
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

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

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

Coraline

Death on the Nile

Love and Other Disasters

Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie

The Adventures of Pinocchio

The Storyteller

The Magician's Elephant

Absolutely Fabulous

The Young Ones

Agatha Christie's Marple
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Filmography
Experiment IV
Movie · as First Assistant

Becoming Victoria Wood
Movie · as Self

Can You Keep a Secret?
TV · as Debbie Fendon · 6 eps

Shaun Tan's Tales from Outer Suburbia
TV · 10 eps

TFI Unplugged
TV · 1 ep

BeddyByes
TV · as Gramma Leeba · 20 eps

Joan Rivers at the BBC
Movie · as Self (archive footage)

Kirsty MacColl at the BBC
Movie · as Self (archive footage)

The Nevermets
TV · as Narrator · 6 eps

The Magician's Elephant
Movie · as Sister Marie (voice)

Dawn French Is a Huge Twat
Movie · as Self

imagine... French & Saunders: Pointed, Bitchy, Bitter
Movie · as Self - Featured Artist

Red Riding Hood: After Ever After
Movie · as Twit

Comedy Classics: The Vicar of Dibley
Movie · as Self (archive material)

Death on the Nile
Movie · as Bowers

An Audience with Adele
Movie · as Self

The Vicar of Dibley: Inside Out
Movie · as Self

French & Saunders: Funny Women
Movie · as Self

Walk the Line
TV · as Self - Judge · 6 eps

The Secret World Of...
TV · as Self - Narrator · 3 eps

Roald & Beatrix: The Tail of the Curious Mouse
Movie · as Beatrix Potter

The Vicar of Dibley: In Lockdown
Movie · as Geraldine Granger

A Baby Reindeer's First Christmas
Movie · as Narrator

The Big Night In
Movie · as Self

The Trouble with Maggie Cole
TV · as Maggie Cole · 6 eps

Completely Bad News
Movie · as Tracy

RuPaul's Drag Race UK
TV · as Self - Guest Judge · 1 ep

Comic Relief: Red Nose Day
Movie · as Self

300 Years of French & Saunders
Movie

Little Big Shots
TV · as Self - Host · 12 eps

Darcey Bussell: My Life on the BBC
Movie · as Self

Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie
Movie · as Interviewer

Dawn French Live: 30 Million Minutes
Movie · as Self

British Sitcom: 60 Years of Laughing at Ourselves
Movie · as Various Characters (archive footage) (uncredited)

Delicious
TV · as Gina Benelli · 12 eps

Travel Man: 48 Hours in...
TV · as Self - Guest · 1 ep

TFI Friday
TV · as Self · 1 ep

Heading Out
TV · as Frances · 1 ep

The Wrong Mans
TV · as Linda · 3 eps

Five Go to Rehab
Movie · as George

30 Years of Comic Strip
Movie

Superstar
TV · as Self - Chief Judge · 12 eps

Catherine Tate: Laughing at the Noughties
Movie · as Self

Matthew Bourne's Christmas
Movie · as Self - Host
Michael Bublé: Home for Christmas
Movie · as Self

French & Saunders: The Ingenue Years
Movie

Gentlemen Prefer French & Saunders
Movie

50 Greatest Harry Potter Moments
Movie · as Self - The Fat Lady

Psychoville Halloween Special
Movie · as Joy Aston

Roger & Val Have Just Got In
TV · as Val Stevenson · 12 eps

Little Crackers
TV · as HM The Queen Mother · 1 ep

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

Coraline: The Making of 'Coraline'
Movie · as Self

Victoria Wood: Seen on TV
Movie · as Self

Psychoville
TV · as Joy Aston · 3 eps

French & Saunders: Still Alive
Movie · as Self

Lark Rise to Candleford
TV · as Caroline Arless · 40 eps

Donizetti: La Fille du Régiment
Movie · as La Duchesse de Crackentorp

A Bucket O' French and Saunders
TV · 5 eps
Comedy Shuffle
TV · 1 ep

The Graham Norton Show
TV · as Self · 15 eps

More Dawn French's Boys Who Do: Comedy
TV · as Presenter · 6 eps

Dawn French's Boys Who Do Comedy
TV · as Self - Presenter · 3 eps

Love and Other Disasters
Movie · as Therapist

When Comedy Changed Forever
Movie · as Self (archive material)

The One Show
TV · as Self - Guest · 1 ep
Davina
TV · 1 ep

Jam and Jerusalem
TV · as Rosie Bales · 19 eps

More Dawn French's Girls Who Do: Comedy
TV · as Self - Presenter · 6 eps

The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
Movie · as Mrs. Beaver (voice)

The Comic Strip - A Retrospective
Movie · as Self
Comic Aid
Movie
The Funny Blokes of British Comedy
Movie · as Self

The F Word
TV · 1 ep

Remember the Secret Policeman's Ball?
Movie · as Self - Narrator

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
Movie · as The Fat Lady

The Paul O'Grady Show
TV · 1 ep
Bosom Pals
TV · 2 eps

Agatha Christie's Marple
TV · as Janet Erskine · 1 ep

Parkinson
TV · as Self - Guest · 2 eps

More Great Comedy Moments
Movie · as Dr. French (archive footage)

