
Jennifer Saunders
Born: 1958-07-06
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.
Filmography

Absolutely Fabulous: Inside Out
2024

Lady Windermere's Fan
2018

Joanna and Jennifer: Absolutely Champers
2017

Kirsty: The Life and Songs of Kirsty MacColl
2001

War
1983

More Bad News
1988

Comic Relief: Red Nose Day
2017

Prince Cinders
1993

Mr Jolly Lives Next Door
1988

The Spice Girls Story: Viva Forever!
2012

Bad News
1983

Dawn French Is a Huge Twat
2023

Absolutely Fabulous: A Life
1998

Friends
1994

French & Saunders - Live
2000

The Storyteller
1988

The Simpsons
1989

French & Saunders: Funny Women
2021