
Jennifer Saunders
Known for Acting · 165 credits
- Born
- 1958-07-06 (age 67)
- Place of birth
- Sleaford, Lincolnshire, England, UK
- Also known as
- Jennifer Jane Saunders
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.
Known For
TV Shows (54)

The Simpsons
1989
as Phoebe Pratt (voice)

Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
2009
as Self - Guest

Friends
1994
as Andrea Waltham

The Graham Norton Show
2007
as Self

Top Gear
2002
as Self - Star in a Reasonably-Priced Car

Have I Got News for You
1990
as Self / Self - Hostess

Wogan
1982
as Self

The Last Leg
2013
as Self

Omnibus
1967

Have I Got a Bit More News for You
as Self - Presenter / Self - Panellist

Absolutely Fabulous
1992
as Edina Monsoon

Would I Lie to You?
2007
as Self

Celebrity Antiques Road Trip
2011
as Self - Participant

The Comic Strip Presents...
1982
as Chas/Marilyn/Captain/Drunk / Anne / Liz / Sally / Little Sister / Jessica / June / Shona/Second Nun/Horse Rider / Doreen / Lorna / Debbie / Angie / Meryl Streep / Monica / Cathy / Ice Maiden / Maria / Hannah

The Young Ones
1982
as Sue / Helen Mucus

An Audience with...
1978
as Self

Parkinson
1998
as Self

Going Live!
1987
as Self

The Storyteller
1988
as Badsister 1

The Stranger
2020
as Heidi Doyle

Too Much
2025
as Fiona

French & Saunders
1987
as Various Characters

Celebrity Gogglebox
2019
as Self

Moominvalley
2019
as Mymble

Roseanne
1988
as Edina Monsoon

The Secret Policeman's Ball
1976
as Self

Blandings
2013
as Lady Constance Keeble

Jam and Jerusalem
2006
as Caroline Martin

Girls On Top
1985
as Jennifer

Insert Name Here
2016
as Self - Panelist

The Pentaverate
2022
as Maester of Dubrovnik / Saester of Dubrovnik

Gogglebox
2013
as Self

Fantasy Football League
2022
as Themselves
Comic Relief
1988

The Magician's House
1999
as The Rat (voice)

The Great Sport Relief Bake Off
2012
as Self - Host

Happy Families
1985
as Granny Fuddle

The Claudia Winkleman Show
2026
as Self

The Great Comic Relief Bake Off
2013
as Self - Contestant

Only Child
2024
as Sally

This Is Jinsy
2010

Mel Giedroyc: Unforgivable
2021
as Self

Let Them Eat Cake
1999

Rita Rudner
1990

Richard Osman's House of Games Night
2020
as Self

Let's Sing and Dance for Comic Relief
2017
as Self - Judge

There's Something About Movies
2019
as Self - Team Captain
Pongwiffy
2002

Dead Boss
2012
as Governor Margaret

Omnibus Presents Comic Relief
1986

Josh
2015
as Judith

The Life and Times of Vivienne Vyle
2007

A Bucket O' French and Saunders
2007

The Dangerous Brothers
1986
Movies (111)

Coraline
2009
as Miss April Spink / Other Spink (voice)

Shrek 2
2004
as Fairy Godmother (voice)

Sing 2
2021
as Nana (voice)

Sing
2016
as Nana (voice)

The Magic Faraway Tree
2026
as Grandma

Minions
2015
as Reine Elizabeth II (voice)

Death on the Nile
2022
as Marie Van Schuyler

Spice World
1997
as Fashionable Woman

Isn't It Romantic
2019
as Natalie's Mother

200% Wolf
2024
as Max (voice)

Muppet Treasure Island
1996
as Mrs. Bluveridge

Eat the Rich
1987
as Lady Caroline

Sumotherhood
2023
as DI Brookes

Patrick
2018
as Maureen

Man and Witch: The Dance of a Thousand Steps
2024
as The Goose (voice)

Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie
2016
as Edina Monsoon

Remember the Secret Policeman's Ball?
2004
as Self

In the Bleak Midwinter
1995
as Nancy

Stick Man
2015
as Narrator (voice)

Slags
1984
as Little Sister

British Sitcom: 60 Years of Laughing at Ourselves
2016
as Comedy Role (archive footage) (uncredited)

