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Jennifer Saunders
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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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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.
Known For
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
The Graham Norton Show
The Simpsons
Friends
Have I Got a Bit More News for You
Top Gear
Roseanne
Wogan
Would I Lie to You?
Parkinson
Celebrity Gogglebox
The Storyteller
Ghosts
The Great Sport Relief Bake Off
Let's Sing and Dance for Comic Relief
Gogglebox
The Great Comic Relief Bake Off
The Vicar of Dibley
Going Live!
Too Much
The Magician's House
Josh
Comic Relief
Spice World
Sing 2
Death on the Nile
Absolutely Fabulous
Richard Osman's House of Games Night
Omnibus Presents Comic Relief
Sing
Red Nose of Courage
Isn't It Romantic
Shrek 2
Kirsty: The Life and Songs of Kirsty MacColl
Four Men in a Car
South Atlantic Raiders: Part 2 Argie Bargie!
The Pentaverate
Coraline: The Making of 'Coraline'
Minions
This Is Jinsy
Spaghetti Hoops
The Stranger
Wild Turkey
Muppet Treasure Island
The Silurian Disruption
Dead Boss
imagine... French & Saunders: Pointed, Bitchy, Bitter
Let Them Eat Cake
GLC: The Carnage Continues
Coraline
Mamma Mia! Here We Go Yet Again
Kirsty MacColl at the BBC
300 Years of French & Saunders
The Strike
Demonella
The Boy in the Dress
French & Saunders
The Best of French & Saunders
A Bucket O' French and Saunders
French & Saunders: At the Movies
Happy Families
Joanna and Jennifer: Absolutely Champers
Jealousy
Oxford
Mirrorball
French & Saunders: The Ingenue Years
Absolutely Fabulous: A Life
How to Be Absolutely Fabulous
Absolutely Fabulous
Production Credits
Absolutely Fabulous
How to Be Absolutely Fabulous
Absolutely Fabulous
French & Saunders
Mamma Mia! Here We Go Yet Again
The Silurian Disruption
The Best of French & Saunders
Mirrorball
Absolutely Fabulous: A Life
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