Biography
Jennifer Jane Saunders 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, ...
Known For
Complete Filmography

Absolutely Fabulous: Inside Out
2024
as Self
A star-studded retrospective reunites the lead cast for the first time since 2016 to rampage down memory lane revealing how the show was made, pay tri...

Absolutely Fabulous: Inside Out
2024
Executive Producer
A star-studded retrospective reunites the lead cast for the first time since 2016 to rampage down memory lane revealing how the show was made, pay tri...

Kirsty MacColl at the BBC
2024
as Self (archive footage)
Described by Bono as 'the Noel Coward of our generation’, the singer and songwriter Kirsty MacColl would have turned 65 this year had her life not bee...

Man and Witch: The Dance of a Thousand Steps
2024
as The Goose (voice)
Three Mysterious Curses, two lost souls... and one incredibly difficult dance. A lowly goatherd seeks out a reclusive witch to break the evil enchant...

200% Wolf
2024
as Max (voice)
When Freddy Lupin's wayward wish transforms him into a werewolf and deposits a mischievous moon sprite on Earth, Freddy must restore the cosmic order ...

We Work for the Dead
2024
as The Mother (voice)
Magnus has a side hustle. He drives for The Night Mail, which isn't a bad gig, if you don't mind being possessed. What is the Night Mail? A delivery s...

Dawn French Is a Huge Twat
2023
as Self (uncredited)
Live (almost) from London’s iconic Palladium theatre, the nation’s favourite comedy star, Dawn French, is about to reveal (almost) all the most excruc...

imagine... French & Saunders: Pointed, Bitchy, Bitter
2023
as Self - featured artist
imagine... profiles the UK’s most successful double act of the last 40 years, French & Saunders, exploring a brand of comedy based on satire, sillines...

Sumotherhood
2023
as DI Brookes
Riko and Kane have got it all: big dreams, no respect and a fifteen grand debt. Could things get any worse? Yes! So, it’s time to man up and finally b...

Allelujah
2023
as Sister Gilpin
When news of the closure of a small hospital's geriatric ward begins to reach the community, the hospital invites a local news crew to document their ...

Death on the Nile
2022
as Marie Van Schuyler
Belgian sleuth Hercule Poirot's Egyptian vacation aboard a glamorous river steamer turns into a terrifying search for a murderer when a picture-perfec...

Sing 2
2021
as Nana (voice)
Buster and his new cast now have their sights set on debuting a new show at the Crystal Tower Theater in glamorous Redshore City. But with no connecti...

French & Saunders: Funny Women
2021
as Self
Filmed on the set of their sketch show, much-loved duo Dawn French and Jennifer Saunders discuss all the crucial and female contributions to the panth...

Completely Bad News
2019
as Sally
A double offering of heavy metal madness from The Comic Strip and Bad News.

Mamma Mia! Here We Go Yet Again
2019
as Meryl Streep / Cher
Jennifer Saunders and a host of famous faces star in this hilarious Comic Relief reimagining of the hit movie featuring some of ABBA's biggest hits as...

Mamma Mia! Here We Go Yet Again
2019
Writer
Jennifer Saunders and a host of famous faces star in this hilarious Comic Relief reimagining of the hit movie featuring some of ABBA's biggest hits as...

Isn't It Romantic
2019
as Natalie's Mother
For a long time, Natalie, an Australian architect living in New York City, had always believed that what she had seen in rom-coms is all fantasy. But ...

Patrick
2018
as Maureen
A woman's chaotic life becomes more complicated when she inherits her grandmother's dog.

Chuck Steel: Night of the Trampires
2018
as Dr. Alex Cular
It's not 1985 anymore...it's 1986, and Chuck Steel is 'the best God damn cop on the force' according to his long suffering boss, Captain Jack Schitt. ...

Lady Windermere's Fan
2018
as The Duchess of Berwick
The day of Lady Windermere’s birthday party, and all is perfectly in order. Until her friend Lord Darlington plants a seed of suspicion. Is her husban...

Grandpa's Great Escape
2018
as Miss Dandy
Many years ago, Grandpa was a World War II flying ace, but sadly he is now suffering from Alzheimer's disease. When his family can no longer look afte...

