Jennifer Saunders
Actor
- Born
- July 6, 1958 (age 68) · 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.
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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.
Known for
Shrek 2
May 19, 2004
Minions
June 17, 2015
Coraline
February 5, 2009
Sing
November 23, 2016
Sing 2
December 1, 2021
Death on the Nile
February 9, 2022
Isn't It Romantic
February 13, 2019
Spice World
December 18, 1997
Muppet Treasure Island
February 16, 1996
Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie
July 1, 2016
Patrick
June 29, 2018
Stick Man
December 7, 2015
Acting111
- 2026Virginia Woolf's Night & Day as Bess Hilbery
- 2026People's Emergency Briefing as Herself
- 2026The Magic Faraway Tree as Grandma
- 2026Becoming Victoria Wood as Self
- 2024Absolutely Fabulous: Inside Out as Self / Edina "Eddie" Monsoon
- 2024Kirsty MacColl at the BBC as Self (archive footage)
- 2024Man and Witch: The Dance of a Thousand Steps as The Goose (voice)
- 2024200% Wolf as Max (voice)
- 2024We Work for the Dead as The Mother (voice)
- 2023