Dawn French
3.1Acting

Dawn French

Oct 11, 1957 - Holyhead, Anglesey, Wales, UK

Dawn Roma French is a British actress, comedian, presenter and writer. French is known for writing and starring on the BBC comedy sketch show French and Saunders with her best friend and comedy partner, Jennifer Saunders, and played the lead role as Geraldine Granger in the BBC sitcom The Vicar of Dibley. She has been nominated for seven BAFTA TV Awards and won a BAFTA Fellowship with Saunders in 2009.

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Cast

Media
Movie2005The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the WardrobeMrs. Beaver (voice)
Movie1988Mr Jolly Lives Next DoorMrs. Cooper
Movie2006Love and Other DisastersTherapist
Movie2021An Audience with AdeleSelf
Movie2023The Magician's ElephantSister Marie (voice)
Movie2009CoralineMiss Miriam Forcible / Other Forcible (voice)
Movie2004Remember the Secret Policeman's Ball?Self - Narrator
Movie2001Kirsty: The Life and Songs of Kirsty MacCollSelf
Movie2006When Comedy Changed ForeverSelf (archive material)
Movie2008French and Saunders: Still AliveSelf
Movie1989The Secret Policeman’s Biggest BallSelf
Movie1985The SupergrassAndrea
Movie1988An Audience With Victoria WoodSelf
Movie2017Comic Relief: Red Nose DaySelf
Movie2011Catherine Tate: Laughing at the NoughtiesSelf
Movie2002The Best of French & SaundersVarious
Movie2011Matthew Bourne's ChristmasSelf - Host
Movie1990French & Saunders LIVE
Movie2010Psychoville Halloween SpecialJoy Aston
Movie1983Summer SchoolUrsula
Movie1993The Legends of Treasure IslandJim Hawkins (voice)
Movie1982Five Go Mad in DorsetGeorge
Movie1998Four Men in a CarStella
Movie1984Eddie Monsoon - a Life?Veronica
Movie1983WarHermine
Movie1983The Beat GenerationEleanor
Movie1983Five Go Mad on MescalinGeorge
Movie1984Dirty MovieMonica
Movie1984SusieSusie
Movie1984Gino: Full Story and PicsFiona/Frances
Movie1984SlagsPassion
Movie1986Consuela (or, The New Mrs Saunders)Consuela
Movie1986Private EnterpriseNayler
Movie1990South Atlantic Raiders: Part 1Frances / Mrs. Shines
Movie1990South Atlantic Raiders: Part 2 Argie Bargie!Frances
Movie1990OxfordCaroline
Movie1990Spaghetti HoopsFrancesca
Movie1992Red Nose of CourageGlynis Kinnock
Movie2012Five Go to RehabGeorge
Movie2023Dawn French Is a Huge TwatSelf
Movie2023imagine... French & Saunders: Pointed, Bitchy, BitterSelf - featured artist
Movie201230 Years of Comic Strip
Movie2011Michael Bublé: Home for ChristmasSelf
Movie2005The Comic Strip - A RetrospectiveSelf
Movie2016Darcey Bussell: My Life on the BBCSelf
Movie1991Amnesty International's Big 30Self
Movie1996The Adventures of PinocchioBaker's Wife
Movie2005Comic Aid
Movie1987Eat the RichDebbie Draws
Movie2022Red Riding Hood: After Ever AfterTwit
Movie2022Comedy Classics: The Vicar of DibleySelf (archive material)
Movie1997Treasure IslandJim Hawkins
Movie2016Absolutely Fabulous: The MovieInterviewer
Movie1993Tender Loving CareElaine Dobbs
Movie1981The Comic Strip
Movie2000French & Saunders - LiveVarious roles
Movie1997Sex & ChocolateBev Bodger
Movie2007Donizetti: La Fille du RégimentLa Duchesse de Crackentorp
Movie1992In DreamsDriving Instructor
Movie1986Experiment IVLab Assistant 1
Movie1986Comedians Do It On StageSelf
Movie2016Dawn French Live: 30 Million MinutesSelf
Movie1999MilkVirginia
Movie2017Confessions of the PaparazziSelf
Movie2016British Sitcom: 60 Years of Laughing at OurselvesVarious Characters (archive footage) (uncredited)
Movie2004Harry Potter and the Prisoner of AzkabanThe Fat Lady
Movie1988The StrikeVerity/Old Lady/Celebrity
Movie2000Maybe BabyCharlene
Movie2017300 Years of French & Saunders
Movie1983Bad NewsTracy
Movie1988More Bad NewsRachel
Movie1993Space Virgins from Planet SexGaynor
Movie1994DustySelf - Presenter
Movie2022Death on the NileBowers
Movie1990GLC: The Carnage ContinuesCher as Joan Ruddock
Movie2019Completely Bad NewsTracy
Movie1990The Tale of Little Pig RobinsonPorcas
Movie1986The Comic Relief Utterly Utterly Rude Video LiveSelf
Movie2011French & Saunders: The Ingenue Years
Movie2011Gentlemen Prefer French & Saunders
Movie2009Coraline: The Making of 'Coraline'Self