300 Years of French & Saunders
2017
Dragged up all the way from the ocean bed, national treasures Dawn French and Jennifer Saunders are back together this festive season with a special 3...

Joanna and Jennifer: Absolutely Champers
2017
as Self - Presenter
Ab Fab stars Jennifer Saunders & Joanna Lumley share 25 years of friendship. The two funny ladies head to the Champagne region of France to find out h...

Comic Relief: Red Nose Day
2017
as Self
A fund-raising event organised by Comic Relief.

Sing
2016
as Nana (voice)
A koala named Buster recruits his best friend to help him drum up business for his theater by hosting a singing competition.

British Sitcom: 60 Years of Laughing at Ourselves
2016
as Comedy Role (archive footage) (uncredited)
Documentary celebrating the British sitcom and taking a look at the social and political context from which our favourite sitcoms grew. We enjoy a tri...
We Love Sitcom
2016
Panel quiz show hosted by Ben Miller, featuring a selection of sitcom stars who, split into teams, battle it out by testing their knowledge on British...

Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie
2016
as Edina Monsoon
Edina and Patsy are still oozing glitz and glamour, living the high life they're accustomed to; shopping, drinking and clubbing around London's trendi...

Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie
2016
Screenplay
Edina and Patsy are still oozing glitz and glamour, living the high life they're accustomed to; shopping, drinking and clubbing around London's trendi...

Stick Man
2015
as Narrator (voice)
Stick Man lives in the family tree with his Stick Lady Love and their stick children three, and he's heading on an epic adventure across the seasons. ...

Minions
2015
as Reine Elizabeth II (voice)
Minions Stuart, Kevin and Bob are recruited by Scarlet Overkill, a super-villain who, alongside her inventor husband Herb, hatches a plot to take over...

The Boy in the Dress
2014
as Miss Windsor
Dennis feels different - an ordinary boy in an ordinary house in an ordinary street, playing football with his mates and living with his dad and broth...

The Spice Girls Story: Viva Forever!
2012
as Self
15 years after they first took the world by storm, a new musical about the girls called Viva Forever! is about to hit the West End. The programme look...

Five Go to Rehab
2012
as Anne
The Famous Five are back. Thirty years after the Comic Strip arrived on our screens with their famous Enid Blyton spoof - Five Go Mad in Dorset. These...

30 Years of Comic Strip
2012
In true Peter Richardson fashion, "30 Years Of Comic Strip" defies the conventional norms of a retrospective documentary. It brings together some of t...

The Hunt for Tony Blair
2011
as Lady Thatcher
The Comic Strip team return for a special 50s-style 'fugitive' film noir spoof. The 60-minute film, penned by Peter Richardson and Pete Richens, follo...
Gentlemen Prefer French & Saunders
2011
Gentlemen prefer blondes, but when Dawn French and Jennifer Saunders parody Jane Russell and Marilyn Monroe, it's proof enough why comedy fans prefer ...

French & Saunders: The Ingenue Years
2011
No topic is off limits to the side-splitting sketch comedy partnership of Dawn French and Jennifer Saunders, creators of the groundbreaking British si...

Coraline: The Making of 'Coraline'
2009
as Self
A look at the complexities and intricacies of making the 2009 stop motion animation film Coraline.

Coraline
2009
as Miss April Spink / Other Spink (voice)
Wandering her rambling old house in her boring new town, 11-year-old Coraline discovers a hidden door to a strangely idealized version of her life. In...

French and Saunders: Still Alive
2008
as Self
French and Saunders, Britain’s most celebrated female comedians, bring their final ever sell-out Still Alive tour to DVD! Catch the last chance to wat...

French and Saunders: Still Alive
2008
Writer
French and Saunders, Britain’s most celebrated female comedians, bring their final ever sell-out Still Alive tour to DVD! Catch the last chance to wat...

L'Entente cordiale
2006
as Gwendoline McFarlane
The upper-class secret agent teaming up accidentally with an easily-corrupted, sly interpreter...

Remember the Secret Policeman's Ball?
2004
as Self
The Secret Policeman benefit shows for Amnesty International brought together comedy grand masters - from Python and Beyond the Fringe - and performer...

