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.
110 movies · 55 shows
Virginia Woolf's Night & Day
2026·6.0
People's Emergency Briefing
2026·0.0
The Magic Faraway Tree
2026·6.2
Becoming Victoria Wood
2026·6.0
Absolutely Fabulous: Inside Out
2024·8.0
Kirsty MacColl at the BBC
2024·6.5
Man and Witch: The Dance of a Thousand Steps
2024·6.5
200% Wolf
2024·6.7
We Work for the Dead
2024·5.0
Dawn French Is a Huge Twat
2023·8.5
imagine... French & Saunders: Pointed, Bitchy, Bitter
2023·7.0
Sumotherhood
2023·5.2
Allelujah
2023·5.2
Death on the Nile
2022·6.4
The Best Birthday Ever
2022·6.7
Sing 2
2021·7.8
French & Saunders: Funny Women
2021·8.0
Completely Bad News
2019·0.0
Mamma Mia! Here We Go Yet Again
2019·7.6
Isn't It Romantic
2019·6.2
Patrick
2018·6.7
Chuck Steel: Night of the Trampires
2018·7.2
Lady Windermere's Fan
2018·10.0
Grandpa's Great Escape
2018·6.1
300 Years of French & Saunders
2017·0.0
Joanna and Jennifer: Absolutely Champers
2017·10.0
Comic Relief: Red Nose Day
2017·9.0
Sing
2016·7.1
British Sitcom: 60 Years of Laughing at Ourselves
2016·5.7
We Love Sitcom
2016·0.0
Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie
2016·5.3
Stick Man
2015·6.8
Minions
2015·6.4
The Boy in the Dress
2014·6.3
The Spice Girls Story: Viva Forever!
2012·8.7
Five Go to Rehab
2012·0.0
30 Years of Comic Strip
2012·5.0
The Hunt for Tony Blair
2011·7.8
French & Saunders: The Ingenue Years
2011·0.0
Gentlemen Prefer French & Saunders
2011·0.0
Coraline: The Making of 'Coraline'
2009·5.0
Coraline
2009·7.9
French & Saunders: Still Alive
2008·5.2
L'Entente cordiale
2006·4.8
Remember the Secret Policeman's Ball?
2004·4.8
Bottom Mindless Violence
2004·10.0
Shrek 2
2004·7.3
The Best of French & Saunders
2002·0.0
Absolutely Fabulous
2001·4.9
Kirsty: The Life and Songs of Kirsty MacColl
2001·10.0
Mirrorball
2000·8.0
French & Saunders - Live
2000·8.3
Fanny & Elvis
1999·6.4
It’s Lulu
1999·7.0
Absolutely Fabulous: A Life
1998·7.7
Four Men in a Car
1998·0.0
Spice World
1997·4.9
Absolutely Fabulous: The Last Shout
1996·7.3
Muppet Treasure Island
1996·6.7
In the Bleak Midwinter
1995·7.1
How to Be Absolutely Fabulous
1995·7.0
French and Saunders' Christmas Carol
1994·0.0
Dusty
1994·8.0
Prince Cinders
1993·9.0
Jealousy
1993·0.0
Demonella
1993·0.0
Space Virgins from Planet Sex
1993·0.0
French & Saunders: At the Movies
1993·7.5
Wild Turkey
1992·0.0
Red Nose of Courage
1992·8.0
Amnesty International's Big 30
1991·4.0
The Tale of Little Pig Robinson
1990·0.0
French & Saunders LIVE
1990·0.0
Spaghetti Hoops
1990·0.0
Oxford
1990·0.0
South Atlantic Raiders: Part 1
1990·0.0
South Atlantic Raiders: Part 2 Argie Bargie!
1990·0.0
GLC: The Carnage Continues
1990·0.0
The Secret Policeman’s Biggest Ball
1989·7.7
Employees From Hell
1989·0.0
Communicators From Hell
1989·0.0
Customer Service From Hell
1989·0.0
Colleagues From Hell
1989·0.0
French And Saunders - Christmas Special '88
1988·0.0
An Audience With Victoria Wood
1988·5.3
The Storyteller: Sapsorrow
1988·0.0
Mr Jolly Lives Next Door
1988·9.0
More Bad News
1988·9.8
The Strike
1988·7.0
Eat the Rich
1987·6.2
The Silurian Disruption
1987·0.0
Comedians Do It On Stage
1986·0.0
Private Enterprise
1986·0.0
Consuela (or, The New Mrs Saunders)
1986·0.0
Dangerous Brothers Present: World of Danger
1986·6.6
The Supergrass
1985·6.1
Happy Families
1985·0.0
Slags
1984·2.0
Eddie Monsoon - a Life?
1984·0.0
Gino: Full Story and Pics
1984·0.0
A Fistful of Travellers' Cheques
1984·7.0
Susie
1984·0.0
Dirty Movie
1984·0.0
Five Go Mad on Mescalin
1983·0.0
Summer School
1983·0.0
Bad News
1983·8.7
The Beat Generation
1983·0.0
War
1983·10.0
Five Go Mad in Dorset
1982·0.0
The Comic Strip
1981·8.0