Jennifer Saunders
Jennifer Jane Saunders is an English comedian, actress, singer, impressionist, satirist and screenwriter. Saunders originally found attention in the 1980s, when she became a member of The Comic Strip after graduating from the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama with her best friend and comedy partner, Dawn French. With French, Saunders co-wrote and starred in their eponymous sketch show, French and Saunders and later received acclaim in the 1990s for writing and playing her character Edina Monsoon in her sitcom Absolutely Fabulous. She received a BAFTA Fellowship in 2009 with French.
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🎬 Movies
Virginia Woolf's Night & Day
actor
2026
People's Emergency Briefing
actor
2026
The Magic Faraway Tree
actor
2026
Becoming Victoria Wood
actor
2026
Amandaland - Christmas special
actor
2025
Absolutely Fabulous: Inside Out
actor
2024
Man and Witch: The Dance of a Thousand Steps
actor
2024
200% Wolf
actor
2024
We Work for the Dead
actor
2024
Dawn French Is a Huge Twat
actor
2023
Allelujah
actor
2023
Death on the Nile
actor
2022
The Best Birthday Ever
actor
2022
Sing 2
actor
2021
French & Saunders: Funny Women
actor
2021
Isn't It Romantic
actor
2019
Patrick
actor
2018
Chuck Steel: Night of the Trampires
actor
2018
Lady Windermere's Fan
actor
2018
Grandpa's Great Escape
actor
2018
Joanna and Jennifer: Absolutely Champers
actor
2017
Sing
actor
2016
We Love Sitcom
actor
2016
Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie
actor
2016
Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie
writer
2016
Stick Man
actor
2015
Minions
actor
2015
Five Go to Rehab
actor
2012
30 Years of Comic Strip
actor
2012
Coraline
actor
2009
French & Saunders: Still Alive
actor
2008
French & Saunders: Still Alive
writer
2008
Remember the Secret Policeman's Ball?
actor
2004
Shrek 2
actor
2004
Absolutely Fabulous
actor
2001
Absolutely Fabulous
writer
2001
Mirrorball
writer
2000
Mirrorball
actor
2000
Fanny & Elvis
actor
1999
Four Men in a Car
actor
1998
Muppet Treasure Island
actor
1996
In the Bleak Midwinter
actor
1995
French and Saunders' Christmas Carol
writer
1994
French and Saunders' Christmas Carol
actor
1994
Dusty
actor
1994
Employees From Hell
actor
1989
French And Saunders - Christmas Special '88
writer
1988
French And Saunders - Christmas Special '88
actor
1988
An Audience With Victoria Wood
actor
1988
The Storyteller: Sapsorrow
actor
1988
Mr Jolly Lives Next Door
actor
1988
Dangerous Brothers Present: World of Danger
actor
1986
The Supergrass
actor
1985
The Comic Strip
writer
1981
The Comic Strip
actor
1981
📺 TV Shows
Amandaland
actor
2025
Harlan Coben's The Stranger
actor
2020
Utterly Outrageous X-Rated Comedy
actor
2019
There's Something About Movies
actor
2019
Hard to Please OAPs
actor
2019
Let's Sing and Dance for Comic Relief
actor
2017
Blandings
actor
2013
Jennifer Saunders: Back in the Saddle
actor
2012
Dead Boss
actor
2012
The Life and Times of Vivienne Vyle
creator
2007
The Life and Times of Vivienne Vyle
actor
2007
A Bucket o' French and Saunders
actor
2007
Jam and Jerusalem
actor
2006
Pongwiffy
actor
2002
Let Them Eat Cake
actor
1999
Absolutely Fabulous
actor
1992
Absolutely Fabulous
creator
1992
French and Saunders
actor
1987
Comic Relief
actor
1986
Girls on Top
creator
1985
Girls on Top
actor
1985
Happy Families
actor
1985
The Comic Strip Presents...
actor
1981