Jennifer Saunders
Acting
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.
As actor 165
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
2009
The Simpsons
1989
Friends
1994
The Graham Norton Show
2007
Top Gear
2002
Coraline
2009
Wogan
1982
Film '72
1971
Have I Got News for You
1990
Omnibus
1967
The Last Leg
2013
Have I Got a Bit More News for You
Shrek 2
2004
Parkinson
1998
Absolutely Fabulous
1992
Sing 2
2021
Celebrity Antiques Road Trip
2011
Would I Lie to You?
2007
Minions
2015
Sing
2016
Death on the Nile
2022
TFI Friday
1996
Moominvalley
2019
Celebrity Gogglebox
2019
An Audience with...
1978
The Young Ones
1982
Going Live!
1987
The Magic Faraway Tree
2026
The Stranger
2020
The Storyteller
1988
The Comic Strip Presents...
1982
French & Saunders
1987
Jam and Jerusalem
2006
Muppet Treasure Island
1996
Too Much
2025
Roseanne
1988
Gogglebox
2013
200% Wolf
2024
The Pentaverate
2022
Spice World
1997
The Secret Policeman's Ball
1976
Isn't It Romantic
2019
Insert Name Here
2016
The Claudia Winkleman Show
2026
Blandings
2013
Dusty
1994
Virginia Woolf's Night & Day
2026
Stick Man
2015
Dead Boss
2012
Comic Relief
1988
The Magician's House
1999
Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie
2016
Mel Giedroyc: Unforgivable
2021
Girls On Top
1985
Fantasy Football League
2022
People's Emergency Briefing
2026
Josh
2015
There's Something About Movies
2019
This Is Jinsy
2010
Happy Families
1985
The Great Comic Relief Bake Off
2013
The Great Sport Relief Bake Off
2012
Let Them Eat Cake
1999
Patrick
2018
Only Child
2024
Chuck Steel: Night of the Trampires
2018
The Boy in the Dress
2014
Let's Sing and Dance for Comic Relief
2017
Fanny & Elvis
1999
The Life and Times of Vivienne Vyle
2007
Richard Osman's House of Games Night
2020
The Best Birthday Ever
2022
Spaghetti Hoops
1990
The Dangerous Brothers
1986
Summer School
1983
Rita Rudner
1990
Sumotherhood
2023
Eat the Rich
1987
In the Bleak Midwinter
1995
A Bucket O' French and Saunders
2007
Omnibus Presents Comic Relief
1986
L'Entente cordiale
2006
Pongwiffy
2002
Jealousy
1993
Allelujah
2023
Grandpa's Great Escape
2018
Bad News
1983
Dangerous Brothers Present: World of Danger
1986
Prince Cinders
1993
Demonella
1993
Man and Witch: The Dance of a Thousand Steps
2024
Customer Service From Hell
1989
The Comic Strip
1981
Becoming Victoria Wood
2026
Absolutely Fabulous: The Last Shout
1996
Bottom Mindless Violence
2004
French & Saunders: Still Alive
2008
The Storyteller: Sapsorrow
1988
Absolutely Fabulous
2001
Employees From Hell
1989
More Bad News
1988
Gino: Full Story and Pics
1984
Space Virgins from Planet Sex
1993
Amnesty International's Big 30
1991
Joanna and Jennifer: Absolutely Champers
2017
The Hunt for Tony Blair
2011
British Sitcom: 60 Years of Laughing at Ourselves
2016
Dirty Movie
1984
French and Saunders' Christmas Carol
1994
Mamma Mia! Here We Go Yet Again
2019
Susie
1984
Remember the Secret Policeman's Ball?
2004
The Supergrass
1985
Wild Turkey
1992
Absolutely Fabulous: Inside Out
2024
imagine... French & Saunders: Pointed, Bitchy, Bitter
2023
30 Years of Comic Strip
2012
Kirsty MacColl at the BBC
2024
300 Years of French & Saunders
2017
Colleagues From Hell
1989
Red Nose of Courage
1992
Kirsty: The Life and Songs of Kirsty MacColl
2001
Coraline: The Making of 'Coraline'
2009
Lady Windermere's Fan
2018
GLC: The Carnage Continues
1990
French And Saunders - Christmas Special '88
1988
The Secret Policeman’s Biggest Ball
1989
Mr Jolly Lives Next Door
1988
Comic Relief: Red Nose Day
2017
South Atlantic Raiders: Part 2 Argie Bargie!
1990
Five Go Mad on Mescalin
1983
The Beat Generation
1983
Communicators From Hell
1989
Completely Bad News
2019
We Work for the Dead
2024
It’s Lulu
1999
Five Go Mad in Dorset
1982
Mirrorball
2000
The Tale of Little Pig Robinson
1990
Consuela (or, The New Mrs Saunders)
1986
Five Go to Rehab
2012
A Fistful of Travellers' Cheques
1984
An Audience With Victoria Wood
1988
How to Be Absolutely Fabulous
1995
We Love Sitcom
2016
Oxford
1990
Private Enterprise
1986
Dawn French Is a Huge Twat
2023
The Strike
1988
French & Saunders: At the Movies
1993
War
1983
South Atlantic Raiders: Part 1
1990
Eddie Monsoon - a Life?
1984
Four Men in a Car
1998
French & Saunders LIVE
1990
French & Saunders - Live
2000
Absolutely Fabulous: A Life
1998
Comedians Do It On Stage
1986
French & Saunders: The Ingenue Years
2011
The Best of French & Saunders
2002
Gentlemen Prefer French & Saunders
2011
Slags
1984
The Spice Girls Story: Viva Forever!
2012
The Silurian Disruption
1987
French & Saunders: Funny Women
2021
On the crew 25
Absolutely Fabulous
1992
The Comic Strip Presents...
1982
French & Saunders
1987
Jam and Jerusalem
2006
Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie
2016
Girls On Top
1985
AbFab
The Life and Times of Vivienne Vyle
2007
A Bucket O' French and Saunders
2007
The Comic Strip
1981
Absolutely Fabulous: The Last Shout
1996
French & Saunders: Still Alive
2008
Absolutely Fabulous
2001
French and Saunders' Christmas Carol
1994
Mamma Mia! Here We Go Yet Again
2019
Absolutely Fabulous: Inside Out
2024
French And Saunders - Christmas Special '88
1988
Mirrorball
2000
Consuela (or, The New Mrs Saunders)
1986
How to Be Absolutely Fabulous
1995
French & Saunders - Live
2000
Absolutely Fabulous: A Life
1998
The Best of French & Saunders
2002
Slags
1984
The Silurian Disruption
1987