This article is about the comedienne. For the racquetball player, see Jennifer Saunders (racquetball). For the poet, see Jen Saunders.
Jennifer Saunders
Saunders in 2014
Born
Jennifer Jane Saunders
(1958-07-06) 6 July 1958 (age 65)
Sleaford, Lincolnshire, England
Education
Royal Central School of Speech and Drama (BA)
Occupations
Actress
comedienne
singer
screenwriter
Years active
1981–present
Notable work
French and Saunders Absolutely Fabulous
Spouse
Ade Edmondson
(m. 1985)
Children
3, including Ella Edmondson and Beattie Edmondson
Awards
BAFTA Fellowship (2009)
Jennifer Jane Saunders (born 6 July 1958) is an English actress, comedian, singer, and screenwriter. Saunders originally found attention in the 1980s, when she became a member of The Comic Strip after graduating from the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama with her best friend and comedy partner, Dawn French. With French, she co-wrote and starred in their eponymous sketch show, French and Saunders, for which they jointly received a BAFTA Fellowship in 2009. Saunders later received acclaim in the 1990s for writing and playing her character Edina Monsoon in her sitcom Absolutely Fabulous.
Jennifer Jane Saunders (born 6 July 1958) is an English actress, comedian, singer, and screenwriter. Saunders originally found attention in the 1980s...
French and Saunders sketch "Modern Mother and Daughter", created by Dawn French and JenniferSaunders. The show was created and written by Saunders, who also...
BBC sketch comedy series French and Saunders (1987–2007) with her best friend and comedy partner JenniferSaunders, and playing the lead role of Geraldine...
French and Saunders is a British sketch comedy television series written by and starring comedy duo and namesake Dawn French and JenniferSaunders that originally...
Saunders, which was first broadcast on BBC Two on 9 March 1987. The series, written by and starring comedy duo and namesake Dawn French and Jennifer Saunders...
Louise Edmondson is the middle daughter of comedians Ade Edmondson and JenniferSaunders. She grew up in Devon with an elder sister, Ella, and a younger sister...
"Comic Strip Presents...". In 1985 Edmondson starred with his wife JenniferSaunders in Happy Families, a rural comedy drama written by Ben Elton, which...
by, and starring JenniferSaunders, with Joanna Lumley, Julia Sawalha, Jane Horrocks, and June Whitfield. It was produced by Saunders & French Productions...
Antonio Banderas, Julie Andrews, John Cleese, Rupert Everett, and JenniferSaunders. Shrek 2 takes place following the events of the first film, with...
Blackwood, Barry McNicholl, Arnold Jorge and includes cameos from JenniferSaunders, Ed Sheeran, and Jeremy Corbyn. It was released theatrically on 13...
involving siblings Julian (Richardson), Dick (Adrian Edmondson) and Anne (JenniferSaunders), and their cousin George (Dawn French) and her dog Timmy. The four...
Edmondson, Dawn French, Rik Mayall, Nigel Planer, Peter Richardson and JenniferSaunders, with appearances by Keith Allen, Robbie Coltrane, Alexei Sayle and...
series of French and Saunders, written by and starring Dawn French and JenniferSaunders. The sketch later served as the basis of Saunders' sitcom Absolutely...
consisting of six episodes. The sitcom was created and written by JenniferSaunders, who starred in the title role of Edina Monsoon, a heavy-drinking...
(1979–1987). From 1992 to 2012, Whitfield played Edina Monsoon's mother in JenniferSaunders' Absolutely Fabulous. She played a regular character in Last of the...
Taron Egerton, Tori Kelly, Nick Kroll, Jennings, Peter Serafinowicz, JenniferSaunders, and Nick Offerman, reprising their roles from the first film. The...
year, the Spice Girls collaborated with Fuller, Judy Craymer and JenniferSaunders to develop a stage musical, Viva Forever!. Similar to the ABBA musical...
of the Doctor. She also appeared with JenniferSaunders, Dawn French and Sienna Miller in the French and Saunders pastiche of Mamma Mia for Comic Relief...
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