Movie2020Roald & Beatrix: The Tail of the Curious MouseBeatrix Potter
Movie2020The Vicar of Dibley: In LockdownGeraldine Granger
Movie2020A Baby Reindeer's First ChristmasNarrator
Movie2021The Vicar of Dibley: Inside OutSelf
Movie1993French & Saunders: At the Movies
Movie1984A Fistful of Travellers' ChequesJackie
Movie2021French & Saunders: Funny WomenSelf
Movie2024Joan Rivers at the BBCSelf (archive footage)
Movie2024Kirsty MacColl at the BBCSelf (archive footage)
Movie1989Bosses From Hell
Movie1989Communicators From Hell
Movie1989Employees From Hell
Movie1987The Silurian DisruptionSilurian #1
TV Show1987French & SaundersVarious Characters39
TV Show1991Murder Most HorridVarious characters24
TV Show1999Let Them Eat Cake6
TV Show2005The F Word1
TV Show2006The One ShowSelf - Guest2
TV Show1985Girls On TopAmanda13
TV Show2006Davina1
TV Show2019RuPaul's Drag Race UKSelf - Guest Judge1
TV Show1996TFI FridaySelf1
TV Show1994The Vicar of DibleyRevd Geraldine Granger14
TV Show2004The Paul O'Grady Show1
TV Show1976The Secret Policeman's BallSelf15
TV Show1982The Young OnesChristian Evangelist1
TV Show1982The Young OnesDevil in Advert1
TV Show2002Wild WestMary Trewednack12
TV Show2008Lark Rise to CandlefordCaroline Arless40
TV Show1988The StorytellerBadsister 21
TV Show1982The Young OnesEaster Bunny1
TV Show1985Happy FamiliesCook6
TV Show1999Watership Down39
TV Show1993The Legends of Treasure IslandJim Hawkins (voice)26
TV Show2007A Bucket O' French and Saunders5
TV Show2002V Graham NortonSelf1
TV Show2009PsychovilleJoy Aston13
TV Show2007Comedy Shuffle1
TV Show2002Pongwiffy14
TV Show2002Ted and Alice3
TV Show2004Bosom Pals2
TV Show2010Roger & Val Have Just Got InVal Stevenson12
TV Show1995Look at the State We're In!Clerk6
TV Show2013Heading OutFrances1
TV Show2006The One ShowSelf1
TV Show2021Walk the LineSelf - Judge6
TV Show2007The Graham Norton ShowSelf14
TV Show2001HappinessDawn French1
TV Show1978An Audience with...Self1
TV Show2017Little Big ShotsHost12
TV Show1982WoganSelf2
TV Show1999David CopperfieldMrs. Crupp2
TV Show1987Going Live!Self1
TV Show2016DeliciousGina Benelli12
TV Show2012SuperstarSelf - Chief Judge12
TV Show2007Dawn French's Boys Who Do ComedyPresenter3
TV Show2007More Dawn French's Boys Who Do: ComedyPresenter6
TV Show2004Agatha Christie's MarpleJanet Erskine1
TV Show2021The Secret World Of...Self - Narrator3
TV Show2015Travel Man: 48 Hours in...Self - Guest1
TV Show1992Absolutely FabulousKathy1
TV Show2002Dawn French's Girls Who Do Comedy3
TV Show2024The NevermetsNarrator6
TV Show2000The Nearly Complete and Utter History of Everything2
TV Show2020The Trouble with Maggie ColeMaggie Cole6
TV Show1982The Comic Strip Presents...George3
TV Show1982The Comic Strip Presents...Passion1
TV Show1982The Comic Strip Presents...Tracy1
TV Show1982The Comic Strip Presents...Susie1
TV Show1982The Comic Strip Presents...Veronica1
TV Show1982The Comic Strip Presents...Ursula1
TV Show1982The Comic Strip Presents...Hermine1
TV Show1982The Comic Strip Presents...Jackie/First Nun1
TV Show1982The Comic Strip Presents...Consuela1
TV Show1982The Comic Strip Presents...Eleanor1
TV Show1982The Comic Strip Presents...Monica1
TV Show1982The Comic Strip Presents...Nayler1
TV Show1982The Comic Strip Presents...Fiona/Frances1
TV Show1982The Comic Strip Presents...Verity/Old Lady/Celebrity1
TV Show1982The Comic Strip Presents...Rachel1
TV Show1982The Comic Strip Presents...Mrs. Cooper1
TV Show1982The Comic Strip Presents...Frances/Mrs. Shines1
TV Show1982The Comic Strip Presents...Frances1
TV Show1982The Comic Strip Presents...Joan1
TV Show1982The Comic Strip Presents...Francesca1
TV Show1982The Comic Strip Presents...Caroline1
TV Show1982The Comic Strip Presents...Gaynor1
TV Show1982The Comic Strip Presents...Glynis Kinnock1
TV Show1982The Comic Strip Presents...Stella1
TV ShowN/ACan You Keep a Secret?Debbie Fendon0
TV Show2013The Wrong MansLinda3
TV Show1982The Comic Strip Presents...46
TV Show1949The BAFTA AwardsSelf1
TV Show1998ParkinsonSelf3
TV Show1994Harry Enfield and ChumsMrs Goggins1
TV Show2025BeddyByesGramma Leeba20
TV Show2006Jam and JerusalemRosie Bales19

