Biography
An internationally renowned comedian, writer and actress, Jennifer Saunders started her career alongside Dawn French as the two female cast members of The Comic Strip troupe. She rose to fame on "The Comic Strip Presents " (Channel 4, 1982-2005) as well as a string of their movies, and together with French starred in the moderately successful "Girls On Top" (ITV, 1985-86) before writing and starring in their own smash sketch comedy series, …
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Career Milestones
2009 | Voiced Miss April Spink and Other Spink in the animated film "Coraline" | |
2004 | Voiced The Fairy Godmother in "Shrek 2" | |
2001 | Created new episodes of "Absolutely Fabolous"; reprised the role of Edina | |
1992 | Wrote, created and starred in the English comedy series "Absolutely Fabulous"; aired in the US on Comedy Central in 1994-95 | |
1988 | US TV debut, "Live from London", part of the "HBO Comedy Hour" | |
| Conceived the original incarnation of "Absolutely Fabulous" as a sketch on "French and Saunders" | ||
| Co-created, starred and wrote, with Dawn French, the English sketch-comedy series "French and Saunders" | ||
| Appeared in several episodes of the cult English comedy series "The Young Ones", starring husband Adrian Edmonson | ||
1985 | Feature acting debut, "Supergrass"; the first of "The Comic Strip Presents..." Movies | |
| Appeared in many episodes of "The Comic Strip Presents...", an English comedy anthology series with Dawn French, Adrian Edmonson, Robbie Coltrane and Peter Richardson | ||
1980 | Auditioned for newly formed comedy troupe, The Comic Strip | |
| Performed comedy routines in college cabarets with French | ||
| Attended London's School of Speech and Drama; met future collaborator Dawn French | ||