Shrek 2
2004
as Fairy Godmother (voice)
Shrek, Fiona, and Donkey set off to Far, Far Away to meet Fiona's mother and father, the Queen and King. But not everyone is happily ever after. Shrek...

The Best of French & Saunders
2002
as Various
A compilation of all the best sketches from Britain's favourite female comedy double-act. They are all here - the music numbers, Hollywood spoofs, the...

The Best of French & Saunders
2002
Writer
A compilation of all the best sketches from Britain's favourite female comedy double-act. They are all here - the music numbers, Hollywood spoofs, the...

Absolutely Fabulous
2001
as Une spectatrice du défilé
Middle-aged best friends Eddie and Patsy live in an endless haze of drugged, drunken selfishness. The duo leave no impulse unenacted and no lust unsat...

Absolutely Fabulous
2001
Writer
Middle-aged best friends Eddie and Patsy live in an endless haze of drugged, drunken selfishness. The duo leave no impulse unenacted and no lust unsat...

Kirsty: The Life and Songs of Kirsty MacColl
2001
as Self
A documentary tribute to the singer/songwriter who died on 18th December, 2000.

Mirrorball
2000
as Vivienne Keill
Vivienne Keill and Jackie Riviera are a couple of aging stage actresses who live in vertically adjacent flats. The two are of questionable talent, and...

Mirrorball
2000
Writer, Creator
Vivienne Keill and Jackie Riviera are a couple of aging stage actresses who live in vertically adjacent flats. The two are of questionable talent, and...

French & Saunders - Live
2000
as Various roles
For the first time in 10 years, see Britain's funniest double act French & Saunders at their hilarious LIVE best... Together they perform their u...

French & Saunders - Live
2000
Writer
For the first time in 10 years, see Britain's funniest double act French & Saunders at their hilarious LIVE best... Together they perform their u...

Fanny & Elvis
1999
as Roanna
Yorkshire writer Kate finds out her biological clock is ticking down the same day that her husband leaves her. To get over the financial crisis this c...

Absolutely Fabulous: A Life
1998
as Edina "Eddy" Monsoon
During the filming of her very own documentary, 'A Day in My Life', Edina drops in on her mother who's working in a Help the Aged charity shop. There,...

Absolutely Fabulous: A Life
1998
Writer
During the filming of her very own documentary, 'A Day in My Life', Edina drops in on her mother who's working in a Help the Aged charity shop. There,...

Four Men in a Car
1998
as Helen
Four salesmen Alan, Ian, Steve and Tim are on their way to a conference where only one of them is guaranteed promotion. There is much bickering, Steve...

Spice World
1997
as Fashionable Woman
World famous pop group the Spice Girls zip around London in their luxurious double decker tour bus having various adventures and performing for their ...

Absolutely Fabulous: The Last Shout
1996
as Edina Monsoon
Eddy and Patsy prepare to go on a skiing holiday to hopefully indulge in the jet-setting lifestyle of the international celebrity elite when Saffy is ...

Absolutely Fabulous: The Last Shout
1996
Writer
Eddy and Patsy prepare to go on a skiing holiday to hopefully indulge in the jet-setting lifestyle of the international celebrity elite when Saffy is ...

Muppet Treasure Island
1996
as Mrs. Bluveridge
After telling the story of Flint's last journey to young Jim Hawkins, Billy Bones has a heart attack and dies just as Jim and his friends are attacked...

In the Bleak Midwinter
1995
as Nancy
Out of work actor Joe volunteers to help try and save his sister's local church for the community by putting on a Christmas production of Hamlet, some...

How to Be Absolutely Fabulous
1995
as Self / Edina "Eddy" Monsoon (archive footage)
Jennifer Saunders hosts a party of AbFab outtakes and behind-the-scenes footage.

How to Be Absolutely Fabulous
1995
Writer
Jennifer Saunders hosts a party of AbFab outtakes and behind-the-scenes footage.

Dusty
1994
as Self - Presenter
A career retrospective celebrating the timeless music of one of the world's greatest singer–Dusty Springfield. For the first time, Dusty contributes t...
Prince Cinders
1993
as Fairy (voice)
Fairy-tale fantasy is turned on its head this time, as a fairy godmother in training commits the ultimate faux pas and transforms a handsome young man...

