Coraline2009
As Miss April Spink / Other Spink (voice)
TMDb 7.9 / 10
Jennifer Saunders
Born
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.
Filmography (110)
Sing 22021
As Nana (voice)
TMDb 7.8 / 10
Shrek 22004
As Fairy Godmother (voice)
TMDb 7.3 / 10
Sing2016
As Nana (voice)
TMDb 7.1 / 10
Minions2015
As The Queen (voice)
TMDb 6.4 / 10
Death on the Nile2022
As Marie Van Schuyler
TMDb 6.4 / 10
The Magic Faraway Tree2026
As Grandma
TMDb 6.2 / 10
Isn't It Romantic2019
As Natalie's Mother
TMDb 6.2 / 10
200% Wolf2024
As Max (voice)
TMDb 6.7 / 10
Muppet Treasure Island1996
As Mrs. Bluveridge
TMDb 6.7 / 10
Spice World1997
As Fashionable Woman
TMDb 4.9 / 10
Patrick2018
As Maureen
TMDb 6.7 / 10
Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie2016
As Edina Monsoon
TMDb 5.3 / 10
People's Emergency Briefing2026
As Herself
Stick Man2015
As Narrator (voice)
TMDb 6.8 / 10
Dusty1994
As Self - Presenter
TMDb 8.0 / 10
Virginia Woolf's Night & Day2026
As Bess Hilbery
TMDb 8.0 / 10
Fanny & Elvis1999
As Roanna
TMDb 6.4 / 10
Eat the Rich1987
As Lady Caroline
TMDb 6.2 / 10
Summer School1983
As Liz
Sumotherhood2023
As DI Brookes
TMDb 5.2 / 10
In the Bleak Midwinter1995
As Nancy
TMDb 7.1 / 10
The Best Birthday Ever2022
As Mother (voice)
TMDb 6.7 / 10
Spaghetti Hoops1990
As Maria
Absolutely Fabulous2001
As Une spectatrice du défilé
TMDb 4.9 / 10
Mamma Mia! Here We Go Yet Again2019
As Meryl Streep / Cher
TMDb 7.6 / 10
Bad News1983
As Sally
TMDb 8.7 / 10
Man and Witch: The Dance of a Thousand Steps2024
As The Goose (voice)
TMDb 6.5 / 10
British Sitcom: 60 Years of Laughing at Ourselves2016
As Comedy Role (archive footage) (uncredited)
TMDb 5.7 / 10
Allelujah2023
As Sister Gilpin
TMDb 5.3 / 10
Jealousy1993
As Jane/Margory
Absolutely Fabulous: The Last Shout1996
As Edina Monsoon
TMDb 7.3 / 10
More Bad News1988
As Sally
TMDb 9.8 / 10
Grandpa's Great Escape2018
As Miss Dandy
TMDb 6.1 / 10
Amnesty International's Big 301991
As Self
TMDb 4.0 / 10
Lady Windermere's Fan2018
As The Duchess of Berwick
TMDb 10.0 / 10
Remember the Secret Policeman's Ball?2004
As Self
TMDb 4.8 / 10
The Comic Strip1981
TMDb 8.0 / 10
Coraline: The Making of 'Coraline'2009
As Self
TMDb 5.0 / 10
imagine... French & Saunders: Pointed, Bitchy, Bitter2023
As Self - Featured Artist
TMDb 7.0 / 10
Becoming Victoria Wood2026
As Self
TMDb 6.0 / 10
Completely Bad News2019
As Sally
The Supergrass1985
As Lesley Reynolds
TMDb 6.1 / 10
An Audience With Victoria Wood1988
As Self
TMDb 5.3 / 10
Four Men in a Car1998
As Helen
The Boy in the Dress2014
As Miss Windsor
TMDb 6.3 / 10
L'Entente cordiale2006
As Gwendoline McFarlane
TMDb 4.8 / 10
Employees From Hell1989
The Secret Policeman’s Biggest Ball1989
As Self
TMDb 7.7 / 10
Joanna and Jennifer: Absolutely Champers2017
As Self - Presenter
TMDb 10.0 / 10
Five Go Mad in Dorset1982
As Anne
Prince Cinders1993
As Fairy (voice)
TMDb 9.0 / 10
The Tale of Little Pig Robinson1990