The Best of French & Saunders
Movie · as Various

Wild West
TV · as Mary Trewednack · 12 eps

V Graham Norton
TV · as Self · 1 ep

Pongwiffy
TV · 14 eps
Ted and Alice
TV · 3 eps

Dawn French's Girls Who Do Comedy
TV · as Self - Presenter · 3 eps

Kirsty: The Life and Songs of Kirsty MacColl
Movie · as Self

We Know Where You Live. Live!
Movie · as Self

Happiness
TV · as Dawn French · 1 ep

French & Saunders - Live
Movie · as Various roles

Maybe Baby
Movie · as Charlene

The Nearly Complete and Utter History of Everything
TV · 2 eps

Milk
Movie · as Virginia

It’s Lulu
Movie · as Self

Let Them Eat Cake
TV · 6 eps

David Copperfield
TV · as Mrs. Crupp · 2 eps

Four Men in a Car
Movie · as Stella

Parkinson
TV · as Self · 3 eps
Treasure Island
Movie · as Jim Hawkins

Sex & Chocolate
Movie · as Bev Bodger

The Adventures of Pinocchio
Movie · as Baker's Wife

TFI Friday
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Look at the State We're In!
TV · as Mrs Duvet · 1 ep

Dusty
Movie · as Self - Presenter

French and Saunders' Christmas Carol
Movie · as Various Roles

The Vicar of Dibley
TV · as Revd Geraldine Granger · 14 eps

Harry Enfield and Chums
TV · as Mrs Goggins · 1 ep

The Legends of Treasure Island
Movie · as Jim Hawkins (voice)

Tender Loving Care
Movie · as Elaine Dobbs

Space Virgins from Planet Sex
Movie · as Gaynor

French & Saunders: At the Movies
Movie

The Legends of Treasure Island
TV · as Jim Hawkins (voice) · 26 eps

Red Nose of Courage
Movie · as Glynis Kinnock
In Dreams
Movie · as Driving Instructor

Absolutely Fabulous
TV · as Kathy · 1 ep

Amnesty International's Big 30
Movie · as Self

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

French & Saunders LIVE
Movie

South Atlantic Raiders: Part 1
Movie · as Frances / Mrs. Shines

South Atlantic Raiders: Part 2 Argie Bargie!
Movie · as Frances

Oxford
Movie · as Caroline

Spaghetti Hoops
Movie · as Francesca

GLC: The Carnage Continues
Movie · as Cher as Joan Ruddock

The Tale of Little Pig Robinson
Movie · as Porcas

The Secret Policeman’s Biggest Ball
Movie · as Self

Bosses From Hell
Movie

Communicators From Hell
Movie

Employees From Hell
Movie

Customer Service From Hell
Movie

Colleagues From Hell
Movie

Interviewers From Hell
Movie

Screen One
TV · as Elaine Dobbs · 1 ep

Mr Jolly Lives Next Door
Movie · as Mrs. Cooper

An Audience With Victoria Wood
Movie · as Self

The Strike
Movie · as Verity/Old Lady/Celebrity

More Bad News
Movie · as Rachel

The Storyteller: Sapsorrow
Movie · as Badsister 2

French And Saunders - Christmas Special '88
Movie · as Various Characters

The Storyteller
TV · as Badsister 2 · 1 ep

Comic Relief
TV · 4 eps

Eat the Rich
Movie · as Debbie Draws
The Silurian Disruption
Movie · as Silurian #1

French & Saunders
TV · as Various Characters · 39 eps

Going Live!
TV · as Self · 1 ep

Consuela (or, The New Mrs Saunders)
Movie · as Consuela

Private Enterprise
Movie · as Nayler

Comedians Do It On Stage
Movie · as Self

The Comic Relief Utterly Utterly Rude Video Live
Movie · as Self

The Supergrass
Movie · as Andrea

Girls On Top
TV · as Amanda · 13 eps

Happy Families
TV · as Cook · 6 eps

Eddie Monsoon - a Life?
Movie · as Veronica

Dirty Movie
Movie · as Monica

Susie
Movie · as Susie

Gino: Full Story and Pics
Movie · as Fiona/Frances

Slags
Movie · as Passion

A Fistful of Travellers' Cheques
Movie · as Jackie

Summer School
Movie · as Ursula

War
Movie · as Hermine

The Beat Generation
Movie · as Eleanor

Five Go Mad on Mescalin
Movie · as George

Bad News
Movie · as Tracy

Five Go Mad in Dorset
Movie · as George

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

Wogan
TV · as Self · 2 eps

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

The Comic Strip
Movie

An Audience with...
TV · as Self · 1 ep

The South Bank Show
TV · 1 ep

The Secret Policeman's Ball
TV · as Self · 15 eps

The BAFTA Awards
TV · as Self · 1 ep



