2019
Patrick
2018
Chuck Steel: Night of the Trampires
2018
Lady Windermere's Fan
2018
Grandpa's Great Escape
2018
300 Years of French & Saunders
2017
Joanna and Jennifer: Absolutely Champers
2017
Comic Relief: Red Nose Day
2017
Sing
2016
British Sitcom: 60 Years of Laughing at Ourselves
2016
Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie
2016
Stick Man
2015
Minions
2015
The Boy in the Dress
2014
The Spice Girls Story: Viva Forever!
2012
Five Go to Rehab
2012
30 Years of Comic Strip
2012
The Hunt for Tony Blair
2011
French & Saunders: The Ingenue Years
2011
Gentlemen Prefer French & Saunders
2011
Coraline: The Making of 'Coraline'
2009
Coraline
2009
French and Saunders: Still Alive
2008
L'Entente cordiale
2006
Remember the Secret Policeman's Ball?
2004
Bottom Mindless Violence
2004
Shrek 2
2004
The Best of French & Saunders
2002
Absolutely Fabulous
2001
Kirsty: The Life and Songs of Kirsty MacColl
2001
Mirrorball
2000
French & Saunders - Live
2000
Fanny & Elvis
1999
It’s Lulu
1999
Absolutely Fabulous: A Life
1998
Four Men in a Car
1998
Spice World
1997
Absolutely Fabulous: The Last Shout
1996
Muppet Treasure Island
1996
In the Bleak Midwinter
1995
How to Be Absolutely Fabulous
1995
French and Saunders' Christmas Carol
1994
Dusty
1994
Prince Cinders
1993
Jealousy
1993
Demonella
1993
Space Virgins from Planet Sex
1993
French & Saunders: At the Movies
1993
Wild Turkey
1992
Red Nose of Courage
1992
Amnesty International's Big 30
1991
The Tale of Little Pig Robinson
1990
French & Saunders LIVE
1990
Spaghetti Hoops
1990
Oxford
1990
South Atlantic Raiders: Part 1
1990
South Atlantic Raiders: Part 2 Argie Bargie!
1990
GLC: The Carnage Continues
1990
The Secret Policeman’s Biggest Ball
1989
Employees From Hell
1989
Communicators From Hell
1989
Customer Service From Hell
1989
Colleagues From Hell
1989
French And Saunders - Christmas Special '88
1988
An Audience With Victoria Wood
1988
Mr Jolly Lives Next Door
1988
More Bad News
1988
The Strike
1988
Eat the Rich
1987
Comedians Do It On Stage
1986
Private Enterprise
1986
Consuela (or, The New Mrs Saunders)
1986
Dangerous Brothers Present: World of Danger
1986
The Supergrass
1985
Happy Families
1985
Slags
1984
Eddie Monsoon - a Life?
1984
Gino: Full Story and Pics
1984
A Fistful of Travellers' Cheques
1984
Susie
1984
Dirty Movie
1984
Five Go Mad on Mescalin
1983
Summer School
1983
Bad News
1983
The Beat Generation
1983
War
1983
Five Go Mad in Dorset
1982
The Comic Strip
1981
The Storyteller: Sapsorrow
TV Shows (74)
The Claudia Winkleman Show
2026
Too Much
2025
Only Child
2024
Fantasy Football League
2022
The Pentaverate
2022
Mel Giedroyc: Unforgivable
2021
Richard Osman's House of Games Night
2020
The Stranger
2020
Celebrity Gogglebox
2019
There's Something About Movies
2019
Moominvalley
2019
Let's Sing and Dance for Comic Relief
2017
Insert Name Here
2016
Josh
2015
Gogglebox
2013
The Last Leg
2013
The Great Comic Relief Bake Off
2013
Blandings
2013
Dead Boss
2012
The Great Sport Relief Bake Off
2012
Celebrity Antiques Road Trip
2011
This Is Jinsy
2010
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
2009
The Life and Times of Vivienne Vyle
2007
A Bucket O' French and Saunders
2007
Would I Lie to You?
2007
The Graham Norton Show
2007
Jam and Jerusalem
2006
Top Gear
2002
Top Gear
2002
The Magician's House
1999
Let Them Eat Cake
1999
Parkinson
1998
Friends
1994
Absolutely Fabulous
1992
Have I Got News for You
1990
Have I Got News for You
1990
Rita Rudner
1990
The Simpsons
1989
Roseanne
1988
The Storyteller
1988
Going Live!
1987
French & Saunders
1987
Omnibus Presents Comic Relief
1986
The Dangerous Brothers
1986
Girls On Top
1985
Happy Families
1985
The Young Ones
1982
The Young Ones
1982
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Wogan
1982
An Audience with...
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The Secret Policeman's Ball
1976
Omnibus
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