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Jennifer Saunders
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Jennifer Jane Saunders 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 Jane Saunders 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.
Known For
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
The Graham Norton Show
The Simpsons
Friends
Have I Got a Bit More News for You
Roseanne
Wogan
Would I Lie to You?
Top Gear
Parkinson
Celebrity Gogglebox
The Storyteller
Ghosts
The Great Sport Relief Bake Off
Let's Sing and Dance for Comic Relief
The Great Comic Relief Bake Off
Gogglebox
The Vicar of Dibley
Going Live!
Too Much
Josh
The Magician's House
Comic Relief
Spice World
Sing 2
Death on the Nile
Absolutely Fabulous
Richard Osman's House of Games Night
Omnibus Presents Comic Relief
Red Nose of Courage
Kirsty: The Life and Songs of Kirsty MacColl
Sing
Isn't It Romantic
Shrek 2
The Pentaverate
Four Men in a Car
Minions
Coraline: The Making of 'Coraline'
South Atlantic Raiders: Part 2 Argie Bargie!
Spaghetti Hoops
This Is Jinsy
The Stranger
Wild Turkey
Let Them Eat Cake
Muppet Treasure Island
imagine... French & Saunders: Pointed, Bitchy, Bitter
GLC: The Carnage Continues
Coraline
Mamma Mia! Here We Go Yet Again
Kirsty MacColl at the BBC
The Silurian Disruption
Dead Boss
Demonella
The Best of French & Saunders
French & Saunders
The Boy in the Dress
Jealousy
300 Years of French & Saunders
Happy Families
The Strike
A Bucket O' French and Saunders
French & Saunders: At the Movies
Joanna and Jennifer: Absolutely Champers
Oxford
Absolutely Fabulous
French & Saunders: The Ingenue Years
Absolutely Fabulous: A Life
How to Be Absolutely Fabulous
Mirrorball
Production Credits
The Silurian Disruption
The Best of French & Saunders
Absolutely Fabulous
French & Saunders
How to Be Absolutely Fabulous
Mirrorball
Absolutely Fabulous
Mamma Mia! Here We Go Yet Again
Absolutely Fabulous: A Life
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