Jennifer Saunders
Known for ActingBorn 1958-07-06Sleaford, Lincolnshire, England, UK
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.
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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.
Known for
Coraline
2009 · as Miss April Spink / Other Spink (voice)
Shrek 2
2004 · as Fairy Godmother (voice)
Sing 2
2021 · as Nana (voice)
Minions
2015 · as Reine Elizabeth II (voice)
Sing
2016 · as Nana (voice)
Death on the Nile
2022 · as Marie Van Schuyler
The Magic Faraway Tree
2026 · as Grandma
Virginia Woolf's Night & Day
2026 · as Bess Hilbery
Isn't It Romantic
2019 · as Natalie's Mother
200% Wolf
2024 · as Max (voice)
Muppet Treasure Island
1996 · as Mrs. Bluveridge
Spice World
1997 · as Fashionable Woman
Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie
2016 · as Edina Monsoon
Fanny & Elvis
1999 · as Roanna
Patrick
2018 · as Maureen
Bad News
1983 · as Sally
Stick Man
2015 · as Narrator (voice)
Summer School
1983 · as Liz