Jennifer Saunders
Jennifer Jane Saunders (born 6 July 1958) 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.
Filmography (165 titles)
6.0MovieVirginia Woolf's Night & Day
Bess Hilbery · 2026
MoviePeople's Emergency Briefing
Herself · 2026
6.2MovieThe Magic Faraway Tree
Grandma · 2026
3.5ShowThe Claudia Winkleman Show
Self · 2026
6.0MovieBecoming Victoria Wood
Self · 2026
5.7ShowToo Much
Fiona · 2025
7.2ShowOnly Child
Sally · 2024
10.0MovieAbsolutely Fabulous: Inside Out
Self / Edina "Eddie" Monsoon · 2024
6.5MovieKirsty MacColl at the BBC
Self (archive footage) · 2024
6.5MovieMan and Witch: The Dance of a Thousand Steps
The Goose (voice) · 2024
6.6Movie200% Wolf
Max (voice) · 2024
5.0MovieWe Work for the Dead
The Mother (voice) · 2024
8.5MovieDawn French Is a Huge Twat
Self (uncredited) · 2023
7.0Movieimagine... French & Saunders: Pointed, Bitchy, Bitter
Self - Featured Artist · 2023
5.3MovieSumotherhood
DI Brookes · 2023
5.2MovieAllelujah
Sister Gilpin · 2023
7.3ShowFantasy Football League
Themselves · 2022
5.7ShowThe Pentaverate
Maester of Dubrovnik / Saester of Dubrovnik · 2022
6.4MovieDeath on the Nile
Marie Van Schuyler · 2022
6.7MovieThe Best Birthday Ever
Mother (voice) · 2022
7.8MovieSing 2
Nana (voice) · 2021
8.0MovieFrench & Saunders: Funny Women
Self · 2021
6.8ShowMel Giedroyc: Unforgivable
Self · 2021
7.0ShowRichard Osman's House of Games Night
Self · 2020
7.2ShowThe Stranger
Heidi Doyle · 2020
MovieCompletely Bad News
Sally · 2019
7.6MovieMamma Mia! Here We Go Yet Again
Meryl Streep / Cher · 2019
6.6ShowCelebrity Gogglebox
Self · 2019
6.9ShowThere's Something About Movies
Self - Team Captain · 2019
7.4ShowMoominvalley
Mymble · 2019