Virginia Woolf's Night & Day
2026
as Mrs Hilbery

Absolutely Fabulous: The Last Shout
1996
as Edina Monsoon

Communicators From Hell
1989

Allelujah
2023
as Sister Gilpin

Dangerous Brothers Present: World of Danger
1986

Amnesty International's Big 30
1991
as Self

30 Years of Comic Strip
2012

Dusty
1994
as Self - Presenter

Absolutely Fabulous
2001
as Une spectatrice du défilé

Space Virgins from Planet Sex
1993
as Needle

The Supergrass
1985
as Lesley Reynolds

Bad News
1983
as Sally

L'Entente cordiale
2006
as Gwendoline McFarlane

The Boy in the Dress
2014
as Miss Windsor

The Secret Policeman’s Biggest Ball
1989
as Self

Kirsty: The Life and Songs of Kirsty MacColl
2001
as Self

Happy Families
1985
as Granny / Cassie / Madeleine / Joyce / Roxanne Fuddle

Coraline: The Making of 'Coraline'
2009
as Self

Comic Relief: Red Nose Day
2017
as Self

The Tale of Little Pig Robinson
1990
as Dorcas

Mr Jolly Lives Next Door
1988
as Monica

Five Go Mad in Dorset
1982
as Anne

Mamma Mia! Here We Go Yet Again
2019
as Meryl Streep / Cher

Gino: Full Story and Pics
1984
as Angie

The Strike
1988
as Meryl Streep as Mrs Scargill

Employees From Hell
1989

Grandpa's Great Escape
2018
as Miss Dandy

An Audience With Victoria Wood
1988
as Self

Fanny & Elvis
1999
as Roanna

Chuck Steel: Night of the Trampires
2018
as Dr. Alex Cular

Consuela (or, The New Mrs Saunders)
1986
as Jessica

Lady Windermere's Fan
2018
as The Duchess of Berwick

Dirty Movie
1984
as June

South Atlantic Raiders: Part 2 Argie Bargie!
1990
as Cathy

Joanna and Jennifer: Absolutely Champers
2017
as Self - Presenter

300 Years of French & Saunders
2017

Comedians Do It On Stage
1986
as Self

Jealousy
1993
as Jane/Margory

War
1983
as Various Roles

How to Be Absolutely Fabulous
1995
as Self / Edina "Eddy" Monsoon (archive footage)

Summer School
1983
as Liz

Mirrorball
2000
as Vivienne Keill

Absolutely Fabulous: A Life
1998
as Edina "Eddy" Monsoon

imagine... French & Saunders: Pointed, Bitchy, Bitter
2023
as Self - Featured Artist

Susie
1984
as Lorna

The Hunt for Tony Blair
2011
as Lady Thatcher

Demonella
1993
as The Devil

The Spice Girls Story: Viva Forever!
2012
as Self

The Beat Generation
1983
as Anne

A Fistful of Travellers' Cheques
1984
as Shona

Becoming Victoria Wood
2026
as Self

Private Enterprise
1986
as Debbie

French & Saunders: The Ingenue Years
2011

Completely Bad News
2019
as Sally

The Comic Strip
1981

French and Saunders: Still Alive
2008
as Self

Spaghetti Hoops
1990
as Maria

Red Nose of Courage
1992
as Margaret Thatcher

GLC: The Carnage Continues
1990
as Brigitte Nielsen as Margaret Thatcher, The Ice Maiden

Kirsty MacColl at the BBC
2024
as Self (archive footage)

South Atlantic Raiders: Part 1
1990
as Cathy

Bottom Mindless Violence
2004
as Helen Mucus / Anita Harris (archive footage) (uncredited)

Prince Cinders
1993
as Fairy (voice)

People's Emergency Briefing
2026

Five Go to Rehab
2012
as Anne

Dawn French Is a Huge Twat
2023
as Self (uncredited)

French & Saunders: Funny Women
2021
as Self

We Work for the Dead
2024
as The Mother (voice)

More Bad News
1988
as Sally

Amandaland - Christmas special
2025
as Aunt Joan

The Storyteller: Sapsorrow
1988
as Badsister 1

Absolutely Fabulous: Inside Out
2024
as Self / Edina "Eddie" Monsoon

Eddie Monsoon - a Life?
1984
as Doreen

Four Men in a Car
1998
as Helen
We Love Sitcom
2016

Oxford
1990
as Hannah

The Best Birthday Ever
2022
as Mother (voice)

French & Saunders LIVE
1990

French & Saunders - Live
2000
as Various roles

French & Saunders: At the Movies
1993

The Best of French & Saunders
2002
as Various

Gentlemen Prefer French & Saunders
2011

It’s Lulu
1999
as Self

Wild Turkey
1992
as Neighbour

Five Go Mad on Mescalin
1983
as Anne

French and Saunders' Christmas Carol
1994
as Various Roles

Colleagues From Hell
1989

Customer Service From Hell
1989
The Silurian Disruption
1987
as Silurian #2

French And Saunders - Christmas Special '88
1988
as Various Characters
About 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 e… With 165 credits spanning from 1967 to 2026, Jennifer Saunders has appeared in 111 films and 54 TV shows.
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Most Popular Jennifer Saunders Movies
- Coraline (2009) — as Miss April Spink / Other Spink (voice)
- Shrek 2 (2004) — as Fairy Godmother (voice)
- Sing 2 (2021) — as Nana (voice)
- Sing (2016) — as Nana (voice)
- The Magic Faraway Tree (2026) — as Grandma
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