Jennifer Saunders Biography

Jennifer Saunders born Jennifer Jane Saunders is an English actress, comedian and screenwriter. She has won three BAFTAs, an International Emmy Award out of three nominations, a British Comedy Award, a Rose d’Or Light Entertainment Festival Award, two Writers’ Guild of Great Britain Awards, and a People’s Choice Award.

From the age of five to 18, she studied in different boarding schools and then at St Paul’s Girls’ School, an independent school in west London. After school, she worked for a year in Italy as an au pair. In 1977, she joined the Central School of Speech and Drama in London on a drama teachers’ course , where she met her comedy partner, Dawn French.

In the 1980s, after graduating from the Central School of Speech and Drama in London, she become known after joining The Comic Strip. Together with her comedy partner Dawn French, she wrote and starred in their eponymous sketch show, French and Saunders, for which she and French received a BAFTA fellowship in 2009. In the early and mid-1990s, she received acclaim for writing and playing the main character of Edina Monsoon in the BBC sitcom Absolutely Fabulous.

She has been a guest-starring in the American sitcoms Roseanne and Friends, she won the People’s Choice Awards for voicing the evil Fairy Godmother in DreamWorks’ animated Shrek 2. In 2015, she voiced Queen Elizabeth II in the animated comedy film Minions, and voiced Nana Noodleman in the animated musical film Sing in 2016.

Jennifer Saunders Age

She was born on 6 July 1958 in Sleaford, United Kingdom. She is 60 years old as of 2018.

Jennifer Saunders Husband

She is married to Ade Edmondson. The couple married in on 11 May 1985 in Cheshire.

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Jennifer Saunders Daughters

Together with her husband, she has three daughters: Eleanor “Ella” Rose born 22 January 1986, Hammersmith, London, Beatrice “Beattie” Louise born 19 June 1987 and Freya born 16 October 1990.

Jennifer Saunders Height

She is 1.66 metres tall.

Jennifer Saunders Movies

• Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie
• Sing
• Shrek 2
• Coraline
• Minions
• Muppet Treasure Island
• Stick Man
• Spice World
• The Supergrass
• Absolutely Fabulous
• Patrick
• Eat the Rich
• Harry Potter and the Secret Chamberpot of Azerbaijan
• French & Saunders: Live
• Comic Relief: Uptown Downstairs Abbey
• In the Bleak Midwinter
• Fanny and Elvis
• L’Entente Cordiale
• South Atlantic Raiders
• The Secret Policeman’s Biggest Ball
• Prince Cinders
• Mr. Jolly Lives Next Door
• French and Saunders: Live
• French & Saunders: Gentlemen Prefer French & Saunders
• The Magician’s House
• More Bad News

Jennifer Saunders Tv Shows

• Absolutely Fabulous
• French & Saunders
• Jam and Jerusalem
• Girls On Top
• The Life and Times of Vivienne Vyle
• Let Them Eat Cake
• Blandings
• Happy Families
• Mirrorball
• Dead Boss
• Moominvalley
• This is Jinsy
• A Bucket O’ French And Saunders
• Magician’s House
• Josh
• Pongwiffy
• Tommy Cooper Forever
• Comic Relief
• Comic Relief 2011

Jennifer Saunders Ab Fab

A show brilliant in its uncensored bad behaviour and satirical humour, this programme features Edina and Patsy, two hard-drinking, drug-taking, completely and outrageously selfish middle-aged women. Their cruel humour focuses on the hypocrisy of today’s society, much to the chagrin of Edina’s more moral and conservative daughter, Saffron.

First episode date: 12 November 1992
Original network: BBC Two (series 1); BBC One (series 2 onwards)
Theme song: This Wheel’s on Fire
Writers: Jennifer Saunders

Jennifer Saunders Absolutely Fabulous

A show brilliant in its uncensored bad behaviour and satirical humour, this programme features Edina and Patsy, two hard-drinking, drug-taking, completely and outrageously selfish middle-aged women. Their cruel humour focuses on the hypocrisy of today’s society, much to the chagrin of Edina’s more moral and conservative daughter, Saffron.

