Dawn French
Dawn Roma French (born 11 October 1957) is a British actress, comedian, presenter and writer. French is known for writing and starring on the BBC comedy sketch show French and Saunders with her best friend and comedy partner, Jennifer Saunders, and played the lead role as Geraldine Granger in the BBC sitcom The Vicar of Dibley. She has been nominated for seven BAFTA TV Awards and won a BAFTA Fellowship with Saunders in 2009.
165 acting credits
Acting · 165
The Graham Norton Show
2007
The One Show
2006
Agatha Christie's Marple
2004
Coraline
2009
Wogan
1982
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
2004
The Comic Strip Presents...
1982
An Audience with...
1978
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
2005
V Graham Norton
2002
The Young Ones
1982
The Paul O'Grady Show
2004
Absolutely Fabulous
1992
Going Live!
1987
Parkinson
1998
RuPaul's Drag Race UK
2019
The Storyteller
1988
Murder Most Horrid
1991
Lark Rise to Candleford
2008
The Vicar of Dibley
1994
Death on the Nile
2022
French & Saunders
1987
Travel Man: 48 Hours in...
2015
Screen One
1989
The BAFTA Awards
1949
Psychoville
2009
The Secret Policeman's Ball
1976
TFI Friday
1996
Girls On Top
1985
Delicious
2016
Jam and Jerusalem
2006
David Copperfield
1999
Harry Enfield and Chums
1994
The F Word
2005
Happiness
2001
The Legends of Treasure Island
1993
Happy Families
1985
The Wrong Mans
2013
Wild West
2002
Look at the State We're In!
1995
Can You Keep a Secret?
2026
The Nearly Complete and Utter History of Everything
2000
The Magician's Elephant
2023
Superstar
2012
Let Them Eat Cake
1999
Heading Out
2013
Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie
2016
The Trouble with Maggie Cole
2020
Pongwiffy
2002
Love and Other Disasters
2006
Davina
2006
The Adventures of Pinocchio
1996
Roger & Val Have Just Got In
2010
An Audience with Adele
2021
British Sitcom: 60 Years of Laughing at Ourselves
2016
Amnesty International's Big 30
1991
A Bucket O' French and Saunders
2007
Maybe Baby
2000
Remember the Secret Policeman's Ball?
2004
TFI Friday
2015
Ted and Alice
2002
30 Years of Comic Strip
2012
BeddyByes
2025
Dawn French's Girls Who Do Comedy
2002
Shaun Tan's Tales from Outer Suburbia
2026
More Dawn French's Girls Who Do: Comedy
2006
More Dawn French's Boys Who Do: Comedy
2007
Walk the Line
2021
The Secret Policeman’s Biggest Ball
1989
Slags
1984
Eat the Rich
1987
Roald & Beatrix: The Tail of the Curious Mouse
2020
The Comic Relief Utterly Utterly Rude Video Live
1986
Communicators From Hell
1989
Catherine Tate: Laughing at the Noughties
2011
The Secret World Of...
2021
The Funny Blokes of British Comedy
2005
Victoria Wood: Seen on TV
2009
imagine... French & Saunders: Pointed, Bitchy, Bitter
2023
Comic Relief: Red Nose Day
2017
The Big Night In
2020
When Comedy Changed Forever
2006
Comedy Shuffle
2007
The Vicar of Dibley: Inside Out
2021
Kirsty: The Life and Songs of Kirsty MacColl
2001
The Tale of Little Pig Robinson
1990
Little Big Shots
2017
Treasure Island
1997
The Legends of Treasure Island
1993
Psychoville Halloween Special
2010
An Audience With Victoria Wood
1988
South Atlantic Raiders: Part 2 Argie Bargie!
1990
Red Riding Hood: After Ever After
2022
Five Go Mad in Dorset
1982
300 Years of French & Saunders
2017
Gino: Full Story and Pics
1984
The Supergrass
1985
Bad News
1983
The Nevermets
2024
Joan Rivers at the BBC
2024
Comic Aid
2005
Dirty Movie
1984
Milk
1999
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
The Comic Strip - A Retrospective
2005
Comedians Do It On Stage
1986
Red Nose of Courage
1992
A Fistful of Travellers' Cheques
1984
Tender Loving Care
1993
Donizetti: La Fille du Régiment
2007
The Best of French & Saunders
2002
Dawn French Live: 30 Million Minutes
2016
The Strike
1988
The Beat Generation
1983
Susie
1984
Four Men in a Car
1998
Private Enterprise
1986
Consuela (or, The New Mrs Saunders)
1986
Dawn French Is a Huge Twat
2023
French and Saunders: Still Alive
2008
Eddie Monsoon - a Life?
1984
More Bad News
1988
Darcey Bussell: My Life on the BBC
2016
Matthew Bourne's Christmas
2011
Sex & Chocolate
1997
The Vicar of Dibley: In Lockdown
2020
Bosom Pals
2004
Employees From Hell
1989
Bosses From Hell
1989
Happy Families
1985
French and Saunders' Christmas Carol
1994
The Comic Strip
1981
Becoming Victoria Wood
2026
Completely Bad News
2019
Dawn French's Boys Who Do Comedy
2007
In Dreams
1992
Kirsty MacColl at the BBC
2024
War
1983
South Atlantic Raiders: Part 1
1990
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
Interviewers From Hell
1989
A Baby Reindeer's First Christmas
2020
French & Saunders LIVE
1990
Michael Bublé: Home for Christmas
2011
Comedy Classics: The Vicar of Dibley
2022
French & Saunders: At the Movies
1993
Gentlemen Prefer French & Saunders
2011
French & Saunders: Funny Women
2021
The Storyteller: Sapsorrow
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Experiment IV
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French & Saunders - Live
2000
French And Saunders - Christmas Special '88
1988