Jennifer Saunders
Jennifer Saunders
Biography
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.
Known For
Actor
as Ruth
as Self - Presenter
as Self - Panellist
as Self
as Self (archive footage)
as The Goose (voice)
as Max (voice)
as The Mother (voice)
as Self (uncredited)
as Self - featured artist
as DI Brookes
as Sister Gilpin
as Marie Van Schuyler
as Themselves
as Maester of Dubrovnik / Saester of Dubrovnik
as Nana (voice)
as Self
as Self
as Self - Contestant
as Heidi Doyle
as Sally
as Meryl Streep / Cher
as Natalie's Mother
as Lavinia
as Maureen
as Dr. Alex Cular
as The Duchess of Berwick
as Miss Dandy
as Self - Presenter
as Self
as Self - Judge
as Nana (voice)
as Comedy Role (archive footage) (uncredited)
as Edina Monsoon
as Self - Panelist
as Narrator (voice)
as Reine Elizabeth II (voice)
as Judith
as Miss Windsor
as Miss Windsor
as Self
as Self - Contestant
as Lady Constance Keeble
as Anne
as Governor Margaret
as Self - Host
as Lady Thatcher
as Self - Participant
as April Spink (voice)
as Self - Guest
as Self
as Self
as Self
as Gwendoline McFarlane
as Caroline Martin
as Fairy Godmother (voice)
as Various
as Self - Star in a Reasonably-Priced Car
as Self
as Une spectatrice du défilé
as Vivienne Keill
as Various roles
as Roanna
as The Rat (voice)
as Edina "Eddy" Monsoon
as Helen
as Self
as Fashionable Woman
as Edina Monsoon
as Mrs. Bluveridge
as Nancy
as Self / Edina "Eddy" Monsoon (archive footage)
as Self - Presenter
as Reverend Jen
as Andrea Waltham
as Fairy (voice)
as Jane/Margory
as The Devil
as Needle
as Neighbour
as Margaret Thatcher
as Edina
as Self
as Dorcas
as Maria
as Hannah
as Cathy
as Brigitte Nielsen as Margaret Thatcher, The Ice Maiden
as Phoebe Pratt (voice)
as Self
as Monica
as Sally
as Meryl Streep as Mrs Scargill
as Badsister 1
as Lady Caroline
as Self
as Various Characters
as Self
as Debbie
as Jessica
as Lesley Reynolds
as Jennifer
as Little Sister
as Doreen
as Angie
as Shona
as Lorna
as June
as Anne
as Liz
as Sally
as Anne
as Various Roles
as Anne
as Sue
as Helen Mucus
as Lesley
as Anne
as June
as Angie
as Meryl Streep
as Sally
as Shona/Second Nun/Horse Rider
as Liz
as Lorna
as Jessica
as Chas/Marilyn/Captain/Drunk
as Doreen
as Debbie
as Little Sister
as Monica
as Ice Maiden
as Cathy
as Hannah
as Maria
as Needle
as Margaret Thatcher
as Neighbour
as Jane/Margory
as Helen
as Jennifer
as The Devil
as Self
as Self
as Self
Writer
as Writer
as Screenplay
as Writer
as Writer
as Writer
as Writer
as Writer
as Writer
as Writer
as Writer
as Writer
as Writer
as Writer
as Writer
as Writer
as Writer
as Writer
Creator
as Creator
as Creator
as Creator
as Creator
as Creator
as Creator
Crew
as Creator
Producer
as Executive Producer