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.
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Yorkshire writer Kate finds out her biological clock is ticking down the same day that her husband l...
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For the first time in 10 years, see Britain's funniest double act French & Saunders at their hilario...
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Vivienne Keill and Jackie Riviera are a couple of aging stage actresses who live in vertically adjac...
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French and Saunders, Britainās most celebrated female comedians, bring their final ever sell-out Sti...
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15 years after they first took the world by storm, a new musical about the girls called Viva Forever...
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Dennis feels different - an ordinary boy in an ordinary house in an ordinary street, playing footbal...
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Edina and Patsy are still oozing glitz and glamour, living the high life they're accustomed to; shop...
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Ab Fab stars Jennifer Saunders & Joanna Lumley share 25 years of friendship. The two funny ladies he...
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Dragged up all the way from the ocean bed, national treasures Dawn French and Jennifer Saunders are ...
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For a long time, Natalie, an Australian architect living in New York City, had always believed that ...
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Belgian sleuth Hercule Poirot's Egyptian vacation aboard a glamorous river steamer turns into a terr...
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Three Mysterious Curses, two lost souls... and one incredibly difficult dance. A lowly goatherd see...
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A modern family relocates to the countryside where the children discover a magical tree with eccentr...
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| # | Name | Character | Rating | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Magic Faraway Tree (2026) | Grandma | 5 | |
| 2 | 200% Wolf (2024) | Max (voice) | - | - |
| 3 | Man and Witch: The Dance of a Thousand Steps (2024) | The Goose (voice) | - | - |
| 4 | Sumotherhood (2023) | DI Brookes | 6 | |
| 5 | Allelujah (2023) | Sister Gilpin | - | - |
| 6 | Death on the Nile (2022) Most waited movies 2022 | Marie Van Schuyler | 6.4 | |
| 7 | Sing 2 (2021) | Nana (voice) | 7.7 | |
| 8 | Isn't It Romantic (2019) | Natalie's Mother | 6.5 | |
| 9 | Chuck Steel: Night of the Trampires (2018) | Dr. Alex Cular | - | - |
| 10 | Patrick (2018) | Maureen | 7 | |
| 11 | Joanna and Jennifer: Absolutely Champers (2017) | Self - Presenter | - | - |
| 12 | 300 Years of French & Saunders (2017) | - | 7 | |
| 13 | Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie (2016) | Director / Writer | 6.4 | |
| 14 | Sing (2016) Oscars winners 2017 | Nana (voice) | 7.2 | |
| 15 | Stick Man (2015) | Narrator (voice) | 8 | |
| 16 | Minions (2015) | Reine Elizabeth II (voice) | 6.8 | |
| 17 | The Boy in the Dress (2014) | Miss Windsor | 9 | |
| 18 | The Spice Girls Story: Viva Forever! (2012) | Self | - | - |
| 19 | Coraline (2009) Oscars 2010 | Miss April Spink / Other Spink (voice) | 7.6 | |
| 20 | French & Saunders: Still Alive (2008) | Director / Writer | - | - |
| 21 | Shrek 2 (2004) Oscars 2005 | Fairy Godmother (voice) | 7.2 | |
| 22 | Absolutely Fabulous (2001) | Director / Writer | - | - |
| 23 | French & Saunders - Live (2000) | Director / Writer | - | - |
| 24 | Mirrorball (2000) | Director / Writer | 7 | |
| 25 | Fanny & Elvis (1999) | Roanna | - | - |
| 26 | Spice World (1997) | Fashionable Woman | 5.5 | |
| 27 | Muppet Treasure Island (1996) | Mrs. Bluveridge | 7.9 | |
| 28 | In the Bleak Midwinter (1995) | Nancy | 8 | |
| 29 | Space Virgins from Planet Sex (1993) | Needle | - | - |
| 30 | Mr Jolly Lives Next Door (1988) | Monica | 6 | |
| 31 | More Bad News (1988) | Sally | - | - |
| 32 | Eat the Rich (1987) | Lady Caroline | 7 | |
| 33 | Dangerous Brothers Present: World of Danger (1986) | - | - | - |
| 34 | The Supergrass (1985) | Lesley Reynolds | - | - |
| 35 | Bad News (1983) | Sally | - | - |
| 36 | The Comic Strip (1981) | Director / Writer | - | - |
