Jennifer Saunders Filmography

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Shrek 2

Actors: Mike Myers, Eddie Murphy, Cameron Diaz, Julie Andrews, Antonio Banderas

Synopsis: The cranky beast with a heart of gold returns to the big screen in this sequel to the computer-animated smash hit Shrek. After massive green ogre Shrek (voice of Mike Myers) and his new bride, Princess Fiona (voice of Cameron Diaz), return from their honeymoon, they receive an invitation to visit Read More

Remember the Secret Policeman's Ball?

Actors: Terry Jones, Stephen Fry, Jonathan Miller, Alan Bennett, Terry Gilliam

French & Saunders: The Ingenue Years

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Dawn French, Jennifer Saunders

Synopsis: This collection of material from the BBC sketch comedy program French & Saunders focuses on the show's earliest episodes, from the late '80s. The duo's signature film and TV parodies are in short supply, although Dawn French does essay the role of Elizabeth Taylor as Maggie the Cat in a send-up of Read More

Absolutely Fabulous: Gay

Crew: Teleplay By

Actors: Joanna Lumley, Jennifer Saunders

Synopsis: This two-hour spin-off of the raunchy British sitcom Absolutely Fabulous was originally telecast in the U.K. under the title Absolutely Fabulous: Gay. Now a buyer for Jeremy's, a trendy clothing store, hard-living and hard-drinking Patsy Stone (Joanna Lumley) comes to New York during Fashion Week Read More

French & Saunders: Living in a Material World

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Dawn French, Jennifer Saunders

Synopsis: This compendium of material from the BBC sketch comedy program French & Saunders pokes fun at everything from Baywatch and the Batman franchise to Björk and Ingmar Bergman, stopping along the way to mock British tennis players and postcolonial biddies. Most of the material dates from the early to Read More

Absolutely Fabulous: Paris

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Jennifer Saunders, Joanna Lumley, Julia Sawalha, June Whitfield, Jane Horrocks

Synopsis: Edina (Jennifer Saunders) is set to appear in a mother/daughter fashion spread to be shot in France for a glam magazine; after she fails to secure Chloe Sevigny, Kate Beckinsdale, or Liv Tyler to play her daughter, she faces the realization that real-life daughter Saffy (Julia Sawalha) will have Read More

Absolument Fabuleux

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Josiane Balasko, Nathalie Baye, Marie Gillain, Vincent Elbaz, Claude Gensac

Synopsis: The wildly popular British television show Absolutely Fabulous gets a Francophonic makeover with this film version directed by Gabriel Aghion. In this go around, Josiane Balasko and Nathalie Baye play the incorrigible Eddie and Patsy, who leave no impulse unenacted and no lust unsated -- be it Read More

Absolutely Fabulous: Small Opening

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Jennifer Saunders, Joanna Lumley, Julia Sawalha, June Whitfield, Jane Horrocks

Synopsis: During a drug binge, Edina (Jennifer Saunders) commiserates with Patsy (Joanna Lumley) about her lack of fame. Soon, though, notoriety comes knocking in the form of Saffy's debut as a playwright: "Self-Raising Flower," an autobiographical drama about the girl's troubled relationship with her Read More

Absolutely Fabulous: Parralox

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Jennifer Saunders, Joanna Lumley, Julia Sawalha, June Whitfield, Jane Horrocks

Synopsis: Five years after the events of Absolutely Fabulous: The Last Shout, Edina (Jennifer Saunders) has remodeled both her kitchen and her office, the former into a sleek modern room with a convenience-store freezer full of champagne, the latter into a paperless virtual meeting space. Partnering with Read More

Absolutely Fabulous: Donkey

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Jennifer Saunders, Joanna Lumley, Julia Sawalha, June Whitfield, Jane Horrocks

Synopsis: Edina (Jennifer Saunders) launches an all-out offensive on her body fat by prying the champagne glass out of her hand, adopting a boot-camp fitness program, and engaging in an intensive detoxification program -- all because of the shrewish comments of girlfriends Patsy (Joanna Lumley), Katy Grin Read More

