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Aliases: 제니퍼 손더스 , Jennifer Jane Saunders , جنیفر ساندرز

Gender: Female

Place of birth: Sleaford, Lincolnshire, England, UK

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Movie Involvements: 32

TV Involvements: 15


Most Famous Work

Biography

Jennifer Jane Saunders 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.

Most Famous Work

Coraline
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8

Coraline

(2009) April Spink (voice)
Death on the Nile
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6

Death on the Nile

(2022) Marie Van Schuyler
Going Live!
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6

Going Live!

(1987) Self
The Storyteller
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8

The Storyteller

(1988) Badsister 1
The Magician's House
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6

The Magician's House

(1999) The Rat (voice)
The Stranger
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7

The Stranger

(2020) Heidi
Coraline: The Making of 'Coraline'
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5
The Best of French & Saunders
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0

Acting

Year Character Movie/Tv
2024 The Goose (voice)
(voice)
2023 Self (uncredited)
Self - featured artist
DI Brookes
Sister Gilpin
2022 Themselves
Maester of Dubrovnik / Saester of Dubrovnik
Marie Van Schuyler
2021 Nana (voice)
Herself
Self
2020 Self - Contestant
Heidi
2019 Sally
Meryl Streep / Cher
N/A
Lavinia
Natalie's Mother
2018 Maureen
Dr. Alex Cular
The Duchess of Berwick
Miss Dandy
2017 N/A
Herself - Presenter
Self
Self - Judge
2016 Nana (voice)
Comedy Role (archive footage) (uncredited)
Edina Monsoon
Herself - Panelist
2015 Narrator (voice)
Judith
Reine Elizabeth II (voice)
2014 Miss Windsor
2013 Self
Herself - Contestant
Lady Constance Keeble
2012 Self
Anne
N/A
Governor Margaret
Self - Host
2011 Self - Participant
Lady Thatcher
N/A
N/A
2010 N/A
2009 Self
Self - Guest
April Spink (voice)
2008 Herself
2007 N/A
N/A
Self
Self
2006 Caroline Martin
Gwendoline McFarlane
2004 Self
Fairy Godmother (voice)
2002 Star in a Reasonably-Priced Car
Various
N/A
2001 Une spectatrice du défilé
Self
2000 Vivienne Keill
Various roles
1999 Roanna
The Rat (voice)
N/A
1998 Edina "Eddy" Monsoon
Helen
1997 Fashionable Woman
1996 Edina Monsoon
Mrs. Bluveridge
1995 Nancy
Self / Edina "Eddy" Monsoon (archive footage)
1994 Reverend Jen
Andrea Waltham
Self - Presenter
1993 Fairy (voice)
Jane/Margory
The Devil
Needle
N/A
1992 Neighbour
Edina
Margaret Thatcher
1991 Self
1990 Dorcas
N/A
N/A
Maria
Hannah
Cathy
Cathy
Brigitte Nielsen as Margaret Thatcher, The Ice Maiden
1989 Phoebe Pratt (voice)
Herself
1988 Herself
Badsister 1
Monica
Sally
Meryl Streep as Mrs Scargill
N/A
1987 Lady Caroline
Self
Various Characters
1986 N/A
Debbie
N/A
N/A
Jessica
1985 Lesley Reynolds
Jennifer
N/A
1984 Little Sister
Doreen
Angie
Shona
Lorna
June
1983 Anne
Liz
Sally
Anne
Various Roles
1982 Sue
Helen Mucus
Anne
Chas/Marilyn/Captain/Drunk
Sally
Liz
June
Lorna
Shona/Second Nun/Horse Rider
Angie
Doreen
Little Sister
Jessica
Debbie
Meryl Streep
Monica
Cathy
Ice Maiden
Hannah
Maria
Margaret Thatcher
Neighbour
Needle
The Devil
Jane/Margory
Helen
Jennifer
N/A
Lesley
Anne
Self
1981 N/A
1978 Self
1976 Self
The Mother (voice)
Self - Panellist
Self - Presenter
Ruth
Year Character Movie/Tv

Writing

Creator

Crew

Year Role Movie/Tv
2000 Creator
Year Role Movie/Tv

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