First episode date: 12 November 1992
Original network: BBC Two (series 1); BBC One (series 2 onwards)
Theme song: This Wheel’s on Fire
Writers: Jennifer Saunders

Jennifer Saunders Cancer

In July 2010, she was diagnosed with breast cancer and was in remission following a lumpectomy, chemotherapy, and radiotherapy.

Jennifer Saunders Net Worth

His net worth is estimated to be $20 million.

Jennifer Saunders Twitter

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Jennifer Saunders 300 Years of French and Saunders: Trailer – BBC One

Jennifer Saunders Adrian Edmondson

Adrian Edmondson: ‘Jennifer and I would snog for ages before even saying hello’

The comedian and writer on stoicism, working in a pork pie factory, and the bad review he hasn’t forgotten.

orn in Bradford, Adrian Edmondson, 61, is best known for his TV roles in The Young Ones and Bottom, the latter of which he wrote with his comedy partner, the late Rik Mayall. Last month, he published his second children’s book, Junkyard Jack And The Horse That Talked; he has also co-written a play with Nigel Planer, Vulcan 7, which tours from September. He is married to the comedian Jennifer Saunders, has three daughters and lives in London.

When were you happiest? 
My granddaughter is only one, but she gives the best hugs. That’s when I’m happiest at the moment.

What is your greatest fear? 
Getting dementia and not having the means to top myself. My dad had it and I often thought, as he looked at me with startled and fearful eyes, that he was imploring me to do him in.

What is your earliest memory?
Acquiring a penknife aged four and keeping it hidden in a storm drain on the army base where we lived in Cyprus. I still have an enormous scar on my thumb where I sliced it open trying to close the knife. I ran home, covered in blood.

What is the trait you most deplore in yourself?
There’s a pompous, haughty, know-it-all inside me who keeps trying to get out. He’s ugly, vicious and mostly wrong, anyway, so I don’t know why he thinks he’s so great.

What do you most dislike about your appearance?
Pretty much everything. When I catch a glimpse of myself in the mirror, I’m shocked by the fat, balding git staring back at me. He looks pretty shocked, too.

What did you want to be when you were growing up?
I only ever wanted to be an actor or a rock star. I was suspended from school in the sixth form and allowed back only when I promised to join the army. But I lied.

What is the worst thing anyone has said to you?
I’ve had a lot of bad reviews, but only one that really hurt. Alan Coren called Bottom “witless tosh”. It’s quite mild as criticism goes, but Rik and I were such huge fans of his that it hurt us terribly.

Is it better to give or to receive?
Receiving is more difficult, because it’s hard to be enthusiastic about some of the crap you get given.

What is your guiltiest pleasure?
I collect vinyl 45s and absolutely adore so-called naff 70s singles like Seasons In The Sun by Terry Jacks.

What was the best kiss of your life?
When we were first going out, whenever I went round to Jennifer’s place, she’d open the door and we would snog for 10 minutes before even saying hello. It was amazing.

What is the worst job you’ve done?
I worked in the largest pork pie factory in Europe. I had a plastic mushroom-shaped thing and had to tamp down the meat into the pie base. It was a conveyor belt of pies from nine to five. The worst thing was the crackly AM radio, which was played loudly through the tinny tannoy system. I still can’t listen to I’m Not In Love by 10cc without thinking of raw minced pork.

What has been your biggest disappointment?
Not doing Top Of The Pops when The Young Ones’ single went to number one.

If you could edit your past, what would you change?
I practise stoicism. Not the stiff-upper-lip, modern stuff, but the ancient Greek philosophy. You have to accept what you can’t change. I try to face forwards all the time. When that doesn’t work, I think about buying a machine gun.

What is the closest you’ve come to death?
I hit a bit of lumpy tarmac driving my motorbike over the Pyrenees in the early 1980s. There was no safety barrier and I found myself riding along the edge of a precipice on half the width of the tyres for 100 yards.

What song would you like played at your funeral?
Jazz, Delicious Hot, Disgusting Cold by the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band. Whenever Rik and I got stuck writing a script, we would put this on and the world would immediately seem to be a more stupidly brilliant place again.