Absolutely Fabulous: Fish Farm

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Jennifer Saunders, Joanna Lumley, Julia Sawalha, June Whitfield, Crispin Bonham Carter

Synopsis: After attending a Marilyn Manson concert, Edina (Jennifer Saunders) and Patsy (Joanna Lumley) terrorize Saffy (Julia Sawalha) with their drugged-up behavior. Gran (June Whitfield) is also on hand to add to the chaos, along with fellow septuagenarians Dolly (Dora Bryan) and Brice (Tim Wylton). When Read More

Absolutely Fabulous: Menopause

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Jennifer Saunders, Joanna Lumley, Julia Sawalha, June Whitfield, Jane Horrocks

Synopsis: Edina (Jennifer Saunders) suffers a professional crisis while Patsy (Joanna Lumley) begins menopause in the final episode of Absolutely Fabulous series four. After Bubble (Jane Horrocks) accidentally emails Eddy's address book to rival PR impresario Claudia Bing (Celia Imrie), Eddy's client roster Read More

The Magician's House II

Actors: Ian Richardson, Katie Stuart, Jennifer Saunders

Synopsis: Based on the popular novel The Tunnel Behind the Waterfall by William Corlett, this British miniseries revisits the characters of The Magician's House, as three children with an interest in magic try to save the fabled Golden House, home of the good but mysterious Magician. Land developers want to Read More

Mirrorball

Crew: Screenwriter

Synopsis: A pair of theatrical sisters -- one a singer/dancer, the other an actress -- trade wisecracks with each other and their colorful friends in this one-off special, which reunited much of the talent from Absolutely Fabulous and helped pave the way for that show's 2001 return. Vivienne Keill (Jennifer Saunders Read More

Fanny and Elvis

Actors: Kerry Fox, Ray Winstone, David Morrissey, Ben Daniels, Jennifer Saunders

Synopsis: British TV screenwriter Kay Mellor debuts with this quirky screwball comedy. The film opens with romance novelist Kate (Kerry Fox) crashing her VW bug into the gleaming Jaguar of car salesman Dave (Ray Winstone), resulting in an insult-barbed screamfest. They both enter the same pub, where they Read More

French & Saunders: F&S TV

Crew: Screenwriter

Synopsis: This French & Saunders special from May 1999 features an extended parody of the BBC TV drama Silent Witness. Here the program becomes "Witless Silence," and Jennifer Saunders steps into the forensic-pathologist part played by Amanda Burton in the actual series. In another segment, "Acting Read More

French & Saunders: The Phantom Millennium

Crew: Screenwriter

Synopsis: After the advent of Absolutely Fabulous and The Vicar of Dibley, Dawn French and Jennifer Saunders stopped producing regular seasons of their eponymous show in favor of a series of holiday specials. This edition, from Christmas 1999, is based around an extended parody of Star Wars: Episode 1 Read More

Spice World

Actors: Spice Girls, Melanie Brown, Emma Bunton, Melanie Chisholm, Geri Halliwell, Victoria Adams, Richard E. Grant, Alan Cumming

Synopsis: Bob Spiers (director of TV's Absolutely Fabulous) directed this feature-film debut of the five Spice Girls -- Posh Spice, Sporty Spice, Scary Spice, Ginger Spice, and Baby Spice -- as the quintet challenges the London pop scene during five days before their first live performance at the Royal Read More

Absolutely Fabulous Moments

Synopsis: Jennifer Saunders wrote, directed, and compiled this collection of hilarious moments from the television series Absolutely Fabulous, in which Saunders (as Edina) and Joanna Lumley (as Patsy) play a pair of glamour-obsessed refugees from the late '60s and early '70s trying to stagger through the Read More

Friends: The One After Ross Says Rachel

Synopsis: Season five of Friends begins in London, a few moments after the wedding of Ross (David Schwimmer) and Emily (Helen Baxendale) -- and a few more moments after Ross nearly wrecked the ceremony by invoking Rachel's (Jennifer Aniston) name. As Emily expresses her desire to escape her marriage vows Read More

