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.
Acting (95 movies)
Shrek 2
2004
Muppet Treasure Island
1996
L'Entente cordiale
2006
Allelujah
2023
Sumotherhood
2023
In the Bleak Midwinter
1995
Coraline
2009
Remember the Secret Policeman's Ball?
2004
Kirsty: The Life and Songs of Kirsty MacColl
2001
Sing 2
2021
Absolutely Fabulous
2001
We Work for the Dead
2024
The Hunt for Tony Blair
2011
French and Saunders: Still Alive
2008
The Secret Policeman’s Biggest Ball
1989
The Supergrass
1985
An Audience With Victoria Wood
1988
Comic Relief: Red Nose Day
2017
Mamma Mia! Here We Go Yet Again
2019
The Best of French & Saunders
2002
French & Saunders LIVE
1990
Absolutely Fabulous: The Last Shout
1996
The Spice Girls Story: Viva Forever!
2012
How to Be Absolutely Fabulous
1995
Absolutely Fabulous: A Life
1998
Demonella
1993
Summer School
1983
Jealousy
1993
Five Go Mad in Dorset
1982
Four Men in a Car
1998
Eddie Monsoon - a Life?
1984
War
1983
The Beat Generation
1983
Five Go Mad on Mescalin
1983
Dirty Movie
1984
Susie
1984
Gino: Full Story and Pics
1984
Slags
1984
Consuela (or, The New Mrs Saunders)
1986
Private Enterprise
1986
South Atlantic Raiders: Part 1
1990
South Atlantic Raiders: Part 2 Argie Bargie!
1990
Oxford
1990
Red Nose of Courage
1992
Spaghetti Hoops
1990
Wild Turkey
1992
Five Go to Rehab
2012
Dawn French Is a Huge Twat
2023
imagine... French & Saunders: Pointed, Bitchy, Bitter
2023
30 Years of Comic Strip
2012
The Boy in the Dress
2014
Amnesty International's Big 30
1991
Chuck Steel: Night of the Trampires
2018
Minions
2015
Eat the Rich
1987
Sing
2016
200% Wolf
2024
Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie
2016
Stick Man
2015
The Comic Strip
1981
French & Saunders - Live
2000
Mr Jolly Lives Next Door
1988
Comedians Do It On Stage
1986
British Sitcom: 60 Years of Laughing at Ourselves
2016
Spice World
1997
The Strike
1988
Patrick
2018
Grandpa's Great Escape
2018
300 Years of French & Saunders
2017
Lady Windermere's Fan
2018
More Bad News
1988
Bad News
1983
Space Virgins from Planet Sex
1993
Joanna and Jennifer: Absolutely Champers
2017
Dusty
1994
Fanny & Elvis
1999
Dangerous Brothers Present: World of Danger
1986
Isn't It Romantic
2019
Death on the Nile
2022
Completely Bad News
2019
The Tale of Little Pig Robinson
1990
French & Saunders: The Ingenue Years
2011
Coraline: The Making of 'Coraline'
2009
Prince Cinders
1993
Mirrorball
2000
French & Saunders: At the Movies
1993
A Fistful of Travellers' Cheques
1984
Man and Witch: The Dance of a Thousand Steps
2024
French & Saunders: Funny Women
2021
The Magic Faraway Tree
2026
Kirsty MacColl at the BBC
2024
Employees From Hell
1989
Communicators From Hell
1989
Absolutely Fabulous: Inside Out
2024
It’s Lulu
1999
| Title | Year | Job |
|---|---|---|
| The Comic Strip | 1981 | Writer |
| Slags | 1984 | Writer |
| Consuela (or, The New Mrs Saunders) | 1986 | Writer |
| The Silurian Disruption | 1987 | Writer |
| How to Be Absolutely Fabulous | 1995 | Writer |
| Absolutely Fabulous: The Last Shout | 1996 | Writer |
| Absolutely Fabulous: A Life | 1998 | Writer |
| French & Saunders - Live | 2000 | Writer |
| Mirrorball | 2000 | Writer |
| Absolutely Fabulous | 2001 | Writer |
| The Best of French & Saunders | 2002 | Writer |
| French and Saunders: Still Alive | 2008 | Writer |
| Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie | 2016 | Screenplay |
| Mamma Mia! Here We Go Yet Again | 2019 | Writer |
| Absolutely Fabulous: Inside Out | 2024 | Executive Producer |