Jennifer 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.

Filmografi

Coraline2009 · Miss April Spink / Other Spink (voice)Shrek 22004 · Fairy Godmother (voice)Sing2016 · Nana (voice)Death on the Nile2022 · Marie Van SchuylerMinions2015 · The Queen (voice)Sing 22021 · Nana (voice)The Magic Faraway Tree2026 · GrandmaStick Man2015 · Narrator (voice)Isn't It Romantic2019 · Natalie's MotherMuppet Treasure Island1996 · Mrs. Bluveridge200% Wolf2024 · Max (voice)Fanny & Elvis1999 · RoannaAbsolutely Fabulous: The Movie2016 · Edina MonsoonVirginia Woolf's Night & Day2026 · Bess HilberySummer School1983 · LizSpice World1997 · Fashionable WomanPrince Cinders1993 · Fairy (voice)Eat the Rich1987 · Lady CarolineJealousy1993 · Jane/MargoryDusty1994 · Self - PresenterSpaghetti Hoops1990 · MariaThe Making of Shrek 2 · SelfPatrick2018 · MaureenPeople's Emergency Briefing2026 · Herself