Cast
Jennifer Saunders
Acting
Cast
Jennifer Saunders
Known for
Acting
Born
1958-07-06
From
Sleaford, Lincolnshire, England, UK
Also known as Jennifer Jane 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.
★6.4
MOVIE2022
Death on the Nile
as Marie Van Schuyler
★7.9
MOVIE2009
Coraline
as Miss April Spink / Other Spink (voice)
★7.3
MOVIE2004
Shrek 2
as Fairy Godmother (voice)
★7.8
MOVIE2021
Sing 2
as Nana (voice)
★6.4
MOVIE2015
Minions
as Reine Elizabeth II (voice)
★7.1
MOVIE2016
Sing
as Nana (voice)
★6.2
MOVIE2026
The Magic Faraway Tree
as Grandma
★6.0
MOVIE2026
Virginia Woolf's Night & Day
as Bess Hilbery
★6.2
MOVIE2019
Isn't It Romantic
as Natalie's Mother
★6.7
MOVIE1996
Muppet Treasure Island
as Mrs. Bluveridge
★6.7
MOVIE2024
200% Wolf
as Max (voice)
★5.3
MOVIE2016
Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie
as Edina Monsoon
★4.9
MOVIE1997
Spice World
as Fashionable Woman
MOVIE1983
Summer School
as Liz
★8.0
MOVIE1994
Dusty
as Self - Presenter
MOVIE1985
Happy Families
as Granny / Cassie / Madeleine / Joyce / Roxanne Fuddle
★6.8
MOVIE2015
Stick Man
as Narrator (voice)
★6.7
MOVIE2018
Patrick
as Maureen
MOVIE1989
Employees From Hell
MOVIE1990
Spaghetti Hoops
as Maria
MOVIE2026
People's Emergency Briefing
as Herself
★9.0
MOVIE1993
Prince Cinders
as Fairy (voice)
★6.4
MOVIE1999
Fanny & Elvis
as Roanna
★6.2
MOVIE1987
Eat the Rich
as Lady Caroline
★6.6
MOVIE1986
Dangerous Brothers Present: World of Danger
★6.1
MOVIE2018
Grandpa's Great Escape
as Miss Dandy
★5.2
MOVIE2008
French & Saunders: Still Alive
as Self
★6.3
MOVIE2014
The Boy in the Dress
as Miss Windsor
★6.1
MOVIE1985
The Supergrass
as Lesley Reynolds
★6.7
MOVIE2022
The Best Birthday Ever
as Mother (voice)
★4.0
MOVIE1991
Amnesty International's Big 30
as Self
★4.9
MOVIE2001
Absolutely Fabulous
as Une spectatrice du défilé
★7.8
MOVIE2011
The Hunt for Tony Blair
as Lady Thatcher
★6.0
MOVIE2026
Becoming Victoria Wood
as Self
★7.7
MOVIE1989
The Secret Policeman’s Biggest Ball
as Self
MOVIE1988
The Storyteller: Sapsorrow
as Badsister 1
★5.2
MOVIE2023
Allelujah
as Sister Gilpin
MOVIE1993
Demonella
as The Devil
★4.8
MOVIE2006
L'Entente cordiale
as Gwendoline McFarlane
MOVIE1993
Jealousy
as Jane/Margory
★10.0
MOVIE2004
Bottom Mindless Violence
as Helen Mucus / Anita Harris (archive footage) (uncredited)
★6.5
MOVIE2024
Man and Witch: The Dance of a Thousand Steps
as The Goose (voice)
★9.0
MOVIE1988
Mr Jolly Lives Next Door
as Monica
★7.0
MOVIE1999
It’s Lulu
as Self
MOVIE1990
GLC: The Carnage Continues
as Brigitte Nielsen as Margaret Thatcher, The Ice Maiden
MOVIE1988
French And Saunders - Christmas Special '88
as Various Characters
★8.0
MOVIE1981
The Comic Strip
MOVIE1982
Five Go Mad in Dorset
as Anne
★8.0
MOVIE1992
Red Nose of Courage
as Margaret Thatcher
★10.0
MOVIE2018
Lady Windermere's Fan
as The Duchess of Berwick
MOVIE1989
Communicators From Hell
★8.7
MOVIE1983
Bad News
as Sally
MOVIE2012
Five Go to Rehab
as Anne
MOVIE1994
French and Saunders' Christmas Carol
as Various Roles
MOVIE1984
Gino: Full Story and Pics
as Angie
MOVIE1990
The Tale of Little Pig Robinson
as Dorcas
★5.0
MOVIE2012
30 Years of Comic Strip
MOVIE1983
The Beat Generation
as Anne
★4.8
MOVIE2004
Remember the Secret Policeman's Ball?
