Jennifer Saunders
0.7Acting

Jennifer Saunders

Jul 6, 1958 - Sleaford, Lincolnshire, England, UK

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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Media
Movie2004Shrek 2Fairy Godmother (voice)
Movie1996Muppet Treasure IslandMrs. Bluveridge
Movie2006L'Entente cordialeGwendoline McFarlane
Movie2023AllelujahSister Gilpin
Movie2023SumotherhoodDI Brookes
Movie1995In the Bleak MidwinterNancy
Movie2009CoralineMiss April Spink / Other Spink (voice)
Movie2004Remember the Secret Policeman's Ball?Self
Movie2001Kirsty: The Life and Songs of Kirsty MacCollSelf
Movie2021Sing 2Nana (voice)
Movie2001Absolutely FabulousUne spectatrice du défilé
Movie2024We Work for the DeadThe Mother (voice)
Movie2011The Hunt for Tony BlairLady Thatcher
Movie2008French and Saunders: Still AliveSelf
Movie1989The Secret Policeman’s Biggest BallSelf
Movie1985The SupergrassLesley Reynolds
Movie1988An Audience With Victoria WoodSelf
Movie2017Comic Relief: Red Nose DaySelf
Movie2019Mamma Mia! Here We Go Yet AgainMeryl Streep / Cher
Movie2002The Best of French & SaundersVarious
Movie1990French & Saunders LIVE
Movie1996Absolutely Fabulous: The Last ShoutEdina Monsoon
Movie2012The Spice Girls Story: Viva Forever!Self
Movie1995How to Be Absolutely FabulousSelf / Edina "Eddy" Monsoon (archive footage)
Movie1998Absolutely Fabulous: A LifeEdina "Eddy" Monsoon
Movie1993DemonellaThe Devil
Movie1983Summer SchoolLiz
Movie1993JealousyJane/Margory
Movie1982Five Go Mad in DorsetAnne
Movie1998Four Men in a CarHelen
Movie1984Eddie Monsoon - a Life?Doreen
Movie1983WarVarious Roles
Movie1983The Beat GenerationAnne
Movie1983Five Go Mad on MescalinAnne
Movie1984Dirty MovieJune
Movie1984SusieLorna
Movie1984Gino: Full Story and PicsAngie
Movie1984SlagsLittle Sister
Movie1986Private EnterpriseDebbie
Movie1986Consuela (or, The New Mrs Saunders)Jessica
Movie1990South Atlantic Raiders: Part 1Cathy
Movie1990OxfordHannah
Movie1990Spaghetti HoopsMaria
Movie1990South Atlantic Raiders: Part 2 Argie Bargie!Cathy
Movie1992Red Nose of CourageMargaret Thatcher
Movie1992Wild TurkeyNeighbour
Movie2012Five Go to RehabAnne
Movie2023Dawn French Is a Huge TwatSelf (uncredited)
Movie2023imagine... French & Saunders: Pointed, Bitchy, BitterSelf - featured artist
Movie201230 Years of Comic Strip
Movie2014The Boy in the DressMiss Windsor
Movie1991Amnesty International's Big 30Self
Movie2018Chuck Steel: Night of the TrampiresDr. Alex Cular
Movie2015MinionsReine Elizabeth II (voice)
Movie1987Eat the RichLady Caroline
Movie2016SingNana (voice)
Movie2024200% WolfMax (voice)
Movie2016Absolutely Fabulous: The MovieEdina Monsoon
Movie2015Stick ManNarrator (voice)
Movie1981The Comic Strip
Movie2000French & Saunders - LiveVarious roles
Movie1988Mr Jolly Lives Next DoorMonica
Movie1986Comedians Do It On StageSelf
Movie2016British Sitcom: 60 Years of Laughing at OurselvesComedy Role (archive footage) (uncredited)
Movie1997Spice WorldFashionable Woman
Movie1988The StrikeMeryl Streep as Mrs Scargill
Movie2018PatrickMaureen
Movie2018Grandpa's Great EscapeMiss Dandy
Movie2017300 Years of French & Saunders
Movie2018Lady Windermere's FanThe Duchess of Berwick
Movie1983Bad NewsSally
Movie1988More Bad NewsSally
Movie1993Space Virgins from Planet SexNeedle
Movie2017Joanna and Jennifer: Absolutely ChampersSelf - Presenter
Movie1994DustySelf - Presenter
Movie1999Fanny & ElvisRoanna
Movie1986Dangerous Brothers Present: World of Danger
Movie2019Isn't It RomanticNatalie's Mother
Movie2022Death on the NileMarie Van Schuyler
Movie1990GLC: The Carnage ContinuesBrigitte Nielsen as Margaret Thatcher, The Ice Maiden
Movie2019Completely Bad NewsSally
Movie1990The Tale of Little Pig RobinsonDorcas
Movie2011French & Saunders: The Ingenue Years
Movie2011Gentlemen Prefer French & Saunders
Movie2009Coraline: The Making of 'Coraline'Self
Movie1993Prince CindersFairy (voice)
Movie2000MirrorballVivienne Keill
Movie1993French & Saunders: At the Movies
Movie1984A Fistful of Travellers' ChequesShona
Movie2024Man and Witch: The Dance of a Thousand StepsThe Goose (voice)
Movie2021French & Saunders: Funny WomenSelf
Movie2025The Magic Faraway Tree
Movie2024Kirsty MacColl at the BBCSelf (archive footage)
Movie1989Employees From Hell
Movie1989Communicators From Hell
Movie2024Absolutely Fabulous: Inside OutSelf
Movie2016We Love Sitcom
Movie2026Virginia Woolf's Night & DayMrs Hilbery
Movie1987The Silurian DisruptionSilurian #2
TV Show1987French & SaundersVarious Characters39
TV Show1999Let Them Eat Cake6
TV Show1987Going Live!Self2
TV Show1994FriendsAndrea Waltham2
TV Show1985Girls On TopJennifer13
TV Show2021Mel Giedroyc: UnforgivableSelf1
TV Show2007The Life and Times of Vivienne Vyle6
TV Show1976The Secret Policeman's BallSelf15
TV Show1982The Young OnesSue1
TV Show1992Absolutely FabulousEdina39
TV Show1999The Magician's HouseThe Rat (voice)4
TV Show1986Omnibus Presents Comic Relief1
TV Show1982The Young OnesHelen Mucus1
TV Show1985Happy FamiliesGranny Fuddle6
TV Show2013BlandingsLady Constance Keeble13
TV Show2007A Bucket O' French and Saunders5
TV Show2002Pongwiffy14
TV Show1988Comic Relief2
TV Show2010This Is Jinsy8
TV Show2007Would I Lie to You?Self1
TV Show2022The PentaverateMaester of Dubrovnik / Saester of Dubrovnik6
TV Show2007The Graham Norton ShowSelf10
TV Show2002Top GearSelf - Star in a Reasonably-Priced Car1
TV Show1978An Audience with...Self2
TV Show1990Rita Rudner3
TV Show2013GoggleboxSelf1
TV Show1982WoganSelf1
TV Show1988The StorytellerBadsister 11
TV Show2016Insert Name HereSelf - Panelist1
TV ShowN/AHave I Got a Bit More News for YouSelf - Presenter4
TV ShowN/AHave I Got a Bit More News for YouSelf - Panellist1
TV Show2013The Great Comic Relief Bake OffSelf - Contestant1
TV Show2012The Great Sport Relief Bake OffSelf - Host1
TV Show2011Celebrity Antiques Road TripSelf - Participant1
TV Show2017Let's Sing and Dance for Comic ReliefSelf - Judge1
TV Show2009Watch What Happens Live with Andy CohenSelf - Guest1
TV Show2020The StrangerHeidi Doyle8
TV Show1989The SimpsonsPhoebe Pratt (voice)1
TV Show2022Fantasy Football LeagueThemselves2
TV Show2012Dead BossGovernor Margaret6
TV Show2019Celebrity Gogglebox1
TV Show1982The Comic Strip Presents...Chas/Marilyn/Captain/Drunk1
TV Show1982The Comic Strip Presents...Anne3
TV Show1982The Comic Strip Presents...Liz1
TV Show1982The Comic Strip Presents...Sally2
TV Show1982The Comic Strip Presents...Little Sister1
TV Show1982The Comic Strip Presents...Jessica1
TV Show1982The Comic Strip Presents...June1
TV Show1982The Comic Strip Presents...Shona/Second Nun/Horse Rider1
TV Show1982The Comic Strip Presents...Doreen1
TV Show1982The Comic Strip Presents...Lorna1
TV Show1982The Comic Strip Presents...Debbie1
TV Show1982The Comic Strip Presents...Angie1
TV Show1982The Comic Strip Presents...Meryl Streep1
TV Show1982The Comic Strip Presents...Monica1
TV Show1982The Comic Strip Presents...Cathy2
TV Show1982The Comic Strip Presents...Ice Maiden1
TV Show1982The Comic Strip Presents...Maria1
TV Show1982The Comic Strip Presents...Hannah1
TV Show2015JoshJudith3
TV Show1986The Dangerous Brothers1
TV Show1982The Comic Strip Presents...31
TV Show2002Top GearSelf1
TV Show1998ParkinsonSelf2
TV Show2019MoominvalleyMymble1
TV Show2024Only ChildSally1
TV Show2013The Last LegSelf1
TV Show2019There's Something About MoviesSelf - Team Captain24
TV Show2025Too MuchFiona1
TV Show1988RoseanneEdina Monsoon1
TV Show2006Jam and JerusalemCaroline Martin19
TV Show1990Have I Got News for YouSelf1
TV Show1990Have I Got News for YouSelf - Host2
TV Show1990Have I Got News for YouSelf - Hostess1
TV Show2020Richard Osman's House of Games NightSelf1

