Jennifer Saunders
Known for: Acting
Born: July 6, 1958
Place of birth: Sleaford, Lincolnshire, England, UK
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.
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Filmography
109 movies · 57 TV shows, newest first
6.5
Virginia Woolf's Night & Day
2026
NR
People's Emergency Briefing
2026
6.2
The Magic Faraway Tree
2026
2.7
The Claudia Winkleman Show
2026
6.0
Becoming Victoria Wood
2026
5.7
Too Much
2025
7.2
Only Child
2024
8.0
Absolutely Fabulous: Inside Out
2024
6.5
Kirsty MacColl at the BBC
2024
6.5
Man and Witch: The Dance of a Thousand Steps
2024
6.7
200% Wolf
2024
5.0
We Work for the Dead
2024
8.5
Dawn French Is a Huge Twat
2023
7.0
imagine... French & Saunders: Pointed, Bitchy, Bitter
2023
5.2
Sumotherhood
2023
5.2
Allelujah
2023
7.3
Fantasy Football League
2022
5.6
The Pentaverate
2022
6.4
Death on the Nile
2022
6.7
The Best Birthday Ever
2022
7.8
Sing 2
2021
8.0
French & Saunders: Funny Women
2021
6.6
Mel Giedroyc: Unforgivable
2021
7.0
Richard Osman's House of Games Night
2020
7.2
The Stranger
2020
NR
Completely Bad News
2019
7.6
Mamma Mia! Here We Go Yet Again
2019
6.6
Celebrity Gogglebox
2019
6.9
There's Something About Movies
2019
7.4
Moominvalley
2019
6.2
Isn't It Romantic
2019
6.7
Patrick
2018
7.2
Chuck Steel: Night of the Trampires
2018
10.0
Lady Windermere's Fan
2018
6.1
Grandpa's Great Escape
2018
9.0
300 Years of French & Saunders
2017
10.0
Joanna and Jennifer: Absolutely Champers
2017
9.0
Comic Relief: Red Nose Day
2017
6.8
Let's Sing and Dance for Comic Relief
2017
7.1
Sing
2016
5.7
British Sitcom: 60 Years of Laughing at Ourselves
2016NR
We Love Sitcom
2016
5.3
Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie
2016
6.8
Insert Name Here
2016
6.8
Stick Man
2015
7.1
Josh
2015
6.4
Minions
2015
6.3
The Boy in the Dress
2014
7.1
Gogglebox
2013
5.7
The Last Leg
2013
NR
The Great Comic Relief Bake Off
2013
7.3
Blandings
2013
8.7
The Spice Girls Story: Viva Forever!
2012
NR
Five Go to Rehab
2012
5.0
30 Years of Comic Strip
2012
6.0
Dead Boss
2012
NR
The Great Sport Relief Bake Off
2012
6.0
Celebrity Antiques Road Trip
2011
7.8
The Hunt for Tony Blair
2011
NR
Gentlemen Prefer French & Saunders
2011
NR
French & Saunders: The Ingenue Years
2011
6.5
This Is Jinsy
2010
5.0
Coraline: The Making of 'Coraline'
2009
4.9
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
2009
7.9
Coraline
2009
5.2
French & Saunders: Still Alive
2008
6.2
The Life and Times of Vivienne Vyle
2007
6.2
A Bucket O' French and Saunders
2007
7.8
Would I Lie to You?
2007
7.2
The Graham Norton Show
2007
7.1
Jam and Jerusalem
2006
4.8
L'Entente cordiale
2006
4.8
Remember the Secret Policeman's Ball?
2004
10.0
Bottom Mindless Violence
2004
7.3
Shrek 2
2004
7.6
Top Gear
2002
NR
The Best of French & Saunders
2002NR
Pongwiffy
2002
4.9
Absolutely Fabulous
2001
10.0
Kirsty: The Life and Songs of Kirsty MacColl
2001
8.0
Mirrorball
2000
8.3
French & Saunders - Live
2000
6.4
Fanny & Elvis
1999
7.0
It’s Lulu
1999
6.0
The Magician's House
1999
7.5
Let Them Eat Cake
1999
7.7
Absolutely Fabulous: A Life
1998
NR
Four Men in a Car
1998
NR
Parkinson
1998
4.9
Spice World
1997
7.3
Absolutely Fabulous: The Last Shout
1996
6.7
Muppet Treasure Island
1996
7.1
TFI Friday
1996
7.1
In the Bleak Midwinter
1995
7.0
How to Be Absolutely Fabulous
1995
NR
French and Saunders' Christmas Carol
1994
8.4
Friends
1994
8.0
Dusty
1994
9.0
Prince Cinders
1993
NR
Jealousy
1993
NR
Demonella
1993
NR
Space Virgins from Planet Sex
1993
7.5
French & Saunders: At the Movies
1993
NR
Wild Turkey
1992
7.6
Absolutely Fabulous
1992
8.0
Red Nose of Courage
1992
4.0
Amnesty International's Big 30
1991
NR
The Tale of Little Pig Robinson
1990
7.2
Have I Got News for You
1990
NR
Rita Rudner
1990
NR
French & Saunders LIVE
1990
NR
Spaghetti Hoops
1990
NR
Oxford
1990
NR
South Atlantic Raiders: Part 1
1990
NR
South Atlantic Raiders: Part 2 Argie Bargie!
1990
NR
GLC: The Carnage Continues
1990
8.0
The Simpsons
1989
7.7
The Secret Policeman’s Biggest Ball
1989
NR
Employees From Hell
1989
NR
Communicators From Hell
1989
NR
Customer Service From Hell
1989
NR
Colleagues From Hell
1989
NR
French And Saunders - Christmas Special '88
1988
5.3
An Audience With Victoria Wood
1988
6.8
Roseanne
1988
NR
The Storyteller: Sapsorrow
1988
8.2
The Storyteller
1988
9.0
Mr Jolly Lives Next Door
1988
9.8
More Bad News
1988
7.0
The Strike
19886.0
Comic Relief
1988
6.2
Eat the Rich
1987
8.0
Going Live!
1987
7.4
French & Saunders
1987NR
The Silurian Disruption
1987
4.0
Omnibus Presents Comic Relief
1986
NR
Comedians Do It On Stage
1986
NR
Private Enterprise
1986
NR
Consuela (or, The New Mrs Saunders)
1986
6.6
Dangerous Brothers Present: World of Danger
1986
7.0
The Dangerous Brothers
1986
6.1
The Supergrass
1985
4.9
Girls On Top
1985
7.3
Happy Families
1985
2.0
Slags
1984
NR
Eddie Monsoon - a Life?
1984
NR
Gino: Full Story and Pics
1984
7.0
A Fistful of Travellers' Cheques
1984
NR
Susie
1984
NR
Dirty Movie
1984
NR
Five Go Mad on Mescalin
1983
NR
Summer School
1983
8.7
Bad News
1983
NR
The Beat Generation
1983
10.0
War
1983
7.9
The Young Ones
1982
NR
Five Go Mad in Dorset
1982
7.4
The Comic Strip Presents...
1982
5.3
Wogan
1982
8.0
The Comic Strip
1981
5.3
An Audience with...
1978
5.0
The Secret Policeman's Ball
19765.1
Film '72
1971
7.2
Omnibus
1967
7.2
Have I Got a Bit More News for You
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AbFab
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