Jennifer Saunders
Biography
Jennifer Saunders was born July 12th 1958 in
Sleaford, Lincolnshire, UK. She attended Central School of Speech and Drama
where she met her comedy partner Dawn French. Like many of the early 80s
groundbreaking "alternative" comedians she began her career as comedienne/actress/writer
with Dawn French at "The Comedy Store" in London, where she met fellow comedians
Adrian Edmondson (later her husband), Rik Mayall, Nigel Planer, Alexei Sayle and
Peter Richardson, who later opened his own club, "The Comic Strip", where these
comedians quickly formed a regular format.
The Comic Strip team were transferred to television screens with great success
as they all starred alongside each other in "The Comic Strip Presents..."
(1982). After The Comic Strip she starred in a few episodes of "The Young Ones"
(1982), "Girls on Top" (1985) and "Happy Families" (1985). Afterwards she and
Dawn French wrote a TV show of their own, "French and Saunders" (1987), which
was an immense success due to the double act's genius writing, brilliant acting
performances and hilarious spoofs of world famous blockbusters and bands.
It was in one of the episodes of "French and Saunders" that the audience had the
pleasure of watching a sketch about an uptight daughter and a crazy, neurotic
mother that became a comedy classic sitcom. When the BBC next asked Saunders to
write something, she just couldn't come up with any ideas, so she decided to
expand on that sketch, making it more outrageous and therefore funnier - "Absolutely
Fabulous" (1992) was born.
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Facts
Job Titles TV writer, Actor, Comedian,
Director
Family Daughter: Beattie Edmonson.
Daughter: Ella Edmonson.
Daughter: Freya Edmonson.
Husband: Adrian Edmonson
Education
Central School of Speech and Drama, London, England
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Milestones
-1980 Auditioned for newly formed comedy troupe, The Comic Strip
-1985 Feature acting debut, "Supergrass"; the first of "The Comic Strip
Presents..." Movies
-1988 US TV debut, "Live from London", part of the "HBO Comedy Hour"
-1992 Wrote, created and starred in the English comedy series "Absolutely
Fabulous"
-2001 Created new episodes of "Absolutely Fabolous"; reprised the role of Edina
-2004 Voiced The Fairy Godmother in "Shrek 2"
-Appeared in many episodes of "The Comic Strip Presents...", an English comedy
anthology series with Dawn French, Adrian Edmonson, Robbie Coltrane and Peter
Richardson
-Appeared in several episodes of the cult English comedy series "The Young Ones",
starring husband Adrian Edmonson
-Attended London's School of Speech and Drama; met future collaborator Dawn
French
-Co-created, starred and wrote, with Dawn French, the English sketch-comedy
series "French and Saunders"
-Conceived the original incarnation of "Absolutely Fabulous" as a sketch on "French
and Saunders"
-Performed comedy routines in college cabarets with French
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