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Jennifer Saunders

Born

in Sleaford, Lincolnshire, England, The United Kingdom

July 06, 1958

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Genre

Humor and Comedy, Entertainment

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Jennifer Jane Saunders is a BAFTA and Emmy Award-winning English comedienne, screenwriter and actress.

She first came into widespread attention in the 1980s and the 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 proceeded to write and star in their eponymous sketch show, French & Saunders, and 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 US-made 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 ...more

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Average rating: 3.94 · 6,941 ratings · 667 reviews · 33 distinct works • Similar authors

	Bonkers: My Life in Laughs 3.97 avg rating — 5,678 ratings — published 2013 — 16 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Absolutely Fabulous 4.32 avg rating — 113 ratings — published 1995 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Absolutely Fabulous: Continuity 4.23 avg rating — 86 ratings — published 2001 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Absolutely Fabulous 2 4.13 avg rating — 61 ratings — published 1994 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Absolutely Fabulous: The Scripts 4.03 avg rating — 37 ratings — published 1993	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Girls On Top by Jennifer Saunders, Ruby Wax, Dawn French 4.25 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 1986 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Absolutely Fabulous Vol 1 & 2 3.88 avg rating — 8 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Absolutely Fabulous: Four BBC TV Soundtrack Episodes by Jennifer Saunders, Various (Reading), Joanna Lumley (Reading) 3.40 avg rating — 5 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Absolutely Fabulous 2: "Death" and "Happy New Year" really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 1999	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Absolutely Fabulous Two Original TV Episodes 4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2002 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“I love a corpse. I love a bit of gruesome.”
― Jennifer Saunders, Bonkers: My Life in Laughs

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“If I could go back and say one thing to my younger self it would be: YOU ARE NOT FAT.”
― Jennifer Saunders, Bonkers: My Life in Laughs

tags: comedy, fat, humor

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“I do like a bit of flyin'. Comedy flying is one of my favourite things. I think it rates up there with a neck brace for funniness.”
― Jennifer Saunders, Bonkers: My Life in Laughs

tags: humourous-memoir

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