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JENNIFER SAUNDERS

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Jennifer Jane Saunders (born July 6 1958) is a BAFTA Award|BAFTA- and Emmy Award-winning England|English comedian, screenwriter and actor|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 double act|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 Absolutely Fabulous#Eddy|Edina Monsoon in the BBC sitcom ''Absolutely Fabulous''.

In her other work, she has guest starred in the US-made sitcoms ''Roseanne (TV series)|Roseanne'' and ''Friends'', and won the People's Choice Award|American People's Choice Award for voicing the evil Fairy Godmother (Shrek)|Fairy Godmother in DreamWorks Animation|DreamWorks' animated ''Shrek 2''. More recently, she has written and starred in ''Jam & Jerusalem'' and ''The Life and Times of Vivienne Vyle''.

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Saunders was born and raised to a middle-class family in Sleaford, Lincolnshire of French people|French and England|English heritage, in 1958.<ref name="screenonline">Hannah Hamad. ''[http://www.screenonline.org.uk/people/id/499531/index.html Jennifer Saunders]'' — screenonline.org. Retrieved October 4... read all