Crew

Media
Movie2008French and Saunders: Still AliveWriterWriting
Movie2002The Best of French & SaundersWriterWriting
Movie1995How to Be Absolutely FabulousWriterWriting
Movie1983Summer SchoolWriterWriting
Movie1986Consuela (or, The New Mrs Saunders)WriterWriting
Movie2023Dawn French Is a Huge TwatWriterWriting
Movie2000French & Saunders - LiveWriterWriting
Movie1981The Comic StripWriterWriting
Movie2001Absolutely FabulousWriterWriting
Movie1987The Silurian DisruptionWriterWriting
TV Show1987French & SaundersWriterWriting
TV Show1982The Comic Strip Presents...WriterWriting
TV Show1985Girls On TopWriterWriting
TV Show1992Absolutely FabulousWriterWriting
TV ShowN/ACan You Keep a Secret?Executive ProducerProduction
TV Show2006Jam and JerusalemCreatorCreator
TV Show1987French & SaundersCreatorCreator
TV Show1985Girls On TopCreatorCreator
TV Show1992Absolutely FabulousCreatorCreator
TV Show2010Roger & Val Have Just Got InCreatorCreator
TV Show2007A Bucket O' French and SaundersCreatorCreator
TV Show2002Dawn French's Girls Who Do ComedyCreatorCreator
TV Show2006More Dawn French's Girls Who Do: ComedyCreatorCreator