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Jennifer Saunders
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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 sitc…
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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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Jennifer Saunders's Filmography
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Virginia Woolf's Night & Day
as Bess Hilbery
People's Emergency Briefing
as Herself
The Magic Faraway Tree
as Grandma
Becoming Victoria Wood
as Self
Absolutely Fabulous: Inside Out
as Self / Edina "Eddie" Monsoon
Kirsty MacColl at the BBC
as Self (archive footage)
Man and Witch: The Dance of a Thousand Steps
as The Goose (voice)
200% Wolf
as Max (voice)
We Work for the Dead
as The Mother (voice)
Dawn French Is a Huge Twat
as Self (uncredited)
imagine... French & Saunders: Pointed, Bitchy, Bitter
as Self - Featured Artist
Sumotherhood
as DI Brookes
Allelujah
as Sister Gilpin
Death on the Nile
as Marie Van Schuyler
The Best Birthday Ever
as Mother (voice)
Sing 2
as Nana (voice)
French & Saunders: Funny Women
as Self
Completely Bad News
as Sally
Mamma Mia! Here We Go Yet Again
as Meryl Streep / Cher
Isn't It Romantic
as Natalie's Mother
Patrick
as Maureen
Chuck Steel: Night of the Trampires
as Dr. Alex Cular
Lady Windermere's Fan
as The Duchess of Berwick
Grandpa's Great Escape
as Miss Dandy
300 Years of French & Saunders
Joanna and Jennifer: Absolutely Champers
as Self - Presenter
Comic Relief: Red Nose Day
as Self
Sing
as Nana (voice)
British Sitcom: 60 Years of Laughing at Ourselves
as Comedy Role (archive footage) (uncredited)
No Poster
We Love Sitcom
Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie
as Edina Monsoon
Stick Man
as Narrator (voice)
Minions
as The Queen (voice)
The Boy in the Dress
as Miss Windsor
The Spice Girls Story: Viva Forever!
as Self
Five Go to Rehab
as Anne
30 Years of Comic Strip
The Hunt for Tony Blair
as Lady Thatcher
Gentlemen Prefer French & Saunders
French & Saunders: The Ingenue Years
Coraline: The Making of 'Coraline'
as Self
Coraline
as Miss April Spink / Other Spink (voice)
French & Saunders: Still Alive
as Self
L'Entente cordiale
as Gwendoline McFarlane
Remember the Secret Policeman's Ball?
as Self
Bottom Mindless Violence
as Helen Mucus / Anita Harris (archive footage) (uncredited)
Shrek 2
as Fairy Godmother (voice)
The Best of French & Saunders
as Various
Absolutely Fabulous
as Une spectatrice du défilé
Kirsty: The Life and Songs of Kirsty MacColl
as Self
Mirrorball
as Vivienne Keill
French & Saunders - Live
as Various roles
Fanny & Elvis
as Roanna
It’s Lulu
as Self
Absolutely Fabulous: A Life
as Edina "Eddy" Monsoon
Four Men in a Car
as Helen
Spice World
as Fashionable Woman
Absolutely Fabulous: The Last Shout
as Edina Monsoon
Muppet Treasure Island
as Mrs. Bluveridge
In the Bleak Midwinter
as Nancy
How to Be Absolutely Fabulous
as Self / Edina "Eddy" Monsoon (archive footage)
French and Saunders' Christmas Carol
as Various Roles
Dusty
as Self - Presenter
Prince Cinders
as Fairy (voice)
Jealousy
as Jane/Margory
Demonella
as The Devil
Space Virgins from Planet Sex
as Needle
French & Saunders: At the Movies
Wild Turkey
as Neighbour
Red Nose of Courage
as Margaret Thatcher
Amnesty International's Big 30
as Self
The Tale of Little Pig Robinson
as Dorcas
French & Saunders LIVE
Spaghetti Hoops
as Maria
Oxford
as Hannah
South Atlantic Raiders: Part 2 Argie Bargie!
as Cathy
South Atlantic Raiders: Part 1
as Cathy
GLC: The Carnage Continues
as Brigitte Nielsen as Margaret Thatcher, The Ice Maiden
Customer Service From Hell
Employees From Hell
Colleagues From Hell
The Secret Policeman’s Biggest Ball
as Self
Communicators From Hell
French And Saunders - Christmas Special '88
as Various Characters
An Audience With Victoria Wood
as Self
The Storyteller: Sapsorrow
as Badsister 1
Mr Jolly Lives Next Door
as Monica
More Bad News
as Sally
The Strike
as Meryl Streep as Mrs Scargill
Eat the Rich
as Lady Caroline
No Poster
The Silurian Disruption
as Silurian #2
Comedians Do It On Stage
as Self
Private Enterprise
as Debbie
Dangerous Brothers Present: World of Danger
Consuela (or, The New Mrs Saunders)
as Jessica
The Supergrass
as Lesley Reynolds
Slags
as Little Sister
Eddie Monsoon - a Life?
as Doreen
Gino: Full Story and Pics
as Angie
A Fistful of Travellers' Cheques
as Shona
Susie
as Lorna
Dirty Movie
as June
Five Go Mad on Mescalin
as Anne
Summer School
as Liz
Bad News
as Sally
The Beat Generation
as Anne
War
as Various Roles
Five Go Mad in Dorset
as Anne
The Comic Strip
The Making of Shrek 2
as Self
Coraline e o Mundo Secreto
as Miss April Spink / Other Spink (voice)