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.
Acting
Movie
Shrek 2
as Fairy Godmother (voice)
2004
Movie
Minions
as Reine Elizabeth II (voice)
2015
TV
The Simpsons
as Phoebe Pratt (voice)
1989
TV
Friends
as Andrea Waltham
1994
Movie
Coraline
as Miss April Spink / Other Spink (voice)
2009
Movie
Sing
as Nana (voice)
2016
Movie
Sing 2
as Nana (voice)
2021
Movie
Death on the Nile
as Marie Van Schuyler
2022
Movie
Isn't It Romantic
as Natalie's Mother
2019
TV
Top Gear
as Self - Star in a Reasonably-Priced Car
2002
TV
Top Gear
as Self
2002
TV
The Stranger
as Heidi Doyle
2020
Movie
Spice World
as Fashionable Woman
1997
Movie
Muppet Treasure Island
as Mrs. Bluveridge
1996
TV
Roseanne
as Edina Monsoon
1988
TV
The Graham Norton Show
as Self
2007
Movie
Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie
as Edina Monsoon
2016
Movie
Patrick
as Maureen
2018
TV
The Storyteller
as Badsister 1
1988
TV
Absolutely Fabulous
as Edina Monsoon
1992
TV
The Young Ones
as Sue
1982
TV
The Young Ones
as Helen Mucus
1982
TV
Would I Lie to You?
as Self
2007
Movie
Stick Man
as Narrator (voice)
2015
Crew
Movie
Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie
Screenplay
2016
TV
Absolutely Fabulous
Writer
1992
Movie
Absolutely Fabulous
Writer
2001
TV
French & Saunders
Writer
1987
TV
The Comic Strip Presents...
Writer
1982
TV
Jam and Jerusalem
Writer
2006
Movie
Mamma Mia! Here We Go Yet Again
Writer
2019
TV
Girls On Top
Writer
1985
Movie
Absolutely Fabulous: The Last Shout
Writer
1996
TV
The Life and Times of Vivienne Vyle
Creator
2007
TV
A Bucket O' French and Saunders
Creator
2007
Movie
French and Saunders: Still Alive
Writer
2008