Jennifer Saunders
Acting
Biography
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.
Born: July 6, 1958
Place of Birth: Sleaford, Lincolnshire, England, UK
Known For
Absolutely Fabulous: A Life
During the filming of her very own documentary, 'A Day in My Life', Edina drops in on her mother who's working in a Help the Aged charity shop. There, she reminisces about the people and events which have made her what she is today.
War
1985:- England has been invaded by the Warsaw Pact countries and middle-class couple Hermine and Godfrey retreat to their rural hide-away but after witnessing a bunch of incompetent commandos kill each other, they get separated.
Lady Windermere's Fan
The day of Lady Windermere’s birthday party, and all is perfectly in order. Until her friend Lord Darlington plants a seed of suspicion. Is her husband having an affair? And will the other woman really attend the party? First performed in 1892, Lady Windermere’s Fan explores the ambiguity of upper class morality and the fragile position of women in society in the late Victorian era in one of Wilde’s most popular and witty plays.
Joanna and Jennifer: Absolutely Champers
Ab Fab stars Jennifer Saunders & Joanna Lumley share 25 years of friendship. The two funny ladies head to the Champagne region of France to find out how their favourite glass of fizz is made.
Absolutely Fabulous: Inside Out
A star-studded retrospective reunites the lead cast for the first time since 2016 to rampage down memory lane revealing how the show was made, pay tribute to much-missed castmember June Whitfield, and celebrate its ground-breaking influence on female comedy.
More Bad News
Four years after they were last the subject of a documentary, the heavy metal band Bad News get back together again for another film of their exploits, beginning with a reunion gig at the Flying Horse.
Comic Relief: Red Nose Day
A fund-raising event organised by Comic Relief.
The Spice Girls Story: Viva Forever!
15 years after they first took the world by storm, a new musical about the girls called Viva Forever! is about to hit the West End. The programme looks at the creative process behind the show that is produced by Judy Craymer and written by Jennifer Saunders in collaboration with the Spice Girls themselves.
Bad News
A documentary crew films heavy metal band Bad News as they have trouble starting their van, pick up a schoolgirl groupie, and meet up with rock journalist Sally at a motorway service station where they argue about the cost of sausage and chips.
Mr Jolly Lives Next Door
A couple of bored escorts find themselves suddenly involved with a hit gang and an ax murderer - Mr. Jolly. Gratuitous violence, rivers of blood, and maximum hilarity, all rolled into one.
Filmography
as Grandma Thompson
as Self
as Fiona
as Sally
as Self (archive footage)
as The Goose (voice)
as Max (voice)
as The Mother (voice)
as Self (uncredited)
as Self - Featured Artist
as DI Brookes
as Sister Gilpin
as Themselves
as Maester of Dubrovnik / Saester of Dubrovnik
as Marie Van Schuyler
as Mother (voice)
as Nana (voice)
as Self
as Heidi Doyle
as Sally
as Meryl Streep / Cher
as Self - Team Captain
as Mymble
as Natalie's Mother
as Maureen
as Dr. Alex Cular
as The Duchess of Berwick
as Miss Dandy
as Self - Presenter
as Self
as Self - Judge
as Nana (voice)
as Comedy Role (archive footage) (uncredited)
as Edina Monsoon
as Self - Panelist
as Narrator (voice)
as Judith
as Reine Elizabeth II (voice)
as Miss Windsor
as Self
as Self
as Self - Contestant
as Lady Constance Keeble
as Anne
as Governor Margaret
as Self - Host
as Self - Participant
as Lady Thatcher
as Self - Guest
as Miss April Spink / Other Spink (voice)
as Self
as Self
as Caroline Martin
as Gwendoline McFarlane
as Helen Mucus / Anita Harris (archive footage) (uncredited)
as Fairy Godmother (voice)
as Self - Star in a Reasonably-Priced Car
as Self
as Various
as Une spectatrice du défilé
as Vivienne Keill
as Roanna
as Self
as The Rat (voice)
as Edina "Eddy" Monsoon
as Helen
as Self
as Fashionable Woman
as Edina Monsoon
as Mrs. Bluveridge
as Nancy
as Self / Edina "Eddy" Monsoon (archive footage)
as Andrea Waltham
as Self - Presenter
as Fairy (voice)
as Jane/Margory
as The Devil
as Needle
as Neighbour
as Edina
as Margaret Thatcher
as Dorcas
as Self
as Self - Hostess
as Maria
as Hannah
as Cathy
as Phoebe Pratt (voice)
as Edina Monsoon
as Badsister 1
as Monica
as Sally
as Meryl Streep as Mrs Scargill
as Lady Caroline
as Self
as Various Characters
as Self
as Debbie
as Jessica
as Lesley Reynolds
as Jennifer
as Granny Fuddle
as Granny / Cassie / Madeleine / Joyce / Roxanne Fuddle
as Little Sister
as Doreen
as Angie
as Shona
as Lorna
as June
as Anne
as Liz
as Sally
as Anne
as Various Roles
as Sue
as Helen Mucus
as Anne
as Chas/Marilyn/Captain/Drunk
as Sally
as June
as Lorna
as Shona/Second Nun/Horse Rider
as Angie
as Doreen
as Little Sister
as Jessica
as Debbie
as Meryl Streep
as Monica
as Cathy
as Ice Maiden
as Hannah
as Maria
as Anne
as Self
as Self
as Self
as Self - Presenter
as Self - Panellist
as Badsister 1