Jennifer Saunders

Comedian, TV Writer

1958 –

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Who is Jennifer Saunders?

Jennifer Jane Saunders is an English comedian, screenwriter and actress. She has won three 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 People's Choice Award.

She first found widespread attention in the 1980s when she became a member of the Comic Strip after graduating from the Central School of Speech and Drama. With her comedy partner Dawn French, she wrote and starred in their eponymous sketch show, French and Saunders, for which she and French received a BAFTA fellowship in 2009. She received worldwide acclaim through the early to mid-1990s for writing and playing the lead role of Edina Monsoon in the sitcom Absolutely Fabulous.

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.

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Born
Jul 6, 1958
Sleaford
Also known as
  • Jennifer Jane Saunders
  • Jen
  • Saunders
Spouses
Children
Nationality
  • United Kingdom
Profession
Education
  • Central School of Speech and Drama
    (1977 - )
  • St Paul's Girls' School
  • University of Manchester
    Drama
Employment
  • Au pair
Lived in
  • Sleaford
  • London

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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