Dusty: Full Circle - The Life & Music of Dusty Springfield

Synopsis: Dusty Springfield was quite simply one of the very best vocalists to emerge from the British pop music scene; blessed with a superb voice and the smarts and soul to use it to its best advantage, Springfield scored a string of hits on both sides of the Atlantic in the 1960s with such classics as Read More

Roseanne: Satan, Darling

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Roseanne

Synopsis: In this Halloween episode, Roseanne and Jackie go to a fancy Upper West Side party with Patsy (Joanna Lumley) and Edina (Jennifer Saunders, who co-wrote the episode with Roseanne) from Absolutely Fabulous. Strange things start to happen to the pregnant Darlene in a take on Rosemary's Baby. This Read More

Absolutely Fabulous: The Last Shout, Part 1

Crew: Screenwriter

Synopsis: Life continues apace for Edina (Jennifer Saunders), Patsy (Joanna Lumley), and Saffron (Julia Sawalha). Eddy has adopted a dolphin as both house pet and PR client; Pats has moved out of Odd Bins to make room for a new liquor aisle; and Saffy has finally found a boyfriend -- the wealthy Read More

Absolutely Fabulous: The Last Shout, Part 2

Crew: Screenwriter

Muppet Treasure Island

Actors: Tim Curry, Jennifer Saunders, Kevin Bishop, Billy Connolly, Frank Oz

Synopsis: Robert Louis Stevenson's classic tale of a young orphan who becomes involved with pirate Long John Silver is given the Muppet treatment in this vibrant children's musical. As in The Muppet Christmas Carol, the film stays loyal to the original storyline but casts the well-known puppets in many of Read More

Absolutely Fabulous: Sex

Crew: Screenwriter

Synopsis: Distraught over the size of her actually quite spacious wardrobe, Edina (Jennifer Saunders) attempts to annex Saffy's bedroom. Saffy (Julia Sawalha) refuses, suggesting that her mother take over long-lost son Serge's room instead. Saf, Eddy, and Patsy (Joanna Lumley) break into the room, which is Read More

Absolutely Fabulous: The End

Crew: Screenwriter

Synopsis: Edina (Jennifer Saunders) moves into a commune but chafes at the paternalistic attitudes of the charlatans who run it; she spends her time impatiently waiting for her turn with "the talking stick," dejected over her separation from best friend Patsy (Joanna Lumley). Pats, meanwhile, finds that her Read More

In the Bleak Midwinter

Actors: Michael Maloney, Richard Briers, Mark Hadfield, Nicholas Farrell, Gerard Horan

Synopsis: When his professional career hits a lull, an actor attempts to revitalize his career by staging a production of Hamlet, directed by and starring himself. Director and star Kenneth Branagh would in fact release his own film version of Shakespeare's classic play a year later, but this comedy Read More

Absolutely Fabulous: Happy New Year

Crew: Screenwriter

Synopsis: Edina (Jennifer Saunders), Patsy (Joanna Lumley), Bubble (Jane Horrocks), Saffron (Julia Sawalha), and Mother (June Whitfield) prepare for their respective New Year's festivities; Eddy and Pats plan to hit a Frankie Knuckles party while the others settle in for a night in front of the telly. Read More

Absolutely Fabulous: Fear

Crew: Screenwriter

Synopsis: Our heroines find themselves at a mutual crossroads as Saffy (Julia Sawalha) heads off to college, leaving Edina (Jennifer Saunders) alone, and Patsy (Joanna Lumley) loses her job when her magazine folds. Pats soon moves in with Eddy, but their lack of domestic common sense spoils their otherwise Read More

Absolutely Fabulous: Jealous

Crew: Screenwriter

Synopsis: At a posh public-relations awards show, Edina (Jennifer Saunders) guzzles champagne with Patsy (Joanna Lumley), bosses Bubble (Jane Horrocks) around, chats up supermodel Naomi Campbell, and prepares to take home a prize. She's beaten to the punch, however, by Claudia (Celia Imrie), her Read More

