Dawn French

Dawn French

Known for
Acting
Born
October 11, 1957 (age 69)
Birthplace
Holyhead, Anglesey, Wales, UK

Biography

Dawn Roma French (born 11 October 1957) is a British actress, comedian, presenter and writer. French is known for writing and starring on the BBC comedy sketch show French and Saunders with her best friend and comedy partner, Jennifer Saunders, and played the lead role as Geraldine Granger in the BBC sitcom The Vicar of Dibley. She has been nominated for seven BAFTA TV Awards and won a BAFTA Fellowship with Saunders in 2009.

Known For

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Filmography

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Experiment IV

Experiment IV

Movie · as First Assistant

2026
Becoming Victoria Wood poster

Becoming Victoria Wood

Movie · as Self

2026
Can You Keep a Secret? poster

Can You Keep a Secret?

TV · as Debbie Fendon · 6 eps

2026
Shaun Tan's Tales from Outer Suburbia poster

Shaun Tan's Tales from Outer Suburbia

TV · 10 eps

2026
TFI Unplugged poster

TFI Unplugged

TV · 1 ep

2025
BeddyByes poster

BeddyByes

TV · as Gramma Leeba · 20 eps

2024
Joan Rivers at the BBC poster

Joan Rivers at the BBC

Movie · as Self (archive footage)

2024
Kirsty MacColl at the BBC poster

Kirsty MacColl at the BBC

Movie · as Self (archive footage)

2024
The Nevermets poster

The Nevermets

TV · as Narrator · 6 eps

2023
The Magician's Elephant poster

The Magician's Elephant

Movie · as Sister Marie (voice)

2023
Dawn French Is a Huge Twat poster

Dawn French Is a Huge Twat

Movie · as Self

2023
imagine... French & Saunders: Pointed, Bitchy, Bitter poster

imagine... French & Saunders: Pointed, Bitchy, Bitter

Movie · as Self - Featured Artist

2022
Red Riding Hood: After Ever After poster

Red Riding Hood: After Ever After

Movie · as Twit

2022
Comedy Classics: The Vicar of Dibley poster

Comedy Classics: The Vicar of Dibley

Movie · as Self (archive material)

2022
Death on the Nile poster

Death on the Nile

Movie · as Bowers

2021
An Audience with Adele poster

An Audience with Adele

Movie · as Self

2021
The Vicar of Dibley: Inside Out poster

The Vicar of Dibley: Inside Out

Movie · as Self

2021
French & Saunders: Funny Women poster

French & Saunders: Funny Women

Movie · as Self

2021
Walk the Line poster

Walk the Line

TV · as Self - Judge · 6 eps

2021
The Secret World Of... poster

The Secret World Of...

TV · as Self - Narrator · 3 eps

2020
Roald & Beatrix: The Tail of the Curious Mouse poster

Roald & Beatrix: The Tail of the Curious Mouse

Movie · as Beatrix Potter

2020
The Vicar of Dibley: In Lockdown poster

The Vicar of Dibley: In Lockdown

Movie · as Geraldine Granger

2020
A Baby Reindeer's First Christmas poster

A Baby Reindeer's First Christmas

Movie · as Narrator

2020
The Big Night In poster

The Big Night In

Movie · as Self

2020
The Trouble with Maggie Cole poster

The Trouble with Maggie Cole

TV · as Maggie Cole · 6 eps

2019
Completely Bad News poster

Completely Bad News

Movie · as Tracy

2019
RuPaul's Drag Race UK poster

RuPaul's Drag Race UK

TV · as Self - Guest Judge · 1 ep

2017
Comic Relief: Red Nose Day poster

Comic Relief: Red Nose Day

Movie · as Self

2017
300 Years of French & Saunders poster

300 Years of French & Saunders

Movie

2017
Little Big Shots poster

Little Big Shots

TV · as Self - Host · 12 eps

2016
Darcey Bussell: My Life on the BBC poster

Darcey Bussell: My Life on the BBC

Movie · as Self

2016
Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie poster

Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie

Movie · as Interviewer

2016
Dawn French Live: 30 Million Minutes poster

Dawn French Live: 30 Million Minutes

Movie · as Self

2016
British Sitcom: 60 Years of Laughing at Ourselves poster

British Sitcom: 60 Years of Laughing at Ourselves

Movie · as Various Characters (archive footage) (uncredited)

2016
Delicious poster

Delicious

TV · as Gina Benelli · 12 eps

2015
Travel Man: 48 Hours in... poster

Travel Man: 48 Hours in...

TV · as Self - Guest · 1 ep

2015
TFI Friday poster

TFI Friday

TV · as Self · 1 ep

2013
Heading Out poster

Heading Out

TV · as Frances · 1 ep

2013
The Wrong Mans poster

The Wrong Mans

TV · as Linda · 3 eps

2012
Five Go to Rehab poster

Five Go to Rehab

Movie · as George

2012
30 Years of Comic Strip poster

30 Years of Comic Strip

Movie

2012
Superstar poster

Superstar

TV · as Self - Chief Judge · 12 eps

2011
Catherine Tate: Laughing at the Noughties poster

Catherine Tate: Laughing at the Noughties

Movie · as Self

2011
Matthew Bourne's Christmas poster

Matthew Bourne's Christmas

Movie · as Self - Host

2011
Michael Bublé: Home for Christmas

Michael Bublé: Home for Christmas

Movie · as Self

2011
French & Saunders: The Ingenue Years poster

French & Saunders: The Ingenue Years

Movie

2011
Gentlemen Prefer French & Saunders poster

Gentlemen Prefer French & Saunders

Movie

2011
50 Greatest Harry Potter Moments poster

50 Greatest Harry Potter Moments

Movie · as Self - The Fat Lady

2010
Psychoville Halloween Special poster

Psychoville Halloween Special

Movie · as Joy Aston

2010
Roger & Val Have Just Got In poster

Roger & Val Have Just Got In

TV · as Val Stevenson · 12 eps

2010
Little Crackers poster

Little Crackers

TV · as HM The Queen Mother · 1 ep

2009
Coraline poster

Coraline

Movie · as Miss Miriam Forcible / Other Forcible (voice)

2009
Coraline: The Making of 'Coraline' poster

Coraline: The Making of 'Coraline'

Movie · as Self

2009
Victoria Wood: Seen on TV poster

Victoria Wood: Seen on TV

Movie · as Self

2009
Psychoville poster

Psychoville

TV · as Joy Aston · 3 eps

2008
French & Saunders: Still Alive poster

French & Saunders: Still Alive

Movie · as Self

2008
Lark Rise to Candleford poster

Lark Rise to Candleford

TV · as Caroline Arless · 40 eps

2007
Donizetti: La Fille du Régiment poster

Donizetti: La Fille du Régiment

Movie · as La Duchesse de Crackentorp

2007
A Bucket O' French and Saunders poster

A Bucket O' French and Saunders

TV · 5 eps

2007
Comedy Shuffle

Comedy Shuffle

TV · 1 ep

2007
The Graham Norton Show poster

The Graham Norton Show

TV · as Self · 15 eps

2007
More Dawn French's Boys Who Do: Comedy poster

More Dawn French's Boys Who Do: Comedy

TV · as Presenter · 6 eps

2007
Dawn French's Boys Who Do Comedy poster

Dawn French's Boys Who Do Comedy

TV · as Self - Presenter · 3 eps

2006
Love and Other Disasters poster

Love and Other Disasters

Movie · as Therapist

2006
When Comedy Changed Forever poster

When Comedy Changed Forever

Movie · as Self (archive material)

2006
The One Show poster

The One Show

TV · as Self - Guest · 1 ep

2006
Davina

Davina

TV · 1 ep

2006
Jam and Jerusalem poster

Jam and Jerusalem

TV · as Rosie Bales · 19 eps

2006
More Dawn French's Girls Who Do: Comedy poster

More Dawn French's Girls Who Do: Comedy

TV · as Self - Presenter · 6 eps

2005
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe poster

The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

Movie · as Mrs. Beaver (voice)

2005
The Comic Strip - A Retrospective poster

The Comic Strip - A Retrospective

Movie · as Self

2005
Comic Aid

Comic Aid

Movie

2005
The Funny Blokes of British Comedy

The Funny Blokes of British Comedy

Movie · as Self

2005
The F Word poster

The F Word

TV · 1 ep

2004
Remember the Secret Policeman's Ball? poster

Remember the Secret Policeman's Ball?

Movie · as Self - Narrator

2004
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban poster

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

Movie · as The Fat Lady

2004
The Paul O'Grady Show poster

The Paul O'Grady Show

TV · 1 ep

2004
Bosom Pals

Bosom Pals

TV · 2 eps

2004
Agatha Christie's Marple poster

Agatha Christie's Marple

TV · as Janet Erskine · 1 ep

2004
Parkinson poster

Parkinson

TV · as Self - Guest · 2 eps

2003
More Great Comedy Moments poster

More Great Comedy Moments

Movie · as Dr. French (archive footage)

2002
The Best of French & Saunders poster

The Best of French & Saunders

Movie · as Various

2002
Wild West poster

Wild West

TV · as Mary Trewednack · 12 eps

2002
V Graham Norton poster

V Graham Norton

TV · as Self · 1 ep

2002
Pongwiffy poster

Pongwiffy

TV · 14 eps

2002
Ted and Alice

Ted and Alice

TV · 3 eps

2002
Dawn French's Girls Who Do Comedy poster

Dawn French's Girls Who Do Comedy

TV · as Self - Presenter · 3 eps

2001
Kirsty: The Life and Songs of Kirsty MacColl poster

Kirsty: The Life and Songs of Kirsty MacColl

Movie · as Self

2001
We Know Where You Live. Live! poster

We Know Where You Live. Live!

Movie · as Self

2001
Happiness poster

Happiness

TV · as Dawn French · 1 ep

2000
French & Saunders - Live poster

French & Saunders - Live

Movie · as Various roles

2000
Maybe Baby poster

Maybe Baby

Movie · as Charlene

2000
The Nearly Complete and Utter History of Everything poster

The Nearly Complete and Utter History of Everything

TV · 2 eps

1999
Milk poster

Milk

Movie · as Virginia

1999
It’s Lulu poster

It’s Lulu

Movie · as Self

1999
Let Them Eat Cake poster

Let Them Eat Cake

TV · 6 eps

1999
David Copperfield poster

David Copperfield

TV · as Mrs. Crupp · 2 eps

1998
Four Men in a Car poster

Four Men in a Car

Movie · as Stella

1998
Parkinson poster

Parkinson

TV · as Self · 3 eps

1997
Treasure Island

Treasure Island

Movie · as Jim Hawkins

1997
Sex & Chocolate poster

Sex & Chocolate

Movie · as Bev Bodger

1996
The Adventures of Pinocchio poster

The Adventures of Pinocchio

Movie · as Baker's Wife

1996
TFI Friday poster

TFI Friday

TV · as Self · 1 ep

1995
Look at the State We're In!

Look at the State We're In!

TV · as Mrs Duvet · 1 ep

1994
Dusty poster

Dusty

Movie · as Self - Presenter

1994
French and Saunders' Christmas Carol poster

French and Saunders' Christmas Carol

Movie · as Various Roles

1994
The Vicar of Dibley poster

The Vicar of Dibley

TV · as Revd Geraldine Granger · 14 eps

1994
Harry Enfield and Chums poster

Harry Enfield and Chums

TV · as Mrs Goggins · 1 ep

1993
The Legends of Treasure Island poster

The Legends of Treasure Island

Movie · as Jim Hawkins (voice)

1993
Tender Loving Care poster

Tender Loving Care

Movie · as Elaine Dobbs

1993
Space Virgins from Planet Sex poster

Space Virgins from Planet Sex

Movie · as Gaynor

1993
French & Saunders: At the Movies poster

French & Saunders: At the Movies

Movie

1993
The Legends of Treasure Island poster

The Legends of Treasure Island

TV · as Jim Hawkins (voice) · 26 eps

1992
Red Nose of Courage poster

Red Nose of Courage

Movie · as Glynis Kinnock

1992
In Dreams

In Dreams

Movie · as Driving Instructor

1992
Absolutely Fabulous poster

Absolutely Fabulous

TV · as Kathy · 1 ep

1991
Amnesty International's Big 30 poster

Amnesty International's Big 30

Movie · as Self

1991
Murder Most Horrid poster

Murder Most Horrid

TV · as WPC Diane Softly, Maria, Judy Talent, Rita Proops / Rita Proops II, Bunty Breslaw, Miss Katie Hatcliffe / Mrs Sonya Redfern, Tina Mellish, Denise Cunningham, Maude Jenkins, Lily, Verity Hodge, Vicki, Sally Fairfax, Dr Kate Marshall, Daisy Talwinning, Linda Bryce, Wendy Hodge, The Grim Reaper, Lily Wood-Newton, Tracey Phillips, WPC Barbara Greaves / Whoopi Stone, Harriet Snellgrove, Jill Tanner, Tiffany Drapes · 1 ep

1990
French & Saunders LIVE poster

French & Saunders LIVE

Movie

1990
South Atlantic Raiders: Part 1 poster

South Atlantic Raiders: Part 1

Movie · as Frances / Mrs. Shines

1990
South Atlantic Raiders:  Part 2 Argie Bargie! poster

South Atlantic Raiders: Part 2 Argie Bargie!

