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Jennifer Saunders

Jennifer Saunders

Birthday: 1958-07-06 | Place of Birth: 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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Known For

Acting

Year
Title

Role

2024
Shrek 2

as    Fairy Godmother (voice)

2022
The Pentaverate

as    Maester of Dubrovnik / Saester of Dubrovnik

2020
The Stranger

as    Heidi Doyle

2019
Isn't It Romantic

as    Natalie's Mother

2018
Patrick

as    Maureen

2016
Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie

as    Edina Monsoon

2016
Sing

as    Nana (voice)

2015
Stick Man

as    Narrator (voice)

2015
Minions

as    Reine Elizabeth II (voice)

2014
The Boy in the Dress

as    Miss Windsor

2011
The Hunt for Tony Blair

as    Lady Thatcher

2009
Coraline

as    April Spink (voice)

2008
2006
Jam and Jerusalem

as    Caroline Martin

2006
L'Entente cordiale

as    Gwendoline McFarlane

1999
The Magician's House

as    The Rat (voice)

1996
Muppet Treasure Island

as    Mrs. Bluveridge

1995
A Midwinter's Tale

as    Nancy

1992
Absolutely Fabulous

as    Edina

1987
French & Saunders

as    Various Characters