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)
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