
Jennifer Saunders
Acting
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.
Night & Day
Mrs Hilbery

The Magic Faraway Tree
Grandma Thompson

Becoming Victoria Wood
Self

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

Kirsty MacColl at the BBC
Self (archive footage)

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

200% Wolf
Max (voice)

We Work for the Dead
The Mother (voice)

Dawn French Is a Huge Twat
Self (uncredited)

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

Sumotherhood
DI Brookes

Allelujah
Sister Gilpin

Death on the Nile
Marie Van Schuyler

The Best Birthday Ever
Mother (voice)

Sing 2
Nana (voice)

French & Saunders: Funny Women
Self

Completely Bad News
Sally

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

Isn't It Romantic
Natalie's Mother

Patrick
Maureen

Chuck Steel: Night of the Trampires
Dr. Alex Cular

Lady Windermere's Fan
The Duchess of Berwick

Grandpa's Great Escape
Miss Dandy

300 Years of French & Saunders

Joanna and Jennifer: Absolutely Champers
Self - Presenter

Comic Relief: Red Nose Day
Self

Sing
Nana (voice)

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

Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie
Edina Monsoon

Stick Man
Narrator (voice)

Minions
Reine Elizabeth II (voice)

The Boy in the Dress
Miss Windsor

The Spice Girls Story: Viva Forever!
Self

Five Go to Rehab
Anne

30 Years of Comic Strip

The Hunt for Tony Blair
Lady Thatcher

Gentlemen Prefer French & Saunders

French & Saunders: The Ingenue Years

Coraline: The Making of 'Coraline'
Self

Coraline
Miss April Spink / Other Spink (voice)

French and Saunders: Still Alive
Self

L'Entente cordiale
Gwendoline McFarlane

Remember the Secret Policeman's Ball?
Self

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

Shrek 2
Fairy Godmother (voice)

The Best of French & Saunders
Various

Absolutely Fabulous
Une spectatrice du défilé

Kirsty: The Life and Songs of Kirsty MacColl
Self

Mirrorball
Vivienne Keill

French & Saunders - Live
Various roles

Fanny & Elvis
Roanna

It’s Lulu
Self

Absolutely Fabulous: A Life
Edina "Eddy" Monsoon

Four Men in a Car
Helen

Spice World
Fashionable Woman

Absolutely Fabulous: The Last Shout
Edina Monsoon

Muppet Treasure Island
Mrs. Bluveridge

In the Bleak Midwinter
Nancy

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

French and Saunders' Christmas Carol
Various Roles

Dusty
Self - Presenter

Prince Cinders
Fairy (voice)

Jealousy
Jane/Margory

Demonella
The Devil

Space Virgins from Planet Sex
Needle

French & Saunders: At the Movies

Wild Turkey
Neighbour

Red Nose of Courage
Margaret Thatcher

Amnesty International's Big 30
Self

The Tale of Little Pig Robinson
Dorcas

French & Saunders LIVE

Spaghetti Hoops
Maria

Oxford
Hannah

South Atlantic Raiders: Part 2 Argie Bargie!
Cathy

South Atlantic Raiders: Part 1
Cathy

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

Colleagues From Hell

Customer Service From Hell

Communicators From Hell

Employees From Hell

The Secret Policeman’s Biggest Ball
Self

French And Saunders - Christmas Special '88
Various Characters

An Audience With Victoria Wood
Self

Mr Jolly Lives Next Door
Monica

More Bad News
Sally

The Strike
Meryl Streep as Mrs Scargill

Eat the Rich
Lady Caroline
The Silurian Disruption
Silurian #2

Comedians Do It On Stage
Self

Private Enterprise
Debbie

Dangerous Brothers Present: World of Danger

Consuela (or, The New Mrs Saunders)
Jessica

The Supergrass
Lesley Reynolds

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

Slags
Little Sister

Eddie Monsoon - a Life?
Doreen

Gino: Full Story and Pics
Angie

A Fistful of Travellers' Cheques
Shona

Susie
Lorna

Dirty Movie
June

Five Go Mad on Mescalin
Anne

Summer School
Liz

Bad News
Sally

The Beat Generation
Anne

War
Various Roles

Five Go Mad in Dorset
Anne

The Comic Strip







