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.
movieVirginia Woolf's Night & Day
as Mrs Hilbery · 2026 · 0.0
moviePeople's Emergency Briefing
as · 2026 · 0.0
movieThe Magic Faraway Tree
as Grandma · 2026 · 6.4
tvThe Claudia Winkleman Show
as Self · 2026 · 3.5
movieBecoming Victoria Wood
as Self · 2026 · 6.0
movieAmandaland - Christmas special
as Aunt Joan · 2025 · 0.0
tvToo Much
as Fiona · 2025 · 5.6
tvOnly Child
as Sally · 2024 · 7.2
movieAbsolutely Fabulous: Inside Out
as Self / Edina "Eddie" Monsoon · 2024 · 10.0
movieKirsty MacColl at the BBC
as Self (archive footage) · 2024 · 6.5
movieMan and Witch: The Dance of a Thousand Steps
as The Goose (voice) · 2024 · 6.5
movie200% Wolf
as Max (voice) · 2024 · 6.7
movieWe Work for the Dead
as The Mother (voice) · 2024 · 5.0
movieDawn French Is a Huge Twat
as Self (uncredited) · 2023 · 8.5
movieimagine... French & Saunders: Pointed, Bitchy, Bitter
as Self - Featured Artist · 2023 · 7.0
movieSumotherhood
as DI Brookes · 2023 · 5.1
movieAllelujah
as Sister Gilpin · 2023 · 5.2
tvFantasy Football League
as Themselves · 2022 · 7.3
tvThe Pentaverate
as Maester of Dubrovnik / Saester of Dubrovnik · 2022 · 5.7
movieDeath on the Nile
as Marie Van Schuyler · 2022 · 6.4
movieThe Best Birthday Ever
as Mother (voice) · 2022 · 6.7
movieSing 2
as Nana (voice) · 2021 · 7.8
movieFrench & Saunders: Funny Women
as Self · 2021 · 8.0
tvMel Giedroyc: Unforgivable
as Self · 2021 · 6.8