Jealousy
1993
as Jane/Margory
Despite trying to cure himself with a hypnosis tape John Pettigrew is insanely jealous of his wife Jane Margory and convinced she is having an affair ...

Demonella
1993
as The Devil
Music producer Arnold Silverstein is desperate for a song hit so when the Devil - a woman - supplies him with the answer to his dreams, a piece called...

Space Virgins from Planet Sex
1993
as Needle
A craft full of Space Rats,glamorous extra-terrestrials from the planet Sex,arrive on Earth desperate to find men with whom they can procreate in orde...

French & Saunders: At the Movies
1993
Comediennes and "Absolutely Fabulous" creators Dawn French and Jennifer Saunders star in this compilation of the best skits and spoofs from the fourth...

Wild Turkey
1992
as Neighbour
Jed, a New York cop, brings home the last Christmas turkey in the shop for his wife Sue. Unfortunately, they make a dramatic discovery whilst stuffing...

Red Nose of Courage
1992
as Margaret Thatcher
A clown is not happy with his job at his father's circus so he gets into politics, and some weeks later he is the Prime Minister John Major. But after...

Amnesty International's Big 30
1991
as Self
In the tradition of the acclaimed series of British concerts known as The Secret Policemen's Ball, Amnesty International celebrates its 50th Anniversa...

The Tale of Little Pig Robinson
1990
as Dorcas
Adapted from the Beatrix Potter story tells the story of the pignap of Little Pig Robinson by Captain Barnabus Butcher who fools Robinson into believi...

French & Saunders LIVE
1990
Dawn French and Jennifer Saunders perform a live comedy show in London's West End at the world famous Shaftesbury Theatre, in front of a hugely apprec...

Spaghetti Hoops
1990
as Maria
In a monochrome city that is shamelessly London although everybody acts as if it is Rome, banker Aldo Vini is on the run from Mafia boss Corelli, from...

Oxford
1990
as Hannah
When American comic actor Steve 'Zoo Zoo Zoo Off Come My Pants' Wild arrives in Oxford to make a comedy film, his girlfriend Caroline goes behind his ...

South Atlantic Raiders: Part 1
1990
as Cathy
Two security van personnel plan to rob a bank in an attempt to raise enough cash to mount a rescue mission when a dictator invades the Falklands.

South Atlantic Raiders: Part 2 Argie Bargie!
1990
as Cathy
In the conclusion of this special two-part story, Stan has somehow managed to make it to the Falklands, which have indeed been taken over by the Argen...
GLC: The Carnage Continues
1990
as Brigitte Nielsen as Margaret Thatcher, The Ice Maiden
The Greater London Council fight to save the capital against the wicked Ice Maiden.

The Secret Policeman’s Biggest Ball
1989
as Self
After the criticisms of the 1987 show’s disproportionate focus on music - and the financial disaster of its music-only Festival Of Youth weekend conce...

Employees From Hell
1989
John Cleese training video about employees.

Communicators From Hell
1989
John Cleese training video.

An Audience With Victoria Wood
1988
as Self
British comedy legend Victoria Wood entertains a star-studded audience including Julie Walters, Judi Dench and Dawn French in this 1988 special. Watch...

Mr Jolly Lives Next Door
1988
as Monica
A couple of bored escorts find themselves suddenly involved with a hit gang and an ax murderer - Mr. Jolly. Gratuitous violence, rivers of blood, and ...

More Bad News
1988
as Sally
Four years after they were last the subject of a documentary, the heavy metal band Bad News get back together again for another film of their exploits...

The Strike
1988
as Meryl Streep as Mrs Scargill
Paul, a former miner, writes a hard-hitting screenplay about his own experiences of the 1984 miners' strike. However, the Hollywood production company...

Eat the Rich
1987
as Lady Caroline
Alex is a disgruntled waiter at a snobby exclusive restaurant who falls on hard times. Forced to deal with the contempt and disgust of the upper class...
The Silurian Disruption
1987
as Silurian #2
The Doctor is on trial... again but this time he is disputed by some Silurians, or more accurately the people who played them.
The Silurian Disruption
1987
Writer
The Doctor is on trial... again but this time he is disputed by some Silurians, or more accurately the people who played them.

