Jennifer Saunders
- Schauspiel
- 6. Juli 1958 · Sleaford, Lincolnshire, England, UK
Biografie
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.
Bekannt aus
Filmografie
- Virginia Woolf's Night and Day · Bess Hilbery
- People's Emergency Briefing · Selbst
- Der Wunderweltenbaum · Grandma
- The Claudia Winkleman Show · Selbst
- Becoming Victoria Wood · Selbst
- Too Much · Fiona
- Only Child · Sally
- Absolutely Fabulous: Inside Out · Self / Edina "Eddie" Monsoon, Ausführende Produktion
- Kirsty MacColl at the BBC · Selbst
- Man and Witch: The Dance of a Thousand Steps · The Goose (Stimme)
- 200% Wolf · Max (Stimme)
- We Work for the Dead · The Mother (Stimme)
- Dawn French Is a Huge Twat · Selbst
- imagine... French & Saunders: Pointed, Bitchy, Bitter · Selbst
- Sumotherhood · DI Brookes
- Allelujah · Sister Gilpin
- Fantasy Football League · Selbst
- The Pentaverate · Maester of Dubrovnik / Saester of Dubrovnik
- Tod auf dem Nil · Marie Van Schuyler
- Karlchen - Das große Geburtstagsabenteuer · Mother (Stimme)
- Sing - Die Show deines Lebens · Nana (Stimme)
- French & Saunders: Funny Women · Selbst
- Mel Giedroyc: Unforgivable · Selbst
- Richard Osman's House of Games Night · Selbst
- Ich schweige für dich · Heidi Doyle
- Completely Bad News · Sally
- Mamma Mia! Here We Go Yet Again · Meryl Streep / Cher, Buch
- Celebrity Gogglebox · Selbst
- There's Something About Movies · Selbst
- Mumintal · Mymble
- Isn't It Romantic · Natalie's Mother
- Ein Mops zum Verlieben · Maureen
- Chuck Steel: Night of the Slumpires · Dr. Alex Cular
- Lady Windermere's Fan · The Duchess of Berwick
- Grandpa's Great Escape · Miss Dandy
- 300 Years of French & Saunders
- Joanna and Jennifer: Absolutely Champers · Selbst
- Comic Relief: Red Nose Day · Selbst
- Let's Sing and Dance for Comic Relief · Selbst
- Sing · Nana (Stimme)
- British Sitcom: 60 Years of Laughing at Ourselves · Comedy Role (archive footage) (uncredited)
- We Love Sitcom
- Absolutely Fabulous: Der Film · Edina Monsoon, Drehbuch
- Insert Name Here · Selbst
- Stockmann · Narrator (Stimme)
- Josh · Judith
- The Late Show with Stephen Colbert · Selbst
- Minions · The Queen (Stimme)
- The Boy in the Dress · Miss Windsor
- Gogglebox · Selbst
- Adam Hills: The Last Leg · Selbst
- The Great Comic Relief Bake Off · Selbst
- Blandings · Lady Constance Keeble
- The Spice Girls Story: Viva Forever! · Selbst
- Five Go to Rehab · Anne
- 30 Years of Comic Strip
- Dead Boss · Governor Margaret
- The Great Sport Relief Bake Off · Selbst
- Celebrity Antiques Road Trip · Selbst
- The Hunt for Tony Blair · Lady Thatcher
- French & Saunders: The Ingenue Years
- Gentlemen Prefer French & Saunders
- This Is Jinsy
- Coraline: The Making of 'Coraline' · Selbst
- Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen · Selbst
- Coraline · Miss April Spink / Other Spink (Stimme)
- French & Saunders: Still Alive · Selbst, Buch
- The Life and Times of Vivienne Vyle · Idee
- A Bucket O' French and Saunders · Idee
- Would I Lie to You? · Selbst
- The Graham Norton Show · Selbst
- Jam and Jerusalem · Caroline Martin, Buch
- L'Entente cordiale · Gwendoline McFarlane
- Remember the Secret Policeman's Ball? · Selbst
- Bottom Mindless Violence · Helen Mucus / Anita Harris (archive footage) (uncredited)
- Parkinson · Selbst
- Shrek 2 - Der tollkühne Held kehrt zurück · Fairy Godmother (Stimme)
- Top Gear · Selbst
- The Best of French & Saunders · Various, Buch
- Pongwiffy