Jennifer Saunders
Acting
1958-07-06 · 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, 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
TheatersVirginia Woolf's Night & Day
2026 · Movie
People's Emergency Briefing
2026 · Movie
The Magic Faraway Tree
2026 · Movie
The Claudia Winkleman Show
2026 · Series
Becoming Victoria Wood
2026 · Movie
Too Much
2025 · Series
Only Child
2024 · Series
Absolutely Fabulous: Inside Out
2024 · Movie
Kirsty MacColl at the BBC
2024 · Movie
Man and Witch: The Dance of a Thousand Steps
2024 · Movie
200% Wolf
2024 · Movie
We Work for the Dead
2024 · Movie
Dawn French Is a Huge Twat
2023 · Movie
imagine... French & Saunders: Pointed, Bitchy, Bitter
2023 · Movie
Sumotherhood
2023 · Movie
Allelujah
2023 · Movie
Fantasy Football League
2022 · Series
The Pentaverate
2022 · Series
Death on the Nile
2022 · Movie
The Best Birthday Ever
2022 · Movie
Sing 2
2021 · Movie
French & Saunders: Funny Women
2021 · Movie
Mel Giedroyc: Unforgivable
2021 · Series
Richard Osman's House of Games Night
2020 · Series
The Stranger
2020 · Series
Completely Bad News
2019 · Movie
Mamma Mia! Here We Go Yet Again
2019 · Movie
Celebrity Gogglebox
2019 · Series
There's Something About Movies
2019 · Series
Moominvalley
2019 · Series
Isn't It Romantic
2019 · Movie
Patrick
2018 · Movie
Chuck Steel: Night of the Trampires
2018 · Movie
Lady Windermere's Fan
2018 · Movie
Grandpa's Great Escape
2018 · Movie
300 Years of French & Saunders
2017 · Movie
Joanna and Jennifer: Absolutely Champers
2017 · Movie
Comic Relief: Red Nose Day
2017 · Movie
Let's Sing and Dance for Comic Relief
2017 · Series
Sing
2016 · Movie
British Sitcom: 60 Years of Laughing at Ourselves
2016 · Movie
We Love Sitcom
2016 · Movie
Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie
2016 · Movie
Insert Name Here
2016 · Series
Stick Man
2015 · Movie
Josh
2015 · Series
Minions
2015 · Movie
The Boy in the Dress
2014 · Movie
Gogglebox
2013 · Series
The Last Leg
2013 · Series
The Great Comic Relief Bake Off
2013 · Series
Blandings
2013 · Series
The Spice Girls Story: Viva Forever!
2012 · Movie
Five Go to Rehab
2012 · Movie
30 Years of Comic Strip
2012 · Movie
Dead Boss
2012 · Series
The Great Sport Relief Bake Off
2012 · Series
Celebrity Antiques Road Trip
2011 · Series
The Hunt for Tony Blair
2011 · Movie
French & Saunders: The Ingenue Years
2011 · Movie
Gentlemen Prefer French & Saunders
2011 · Movie
This Is Jinsy
2010 · Series
Coraline: The Making of 'Coraline'
2009 · Movie
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
2009 · Series
Coraline
2009 · Movie
French & Saunders: Still Alive
2008 · Movie
The Life and Times of Vivienne Vyle
2007 · Series
A Bucket O' French and Saunders
2007 · Series
Would I Lie to You?
2007 · Series
The Graham Norton Show
2007 · Series
Jam and Jerusalem
2006 · Series
L'Entente cordiale
2006 · Movie
Remember the Secret Policeman's Ball?
2004 · Movie
Bottom Mindless Violence
2004 · Movie
Shrek 2
2004 · Movie
Top Gear
2002 · Series
The Best of French & Saunders
2002 · Movie
Pongwiffy
2002 · Series
Absolutely Fabulous
2001 · Movie
Kirsty: The Life and Songs of Kirsty MacColl
2001 · Movie
Mirrorball
2000 · Movie
French & Saunders - Live
2000 · Movie
Fanny & Elvis
1999 · Movie
It’s Lulu
1999 · Movie
The Magician's House
1999 · Series
Let Them Eat Cake
1999 · Series
Absolutely Fabulous: A Life
1998 · Movie
Four Men in a Car
1998 · Movie
Parkinson
1998 · Series
Spice World
1997 · Movie
Absolutely Fabulous: The Last Shout
1996 · Movie
Muppet Treasure Island
1996 · Movie
TFI Friday
1996 · Series
In the Bleak Midwinter
1995 · Movie
How to Be Absolutely Fabulous
1995 · Movie
French and Saunders' Christmas Carol
1994 · Movie
Friends
1994 · Series
Dusty
1994 · Movie
Prince Cinders
1993 · Movie
Jealousy
1993 · Movie
Demonella
1993 · Movie
Space Virgins from Planet Sex
1993 · Movie
French & Saunders: At the Movies
1993 · Movie
Wild Turkey
1992 · Movie
Absolutely Fabulous
1992 · Series
Red Nose of Courage
1992 · Movie
Amnesty International's Big 30
1991 · Movie
The Tale of Little Pig Robinson
1990 · Movie
Have I Got News for You
1990 · Series
Rita Rudner
1990 · Series
French & Saunders LIVE
1990 · Movie
Spaghetti Hoops
1990 · Movie
Oxford
1990 · Movie
South Atlantic Raiders: Part 2 Argie Bargie!
1990 · Movie
South Atlantic Raiders: Part 1
1990 · Movie
GLC: The Carnage Continues
1990 · Movie
The Simpsons
1989 · Series
Employees From Hell
1989 · Movie
The Secret Policeman’s Biggest Ball
1989 · Movie
Colleagues From Hell
1989 · Movie
Customer Service From Hell
1989 · Movie
Communicators From Hell
1989 · Movie
French And Saunders - Christmas Special '88
1988 · Movie
An Audience With Victoria Wood
1988 · Movie
Roseanne
1988 · Series
The Storyteller: Sapsorrow
1988 · Movie
The Storyteller
1988 · Series
Mr Jolly Lives Next Door
1988 · Movie
More Bad News
1988 · Movie
The Strike
1988 · Movie
Comic Relief
1988 · Series
Eat the Rich
1987 · Movie
Going Live!
1987 · Series
French & Saunders
1987 · Series
The Silurian Disruption
1987 · Movie
Omnibus Presents Comic Relief
1986 · Series
Comedians Do It On Stage
1986 · Movie
Private Enterprise
1986 · Movie
The Dangerous Brothers
1986 · Series
Dangerous Brothers Present: World of Danger
1986 · Movie
Consuela (or, The New Mrs Saunders)
1986 · Movie
The Supergrass
1985 · Movie
Girls On Top
1985 · Series
Happy Families
1985 · Series
Slags
1984 · Movie
Eddie Monsoon - a Life?
1984 · Movie
Gino: Full Story and Pics
1984 · Movie
A Fistful of Travellers' Cheques
1984 · Movie
Susie
1984 · Movie
Dirty Movie
1984 · Movie
Five Go Mad on Mescalin
1983 · Movie
Summer School
1983 · Movie
Bad News
1983 · Movie
The Beat Generation
1983 · Movie
War
1983 · Movie
The Young Ones
1982 · Series
The Comic Strip Presents...
1982 · Series
Five Go Mad in Dorset
1982 · Movie
Wogan
1982 · Series
The Comic Strip
1981 · Movie
An Audience with...
1978 · Series
The Secret Policeman's Ball
1976 · Series
Film '72
1971 · Series
Omnibus
1967 · Series
Have I Got a Bit More News for You
Series
AbFab
Series