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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
(2009) April Spink (voice)Death on the Nile
(2022) Marie Van SchuylerGoing Live!
(1987) SelfThe Storyteller
(1988) Badsister 1The Magician's House
(1999) The Rat (voice)The Stranger
(2020) HeidiCoraline: The Making of 'Coraline'
(2009) SelfThe Best of French & Saunders
(2002) VariousActing
| 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
| Year | Role | Movie/Tv |
|---|---|---|
| 2019 | Writer | |
| 2016 | Screenplay | |
| 2008 | Writer | |
| 2002 | Writer | |
| 2001 | Writer | |
| 2000 | Writer | |
| Writer | ||
| 1998 | Writer | |
| 1996 | Writer | |
| 1995 | Writer | |
| 1992 | Writer | |
| 1987 | Writer | |
| 1986 | Writer | |
| 1985 | Writer | |
| 1984 | Writer | |
| 1982 | Writer | |
| 1981 | Writer | |
| Year | Role | Movie/Tv |
Creator
| Year | Role | Movie/Tv |
|---|---|---|
| 2007 | Creator | |
| Creator | ||
| 2006 | Creator | |
| 1992 | Creator | |
| 1987 | Creator | |
| 1985 | Creator | |
| Year | Role | Movie/Tv |
Crew
| Year | Role | Movie/Tv |
|---|---|---|
| 2000 | Creator | |
| Year | Role | Movie/Tv |