Jennifer Saunders
Acting
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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Filmography of
Jennifer Saunders
... 2024
Self (archive footage)
... 2024
The Goose (voice)
... 2024
Max (voice)
... 2024
The Mother (voice)
... 2024
Self (uncredited)
... 2023
Self - featured artist
... 2023
DI Brookes
... 2023
Sister Gilpin
... 2023
Marie Van Schuyler
... 2022
Nana (voice)
... 2021
... 2021
Sally
... 2019
Meryl Streep / Cher
... 2019
Natalie's Mother
... 2019
Maureen
... 2018
Dr. Alex Cular
... 2018
The Duchess of Berwick
... 2018
Miss Dandy
... 2018
... 2017
Self - Presenter
... 2017
... 2017
Nana (voice)
... 2016
Comedy Role (archive footage) (uncredited)
... 2016
... 2016
Edina Monsoon
... 2016
Narrator (voice)
... 2015
Reine Elizabeth II (voice)
... 2015
Miss Windsor
... 2014
Miss Windsor
... 2014
... 2012
Anne
... 2012
... 2012
Lady Thatcher
... 2011
... 2011
... 2011
... 2009
April Spink (voice)
... 2009
... 2008
Gwendoline McFarlane
... 2006
... 2004
Fairy Godmother (voice)
... 2004
Various
... 2002
Une spectatrice du défilé
... 2001
... 2001
Vivienne Keill
... 2000
Various roles
... 2000
Roanna
... 1999
Edina "Eddy" Monsoon
... 1998
Helen
... 1998
Fashionable Woman
... 1997
Edina Monsoon
... 1996
Mrs. Bluveridge
... 1996
Nancy
... 1995
Self / Edina "Eddy" Monsoon (archive footage)
... 1995
Self - Presenter
... 1994
Fairy (voice)
... 1993
Jane/Margory
... 1993
The Devil
... 1993
... 1993
... 1993
Neighbour
... 1992
Margaret Thatcher
... 1992
... 1991
... 1990
... 1990
Maria
... 1990
Hannah
... 1990
... 1990
... 1990
Brigitte Nielsen as Margaret Thatcher, The Ice Maiden
... 1990
... 1989
... 1989
... 1989
... 1988
Monica
... 1988
Sally
... 1988
Meryl Streep as Mrs Scargill
... 1988
Lady Caroline
... 1987
... 1986
Debbie
... 1986
... 1986
Lesley Reynolds
... 1985
Little Sister
... 1984
Doreen
... 1984
... 1984
... 1984
Lorna
... 1984
June
... 1984
... 1983
Liz
... 1983
Sally
... 1983
Anne
... 1983
Various Roles
... 1983
... 1982
... 1981
Ruth