Jennifer Saunders

DOB: 1958-07-06

DOD: -

Jennifer Jane Saunders 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.

Starred In

2004
Movie

Shrek 2

2006
Movie

L'Entente cordiale

2023
Movie

Allelujah

2023
Movie

Sumotherhood

2009
Movie

Coraline

2021
Movie

Sing 2

1985
Movie

The Supergrass

1993
Movie

Demonella

1983
Movie

Summer School

1993
Movie

Jealousy

1998
Movie

Four Men in a Car

1983
Movie

War

1984
Movie

Dirty Movie

1984
Movie

Susie

1984
Movie

Slags

1986
Movie

Private Enterprise

1990
Movie

Oxford

1990
Movie

Spaghetti Hoops

1992
Movie

Wild Turkey

2012
Movie

Five Go to Rehab

2015
Movie

Minions

1987
Movie

Eat the Rich

2016
Movie

Sing

2024
Movie

200% Wolf

2015
Movie

Stick Man

1981
Movie

The Comic Strip

1997
Movie

Spice World

1988
Movie

The Strike

2018
Movie

Patrick

1988
Movie

More Bad News

1983
Movie

Bad News

1994
Movie

Dusty

1999
Movie

Fanny & Elvis

2019
Movie

Isn't It Romantic

2022
Movie

Death on the Nile

1993
Movie

Prince Cinders

2000
Movie

Mirrorball

2016
Movie

We Love Sitcom

NaN
Movie

Night and Day

1987
Tv

Going Live!

1994
Tv

Friends

1985
Tv

Girls On Top

2013
Tv

Blandings

2002
Tv

Pongwiffy

1988
Tv

Comic Relief

2010
Tv

This Is Jinsy

2002
Tv

Top Gear

1990
Tv

Rita Rudner

2013
Tv

Gogglebox

1982
Tv

Wogan

2020
Tv

The Stranger

1989
Tv

The Simpsons

2012
Tv

Dead Boss

2015
Tv

Josh

2002
Tv

Top Gear

1998
Tv

Parkinson

2019
Tv

Moominvalley

2024
Tv

Only Child

2013
Tv

The Last Leg