Jennifer Saunders
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. 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.
164 acting credits
Acting · 164
The Simpsons
1989
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
2009
Friends
1994
The Graham Norton Show
2007
Top Gear
2002
Have I Got News for You
1990
Coraline
2009
Wogan
1982
The Last Leg
2013
Omnibus
1967
Would I Lie to You?
2007
Celebrity Antiques Road Trip
2011
Have I Got a Bit More News for You
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The Comic Strip Presents...
1982
An Audience with...
1978
Shrek 2
2004
The Young Ones
1982
Absolutely Fabulous
1992
Sing 2
2021
Going Live!
1987
Parkinson
1998
Sing
2016
The Magic Faraway Tree
2026
The Storyteller
1988
Minions
2015
Celebrity Gogglebox
2019
Too Much
2025
Death on the Nile
2022
The Stranger
2020
French & Saunders
1987
Moominvalley
2019
Roseanne
1988
Blandings
2013
The Secret Policeman's Ball
1976
Girls On Top
1985
Jam and Jerusalem
2006
The Pentaverate
2022
Insert Name Here
2016
The Great Sport Relief Bake Off
2012
Gogglebox
2013
Happy Families
1985
The Magician's House
1999
Fantasy Football League
2022
Comic Relief
1988
The Great Comic Relief Bake Off
2013
The Claudia Winkleman Show
2026
Spice World
1997
200% Wolf
2024
Only Child
2024
Muppet Treasure Island
1996
Let's Sing and Dance for Comic Relief
2017
This Is Jinsy
2010
Isn't It Romantic
2019
Mel Giedroyc: Unforgivable
2021
Josh
2015
Richard Osman's House of Games Night
2020
Let Them Eat Cake
1999
Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie
2016
Rita Rudner
1990
Pongwiffy
2002
Dead Boss
2012
Patrick
2018
Omnibus Presents Comic Relief
1986
There's Something About Movies
2019
Man and Witch: The Dance of a Thousand Steps
2024
In the Bleak Midwinter
1995
The Life and Times of Vivienne Vyle
2007
Stick Man
2015
British Sitcom: 60 Years of Laughing at Ourselves
2016
The Dangerous Brothers
1986
Virginia Woolf's Night & Day
2026
Amnesty International's Big 30
1991
A Bucket O' French and Saunders
2007
Remember the Secret Policeman's Ball?
2004
Allelujah
2023
30 Years of Comic Strip
2012
Sumotherhood
2023
The Secret Policeman’s Biggest Ball
1989
Slags
1984
Eat the Rich
1987
The Boy in the Dress
2014
Absolutely Fabulous: Inside Out
2024
Communicators From Hell
1989
Mamma Mia! Here We Go Yet Again
2019
imagine... French & Saunders: Pointed, Bitchy, Bitter
2023
Grandpa's Great Escape
2018
Comic Relief: Red Nose Day
2017
Absolutely Fabulous
2001
Kirsty: The Life and Songs of Kirsty MacColl
2001
Absolutely Fabulous: The Last Shout
1996
L'Entente cordiale
2006
The Tale of Little Pig Robinson
1990
Dangerous Brothers Present: World of Danger
1986
The Hunt for Tony Blair
2011
Mirrorball
2000
An Audience With Victoria Wood
1988
South Atlantic Raiders: Part 2 Argie Bargie!
1990
The Best Birthday Ever
2022
Jealousy
1993
Five Go Mad in Dorset
1982
300 Years of French & Saunders
2017
Gino: Full Story and Pics
1984
The Supergrass
1985
Bad News
1983
Dirty Movie
1984
Absolutely Fabulous: A Life
1998
Five Go to Rehab
2012
Summer School
1983
Coraline: The Making of 'Coraline'
2009
Oxford
1990
GLC: The Carnage Continues
1990
Spaghetti Hoops
1990
Space Virgins from Planet Sex
1993
Mr Jolly Lives Next Door
1988
Comedians Do It On Stage
1986
Red Nose of Courage
1992
How to Be Absolutely Fabulous
1995
A Fistful of Travellers' Cheques
1984
The Best of French & Saunders
2002
Bottom Mindless Violence
2004
The Strike
1988
Demonella
1993
The Beat Generation
1983
Susie
1984
Chuck Steel: Night of the Trampires
2018
Four Men in a Car
1998
Private Enterprise
1986
Consuela (or, The New Mrs Saunders)
1986
Dawn French Is a Huge Twat
2023
We Work for the Dead
2024
French and Saunders: Still Alive
2008
Eddie Monsoon - a Life?
1984
People's Emergency Briefing
2026
Prince Cinders
1993
More Bad News
1988
Fanny & Elvis
1999
Employees From Hell
1989
Happy Families
1985
French and Saunders' Christmas Carol
1994
The Comic Strip
1981
Becoming Victoria Wood
2026
Completely Bad News
2019
Joanna and Jennifer: Absolutely Champers
2017
The Spice Girls Story: Viva Forever!
2012
We Love Sitcom
2016
Kirsty MacColl at the BBC
2024
War
1983
South Atlantic Raiders: Part 1
1990
Lady Windermere's Fan
2018
Five Go Mad on Mescalin
1983
Customer Service From Hell
1989
Colleagues From Hell
1989
Dusty
1994
French & Saunders: The Ingenue Years
2011
The Silurian Disruption
1987
It’s Lulu
1999
French & Saunders LIVE
1990
French & Saunders: At the Movies
1993
Wild Turkey
1992
Gentlemen Prefer French & Saunders
2011
French & Saunders: Funny Women
2021
The Storyteller: Sapsorrow
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French & Saunders - Live
2000
French And Saunders - Christmas Special '88
1988