Acting
Jennifer 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.
Movies with Jennifer Saunders
Coraline
2009
Shrek 2
2004
Sing 2
2021
Minions
2015
Sing
2016
Death on the Nile
2022
The Magic Faraway Tree
2026
Virginia Woolf's Night & Day
2026
Isn't It Romantic
2019
200% Wolf
2024
Muppet Treasure Island
1996
Spice World
1997
Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie
2016
Summer School
1983
Stick Man
2015
Happy Families
1985
Fanny & Elvis
1999
Eat the Rich
1987
Patrick
2018
Bad News
1983
Spaghetti Hoops
1990
Dusty
1994
The Supergrass
1985
The Boy in the Dress
2014
Absolutely Fabulous
2001
Absolutely Fabulous: The Last Shout
1996
L'Entente cordiale
2006
Jealousy
1993
More Bad News
1988
Prince Cinders
1993
People's Emergency Briefing
2026
The Comic Strip
1981
Allelujah
2023
Dirty Movie
1984
Demonella
1993
Sumotherhood
2023
Becoming Victoria Wood
2026
Amnesty International's Big 30
1991
Space Virgins from Planet Sex
1993
Employees From Hell
1989
British Sitcom: 60 Years of Laughing at Ourselves
2016
Customer Service From Hell
1989
South Atlantic Raiders: Part 1
1990
The Strike
1988
Colleagues From Hell
1989
Grandpa's Great Escape
2018
Man and Witch: The Dance of a Thousand Steps
2024
In the Bleak Midwinter
1995
Wild Turkey
1992
Lady Windermere's Fan
2018
The Best Birthday Ever
2022
Mamma Mia! Here We Go Yet Again
2019
The Hunt for Tony Blair
2011
Dangerous Brothers Present: World of Danger
1986
Gino: Full Story and Pics
1984
Remember the Secret Policeman's Ball?
2004
French and Saunders' Christmas Carol
1994
French & Saunders: Still Alive
2008
Five Go to Rehab
2012
30 Years of Comic Strip
2012
We Work for the Dead
2024
Mr Jolly Lives Next Door
1988
Eddie Monsoon - a Life?
1984
Communicators From Hell
1989
We Love Sitcom
2016
Private Enterprise
1986
An Audience With Victoria Wood
1988
Chuck Steel: Night of the Trampires
2018
Coraline: The Making of 'Coraline'
2009
Absolutely Fabulous: Inside Out
2024
The Secret Policeman’s Biggest Ball
1989
The Storyteller: Sapsorrow
1988
Susie
1984
Comic Relief: Red Nose Day
2017
GLC: The Carnage Continues
1990
Four Men in a Car
1998
The Tale of Little Pig Robinson
1990
French And Saunders - Christmas Special '88
1988
Mirrorball
2000
Slags
1984
Five Go Mad in Dorset
1982
French & Saunders - Live
2000
Joanna and Jennifer: Absolutely Champers
2017
Completely Bad News
2019
How to Be Absolutely Fabulous
1995
Five Go Mad on Mescalin
1983
imagine... French & Saunders: Pointed, Bitchy, Bitter
2023
Bottom Mindless Violence
2004
Red Nose of Courage
1992
The Spice Girls Story: Viva Forever!
2012
Consuela (or, The New Mrs Saunders)
1986
The Beat Generation
1983
A Fistful of Travellers' Cheques
1984
Absolutely Fabulous: A Life
1998
It’s Lulu
1999
Oxford
1990
Kirsty MacColl at the BBC
2024
French & Saunders LIVE
1990
Dawn French Is a Huge Twat
2023
The Best of French & Saunders
2002
Kirsty: The Life and Songs of Kirsty MacColl
2001
South Atlantic Raiders: Part 2 Argie Bargie!
1990
300 Years of French & Saunders
2017
Comedians Do It On Stage
1986
War
1983
French & Saunders: Funny Women
2021
The Silurian Disruption
1987
French & Saunders: At the Movies
1993
French & Saunders: The Ingenue Years
2011
Gentlemen Prefer French & Saunders
2011
TV Shows with Jennifer Saunders
The Simpsons
1989
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
2009
Friends
1994
The Graham Norton Show
2007
Wogan
1982
Top Gear
2002
Parkinson
1998
Have I Got News for You
1990
Absolutely Fabulous
1992
Omnibus
1967
The Last Leg
2013
Would I Lie to You?
2007
The Young Ones
1982
Going Live!
1987
Film '72
1971
Have I Got a Bit More News for You
Celebrity Antiques Road Trip
2011
The Comic Strip Presents...
1982
An Audience with...
1978
Celebrity Gogglebox
2019
The Stranger
2020
The Storyteller
1988
Moominvalley
2019
French & Saunders
1987
Too Much
2025
Jam and Jerusalem
2006
Blandings
2013
Roseanne
1988
The Pentaverate
2022
Comic Relief
1988
The Secret Policeman's Ball
1976
Gogglebox
2013
The Claudia Winkleman Show
2026
Insert Name Here
2016
Girls On Top
1985
The Magician's House
1999
Fantasy Football League
2022
Mel Giedroyc: Unforgivable
2021
The Great Comic Relief Bake Off
2013
Dead Boss
2012
Josh
2015
Rita Rudner
1990
Let Them Eat Cake
1999
Happy Families
1985
Richard Osman's House of Games Night
2020
The Great Sport Relief Bake Off
2012
There's Something About Movies
2019
A Bucket O' French and Saunders
2007
This Is Jinsy
2010
The Life and Times of Vivienne Vyle
2007
The Dangerous Brothers
1986
Let's Sing and Dance for Comic Relief
2017
Only Child
2024
Omnibus Presents Comic Relief
1986
Pongwiffy
2002