Dawn French
Acting
Biography
Dawn Roma French (born 11 October 1957) is a British actress, comedian, presenter and writer. French is known for writing and starring on the BBC comedy sketch show French and Saunders with her best friend and comedy partner, Jennifer Saunders, and played the lead role as Geraldine Granger in the BBC sitcom The Vicar of Dibley. She has been nominated for seven BAFTA TV Awards and won a BAFTA Fellowship with Saunders in 2009.
As actor 166
The Graham Norton Show
2007
The One Show
2006
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
2004
Coraline
2009
Wogan
1982
RuPaul's Drag Race UK
2019
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
2005
Agatha Christie's Marple
2004
Parkinson
1998
The Paul O'Grady Show
2004
V Graham Norton
2002
Absolutely Fabulous
1992
An Audience with...
1978
Death on the Nile
2022
The Comic Strip Presents...
1982
TFI Friday
1996
Lark Rise to Candleford
2008
Going Live!
1987
The BAFTA Awards
1949
Parkinson
2004
The Vicar of Dibley
1994
The Young Ones
1982
Murder Most Horrid
1991
Psychoville
2009
The Secret Policeman's Ball
1976
French & Saunders
1987
Travel Man: 48 Hours in...
2015
The Storyteller
1988
Happy Families
1985
Screen One
1989
Jam and Jerusalem
2006
David Copperfield
1999
The Legends of Treasure Island
1993
The F Word
2005
Can You Keep a Secret?
2026
Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie
2016
The Magician's Elephant
2023
Delicious
2016
The Wrong Mans
2013
Harry Enfield and Chums
1994
Experiment IV
Dusty
1994
The Adventures of Pinocchio
1996
Shaun Tan's Tales from Outer Suburbia
2026
Davina
2006
Girls On Top
1985
Love and Other Disasters
2006
Let Them Eat Cake
1999
TFI Friday
2015
Wild West
2002
The Trouble with Maggie Cole
2020
Happiness
2001
BeddyByes
2025
An Audience with Adele
2021
Superstar
2012
Heading Out
2013
The Nearly Complete and Utter History of Everything
2000
Roger & Val Have Just Got In
2010
Look at the State We're In!
1995
Eat the Rich
1987
Roald & Beatrix: The Tail of the Curious Mouse
2020
Maybe Baby
2000
Summer School
1983
A Bucket O' French and Saunders
2007
Treasure Island
1997
Walk the Line
2021
The Big Night In
2020
More Dawn French's Boys Who Do: Comedy
2007
Spaghetti Hoops
1990
The Secret World Of...
2021
Ted and Alice
2002
Bad News
1983
British Sitcom: 60 Years of Laughing at Ourselves
2016
The Funny Blokes of British Comedy
2005
Comedy Shuffle
2007
The Comic Relief Utterly Utterly Rude Video Live
1986
Little Big Shots
2017
More Bad News
1988
Amnesty International's Big 30
1991
More Dawn French's Girls Who Do: Comedy
2006
The Vicar of Dibley: Inside Out
2021
Pongwiffy
2002
Remember the Secret Policeman's Ball?
2004
The Comic Strip
1981
Tender Loving Care
1993
Coraline: The Making of 'Coraline'
2009
imagine... French & Saunders: Pointed, Bitchy, Bitter
2023
Catherine Tate: Laughing at the Noughties
2011
Becoming Victoria Wood
2026
Completely Bad News
2019
The Supergrass
1985
The Legends of Treasure Island
1993
An Audience With Victoria Wood
1988
Four Men in a Car
1998
Dawn French's Girls Who Do Comedy
2002
Employees From Hell
1989
The Secret Policeman’s Biggest Ball
1989
Five Go Mad in Dorset
1982
The Tale of Little Pig Robinson
1990
Donizetti: La Fille du Régiment
2007
Dirty Movie
1984
Kirsty MacColl at the BBC
2024
Comic Aid
2005
Joan Rivers at the BBC
2024
A Fistful of Travellers' Cheques
1984
French and Saunders' Christmas Carol
1994
Communicators From Hell
1989
Five Go to Rehab
2012
French And Saunders - Christmas Special '88
1988
Customer Service From Hell
1989
It’s Lulu
1999
300 Years of French & Saunders
2017
Colleagues From Hell
1989
Bosses From Hell
1989
The Vicar of Dibley: In Lockdown
2020
30 Years of Comic Strip
2012
South Atlantic Raiders: Part 2 Argie Bargie!
1990
Space Virgins from Planet Sex
1993
Private Enterprise
1986
Eddie Monsoon - a Life?
1984
The Beat Generation
1983
Gino: Full Story and Pics
1984
Five Go Mad on Mescalin
1983
Comic Relief: Red Nose Day
2017
Oxford
1990
When Comedy Changed Forever
2006
Darcey Bussell: My Life on the BBC
2016
South Atlantic Raiders: Part 1
1990
Sackboy: A Big Adventure
2020
The Storyteller: Sapsorrow
1988
Red Nose of Courage
1992
Susie
1984
Victoria Wood: Seen on TV
2009
Kirsty: The Life and Songs of Kirsty MacColl
2001
French & Saunders: At the Movies
1993
French & Saunders LIVE
1990
Psychoville Halloween Special
2010
GLC: The Carnage Continues
1990
Comedians Do It On Stage
1986
Slags
1984
Red Riding Hood: After Ever After
2022
French & Saunders: Still Alive
2008
Milk
1999
Bosom Pals
2004
Mr Jolly Lives Next Door
1988
Consuela (or, The New Mrs Saunders)
1986
Interviewers From Hell
1989
Matthew Bourne's Christmas
2011
The Best of French & Saunders
2002
Dawn French Is a Huge Twat
2023
French & Saunders - Live
2000
The Comic Strip - A Retrospective
2005
Sex & Chocolate
1997
The Nevermets
2024
Comedy Classics: The Vicar of Dibley
2022
Dawn French Live: 30 Million Minutes
2016
In Dreams
1992
French & Saunders: The Ingenue Years
2011
Michael Bublé: Home for Christmas
2011
Dawn French's Boys Who Do Comedy
2007
The Strike
1988
The Silurian Disruption
1987
War
1983
Gentlemen Prefer French & Saunders
2011
A Baby Reindeer's First Christmas
2020
French & Saunders: Funny Women
2021
On the crew 22
Absolutely Fabulous
1992
The Comic Strip Presents...
1982
French & Saunders
1987
Jam and Jerusalem
2006
Can You Keep a Secret?
2026
Girls On Top
1985
Roger & Val Have Just Got In
2010
Summer School
1983
A Bucket O' French and Saunders
2007
Absolutely Fabulous
2001
More Dawn French's Girls Who Do: Comedy
2006
The Comic Strip
1981
Dawn French's Girls Who Do Comedy
2002
French and Saunders' Christmas Carol
1994
French And Saunders - Christmas Special '88
1988
How to Be Absolutely Fabulous
1995
French & Saunders: Still Alive
2008
Consuela (or, The New Mrs Saunders)
1986
The Best of French & Saunders
2002
Dawn French Is a Huge Twat
2023
French & Saunders - Live
2000
The Silurian Disruption
1987