Comedians Do It On Stage
1986
as Self
A Group of Britain's top comedy and music performers gather at a London Theater, to give their support to the Oncology Club Fund. The Fund is a charit...

Private Enterprise
1986
as Debbie
Whilst delivering toilet rolls to a recording studio, small-time crook Keith pockets a demo tape by the newly disbanded group Toy Department, which he...

Consuela (or, The New Mrs Saunders)
1986
as Jessica
Jessica, the second Mrs Saunders, arrives with her new husband John at his country estate. Very much left to her own devices she is unnerved by the po...

Dangerous Brothers Present: World of Danger
1986
The Dangerous Brothers was a stage and TV act by anarchic comedy duo Rik Mayall and Ade Edmondson, performing respectively as "Richard Dangerous" and ...

Consuela (or, The New Mrs Saunders)
1986
Writer
Jessica, the second Mrs Saunders, arrives with her new husband John at his country estate. Very much left to her own devices she is unnerved by the po...

The Supergrass
1985
as Lesley Reynolds
While taking a holiday in the country with his mother, Dennis hits on a scheme to impress a girl so that she'll go away on a trip with him as his girl...

Slags
1984
as Little Sister
Teen-age gang leaders Passion and Little Sister are released from prison, only to find that their gang the Slags has disbanded due to a rival gang, th...

Slags
1984
Writer
Teen-age gang leaders Passion and Little Sister are released from prison, only to find that their gang the Slags has disbanded due to a rival gang, th...

Eddie Monsoon - a Life?
1984
as Doreen
Eddie Monsoon is a South African entertainer who, following the failure of several pilot shows for TV in his homeland, faked his suicide, went to Braz...

Gino: Full Story and Pics
1984
as Angie
A hoodlum is turned into a celebrity when he steals a cab and subsequent events are blown out of proportion by the media.

A Fistful of Travellers' Cheques
1984
as Shona
Two students calling themselves Carlos and Miguel arrive in Spain dressed as gunslingers to live out their dream of being in a spaghetti Western. At a...

Susie
1984
as Lorna
In rural England, school teacher Susie Darling is planning to leave her boring husband Martin for lusty mechanic Dave when she meets romantic former p...

Dirty Movie
1984
as June
Postman Bean is anxious to end his round early to catch a morning showing of 'The Sound of Muzak' at his local cinema. However, he is unaware that the...

Five Go Mad on Mescalin
1983
as Anne
On their way to stay with Mrs French at Hot Turkey Farm, the Famous Five hear on the radio their Uncle Quentin's escaped prison. Arriving at the farm ...

Summer School
1983
as Liz
A motley band of suburbanites arrives at a summer school to simulate life in an Iron Age village. However, the village is right in the middle of a mod...

Bad News
1983
as Sally
A documentary crew films heavy metal band Bad News as they have trouble starting their van, pick up a schoolgirl groupie, and meet up with rock journa...

The Beat Generation
1983
as Anne
In the monochrome world of 1960, pretentious Alan, violent Kix and sex-mad Eleanor are part of a colony of beat poets, living a hedonistic, unreal exi...

War
1983
as Various Roles
1985:- England has been invaded by the Warsaw Pact countries and middle-class couple Hermine and Godfrey retreat to their rural hide-away but after wi...

Five Go Mad in Dorset
1982
as Anne
In the 1950s, four children, Anne, described as a 'proper little housewife', the rather butch George who has an unhealthy relationship with her dog Ti...

The Comic Strip
1981
A tongue-in-cheek "behind the scenes" look at the Comic Strip comedy club in the early 1980s, which gave rise to 'The Comic Strip Presents'

The Comic Strip
1981
Writer
A tongue-in-cheek "behind the scenes" look at the Comic Strip comedy club in the early 1980s, which gave rise to 'The Comic Strip Presents'

The Magic Faraway Tree
N/A
Soon after the Thompson family’s arrival in the countryside, the three children – Beth, Joe, and Fran – discover a magical tree and its extraordinary ...
Night and Day
N/A
as Mrs Hilbery
Based on Virginia Woolf’s novel, an unromantic comedy about a passionate astronomer who does everything she can to avoid romantic love and marriage. T...