Jennifer Saunders
Birthday: 1958-07-06
Place of Birth: Sleaford, Lincolnshire, England, UK
Biography: 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.
Movies
Shrek 2
Shrek, Fiona, and Donkey set off to Far, Far Away to meet Fiona's mother and father, the Queen and K...
View Movie
Muppet Treasure Island
After telling the story of Flint's last journey to young Jim Hawkins, Billy Bones has a heart attack...
View Movie
L'Entente cordiale
The upper-class secret agent teaming up accidentally with an easily-corrupted, sly interpreter......
View Movie
Allelujah
When news of the closure of a small hospital's geriatric ward begins to reach the community, the hos...
View Movie
Sumotherhood
Riko and Kane have got it all: big dreams, no respect and a fifteen grand debt. Could things get any...
View Movie
In the Bleak Midwinter
Out of work actor Joe volunteers to help try and save his sister's local church for the community by...
View Movie
Coraline
Wandering her rambling old house in her boring new town, 11-year-old Coraline discovers a hidden doo...
View Movie
Remember the Secret Policeman's Ball?
The Secret Policeman benefit shows for Amnesty International brought together comedy grand masters -...
View Movie
Kirsty: The Life and Songs of Kirsty MacColl
A documentary tribute to the singer/songwriter who died on 18th December, 2000....
View Movie
Sing 2
Buster and his new cast now have their sights set on debuting a new show at the Crystal Tower Theate...
View Movie
Absolutely Fabulous
Middle-aged best friends Eddie and Patsy live in an endless haze of drugged, drunken selfishness. Th...
View Movie
We Work for the Dead
Magnus has a side hustle. He drives for The Night Mail, which isn't a bad gig, if you don't mind bei...
View Movie
The Hunt for Tony Blair
The Comic Strip team return for a special 50s-style 'fugitive' film noir spoof. The 60-minute film, ...
View Movie
French and Saunders: Still Alive
French and Saunders, Britain’s most celebrated female comedians, bring their final ever sell-out Sti...
View Movie
The Secret Policeman’s Biggest Ball
After the criticisms of the 1987 show’s disproportionate focus on music - and the financial disaster...
View Movie
The Supergrass
While taking a holiday in the country with his mother, Dennis hits on a scheme to impress a girl so ...
View Movie
An Audience With Victoria Wood
British comedy legend Victoria Wood entertains a star-studded audience including Julie Walters, Judi...
View Movie
Mamma Mia! Here We Go Yet Again
Jennifer Saunders and a host of famous faces star in this hilarious Comic Relief reimagining of the ...
View Movie
The Best of French & Saunders
A compilation of all the best sketches from Britain's favourite female comedy double-act. They are a...
View Movie
French & Saunders LIVE
Dawn French and Jennifer Saunders perform a live comedy show in London's West End at the world famou...
View Movie
Absolutely Fabulous: The Last Shout
Eddy and Patsy prepare to go on a skiing holiday to hopefully indulge in the jet-setting lifestyle o...
View Movie
The Spice Girls Story: Viva Forever!
15 years after they first took the world by storm, a new musical about the girls called Viva Forever...
View Movie
How to Be Absolutely Fabulous
Jennifer Saunders hosts a party of AbFab outtakes and behind-the-scenes footage....
View Movie
Absolutely Fabulous: A Life
During the filming of her very own documentary, 'A Day in My Life', Edina drops in on her mother who...
View Movie
Demonella
Music producer Arnold Silverstein is desperate for a song hit so when the Devil - a woman - supplies...
View Movie
Summer School
A motley band of suburbanites arrives at a summer school to simulate life in an Iron Age village. Ho...
View Movie
Jealousy
Despite trying to cure himself with a hypnosis tape John Pettigrew is insanely jealous of his wife J...
View Movie
Five Go Mad in Dorset
In the 1950s, four children, Anne, described as a 'proper little housewife', the rather butch George...
View Movie
Four Men in a Car
Four salesmen Alan, Ian, Steve and Tim are on their way to a conference where only one of them is gu...
View Movie
Eddie Monsoon - a Life?
Eddie Monsoon is a South African entertainer who, following the failure of several pilot shows for T...
View Movie
War
1985:- England has been invaded by the Warsaw Pact countries and middle-class couple Hermine and God...
View Movie
The Beat Generation
In the monochrome world of 1960, pretentious Alan, violent Kix and sex-mad Eleanor are part of a col...
View Movie
Five Go Mad on Mescalin
On their way to stay with Mrs French at Hot Turkey Farm, the Famous Five hear on the radio their Unc...
View Movie
Dirty Movie
Postman Bean is anxious to end his round early to catch a morning showing of 'The Sound of Muzak' at...
