Jennifer Jane Saunders is an English comedian, screenwriter and actress. She has won three BAFTA (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 1980’s 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.
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