Absolutely Fabulous: Door Handle

Crew: Screenwriter

Synopsis: Edina (Jennifer Saunders) becomes an over-scheduled mess when a computer organizer seizes control of her life. Obsessed with checking things off her list, she is unable to accomplish anything -- not even the refurbishment of her kitchen, which was burned down by friend Patsy (Joanna Lumley) in the Read More

Absolutely Fabulous: Hospital

Crew: Screenwriter

Synopsis: After a dalliance with a government official, Patsy (Joanna Lumley) becomes embroiled in a tabloid sex scandal and is irate to see her true age reported nationally. "Borrowing" the Monsoon house for an interview with Hello magazine, she is disappointed to learn that photos for the spread won't be Read More

French & Saunders: At the Movies

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Dawn French, Jennifer Saunders

Synopsis: This collection of skits from the fourth series of French & Saunders lives up to its title. Although the comedic duo takes aim at British culture, BBC TV, pop stars, and the Middle Ages, most of the material focuses on Hollywood parody. Dawn French takes on a pair of box-office villains as she Read More

Absolutely Fabulous: Birth

Crew: Screenwriter

Synopsis: After Patsy (Joanna Lumley) manages to incinerate the Monsoons' kitchen, she and Edina (Jennifer Saunders) take to hanging out in the living room. The only problem is that Saffy (Julia Sawalha) has a rare, though clandestine, date planned for that very room. As Eddy and her monstrous friend Read More

Absolutely Fabulous: Death

Crew: Screenwriter

Synopsis: While Saffy Monsoon (Julia Sawalha) mourns the death of her grandfather, her mother, Edina (Jennifer Saunders), is too busy mourning the failure of her latest weight-loss program: a bizarre scheme in which she is slathered in mud and then mummified for several hours. Gran (June Whitfield) handles Read More

Absolutely Fabulous: Poor

Crew: Screenwriter

Synopsis: Saffron (Julia Sawalha) cautions her mother to economize in gentle preparation for the revelation by Edina's accountant that she's been cut off by both of her ex-husbands; as revealed in series one's Absolutely Fabulous: Birthday, Edina's been double-dipping, and Justin and Marshall aren't having Read More

Absolutely Fabulous: Morocco

Crew: Screenwriter

Synopsis: Eddy (Jennifer Saunders) and Patsy (Joanna Lumley) head to Marrakesh to team up for a photo shoot. It seems Patsy's magazine is going to run a spread featuring Pop-Specs, a trashy little product represented by Eddy's PR firm. When Saffy (Julia Sawalha) tags along, she quickly learns her mum has Read More

French & Saunders: Gentlemen Prefer French & Saunders

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Dawn French, Jennifer Saunders

Synopsis: The third series of French & Saunders, which originally aired on the BBC in 1990, produced the various clips assembled as French & Saunders: Gentlemen Prefer French & Saunders. Gone With the Wind, Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?, The Exorcist, and Dangerous Liaisons provide fodder for Hollywood Read More

Absolutely Fabulous [TV Series]

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Jennifer Saunders, Joanna Lumley, Julia Sawalha

Synopsis: In this satirical British sitcom, which became a cult hit on American cable, a grotesquely self-centered fashion victim chain-smokes, swills champagne, abuses drugs, munches caviar, terrorizes her daughter, and tries in vain to mingle with the beautiful people -- all in the company of her sleek Read More

Absolutely Fabulous: Iso Tank

Crew: Screenwriter

Synopsis: Saffron (Julia Sawalha) meets at home with her fellow students to plan a school report while her mother, Edina (Jennifer Saunders), floats upstairs in the new aquatic isolation tank she's ordered from Los Angeles. This being Edina, of course, she doesn't brave the iso tank alone; best pal Patsy Read More

