Jennifer Saunders

Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Birthdate

1958-07-06 (Age: 68)

Place of Birth

Sleaford, Lincolnshire, England, UK

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.

Filmography (109)

⭐ 0 Role: Mrs Hilbery

Virginia Woolf's Night & Day

⭐ 0 Role: Unknown

People's Emergency Briefing

⭐ 6.5 Role: Grandma

The Magic Faraway Tree

⭐ 6.0 Role: Self

Becoming Victoria Wood

⭐ 10.0 Role: Self / Edina "Eddie" Monsoon

Absolutely Fabulous: Inside Out

⭐ 6.5 Role: Self (archive footage)

Kirsty MacColl at the BBC

⭐ 6.5 Role: The Goose (voice)

Man and Witch: The Dance of a Thousand Steps

⭐ 6.5 Role: Max (voice)

200% Wolf

⭐ 5.0 Role: The Mother (voice)

We Work for the Dead

⭐ 8.5 Role: Self (uncredited)

Dawn French Is a Huge Twat

⭐ 7.0 Role: Self - Featured Artist

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

⭐ 5.1 Role: DI Brookes

Sumotherhood

⭐ 5.2 Role: Sister Gilpin

Allelujah

⭐ 6.4 Role: Marie Van Schuyler

Death on the Nile

⭐ 6.7 Role: Mother (voice)

The Best Birthday Ever

⭐ 7.8 Role: Nana (voice)

Sing 2

⭐ 8.0 Role: Self

French & Saunders: Funny Women

⭐ 0 Role: Sally

Completely Bad News

⭐ 7.6 Role: Meryl Streep / Cher

Mamma Mia! Here We Go Yet Again

⭐ 6.2 Role: Natalie's Mother

Isn't It Romantic

⭐ 6.7 Role: Maureen

Patrick

⭐ 7.1 Role: Dr. Alex Cular

Chuck Steel: Night of the Trampires

⭐ 10.0 Role: The Duchess of Berwick

Lady Windermere's Fan

⭐ 6.1 Role: Miss Dandy

Grandpa's Great Escape

⭐ 0 Role: Unknown

300 Years of French & Saunders

⭐ 10.0 Role: Self - Presenter

Joanna and Jennifer: Absolutely Champers

⭐ 9.0 Role: Self

Comic Relief: Red Nose Day

⭐ 7.1 Role: Nana (voice)

Sing

⭐ 5.7 Role: Comedy Role (archive footage) (uncredited)

British Sitcom: 60 Years of Laughing at Ourselves

⭐ 0 Role: Unknown

We Love Sitcom

⭐ 5.3 Role: Edina Monsoon

Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie

⭐ 6.8 Role: Narrator (voice)

Stick Man

⭐ 6.4 Role: Reine Elizabeth II (voice)

Minions

⭐ 6.3 Role: Miss Windsor

The Boy in the Dress

⭐ 8.7 Role: Self

The Spice Girls Story: Viva Forever!

⭐ 0 Role: Anne

Five Go to Rehab

⭐ 5.0 Role: Unknown

30 Years of Comic Strip

⭐ 7.8 Role: Lady Thatcher

The Hunt for Tony Blair

⭐ 0 Role: Unknown

Gentlemen Prefer French & Saunders

⭐ 0 Role: Unknown

French & Saunders: The Ingenue Years

⭐ 5.0 Role: Self

Coraline: The Making of 'Coraline'

⭐ 7.9 Role: Miss April Spink / Other Spink (voice)

Coraline

⭐ 5.2 Role: Self

French and Saunders: Still Alive

⭐ 4.8 Role: Gwendoline McFarlane

L'Entente cordiale

⭐ 4.8 Role: Self

Remember the Secret Policeman's Ball?

