Jennifer Saunders
Acting
🎂 1958-07-06
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.
Cast credits(175)
Self - Guest
2009
Self
2007
Phoebe Pratt (voice)
1989
Self - Presenter
Self - Panellist
Self
2007
Andrea Waltham
1994
Self
2013
Self - Star in a Reasonably-Priced Car
2002
Self
2002
Edina
1992
Self
1998
Anne
1982
June
1982
Angie
1982
Meryl Streep
1982
Sally
1982
Shona/Second Nun/Horse Rider
1982
Liz
1982
Lorna
1982
Jessica
1982
Chas/Marilyn/Captain/Drunk
1982
Doreen
1982
Debbie
1982
Little Sister
1982
Monica
1982
Ice Maiden
1982
Cathy
1982
Hannah
1982
Maria
1982
Needle
1982
Margaret Thatcher
1982
Neighbour
1982
Jane/Margory
1982
Helen
1982
The Devil
1982
1982
Self
1978
Self - Participant
2011
Mymble
2019
Sue
1982
Helen Mucus
1982
Self - Contestant
2013
1988
Badsister 1
1988
Themselves
2022
Miss April Spink / Other Spink (voice)
2009
Caroline Martin
2006
2019
Maester of Dubrovnik / Saester of Dubrovnik
2022
Self
1982
Self - Host
2012
1999
Self
1976
Fairy Godmother (voice)
2004
1990
Heidi Doyle
2020
Self
2013
Lady Constance Keeble
2013
The Rat (voice)
1999
Nana (voice)
2021
2010
2007
Various Characters
1987
Self - Panelist
2016
Self - Team Captain
2019
Jennifer
1985
Governor Margaret
2012
Nana (voice)
2016
2007
1986
Self - Contestant
2020
Marie Van Schuyler
2022
Self
1987
Reine Elizabeth II (voice)
2015
Self - Judge
2017
Self
2021
Granny Fuddle
1985
Natalie's Mother
2019
Mrs. Bluveridge
1996
Fashionable Woman
1997
Max (voice)
2024
Narrator (voice)
2015
Maureen
2018
Edina Monsoon
2016
Judith
2015
Lady Caroline
1987
1986
Self
2009
Sally
2024
2002
Sister Gilpin
2023
Nancy
1995
The Goose (voice)
2024
Miss Windsor
2014
Miss Dandy
2018
Self
2017
Sally
1988
Sally
1983
DI Brookes
2023
Dr. Alex Cular
2018
Needle
1993
Une spectatrice du défilé
2001
June
1984
Comedy Role (archive footage) (uncredited)
2016
The Mother (voice)
2024
Gwendoline McFarlane
2006
Self
1989
The Duchess of Berwick
2018
Lady Thatcher
2011
Helen
1998
Self - Presenter
1994
Lesley Reynolds
1985
Meryl Streep as Mrs Scargill
1988
Edina Monsoon
1996
Self
1991
Meryl Streep / Cher
2019
Jane/Margory
1993
Various
2002
Vivienne Keill
2000
1986
Jessica
1986
Anne
1983
Mrs Hilbery
Dorcas
1990
2012
Various Roles
1983
Angie
1984
Cathy
1990
The Devil
1993
Anne
1983
Roanna
1999
Self
1988
Self
2004
Maria
1990
Self / Edina "Eddy" Monsoon (archive footage)
1995
Doreen
1984
Cathy
1990
Self
2024
Sally
2019
Anne
1982
Margaret Thatcher
1992
1993
Anne
2012
Liz
1983
Debbie
1986
Brigitte Nielsen as Margaret Thatcher, The Ice Maiden
1990
1981
Self - Presenter
2017
Lorna
1984
Neighbour
1992
Hannah
1990
2016
2011
Fairy (voice)
1993
Self - featured artist
2023
Shona
1984
Self
2008
Self
2001
Monica
1988
Self
1986
Self
2012
Various roles
2000
2017
Little Sister
1984
1989
1989
Self (uncredited)
2023
2011
1990
Self (archive footage)
2024
Silurian #2
1987
Edina "Eddy" Monsoon
1998
Self
2021