Jennifer Saunders
Acting
🎂 1958-07-06
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.
Cast credits(177)
Phoebe Pratt (voice)
1989
Andrea Waltham
1994
Self
2007
Self - Star in a Reasonably-Priced Car
2002
Self
2002
Self - Guest
2009
Self
1982
Miss April Spink / Other Spink (voice)
2009
Fairy Godmother (voice)
2004
Self
2013
Self - Presenter
Self - Panellist
Nana (voice)
2021
Self
2007
Self
1978
Chas/Marilyn/Captain/Drunk
1982
Anne
1982
Liz
1982
Sally
1982
Little Sister
1982
Jessica
1982
June
1982
Shona/Second Nun/Horse Rider
1982
Doreen
1982
Lorna
1982
Debbie
1982
Angie
1982
Meryl Streep
1982
Monica
1982
Cathy
1982
Ice Maiden
1982
Maria
1982
Neighbour
1982
Needle
1982
Hannah
1982
Margaret Thatcher
1982
Jane/Margory
1982
The Devil
1982
Helen
1982
1982
Mymble
2019
Self
1998
Self - Participant
2011
Nana (voice)
2016
Fiona
2025
Self - Contestant
2013
Edina
1992
Sue
1982
Helen Mucus
1982
Marie Van Schuyler
2022
Badsister 1
1988
Heidi Doyle
2020
Self
1987
Reine Elizabeth II (voice)
2015
2019
Edina Monsoon
1988
Natalie's Mother
2019
Various Characters
1987
Maester of Dubrovnik / Saester of Dubrovnik
2022
Various Roles
1983
Self
2009
Self - Panelist
2016
Jennifer
1985
Mrs. Bluveridge
1996
Self (archive footage)
2024
The Rat (voice)
1999
1989
Self
2001
Self
1976
1993
Self
2013
Edina Monsoon
2016
Self
2008
2025
The Goose (voice)
2024
Narrator (voice)
2015
Lady Constance Keeble
2013
Anne
1982
2011
Gwendoline McFarlane
2006
Various
2002
Maureen
2018
Anne
2012
1988
Self - Team Captain
2019
Self
2017
Lady Caroline
1987
Anne
1983
Caroline Martin
2006
1990
Self - Host
2012
Fashionable Woman
1997
Debbie
1986
Lesley Reynolds
1985
1986
Comedy Role (archive footage) (uncredited)
2016
Max (voice)
2024
Brigitte Nielsen as Margaret Thatcher, The Ice Maiden
1990
Shona
1984
Margaret Thatcher
1992
Silurian #2
1987
Lady Thatcher
2011
Sally
1983
DI Brookes
2023
Une spectatrice du défilé
2001
Sally
2019
Self
2021
Anne
1983
Cathy
1990
2011
Doreen
1984
Maria
1990
Liz
1983
2017
Self (uncredited)
2023
Themselves
2022
Hannah
1990
Self
1986
Helen
1998
Self
1991
Little Sister
1984
Sally
1988
Lorna
1984
Cathy
1990
Granny Fuddle
1985
1989
1981
Self - Judge
2017
2012
Various roles
2000
Meryl Streep as Mrs Scargill
1988
June
1984
Jessica
1986
Self
2024
Self - featured artist
2023
Angie
1984
Self
1988
Monica
1988
Judith
2015
Jane/Margory
1993
Governor Margaret
2012
1999
Dorcas
1990
Mrs Hilbery
Miss Windsor
2014
Meryl Streep / Cher
2019
Self - Presenter
1994
2002
Neighbour
1992
Self
1989
Miss Dandy
2018
Self - Contestant
2020
Edina Monsoon
1996
1986
Sister Gilpin
2023
2010
Nancy
1995
1990
Roanna
1999
Self
2004
2007
Self
2021
2007
The Devil
1993
Self / Edina "Eddy" Monsoon (archive footage)
1995
Sally
2024
The Duchess of Berwick
2018
1986
Needle
1993
The Mother (voice)
2024
Self - Presenter
2017
Dr. Alex Cular
2018
Vivienne Keill
2000
Fairy (voice)
1993
2016
Self
2012
Edina "Eddy" Monsoon
1998