As Dorcas
Demonella1993
As The Devil
Dirty Movie1984
As June
The Hunt for Tony Blair2011
As Lady Thatcher
TMDb 7.8 / 10
Kirsty MacColl at the BBC2024
As Self (archive footage)
TMDb 6.5 / 10
A Fistful of Travellers' Cheques1984
As Shona
TMDb 7.0 / 10
French and Saunders' Christmas Carol1994
As Various Roles
Communicators From Hell1989
The Spice Girls Story: Viva Forever!2012
As Self
TMDb 8.7 / 10
Five Go to Rehab2012
As Anne
French And Saunders - Christmas Special '881988
As Various Characters
Customer Service From Hell1989
It’s Lulu1999
As Self
TMDb 7.0 / 10
300 Years of French & Saunders2017
TMDb 9.0 / 10
Colleagues From Hell1989
Wild Turkey1992
As Neighbour
Chuck Steel: Night of the Trampires2018
As Dr. Alex Cular
TMDb 7.1 / 10
How to Be Absolutely Fabulous1995
As Self / Edina "Eddy" Monsoon (archive footage)
TMDb 7.0 / 10
Dangerous Brothers Present: World of Danger1986
TMDb 6.6 / 10
30 Years of Comic Strip2012
TMDb 5.0 / 10
South Atlantic Raiders: Part 2 Argie Bargie!1990
As Cathy
Space Virgins from Planet Sex1993
As Needle
Private Enterprise1986
As Debbie
We Work for the Dead2024
As The Mother (voice)
TMDb 5.0 / 10
Eddie Monsoon - a Life?1984
As Doreen
The Beat Generation1983
As Anne
Gino: Full Story and Pics1984
As Angie
Five Go Mad on Mescalin1983
As Anne
Comic Relief: Red Nose Day2017
As Self
TMDb 9.0 / 10
Oxford1990
As Hannah
South Atlantic Raiders: Part 11990
As Cathy
Bottom Mindless Violence2004
As Helen Mucus / Anita Harris (archive footage) (uncredited)
TMDb 10.0 / 10
The Storyteller: Sapsorrow1988
As Badsister 1
Absolutely Fabulous: Inside Out2024
As Self / Edina "Eddie" Monsoon
TMDb 7.3 / 10
Red Nose of Courage1992
As Margaret Thatcher
TMDb 8.0 / 10
Susie1984
As Lorna
Kirsty: The Life and Songs of Kirsty MacColl2001
As Self
TMDb 10.0 / 10
French & Saunders: At the Movies1993
TMDb 7.5 / 10
French & Saunders LIVE1990
GLC: The Carnage Continues1990
As Brigitte Nielsen as Margaret Thatcher, The Ice Maiden
Comedians Do It On Stage1986
As Self
Slags1984
As Little Sister
TMDb 2.0 / 10
French & Saunders: Still Alive2008
As Self
TMDb 5.2 / 10
Mr Jolly Lives Next Door1988
As Monica
TMDb 9.0 / 10
We Love Sitcom
We Love Sitcom2016
Consuela (or, The New Mrs Saunders)1986
As Jessica
The Best of French & Saunders2002
As Various
Dawn French Is a Huge Twat2023
As Self (uncredited)
TMDb 8.5 / 10
French & Saunders - Live2000
As Various roles
TMDb 8.3 / 10
Mirrorball2000
As Vivienne Keill
TMDb 8.0 / 10
Absolutely Fabulous: A Life1998
As Edina "Eddy" Monsoon
TMDb 7.7 / 10
French & Saunders: The Ingenue Years2011
The Strike1988
As Meryl Streep as Mrs Scargill
TMDb 7.0 / 10
The Silurian Disruption
The Silurian Disruption1987
As Silurian #2
War1983
As Various Roles
TMDb 10.0 / 10
Gentlemen Prefer French & Saunders2011
French & Saunders: Funny Women2021
As Self
TMDb 8.0 / 10
The Making of Shrek 2Release date TBA
As Self
Filmography and biography: TMDb