as Self
★7.1
MOVIE1995
In the Bleak Midwinter
as Nancy
★10.0
MOVIE2024
Absolutely Fabulous: Inside Out
as Self / Edina "Eddie" Monsoon
MOVIE1993
Space Virgins from Planet Sex
as Needle
MOVIE1989
Customer Service From Hell
MOVIE2019
Completely Bad News
as Sally
MOVIE1989
Colleagues From Hell
MOVIE1984
Eddie Monsoon - a Life?
as Doreen
★5.2
MOVIE2023
Sumotherhood
as DI Brookes
MOVIE2016
We Love Sitcom
★9.0
MOVIE2017
Comic Relief: Red Nose Day
as Self
★10.0
MOVIE2017
Joanna and Jennifer: Absolutely Champers
as Self - Presenter
★5.7
MOVIE2016
British Sitcom: 60 Years of Laughing at Ourselves
as Comedy Role (archive footage) (uncredited)
MOVIE1984
Dirty Movie
as June
MOVIE1986
Comedians Do It On Stage
as Self
★7.3
MOVIE1996
Absolutely Fabulous: The Last Shout
as Edina Monsoon
MOVIE1990
French & Saunders LIVE
★8.0
MOVIE2000
Mirrorball
as Vivienne Keill
★8.0
MOVIE2021
French & Saunders: Funny Women
as Self
★7.6
MOVIE2019
Mamma Mia! Here We Go Yet Again
as Meryl Streep / Cher
★7.0
MOVIE1984
A Fistful of Travellers' Cheques
as Shona
MOVIE2011
French & Saunders: The Ingenue Years
★5.0
MOVIE2024
We Work for the Dead
as The Mother (voice)
MOVIE1986
Private Enterprise
as Debbie
MOVIE1983
Five Go Mad on Mescalin
as Anne
MOVIE1986
Consuela (or, The New Mrs Saunders)
as Jessica
★9.8
MOVIE1988
More Bad News
as Sally
★6.1
MOVIE1988
An Audience With Victoria Wood
as Self
★7.0
MOVIE1988
The Strike
as Meryl Streep as Mrs Scargill
MOVIE2002
The Best of French & Saunders
as Various
MOVIE1987
The Silurian Disruption
as Silurian #2
★8.3
MOVIE2000
French & Saunders - Live
as Various roles
MOVIE1998
Four Men in a Car
as Helen
★8.5
MOVIE2023
Dawn French Is a Huge Twat
as Self (uncredited)
★6.5
MOVIE2024
Kirsty MacColl at the BBC
as Self (archive footage)
★5.0
MOVIE2009
Coraline: The Making of 'Coraline'
as Self
★7.5
MOVIE1995
How to Be Absolutely Fabulous
as Self / Edina "Eddy" Monsoon (archive footage)
★7.5
MOVIE1993
French & Saunders: At the Movies
MOVIE1990
South Atlantic Raiders: Part 2 Argie Bargie!
as Cathy
MOVIE2017
300 Years of French & Saunders
★7.0
MOVIE2023
imagine... French & Saunders: Pointed, Bitchy, Bitter
as Self - Featured Artist
MOVIE1990
Oxford
as Hannah
★7.2
MOVIE2018
Chuck Steel: Night of the Trampires
as Dr. Alex Cular
★2.0
MOVIE1984
Slags
as Little Sister
★8.5
MOVIE1998
Absolutely Fabulous: A Life
as Edina "Eddy" Monsoon
★10.0
MOVIE1983
War
as Various Roles
MOVIE1992
Wild Turkey
as Neighbour
MOVIE1990
South Atlantic Raiders: Part 1
as Cathy
★8.7
MOVIE2012
The Spice Girls Story: Viva Forever!
as Self
MOVIE1984
Susie
as Lorna
★10.0
MOVIE2001
Kirsty: The Life and Songs of Kirsty MacColl
as Self
MOVIE2011