
Jennifer Saunders
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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

Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen

The Graham Norton Show

The Simpsons

Friends

Have I Got a Bit More News for You

Roseanne

Wogan

Would I Lie to You?

Top Gear

Parkinson

Celebrity Gogglebox

The Storyteller

Ghosts

The Great Sport Relief Bake Off

Let's Sing and Dance for Comic Relief

Gogglebox

The Great Comic Relief Bake Off

The Vicar of Dibley

Going Live!

Too Much

Comic Relief

The Magician's House

Josh

Spice World

Sing 2

Death on the Nile

Absolutely Fabulous

Omnibus Presents Comic Relief

Richard Osman's House of Games Night

Red Nose of Courage

Shrek 2

Isn't It Romantic

Sing

Kirsty: The Life and Songs of Kirsty MacColl

Coraline: The Making of 'Coraline'

Minions

Four Men in a Car

The Pentaverate

South Atlantic Raiders: Part 2 Argie Bargie!

Spaghetti Hoops

This Is Jinsy

Wild Turkey

The Stranger

Coraline

Mamma Mia! Here We Go Yet Again

Muppet Treasure Island

GLC: The Carnage Continues

The Silurian Disruption

Let Them Eat Cake

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

Dead Boss

Kirsty MacColl at the BBC

Demonella

The Best of French & Saunders

300 Years of French & Saunders

The Strike

The Boy in the Dress

Joanna and Jennifer: Absolutely Champers

A Bucket O' French and Saunders

Happy Families

Jealousy

French & Saunders: At the Movies

French & Saunders

Mirrorball

Absolutely Fabulous: A Life

French & Saunders: The Ingenue Years

How to Be Absolutely Fabulous

Absolutely Fabulous

Oxford
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