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Jennifer Saunders

Jennifer Saunders

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.

Personal information

Birthday

1958-07-06

Birth Place

Sleaford, Lincolnshire, England, UK

Movies and TV shows :

200% Wolf

200% Wolf

2024

5.1

Movie
30 Years of Comic Strip

30 Years of Comic Strip

2012

0.0

Movie
300 Years of French & Saunders

300 Years of French & Saunders

2017

0.0

Movie
poster

A Bucket O' French and Saunders

2007

6.3

TV
A Fistful of Travellers' Cheques

A Fistful of Travellers' Cheques

1984

7.0

Movie
Absolutely Fabulous

Absolutely Fabulous

2001

5.0

Movie
poster

Absolutely Fabulous

1992

7.5

TV
Absolutely Fabulous: A Life

Absolutely Fabulous: A Life

1998

10.0

Movie
Absolutely Fabulous: Inside Out

Absolutely Fabulous: Inside Out

2024

0.0

Movie
Absolutely Fabulous: The Last Shout

Absolutely Fabulous: The Last Shout

1996

7.3

Movie
Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie

Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie

2016

5.3

Movie
Allelujah

Allelujah

2023

5.3

Movie
Amnesty International's Big 30

Amnesty International's Big 30

1991

4.0

Movie
An Audience With Victoria Wood

An Audience With Victoria Wood

1988

5.2

Movie
poster

An Audience with...

1978

5.3

TV
Bad News

Bad News

1983

8.7

Movie
poster

Blandings

2013

7.2

TV
British Sitcom: 60 Years of Laughing at Ourselves

British Sitcom: 60 Years of Laughing at Ourselves

2016

5.7

Movie
Butterfly Stroke

Butterfly Stroke

0.0

Movie
poster

Celebrity Antiques Road Trip

2011

5.0

TV
poster

Celebrity Gogglebox

2019

6.6

TV
Chuck Steel: Night of the Trampires

Chuck Steel: Night of the Trampires

2018

7.2

Movie
Comedians Do It On Stage

Comedians Do It On Stage

1986

0.0

Movie
poster

Comic Relief

1988

6.0

TV
Comic Relief: Red Nose Day

Comic Relief: Red Nose Day

2017

9.0

Movie
Communicators From Hell

Communicators From Hell

1989

0.0

Movie
Completely Bad News

Completely Bad News

2019

0.0

Movie
Consuela (or, The New Mrs Saunders)

Consuela (or, The New Mrs Saunders)

1986

0.0

Movie
Coraline

Coraline

2009

7.9

Movie
Coraline: The Making of 'Coraline'

Coraline: The Making of 'Coraline'

2009

5.0

Movie
Dangerous Brothers Present: World of Danger

Dangerous Brothers Present: World of Danger

1986

6.6

Movie
Dawn French Is a Huge Twat

Dawn French Is a Huge Twat

2023

8.5

Movie
poster

Dead Boss

2012

6.7

TV
Death on the Nile

Death on the Nile

2022

6.4

Movie
Demonella

Demonella

1993

0.0

Movie
Dirty Movie

Dirty Movie

1984

0.0

Movie
Dusty

Dusty

1994

8.0

Movie
Eat the Rich

Eat the Rich

1987

6.0

Movie
Eddie Monsoon - a Life?

Eddie Monsoon - a Life?

1984

0.0

Movie
Employees From Hell

Employees From Hell

1989

0.0

Movie
Fanny & Elvis

Fanny & Elvis

1999

6.5

Movie
poster

Fantasy Football League

2022

7.0

TV
Five Go Mad in Dorset

Five Go Mad in Dorset

1982

0.0

Movie
Five Go Mad on Mescalin

Five Go Mad on Mescalin

1983

0.0

Movie
Five Go to Rehab

Five Go to Rehab

2012

0.0

Movie
Four Men in a Car

Four Men in a Car

1998

0.0

Movie
poster

French & Saunders

1987

7.5

TV
French & Saunders - Live

French & Saunders - Live

2000

8.5

Movie
French & Saunders LIVE

French & Saunders LIVE

1990

0.0

Movie
French & Saunders: At the Movies

French & Saunders: At the Movies

1993

7.5

Movie
French & Saunders: Funny Women

French & Saunders: Funny Women

2021

8.0

Movie
French & Saunders: The Ingenue Years

French & Saunders: The Ingenue Years

2011

0.0

Movie
French and Saunders: Still Alive

French and Saunders: Still Alive

2008

5.2

Movie
poster

Friends

1994

8.4

TV
Gentlemen Prefer French & Saunders

Gentlemen Prefer French & Saunders

2011

0.0

Movie
poster

Ghosts

2019

8.0

TV
Gino: Full Story and Pics

Gino: Full Story and Pics

1984

0.0

Movie
poster

Girls On Top

1985

4.8

TV
GLC: The Carnage Continues

GLC: The Carnage Continues

1990

0.0

Movie
poster

Gogglebox

2013

6.8

TV
poster

Going Live!