View Movie
Susie
In rural England, school teacher Susie Darling is planning to leave her boring husband Martin for lu...
View Movie
Gino: Full Story and Pics
A hoodlum is turned into a celebrity when he steals a cab and subsequent events are blown out of pro...
View Movie
Slags
Teen-age gang leaders Passion and Little Sister are released from prison, only to find that their ga...
View Movie
Private Enterprise
Whilst delivering toilet rolls to a recording studio, small-time crook Keith pockets a demo tape by ...
View Movie
Consuela (or, The New Mrs Saunders)
Jessica, the second Mrs Saunders, arrives with her new husband John at his country estate. Very much...
View Movie
South Atlantic Raiders: Part 1
Two security van personnel plan to rob a bank in an attempt to raise enough cash to mount a rescue m...
View Movie
Oxford
When American comic actor Steve 'Zoo Zoo Zoo Off Come My Pants' Wild arrives in Oxford to make a com...
View Movie
Spaghetti Hoops
In a monochrome city that is shamelessly London although everybody acts as if it is Rome, banker Ald...
View Movie
South Atlantic Raiders: Part 2 Argie Bargie!
In the conclusion of this special two-part story, Stan has somehow managed to make it to the Falklan...
View Movie
Red Nose of Courage
A clown is not happy with his job at his father's circus so he gets into politics, and some weeks la...
View Movie
Wild Turkey
Jed, a New York cop, brings home the last Christmas turkey in the shop for his wife Sue. Unfortunate...
View Movie
Five Go to Rehab
The Famous Five are back. Thirty years after the Comic Strip arrived on our screens with their famou...
View Movie
Dawn French Is a Huge Twat
Live (almost) from London’s iconic Palladium theatre, the nation’s favourite comedy star, Dawn Frenc...
View Movie
imagine... French & Saunders: Pointed, Bitchy, Bitter
imagine... profiles the UK’s most successful double act of the last 40 years, French & Saunders, exp...
View Movie
30 Years of Comic Strip
In true Peter Richardson fashion, "30 Years Of Comic Strip" defies the conventional norms of a retro...
View Movie
The Boy in the Dress
Dennis feels different - an ordinary boy in an ordinary house in an ordinary street, playing footbal...
View Movie
Amnesty International's Big 30
In the tradition of the acclaimed series of British concerts known as The Secret Policemen's Ball, A...
View Movie
Chuck Steel: Night of the Trampires
It's not 1985 anymore...it's 1986, and Chuck Steel is 'the best God damn cop on the force' according...
View Movie
Minions
Minions Stuart, Kevin and Bob are recruited by Scarlet Overkill, a super-villain who, alongside her ...
View Movie
Eat the Rich
Alex is a disgruntled waiter at a snobby exclusive restaurant who falls on hard times. Forced to dea...
View Movie
Sing
A koala named Buster recruits his best friend to help him drum up business for his theater by hostin...
View Movie
200% Wolf
When Freddy Lupin's wayward wish transforms him into a werewolf and deposits a mischievous moon spri...
View Movie
Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie
Edina and Patsy are still oozing glitz and glamour, living the high life they're accustomed to; shop...
View Movie
Stick Man
Stick Man lives in the family tree with his Stick Lady Love and their stick children three, and he's...
View Movie
The Comic Strip
A tongue-in-cheek "behind the scenes" look at the Comic Strip comedy club in the early 1980s, which ...
View Movie
French & Saunders - Live
For the first time in 10 years, see Britain's funniest double act French & Saunders at their hilario...
View Movie
Mr Jolly Lives Next Door
A couple of bored escorts find themselves suddenly involved with a hit gang and an ax murderer - Mr....
View Movie
Comedians Do It On Stage
A Group of Britain's top comedy and music performers gather at a London Theater, to give their suppo...
View Movie
British Sitcom: 60 Years of Laughing at Ourselves
Documentary celebrating the British sitcom and taking a look at the social and political context fro...
View Movie
Spice World
World famous pop group the Spice Girls zip around London in their luxurious double decker tour bus h...
View Movie
The Strike
Paul, a former miner, writes a hard-hitting screenplay about his own experiences of the 1984 miners'...
View Movie
Patrick
A woman's chaotic life becomes more complicated when she inherits her grandmother's dog....
View Movie
Grandpa's Great Escape
Many years ago, Grandpa was a World War II flying ace, but sadly he is now suffering from Alzheimer'...
View Movie
300 Years of French & Saunders
Dragged up all the way from the ocean bed, national treasures Dawn French and Jennifer Saunders are ...
View Movie
Lady Windermere's Fan
The day of Lady Windermere’s birthday party, and all is perfectly in order. Until her friend Lord Da...
