Jennifer Saunders
| Jennifer Saunders | |
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Saunders in Melbourne, Australia, on 23 April 2014
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| Birth name | Jennifer Jane Saunders |
| Born |
6 July 1958 Sleaford, Lincolnshire, England |
| Medium | Television, film |
| Nationality | English |
| Education | St Paul's Girls' School, Northwich Grammar School For Girls, Central School Of Speech And Drama |
| Years active | 1981–present |
| Genres | Comedy, parody |
| Spouse | Adrian Edmondson (m. 1985) |
| Children |
Eleanor (Ella) Edmondson, Beatrice (Beattie) Edmondson Freya Edmondson |
Jennifer Jane Saunders (born 6 July 1958) is an English comedian, screenwriter, and actress. She has won three BAFTAs (including the BAFTA Fellowship), 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 People's Choice Award.
She first found widespread attention in the 1980s when she became a member of The Comic Strip after graduating from the Central School of Speech and Drama in London. 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. She received worldwide acclaim through the early to mid-1990s for writing and playing the lead role of Edina Monsoon in the sitcom Absolutely Fabulous.
She has guest-starred in the American sitcoms Roseanne and Friends and won the American People's Choice Award for voicing the evil Fairy Godmother in DreamWorks' animated Shrek 2. In 2015, she voiced Queen Elizabeth II in the animated comedy film Minions.
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