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Jennifer Saunders

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Jennifer Saunders

Born July 6, 1958 in Sleaford, Lincolnshire, England, UK84 films

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.

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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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Coraline posterFirst watchCoraline20097.9as Miss April Spink / Other Spink (voice)Wandering her rambling old house in her boring new town, 11-year-old Coraline discovers a hidden door to a strangely idealized version of her life.View film

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Filmography

84 films as actor
  1. 2026Virginia Woolf's Night & DayBess Hilbery
  2. 2026The Magic Faraway TreeGrandma
  3. 2024Man and Witch: The Dance of a Thousand StepsThe Goose (voice)
  4. 2024200% WolfMax (voice)
  5. 2024We Work for the DeadThe Mother (voice)
  6. 2023SumotherhoodDI Brookes
  7. 2023AllelujahSister Gilpin
  8. 2022Death on the NileMarie Van Schuyler
  9. 2022The Best Birthday EverMother (voice)
  10. 2021Sing 2Nana (voice)
  11. 2019Completely Bad NewsSally
  12. 2019Mamma Mia! Here We Go Yet AgainMeryl Streep / Cher
  13. 2019Isn't It RomanticNatalie's Mother
  14. 2018PatrickMaureen
  15. 2018Chuck Steel: Night of the TrampiresDr. Alex Cular
  16. 2018Lady Windermere's FanThe Duchess of Berwick
  17. 2018Grandpa's Great EscapeMiss Dandy
  18. 2017300 Years of French & Saunders
  19. 2016SingNana (voice)
  20. 2016We Love Sitcom
  21. 2016Absolutely Fabulous: The MovieEdina Monsoon
  22. 2015Stick ManNarrator (voice)
  23. 2015MinionsThe Queen (voice)
  24. 2014The Boy in the DressMiss Windsor
  25. 2012Five Go to RehabAnne
  26. 2011The Hunt for Tony BlairLady Thatcher
  27. 2011French & Saunders: The Ingenue Years
  28. 2011Gentlemen Prefer French & Saunders
  29. 2009CoralineMiss April Spink / Other Spink (voice)
  30. 2006L'Entente cordialeGwendoline McFarlane
  31. 2004Shrek 2Fairy Godmother (voice)
  32. 2002The Best of French & SaundersVarious
  33. 2001Absolutely FabulousUne spectatrice du défilé
  34. 2000MirrorballVivienne Keill
  35. 2000French & Saunders - LiveVarious roles
  36. 1999Fanny & ElvisRoanna
  37. 1998Four Men in a CarHelen
  38. 1997Spice WorldFashionable Woman
  39. 1996Absolutely Fabulous: The Last ShoutEdina Monsoon
  40. 1996Muppet Treasure IslandMrs. Bluveridge
  41. 1995In the Bleak MidwinterNancy
  42. 1994French and Saunders' Christmas CarolVarious Roles
  43. 1993Prince CindersFairy (voice)
  44. 1993JealousyJane/Margory
  45. 1993DemonellaThe Devil
  46. 1993Space Virgins from Planet SexNeedle
  47. 1993French & Saunders: At the Movies
  48. 1992Wild TurkeyNeighbour
  49. 1992Red Nose of CourageMargaret Thatcher
  50. 1990The Tale of Little Pig RobinsonDorcas
  51. 1990French & Saunders LIVE
  52. 1990Spaghetti HoopsMaria
  53. 1990OxfordHannah
  54. 1990South Atlantic Raiders: Part 1Cathy
  55. 1990South Atlantic Raiders: Part 2 Argie Bargie!Cathy
  56. 1990GLC: The Carnage ContinuesBrigitte Nielsen as Margaret Thatcher, The Ice Maiden
  57. 1989Employees From Hell
  58. 1989Communicators From Hell
  59. 1989Customer Service From Hell
  60. 1989Colleagues From Hell
  61. 1988French And Saunders - Christmas Special '88Various Characters
  62. 1988The Storyteller: SapsorrowBadsister 1
  63. 1988Mr Jolly Lives Next DoorMonica
  64. 1988More Bad NewsSally
  65. 1988The StrikeMeryl Streep as Mrs Scargill
  66. 1987Eat the RichLady Caroline
  67. 1987The Silurian DisruptionSilurian #2
  68. 1986Private EnterpriseDebbie
  69. 1986Consuela (or, The New Mrs Saunders)Jessica
  70. 1986Dangerous Brothers Present: World of Danger
  71. 1985The SupergrassLesley Reynolds
  72. 1984SlagsLittle Sister
  73. 1984Eddie Monsoon - a Life?Doreen
  74. 1984Gino: Full Story and PicsAngie
  75. 1984A Fistful of Travellers' ChequesShona
  76. 1984SusieLorna
  77. 1984Dirty MovieJune
  78. 1983Five Go Mad on MescalinAnne
  79. 1983Summer SchoolLiz
  80. 1983Bad NewsSally
  81. 1983The Beat GenerationAnne
  82. 1983WarVarious Roles
  83. 1982Five Go Mad in DorsetAnne
  84. 1981The Comic Strip