View Movie
Bad News
A documentary crew films heavy metal band Bad News as they have trouble starting their van, pick up ...
View Movie
More Bad News
Four years after they were last the subject of a documentary, the heavy metal band Bad News get back...
View Movie
Space Virgins from Planet Sex
A craft full of Space Rats,glamorous extra-terrestrials from the planet Sex,arrive on Earth desperat...
View Movie
Joanna and Jennifer: Absolutely Champers
Ab Fab stars Jennifer Saunders & Joanna Lumley share 25 years of friendship. The two funny ladies he...
View Movie
Dusty
A career retrospective celebrating the timeless music of one of the world's greatest singer–Dusty Sp...
View Movie
Fanny & Elvis
Yorkshire writer Kate finds out her biological clock is ticking down the same day that her husband l...
View Movie
Dangerous Brothers Present: World of Danger
The Dangerous Brothers was a stage and TV act by anarchic comedy duo Rik Mayall and Ade Edmondson, p...
View Movie
Isn't It Romantic
For a long time, Natalie, an Australian architect living in New York City, had always believed that ...
View Movie
Death on the Nile
Belgian sleuth Hercule Poirot's Egyptian vacation aboard a glamorous river steamer turns into a terr...
View Movie
GLC: The Carnage Continues
The Greater London Council fight to save the capital against the wicked Ice Maiden....
View Movie
Completely Bad News
A double offering of heavy metal madness from The Comic Strip and Bad News....
View Movie
The Tale of Little Pig Robinson
Adapted from the Beatrix Potter story tells the story of the pignap of Little Pig Robinson by Captai...
View Movie
French & Saunders: The Ingenue Years
No topic is off limits to the side-splitting sketch comedy partnership of Dawn French and Jennifer S...
View Movie
Gentlemen Prefer French & Saunders
Gentlemen prefer blondes, but when Dawn French and Jennifer Saunders parody Jane Russell and Marilyn...
View Movie
Coraline: The Making of 'Coraline'
A look at the complexities and intricacies of making the 2009 stop motion animation film Coraline....
View Movie
Prince Cinders
Fairy-tale fantasy is turned on its head this time, as a fairy godmother in training commits the ult...
View Movie
Mirrorball
Vivienne Keill and Jackie Riviera are a couple of aging stage actresses who live in vertically adjac...
View Movie
French & Saunders: At the Movies
Comediennes and "Absolutely Fabulous" creators Dawn French and Jennifer Saunders star in this compil...
View Movie
A Fistful of Travellers' Cheques
Two students calling themselves Carlos and Miguel arrive in Spain dressed as gunslingers to live out...
View Movie
Man and Witch: The Dance of a Thousand Steps
Three Mysterious Curses, two lost souls... and one incredibly difficult dance. A lowly goatherd see...
View Movie
French & Saunders: Funny Women
Filmed on the set of their sketch show, much-loved duo Dawn French and Jennifer Saunders discuss all...
View Movie
The Magic Faraway Tree
Soon after the Thompson family’s arrival in the countryside, the three children – Joe, Beth, and Fra...
View Movie
Kirsty MacColl at the BBC
Described by Bono as 'the Noel Coward of our generation’, the singer and songwriter Kirsty MacColl w...
View Movie
Absolutely Fabulous: Inside Out
A star-studded retrospective reunites the lead cast for the first time since 2016 to rampage down me...
View Movie
We Love Sitcom
Panel quiz show hosted by Ben Miller, featuring a selection of sitcom stars who, split into teams, b...
View Movie
Virginia Woolf's Night & Day
Based on Virginia Woolf’s funniest novel, Night & Day is an unromantic comedy about a passionate ast...
View Movie
The Silurian Disruption
The Doctor is on trial... again but this time he is disputed by some Silurians, or more accurately t...
View Movie
It’s Lulu
Lulu is one of the most well-known Scottish singers thanks to her iconic hits including the 1964 hit...
View Movie
The Best Birthday Ever
Charlie’s long-awaited birthday will be completely different than he imagined. Little Sister gets s...
View Movie
Bottom Mindless Violence
The only word to describe the amazing duo of Rik Mayall and Adrian Edminson is genius. For the past ...
View Movie
Becoming Victoria Wood
A feature length documentary celebrating the life of Britain’s beloved comedy icon Victoria Wood del...
View Movie
Design on the Nile
In this documentary short, the people responsible for Kenneth Branagh’s “Death on the Nile” (2022) d...
View Movie
Branagh/Poirot
In this documentary short, the people responsible for Kenneth Branagh’s “Death on the Nile” (2022) d...
View Movie