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