Jennifer Saunders

Personal Info

Known For Actor

Gender Female

Birthday 1958-07-06 (66 years old)

Place of Birth Sleaford, Lincolnshire, England, UK

Also Known As 제니퍼 손더스, Jennifer Jane 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

2024
Kirsty MacColl at the BBC

as Self (archive footage)

2024
200% Wolf

as Max (voice)

2024
We Work for the Dead

as The Mother (voice)

2024
Only Child

as Sally

2023
Dawn French Is a Huge Twat

as Self (uncredited)

2023
Sumotherhood

as DI Brookes

2023
Allelujah

as Sister Gilpin

2022
Death on the Nile

as Marie Van Schuyler

2022
2022
The Pentaverate

as Maester of Dubrovnik / Saester of Dubrovnik

2021
Sing 2

as Nana (voice)

2020
2020
The Stranger

as Heidi Doyle

2019
2019
Mamma Mia! Here We Go Yet Again

as Meryl Streep / Cher

2019
Isn't It Romantic

as Natalie's Mother

2019
Ghosts

as Lavinia

2019
Moominvalley

as Mymble

2018
Patrick

as Maureen

2018
Lady Windermere's Fan

as The Duchess of Berwick

2018
2016
Sing

as Nana (voice)

2016
British Sitcom: 60 Years of Laughing at Ourselves

as Comedy Role (archive footage) (uncredited)

2016
2016
Insert Name Here

as Self - Panelist

2015
Stick Man

as Narrator (voice)

2015
Minions

as Reine Elizabeth II (voice)

2015
Josh

as Judith

2014
The Boy in the Dress

as Miss Windsor

2013
Gogglebox

as Self

2013
The Last Leg

as Self

2013
The Great Comic Relief Bake Off

as Self - Contestant

2013
Blandings

as Lady Constance Keeble

2012
2012
Dead Boss

as Governor Margaret

2011
The Hunt for Tony Blair

as Lady Thatcher

2011
Celebrity Antiques Road Trip

as Self - Participant

2009
Coraline

as April Spink (voice)

2006
L'Entente cordiale

as Gwendoline McFarlane

2006
Jam and Jerusalem

as Caroline Martin

2004
Shrek 2

as Fairy Godmother (voice)

2002
Top Gear

as Self - Star in a Reasonably-Priced Car

2002
Top Gear

as Self

2001
Absolutely Fabulous

as Une spectatrice du défilé

2000
Mirrorball

as Vivienne Keill

2000
French & Saunders - Live

as Various roles

1999
Fanny & Elvis

as Roanna

1999
The Magician's House

as The Rat (voice)

1998
Absolutely Fabulous: A Life

as Edina "Eddy" Monsoon

1998
1998
Parkinson

as Self

1997
Spice World

as Fashionable Woman

1996
Muppet Treasure Island

as Mrs. Bluveridge

1995
How to Be Absolutely Fabulous

as Self / Edina "Eddy" Monsoon (archive footage)

1994
Dusty

as Self - Presenter

1994
The Vicar of Dibley

as Reverend Jen

1994
Friends

as Andrea Waltham

1993
Prince Cinders

as Fairy (voice)

1993
Jealousy

as Jane/Margory

1993
Demonella

as The Devil

1992
Wild Turkey

as Neighbour

1992
Red Nose of Courage

as Margaret Thatcher

1992
1990
1990
Oxford

as Hannah

1990
GLC: The Carnage Continues

as Brigitte Nielsen as Margaret Thatcher, The Ice Maiden

1989
The Simpsons

as Phoebe Pratt (voice)

1988
More Bad News

as Sally

1988
The Strike

as Meryl Streep as Mrs Scargill

1988
The Storyteller

as Badsister 1

1987
Eat the Rich

as Lady Caroline

1987
Going Live!

as Self

1987
French & Saunders

as Various Characters

1986
1985
The Supergrass

as Lesley Reynolds

1985
Girls On Top

as Jennifer

1985
Happy Families

as Granny Fuddle

1984
Slags

as Little Sister

1984
Susie

as Lorna

1984
Dirty Movie

as June

1983
1983
Bad News

as Sally

1983
War

as Various Roles

1982
1982
The Young Ones

as Helen Mucus

1982
1982
The Comic Strip Presents...

as Shona/Second Nun/Horse Rider

1982
The Comic Strip Presents...

as Chas/Marilyn/Captain/Drunk

1982
1982
1982
The Comic Strip Presents...

as Margaret Thatcher

1982
1982
Wogan

as Self

Creator

2006
1992
1987
1985
Girls On Top

as Creator

Crew

2000
Mirrorball

as Creator

Producer

2024
Absolutely Fabulous: Inside Out

as Executive Producer