Dawn French
Born October 11, 1957 · Holyhead, Anglesey, Wales, UK
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.
Notable Appearances
Movies
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
Death on the Nile
The Magician's Elephant
Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie
The Adventures of Pinocchio
Dusty
Love and Other Disasters
The Big Night In
An Audience with Adele
Amnesty International's Big 30
Summer School
Eat the Rich
French & Saunders: Still Alive
30 Years of Comic Strip
Gino: Full Story and Pics
The Comic Strip
Maybe Baby
GLC: The Carnage Continues
Bad News
Space Virgins from Planet Sex
An Audience With Victoria Wood
Communicators From Hell
Becoming Victoria Wood
The Best of French & Saunders
Happy Families
Five Go Mad on Mescalin
The Legends of Treasure Island
Comedians Do It On Stage
Comic Relief: Red Nose Day
Roald & Beatrix: The Tail of the Curious Mouse
The Vicar of Dibley: Inside Out
Spaghetti Hoops
A Fistful of Travellers' Cheques
When Comedy Changed Forever
Remember the Secret Policeman's Ball?
The Storyteller: Sapsorrow
Mr Jolly Lives Next Door
Coraline: The Making of 'Coraline'
Tender Loving Care
French & Saunders: Funny Women
Private Enterprise
Kirsty MacColl at the BBC
French And Saunders - Christmas Special '88
300 Years of French & Saunders
French & Saunders: The Ingenue Years
Interviewers From Hell
British Sitcom: 60 Years of Laughing at Ourselves
Employees From Hell
TV Shows
Wogan
The Paul O'Grady Show
Psychoville
Parkinson
V Graham Norton
Absolutely Fabulous
TFI Friday
Going Live!
The Comic Strip Presents...
An Audience with...
The BAFTA Awards
The Young Ones
RuPaul's Drag Race UK
The Storyteller
Lark Rise to Candleford
Murder Most Horrid
Screen One
French & Saunders
Travel Man: 48 Hours in...
Jam and Jerusalem
The Vicar of Dibley
The F Word
Harry Enfield and Chums
David Copperfield
Wild West
Delicious
The Legends of Treasure Island
The Secret Policeman's Ball
The Wrong Mans
Girls On Top
TFI Friday
Can You Keep a Secret?
Heading Out
BeddyByes
Happiness
More Dawn French's Boys Who Do: Comedy
Let Them Eat Cake
Happy Families
More Dawn French's Girls Who Do: Comedy
Shaun Tan's Tales from Outer Suburbia
The Nearly Complete and Utter History of Everything
The Trouble with Maggie Cole
Roger & Val Have Just Got In
Superstar
A Bucket O' French and Saunders
The Secret World Of...
Dawn French's Girls Who Do Comedy
Little Big Shots
The Nevermets
More Movies
Joan Rivers at the BBC
South Atlantic Raiders: Part 1
The Supergrass
It’s Lulu
Colleagues From Hell
Matthew Bourne's Christmas
The Tale of Little Pig Robinson
Customer Service From Hell
Donizetti: La Fille du Régiment
Bosses From Hell
Slags
Dawn French Is a Huge Twat
The Beat Generation
French and Saunders' Christmas Carol
Red Nose of Courage
The Vicar of Dibley: In Lockdown
French & Saunders: At the Movies
Four Men in a Car
Eddie Monsoon - a Life?
French & Saunders - Live
The Comic Strip - A Retrospective
The Secret Policeman’s Biggest Ball
French & Saunders LIVE
Five Go Mad in Dorset
Consuela (or, The New Mrs Saunders)
Red Riding Hood: After Ever After
imagine... French & Saunders: Pointed, Bitchy, Bitter
Psychoville Halloween Special
Victoria Wood: Seen on TV
Completely Bad News
Milk
Sex & