Jennifer Jane Saunders (born 6 July 1958) is a two-time BAFTA, International Emmy Award , British Comedy Award, Rose d'Or Light Entertainment Festival Award, two-time Writers' Guild of Great Britain Award, and Peoples Choice Award winning English comedienne, screenwriter, singer and actress. She first came into widespread attention in the 1980s and 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 American 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, she wrote and starred in Jam & Jerusalem and The Life and Times of Vivienne Vyle. I get my pictures from various sources and I'll always link :) Anything not linked will be stuff I've screencapped etc. If you see anything not linked just let me know in the ol ask box and I shall make ammendments :)
Ab Fab. Did the character of Eddy live inside of you a long time before you brought her public?
Hi there! I feel I should mention that I'm not actually Jennifer Saunders, but what I can tell you is that it's rumoured that the character Edina was based on the publicist Lynne Franks. I also know that Jennifer herself used Edina to mock what she herself found annoying about every day life. Take the rant about taxing stupid people, I know that Jennifer said for that rant she was pretty much projecting how she felt in real life. I'll see if I can find anything else she's said about getting in character!
