Jennifer Saunders
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.
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People's Emergency Briefing
The Magic Faraway Tree
Virginia Woolf's Night & Day
Becoming Victoria Wood
Absolutely Fabulous: Inside Out
Kirsty MacColl at the BBC
200% Wolf
We Work for the Dead
Man and Witch: The Dance of a Thousand Steps
Dawn French Is a Huge Twat
imagine... French & Saunders: Pointed, Bitchy, Bitter
Sumotherhood
Death on the Nile
The Best Birthday Ever
Allelujah
Sing 2
French & Saunders: Funny Women
Completely Bad News
Mamma Mia! Here We Go Yet Again
Isn't It Romantic
Patrick
Grandpa's Great Escape
Chuck Steel: Night of the Trampires
Lady Windermere's Fan
300 Years of French & Saunders
Joanna and Jennifer: Absolutely Champers
Comic Relief: Red Nose Day
Sing- WEWe Love Sitcom
Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie
Stick Man
Minions
The Boy in the Dress
The Spice Girls Story: Viva Forever!
Five Go to Rehab
The Hunt for Tony Blair
French & Saunders: The Ingenue Years
Gentlemen Prefer French & Saunders
Coraline: The Making of 'Coraline'
Coraline
French & Saunders: Still Alive
L'entente cordiale
Remember the Secret Policeman's Ball?
The Making of Shrek 2
Shrek 2
The Best of French & Saunders
Absolutely Fabulous
Kirsty: The Life and Songs of Kirsty MacColl
Mirrorball
French & Saunders - Live
Fanny & Elvis
It’s Lulu
Absolutely Fabulous: A Life
Four Men in a Car
Spice World
Absolutely Fabulous: The Last Shout
Muppet Treasure Island
In the Bleak Midwinter
How to Be Absolutely Fabulous
French and Saunders' Christmas Carol
Dusty
Prince Cinders
Jealousy
Demonella
Space Virgins from Planet Sex
French & Saunders: At the Movies
Wild Turkey
Red Nose of Courage
The Tale of Little Pig Robinson
French & Saunders LIVE
Spaghetti Hoops
Oxford
South Atlantic Raiders: Part 1
South Atlantic Raiders: Part 2 Argie Bargie!
GLC: The Carnage Continues
Colleagues From Hell
Employees From Hell
Customer Service From Hell
French And Saunders - Christmas Special '88
An Audience With Victoria Wood
The Storyteller: Sapsorrow
Mr Jolly Lives Next Door
More Bad News
The Strike
Eat the Rich- THThe Silurian Disruption
Comedians Do It On Stage
Private Enterprise
Dangerous Brothers Present: World of Danger
Consuela (or, The New Mrs Saunders)
The Supergrass
Eddie Monsoon - a Life?
Gino: Full Story and Pics
A Fistful of Travellers' Cheques
Susie
Dirty Movie
Five Go Mad on Mescalin
Summer School
Bad News
The Beat Generation
War
Five Go Mad in Dorset
The Comic Strip