Absolutely Fabulous: Fashion

Crew: Screenwriter

Synopsis: In the inaugural episode of popular Brit-com Absolutely Fabulous, a drinking binge and a fashion event provide the framework in which to introduce several of the show's primary characters: slothful forty-ish PR exec Edina Monsoon (Jennifer Saunders); her caustic, no-nonsense daughter, Saffron Read More

Absolutely Fabulous: New Best Friend

Crew: Screenwriter

Synopsis: Edina (Jennifer Saunders) gets in an uproar over the impending visit of Max (Patrick Barlow) and Bettina (Miranda Richardson), a pair of impossibly hip old friends. Terrified that her cluttered house won't be up to snuff with these chic minimalists, she chucks things -- and people -- right and Read More

Absolutely Fabulous: France

Crew: Screenwriter

Synopsis: Although she's trying to launch a new interior decorating venture, Eddy (Jennifer Saunders) decides to take a vacation in the French countryside with Patsy (Joanna Lumley). The pair become lost in Provence, then must suffer through their holiday in a second-class cottage, bored out of their minds. Read More

Absolutely Fabulous: Magazine

Crew: Screenwriter

Synopsis: When Edina (Jennifer Saunders) takes up with her first boyfriend in ages, Patsy (Joanna Lumley) finds her role in her best friend's life suddenly reduced even though she's recently moved into the Monsoon household. Even worse, she actually has to show up at work for once -- to attend a meeting Read More

Absolutely Fabulous: Birthday

Crew: Screenwriter

Synopsis: On the morning of her 40th birthday, a sullen Edina Monsoon (Jennifer Saunders) resists daughter Saffron's every attempt to cheer her up. Lashing out monstrously at Saffy (Julia Sawalha), Eddy is disappointed to learn that instead of a star-studded surprise party, the girl has planned a quiet Read More

Absolutely Fabulous: Fat

Crew: Screenwriter

Synopsis: After struggling unsuccessfully to fit into a variety of unflattering outfits, Edina (Jennifer Saunders) tries to cook up yet another quick weight-loss plan, much to the annoyance of Saffy (Julia Sawalha), who points out that her mother eats, drinks, and smokes incessantly and takes no exercise Read More

Dangerous Brothers Present "World of Danger"

Synopsis: Included are two episodes of the British TV comedy ("Exploding Politicians" and "How to Get Off with a Lady") which focuses on Sir Richard and Sir Adrian Dangerous (Adrian Edmondson, Rik Mayall). ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide Read More

Eat the Rich

Actors: Lanah Pellay, Nosher Powell, Fiona Richmond, Ronald Allen, Sandra Dorne

Synopsis: A restaurant worker (Lanah Pellay) is fired from a posh London eatery, so the man returns with a band of terrorists, who have their own ideas about how to run a restaurant, and they begin feeding new customers with old customers. Motorhead provides the music. ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide Read More

The Supergrass

Actors: Adrian Edmondson, Jennifer Saunders, Peter Richardson, Dawn French, Keith Allen

Synopsis: In this romantic comedy that wobbles along on a shaky plot -- the first full-length feature of a Brit TV show -- Dennis (Adrian Edmondson) is on vacation with his mother when he invents a tall tale of his involvement with a drug cartel in order to impress a woman he likes. Sure enough, his story Read More

French & Saunders [TV Series]

Actors: Dawn French, Jennifer Saunders

Synopsis: Known primarily in America as the launch pad for Absolutely Fabulous, French & Saunders is actually a British TV comedy institution that has generated five series and numerous specials since it first appeared in 1987. The titular stars, Dawn French and Jennifer Saunders, met in the 1970s at Read More

Girls on Top [TV Series]

Crew: Screenwriter

The Life and Times of Vivienne Vyle [TV Series]

Actors: Jennifer Saunders, Miranda Richardson, Conleth Hill

Synopsis: This British black comedy series follows the on and off screen life of a fictional talk-show host named Vivienne Vyle. A former weather girl who's desperate for success, Vivienne snags a gig hosting her own talk-show, where the bleakest and funniest side of humanity is constantly held up for Read More