Movie · as Frances

1990
Oxford poster

Oxford

Movie · as Caroline

1990
Spaghetti Hoops poster

Spaghetti Hoops

Movie · as Francesca

1990
GLC: The Carnage Continues poster

GLC: The Carnage Continues

Movie · as Cher as Joan Ruddock

1990
The Tale of Little Pig Robinson poster

The Tale of Little Pig Robinson

Movie · as Porcas

1989
The Secret Policeman’s Biggest Ball poster

The Secret Policeman’s Biggest Ball

Movie · as Self

1989
Bosses From Hell poster

Bosses From Hell

Movie

1989
Communicators From Hell poster

Communicators From Hell

Movie

1989
Employees From Hell poster

Employees From Hell

Movie

1989
Customer Service From Hell poster

Customer Service From Hell

Movie

1989
Colleagues From Hell poster

Colleagues From Hell

Movie

1989
Interviewers From Hell poster

Interviewers From Hell

Movie

1989
Screen One poster

Screen One

TV · as Elaine Dobbs · 1 ep

1988
Mr Jolly Lives Next Door poster

Mr Jolly Lives Next Door

Movie · as Mrs. Cooper

1988
An Audience With Victoria Wood poster

An Audience With Victoria Wood

Movie · as Self

1988
The Strike poster

The Strike

Movie · as Verity/Old Lady/Celebrity

1988
More Bad News poster

More Bad News

Movie · as Rachel

1988
The Storyteller: Sapsorrow poster

The Storyteller: Sapsorrow

Movie · as Badsister 2

1988
French And Saunders - Christmas Special '88 poster

French And Saunders - Christmas Special '88

Movie · as Various Characters

1988
The Storyteller poster

The Storyteller

TV · as Badsister 2 · 1 ep

1988
Comic Relief poster

Comic Relief

TV · 4 eps

1987
Eat the Rich poster

Eat the Rich

Movie · as Debbie Draws

1987
The Silurian Disruption

The Silurian Disruption

Movie · as Silurian #1

1987
French & Saunders poster

French & Saunders

TV · as Various Characters · 39 eps

1987
Going Live! poster

Going Live!

TV · as Self · 1 ep

1986
Consuela (or, The New Mrs Saunders) poster

Consuela (or, The New Mrs Saunders)

Movie · as Consuela

1986
Private Enterprise poster

Private Enterprise

Movie · as Nayler

1986
Comedians Do It On Stage poster

Comedians Do It On Stage

Movie · as Self

1986
The Comic Relief Utterly Utterly Rude Video Live poster

The Comic Relief Utterly Utterly Rude Video Live

Movie · as Self

1985
The Supergrass poster

The Supergrass

Movie · as Andrea

1985
Girls On Top poster

Girls On Top

TV · as Amanda · 13 eps

1985
Happy Families poster

Happy Families

TV · as Cook · 6 eps

1984
Eddie Monsoon - a Life? poster

Eddie Monsoon - a Life?

Movie · as Veronica

1984
Dirty Movie poster

Dirty Movie

Movie · as Monica

1984
Susie poster

Susie

Movie · as Susie

1984
Gino: Full Story and Pics poster

Gino: Full Story and Pics

Movie · as Fiona/Frances

1984
Slags poster

Slags

Movie · as Passion

1984
A Fistful of Travellers' Cheques poster

A Fistful of Travellers' Cheques

Movie · as Jackie

1983
Summer School poster

Summer School

Movie · as Ursula

1983
War poster

War

Movie · as Hermine

1983
The Beat Generation poster

The Beat Generation

Movie · as Eleanor

1983
Five Go Mad on Mescalin poster

Five Go Mad on Mescalin

Movie · as George

1983
Bad News poster

Bad News

Movie · as Tracy

1982
Five Go Mad in Dorset poster

Five Go Mad in Dorset

Movie · as George

1982
The Young Ones poster

The Young Ones

TV · as Christian Evangelist, Devil in Advert, Easter Bunny · 1 ep

1982
Wogan poster

Wogan

TV · as Self · 2 eps

1982
The Comic Strip Presents... poster

The Comic Strip Presents...

TV · as George, Hermine, Eleanor, Tracy, Ursula, Monica, Susie, Jackie/First Nun, Fiona/Frances, Veronica, Passion, Consuela, Nayler, Verity/Old Lady/Celebrity, Rachel, Mrs. Cooper, Frances/Mrs. Shines, Joan, Caroline, Francesca · 2 eps

1981
The Comic Strip poster

The Comic Strip

Movie

1978
An Audience with... poster

An Audience with...

TV · as Self · 1 ep

1978
The South Bank Show poster

The South Bank Show

TV · 1 ep

1976
The Secret Policeman's Ball poster

The Secret Policeman's Ball

TV · as Self · 15 eps

1949
The BAFTA Awards poster

The BAFTA Awards

TV · as Self · 1 ep