Jennifer Saunders

Known for ActingBorn 1958-07-06 (age 67)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.Read more

Movies & web series

Absolutely Fabulous: Inside Out

Lady Windermere's Fan

Joanna and Jennifer: Absolutely Champers

Bottom Mindless Violence

Kirsty: The Life and Songs of Kirsty MacColl

War

More Bad News

Comic Relief: Red Nose Day

Prince Cinders

The Spice Girls Story: Viva Forever!

Dawn French Is a Huge Twat

Mr Jolly Lives Next Door

Bad News

Absolutely Fabulous: A Life

Friends

French & Saunders - Live

French & Saunders: Funny Women

The Storyteller

Sing 2

Coraline

Mirrorball

Dusty

Red Nose of Courage

The Hunt for Tony Blair

The Simpsons

Would I Lie to You?

Going Live!

The Comic Strip

Mamma Mia! Here We Go Yet Again

The Young Ones

Top Gear

Moominvalley

The Secret Policeman’s Biggest Ball

Fantasy Football League

How to Be Absolutely Fabulous

French & Saunders: At the Movies

Absolutely Fabulous

Only Child

French & Saunders

The Stranger

Shrek 2

Chuck Steel: Night of the Trampires

Blandings

Let Them Eat Cake

Sing

The Graham Norton Show

The Comic Strip Presents...

Absolutely Fabulous: The Last Shout