Actor
Jennifer Saunders
Biography

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, ...

Known For
Acting
2024 -- Absolutely Fabulous: Inside Out | Self
2024 -- Kirsty MacColl at the BBC | Self (archive footage)
2024 -- Man and Witch: The Dance of a Thousand Steps | The Goose (voice)
2024 -- 200% Wolf | Max (voice)
2024 -- We Work for the Dead | The Mother (voice)
2023 -- Dawn French Is a Huge Twat | Self (uncredited)
2023 -- imagine... French & Saunders: Pointed, Bitchy, Bitter | Self - featured artist
2023 -- Sumotherhood | DI Brookes
2023 -- Allelujah | Sister Gilpin
2022 -- Death on the Nile | Marie Van Schuyler
2021 -- Sing 2 | Nana (voice)
2021 -- French & Saunders: Funny Women | Self
2019 -- Completely Bad News | Sally
2019 -- Mamma Mia! Here We Go Yet Again | Meryl Streep / Cher
2019 -- Isn't It Romantic | Natalie's Mother
2018 -- Patrick | Maureen
2018 -- Chuck Steel: Night of the Trampires | Dr. Alex Cular
2018 -- Lady Windermere's Fan | The Duchess of Berwick
2018 -- Grandpa's Great Escape | Miss Dandy
2017 -- 300 Years of French & Saunders |
2017 -- Joanna and Jennifer: Absolutely Champers | Self - Presenter
2017 -- Comic Relief: Red Nose Day | Self
2016 -- Sing | Nana (voice)
2016 -- British Sitcom: 60 Years of Laughing at Ourselves | Comedy Role (archive footage) (uncredited)
2016 -- We Love Sitcom |
2016 -- Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie | Edina Monsoon
2015 -- Stick Man | Narrator (voice)
2015 -- Minions | Reine Elizabeth II (voice)
2014 -- The Boy in the Dress | Miss Windsor
2012 -- The Spice Girls Story: Viva Forever! | Self
2012 -- Five Go to Rehab | Anne
2012 -- 30 Years of Comic Strip |
2011 -- The Hunt for Tony Blair | Lady Thatcher
2011 -- Gentlemen Prefer French & Saunders |
2011 -- French & Saunders: The Ingenue Years |
2009 -- Coraline: The Making of 'Coraline' | Self
2009 -- Coraline | Miss April Spink / Other Spink (voice)
2008 -- French and Saunders: Still Alive | Self
2006 -- L'Entente cordiale | Gwendoline McFarlane
2004 -- Remember the Secret Policeman's Ball? | Self
2004 -- Shrek 2 | Fairy Godmother (voice)
2002 -- The Best of French & Saunders | Various
2001 -- Absolutely Fabulous | Une spectatrice du défilé
2001 -- Kirsty: The Life and Songs of Kirsty MacColl | Self
2000 -- Mirrorball | Vivienne Keill
2000 -- French & Saunders - Live | Various roles
1999 -- Fanny & Elvis | Roanna
1998 -- Absolutely Fabulous: A Life | Edina "Eddy" Monsoon
1998 -- Four Men in a Car | Helen
1997 -- Spice World | Fashionable Woman
1996 -- Absolutely Fabulous: The Last Shout | Edina Monsoon
1996 -- Muppet Treasure Island | Mrs. Bluveridge
1995 -- In the Bleak Midwinter | Nancy
1995 -- How to Be Absolutely Fabulous | Self / Edina "Eddy" Monsoon (archive footage)
1994 -- Dusty | Self - Presenter
1993 -- Prince Cinders | Fairy (voice)
1993 -- Jealousy | Jane/Margory
1993 -- Demonella | The Devil
1993 -- Space Virgins from Planet Sex | Needle
1993 -- French & Saunders: At the Movies |
1992 -- Wild Turkey | Neighbour
1992 -- Red Nose of Courage | Margaret Thatcher
1991 -- Amnesty International's Big 30 | Self
1990 -- The Tale of Little Pig Robinson | Dorcas
1990 -- French & Saunders LIVE |
1990 -- Spaghetti Hoops | Maria
1990 -- Oxford | Hannah
1990 -- South Atlantic Raiders: Part 2 Argie Bargie! | Cathy
1990 -- South Atlantic Raiders: Part 1 | Cathy
1990 -- GLC: The Carnage Continues | Brigitte Nielsen as Margaret Thatcher, The Ice Maiden
1989 -- Communicators From Hell |
1989 -- Employees From Hell |
1989 -- The Secret Policeman’s Biggest Ball | Self
1988 -- An Audience With Victoria Wood | Self
1988 -- Mr Jolly Lives Next Door | Monica
1988 -- More Bad News | Sally
1988 -- The Strike | Meryl Streep as Mrs Scargill
1987 -- Eat the Rich | Lady Caroline
1986 -- Comedians Do It On Stage | Self
1986 -- Private Enterprise | Debbie
1986 -- Dangerous Brothers Present: World of Danger |
1986 -- Consuela (or, The New Mrs Saunders) | Jessica
1985 -- The Supergrass | Lesley Reynolds
1984 -- Slags | Little Sister
1984 -- Eddie Monsoon - a Life? | Doreen
1984 -- Gino: Full Story and Pics | Angie
1984 -- A Fistful of Travellers' Cheques | Shona
1984 -- Susie | Lorna
1984 -- Dirty Movie | June
1983 -- Five Go Mad on Mescalin | Anne
1983 -- Summer School | Liz
1983 -- Bad News | Sally
1983 -- The Beat Generation | Anne
1983 -- War | Various Roles
1982 -- Five Go Mad in Dorset | Anne
1981 -- The Comic Strip |
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