Crew

Media
Movie2000MirrorballWriterWriting
Movie2019Mamma Mia! Here We Go Yet AgainWriterWriting
Movie2008French and Saunders: Still AliveWriterWriting
Movie2002The Best of French & SaundersWriterWriting
Movie1996Absolutely Fabulous: The Last ShoutWriterWriting
Movie1995How to Be Absolutely FabulousWriterWriting
Movie1998Absolutely Fabulous: A LifeWriterWriting
Movie2000MirrorballCreatorCrew
Movie1984SlagsWriterWriting
Movie1986Consuela (or, The New Mrs Saunders)WriterWriting
Movie2016Absolutely Fabulous: The MovieScreenplayWriting
Movie2000French & Saunders - LiveWriterWriting
Movie1981The Comic StripWriterWriting
Movie2001Absolutely FabulousWriterWriting
Movie2024Absolutely Fabulous: Inside OutExecutive ProducerProduction
Movie1987The Silurian DisruptionWriterWriting
TV Show1992Absolutely FabulousWriterWriting
TV Show1982The Comic Strip Presents...WriterWriting
TV Show1985Girls On TopWriterWriting
TV Show2006Jam and JerusalemWriterWriting
TV Show2006Jam and JerusalemCreatorCreator
TV Show1987French & SaundersCreatorCreator
TV Show1985Girls On TopCreatorCreator
TV Show2007The Life and Times of Vivienne VyleCreatorCreator
TV Show1992Absolutely FabulousCreatorCreator
TV Show2007A Bucket O' French and SaundersCreatorCreator