Dawn French
- Acting
- October 11, 1957 · Holyhead, Anglesey, Wales, UK
Biography
Dawn Roma French (born 11 October 1957) is a British actress, comedian, presenter and writer. French is known for writing and starring on the BBC comedy sketch show French and Saunders with her best friend and comedy partner, Jennifer Saunders, and played the lead role as Geraldine Granger in the BBC sitcom The Vicar of Dibley. She has been nominated for seven BAFTA TV Awards and won a BAFTA Fellowship with Saunders in 2009.
Known for
Filmography
- TFI Unplugged
- Becoming Victoria Wood · Self
- Can You Keep a Secret? · Debbie Fendon, Executive producer
- Shaun Tan's Tales from Outer Suburbia
- BeddyByes · Gramma Leeba
- Kirsty MacColl at the BBC · Self
- Joan Rivers at the BBC · Self
- The Nevermets · Narrator
- Dawn French Is a Huge Twat · Self, Writer
- imagine... French & Saunders: Pointed, Bitchy, Bitter · Self
- The Magician's Elephant · Sister Marie (Voice)
- Comedy Classics: The Vicar of Dibley · Self
- Red Riding Hood: After Ever After · Twit
- Death on the Nile · Bowers
- Walk the Line · Self
- An Audience with Adele · Self
- The Secret World Of... · Self
- French & Saunders: Funny Women · Self
- The Vicar of Dibley: Inside Out · Self
- Roald & Beatrix: The Tail of the Curious Mouse · Beatrix Potter
- A Baby Reindeer's First Christmas · Narrator
- The Vicar of Dibley: In Lockdown · Geraldine Granger
- The Big Night In · Self
- The Trouble with Maggie Cole · Maggie Cole
- Completely Bad News · Tracy
- RuPaul's Drag Race UK · Self
- 300 Years of French & Saunders
- Comic Relief: Red Nose Day · Self
- Little Big Shots · Self
- Dawn French Live: 30 Million Minutes · Self
- Delicious · Gina Benelli
- Darcey Bussell: My Life on the BBC · Self
- British Sitcom: 60 Years of Laughing at Ourselves · Various Characters (archive footage) (uncredited)
- Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie · Interviewer
- TFI Friday · Self
- Travel Man: 48 Hours in... · Self
- The Wrong Mans · Linda
- Heading Out · Frances
- Five Go to Rehab · George
- 30 Years of Comic Strip
- Superstar · Self
- Matthew Bourne's Christmas · Self
- Michael Bublé: Home for Christmas · Self
- Catherine Tate: Laughing at the Noughties · Self
- 50 Greatest Harry Potter Moments · Self
- French & Saunders: The Ingenue Years
- Gentlemen Prefer French & Saunders
- Little Crackers · HM The Queen Mother, Writer
- Psychoville Halloween Special · Joy Aston
- Roger & Val Have Just Got In · Val Stevenson, Creator
- Victoria Wood: Seen on TV · Self
- Coraline: The Making of 'Coraline' · Self
- Psychoville · Joy Aston
- Coraline · Miss Miriam Forcible / Other Forcible (Voice)
- French & Saunders: Still Alive · Self, Writer
- Lark Rise to Candleford · Caroline Arless
- Dawn French's Boys Who Do Comedy · Presenter
- More Dawn French's Boys Who Do: Comedy · Presenter
- A Bucket O' French and Saunders · Creator
- Donizetti: La Fille du Régiment · La Duchesse de Crackentorp
- The Graham Norton Show · Self
- Comedy Shuffle
- More Dawn French's Girls Who Do: Comedy · Presenter, Creator
- Jam and Jerusalem · Rosie Bales, Creator
- Love and Other Disasters · Therapist
- The One Show · Self
- When Comedy Changed Forever · Self
- Davina
- The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe · Mrs. Beaver (Voice)
- The F Word
- The Comic Strip - A Retrospective · Self
- The Funny Blokes of British Comedy · Self
- Comic Aid
- Agatha Christie's Marple · Janet Erskine
- Remember the Secret Policeman's Ball? · Self
- The Paul O'Grady Show
- Parkinson · Self
- Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban · The Fat Lady
- Bosom Pals
- Wild West · Mary Trewednack