Jennifer Saunders
Actor
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.
Filmography
Minions
as Reine Elizabeth II (voice) 2015
Coraline
as Miss April Spink / Other Spink (voice) 2009
Sing
as Nana (voice) 2016
Sing 2
as Nana (voice) 2021
Death on the Nile
as Marie Van Schuyler 2022
Isn't It Romantic
as Natalie's Mother 2019
Spice World
as Fashionable Woman 1997
Muppet Treasure Island
as Mrs. Bluveridge 1996
Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie
as Edina Monsoon 2016
Patrick
as Maureen 2018
Stick Man
as Narrator (voice) 2015
Absolutely Fabulous
as Une spectatrice du défilé 2001
L'Entente cordiale
as Gwendoline McFarlane 2006
In the Bleak Midwinter
as Nancy 1995
The Boy in the Dress
as Miss Windsor 2014
200% Wolf
as Max (voice) 2024