⭐ 10.0 Role: Helen Mucus / Anita Harris (archive footage) (uncredited)

Bottom Mindless Violence

⭐ 7.3 Role: Fairy Godmother (voice)

Shrek 2

⭐ 0 Role: Various

The Best of French & Saunders

⭐ 4.9 Role: Une spectatrice du défilé

Absolutely Fabulous

⭐ 10.0 Role: Self

Kirsty: The Life and Songs of Kirsty MacColl

⭐ 8.0 Role: Vivienne Keill

Mirrorball

⭐ 8.3 Role: Various roles

French & Saunders - Live

⭐ 6.4 Role: Roanna

Fanny & Elvis

⭐ 7.0 Role: Self

It’s Lulu

⭐ 8.5 Role: Edina "Eddy" Monsoon

Absolutely Fabulous: A Life

⭐ 0 Role: Helen

Four Men in a Car

⭐ 4.9 Role: Fashionable Woman

Spice World

⭐ 7.3 Role: Edina Monsoon

Absolutely Fabulous: The Last Shout

⭐ 6.7 Role: Mrs. Bluveridge

Muppet Treasure Island

⭐ 7.1 Role: Nancy

In the Bleak Midwinter

⭐ 7.5 Role: Self / Edina "Eddy" Monsoon (archive footage)

How to Be Absolutely Fabulous

⭐ 0 Role: Various Roles

French and Saunders' Christmas Carol

⭐ 8.0 Role: Self - Presenter

Dusty

⭐ 9.0 Role: Fairy (voice)

Prince Cinders

⭐ 0 Role: Jane/Margory

Jealousy

⭐ 0 Role: The Devil

Demonella

⭐ 0 Role: Needle

Space Virgins from Planet Sex

⭐ 7.5 Role: Unknown

French & Saunders: At the Movies

⭐ 0 Role: Neighbour

Wild Turkey

⭐ 8.0 Role: Margaret Thatcher

Red Nose of Courage

⭐ 4.0 Role: Self

Amnesty International's Big 30

⭐ 0 Role: Dorcas

The Tale of Little Pig Robinson

⭐ 0 Role: Unknown

French & Saunders LIVE

⭐ 0 Role: Maria

Spaghetti Hoops

⭐ 0 Role: Hannah

Oxford

⭐ 0 Role: Cathy

South Atlantic Raiders: Part 1

⭐ 0 Role: Cathy

South Atlantic Raiders: Part 2 Argie Bargie!

⭐ 0 Role: Brigitte Nielsen as Margaret Thatcher, The Ice Maiden

GLC: The Carnage Continues

⭐ 7.7 Role: Self

The Secret Policeman’s Biggest Ball

⭐ 0 Role: Unknown

Employees From Hell

⭐ 0 Role: Unknown

Communicators From Hell

⭐ 0 Role: Unknown

Customer Service From Hell

⭐ 0 Role: Unknown

Colleagues From Hell

⭐ 0 Role: Various Characters

French And Saunders - Christmas Special '88

⭐ 6.1 Role: Self

An Audience With Victoria Wood

⭐ 8.8 Role: Monica

Mr Jolly Lives Next Door

⭐ 9.8 Role: Sally

More Bad News

⭐ 7.0 Role: Meryl Streep as Mrs Scargill

The Strike

⭐ 6.2 Role: Lady Caroline

Eat the Rich

⭐ 0 Role: Silurian #2

The Silurian Disruption

⭐ 0 Role: Self

Comedians Do It On Stage

⭐ 0 Role: Debbie

Private Enterprise

⭐ 0 Role: Jessica

Consuela (or, The New Mrs Saunders)

⭐ 6.6 Role: Unknown

Dangerous Brothers Present: World of Danger

⭐ 6.1 Role: Lesley Reynolds

The Supergrass

⭐ 0 Role: Granny / Cassie / Madeleine / Joyce / Roxanne Fuddle

Happy Families

⭐ 2.0 Role: Little Sister

Slags

⭐ 0 Role: Doreen

Eddie Monsoon - a Life?

⭐ 0 Role: Angie

Gino: Full Story and Pics

⭐ 7.0 Role: Shona

A Fistful of Travellers' Cheques

⭐ 0 Role: Lorna

Susie

⭐ 0 Role: June

Dirty Movie

⭐ 0 Role: Anne

Five Go Mad on Mescalin

⭐ 0 Role: Liz

Summer School

⭐ 8.7 Role: Sally

Bad News

⭐ 0 Role: Anne

The Beat Generation

⭐ 10.0 Role: Various Roles

War

⭐ 0 Role: Anne

Five Go Mad in Dorset

⭐ 8.0 Role: Unknown

The Comic Strip