1987

6.0

TV
Grandpa's Great Escape

Grandpa's Great Escape

2018

6.1

Movie
poster

Happy Families

1985

6.8

TV
poster

Have I Got a Bit More News for You

7.0

TV
How to Be Absolutely Fabulous

How to Be Absolutely Fabulous

1995

6.0

Movie
imagine... French & Saunders: Pointed, Bitchy, Bitter

imagine... French & Saunders: Pointed, Bitchy, Bitter

2023

7.0

Movie
In the Bleak Midwinter

In the Bleak Midwinter

1995

7.1

Movie
poster

Insert Name Here

2016

7.0

TV
Isn't It Romantic

Isn't It Romantic

2019

6.2

Movie
poster

Jam and Jerusalem

2006

7.0

TV
Jealousy

Jealousy

1993

0.0

Movie
Joanna and Jennifer: Absolutely Champers

Joanna and Jennifer: Absolutely Champers

2017

10.0

Movie
poster

Josh

2015

7.4

TV
Kirsty MacColl at the BBC

Kirsty MacColl at the BBC

2024

5.0

Movie
Kirsty: The Life and Songs of Kirsty MacColl

Kirsty: The Life and Songs of Kirsty MacColl

2001

0.0

Movie
L'Entente cordiale

L'Entente cordiale

2006

4.6

Movie
Lady Windermere's Fan

Lady Windermere's Fan

2018

10.0

Movie
poster

Let Them Eat Cake

1999

6.8

TV
poster

Let's Sing and Dance for Comic Relief

2017

6.8

TV
Mamma Mia! Here We Go Yet Again

Mamma Mia! Here We Go Yet Again

2019

7.9

Movie
Man and Witch: The Dance of a Thousand Steps

Man and Witch: The Dance of a Thousand Steps

2024

6.1

Movie
poster

Mel Giedroyc: Unforgivable

2021

7.0

TV
Minions

Minions

2015

6.4

Movie
Mirrorball

Mirrorball

2000

8.0

Movie
poster

Moominvalley

2019

7.3

TV
More Bad News

More Bad News

1988

9.8

Movie
Mr Jolly Lives Next Door

Mr Jolly Lives Next Door

1988

8.2

Movie
Muppet Treasure Island

Muppet Treasure Island

1996

6.6

Movie
poster

Omnibus Presents Comic Relief

1986

4.0

TV
poster

Only Child

2024

9.0

TV
Oxford

Oxford

1990

0.0

Movie
poster

Parkinson

1998

0.0

TV
Patrick

Patrick

2018

6.7

Movie
poster

Pongwiffy

2002

0.0

TV
Prince Cinders

Prince Cinders

1993

0.0

Movie
Private Enterprise

Private Enterprise

1986

0.0

Movie
Red Nose of Courage

Red Nose of Courage

1992

0.0

Movie
Remember the Secret Policeman's Ball?

Remember the Secret Policeman's Ball?

2004

4.8

Movie
poster

Richard Osman's House of Games Night

2020

6.3

TV
poster

Rita Rudner

1990

0.0

TV
Shrek 2

Shrek 2

2004

7.3

Movie
Sing

Sing

2016

7.1

Movie
Sing 2

Sing 2

2021

7.9

Movie
Slags

Slags

1984

0.0

Movie
South Atlantic Raiders:  Part 2 Argie Bargie!

South Atlantic Raiders: Part 2 Argie Bargie!

1990

0.0

Movie
South Atlantic Raiders: Part 1

South Atlantic Raiders: Part 1

1990

0.0

Movie
Space Virgins from Planet Sex

Space Virgins from Planet Sex

1993

0.0

Movie
Spaghetti Hoops

Spaghetti Hoops

1990

0.0

Movie
Spice World

Spice World

1997

4.8

Movie
Stick Man

Stick Man

2015

6.8

Movie
Summer School

Summer School

1983

0.0

Movie
Sumotherhood

Sumotherhood

2023

5.5

Movie
Susie

Susie

1984

0.0

Movie
The Beat Generation

The Beat Generation

1983

0.0

Movie
The Best of French & Saunders

The Best of French & Saunders

2002

0.0

Movie
The Boy in the Dress

The Boy in the Dress

2014

6.4

Movie
The Comic Strip

The Comic Strip

1981

0.0

Movie
poster

The Comic Strip Presents...

1982

7.3

TV
poster

The Dangerous Brothers

1986

0.0

TV
poster

The Graham Norton Show

2007

7.2

TV
poster

The Great Comic Relief Bake Off

2013

0.0

TV
poster

The Great Sport Relief Bake Off

2012

0.0

TV
The Hunt for Tony Blair

The Hunt for Tony Blair

2011

7.8

Movie
poster

The Last Leg

2013

5.3

TV
poster

The Life and Times of Vivienne Vyle

2007

6.0

TV
The Magic Faraway Tree

The Magic Faraway Tree

0.0

Movie
poster

The Magician's House

1999

5.5

TV
poster

The Pentaverate

2022

5.9

TV
poster

The Secret Policeman's Ball

1976

5.0

TV
The Secret Policeman’s Biggest Ball

The Secret Policeman’s Biggest Ball

1989

7.5

Movie
poster

The Simpsons

1989

8.0

TV
The Spice Girls Story: Viva Forever!

The Spice Girls Story: Viva Forever!

2012

8.7

Movie
poster

The Storyteller

1988

8.1

TV
poster

The Stranger

2020

7.2

TV
The Strike

The Strike

1988

7.0

Movie
The Supergrass

The Supergrass

1985

6.2

Movie
The Tale of Little Pig Robinson

The Tale of Little Pig Robinson

1990

0.0

Movie
poster

The Vicar of Dibley

1994

7.4

TV
poster

The Young Ones

1982

7.9

TV
poster

This Is Jinsy

2010

6.8

TV
poster

Top Gear

2002

7.5

TV
War

War

1983

10.0

Movie
poster

Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen

2009

5.0

TV
We Love Sitcom

We Love Sitcom

2016

0.0

Movie
We Work for the Dead

We Work for the Dead

2024

0.0

Movie
Wild Turkey

Wild Turkey

1992

0.0

Movie
poster

Wogan

1982

4.5

TV
poster

Would I Lie to You?

2007

7.7

TV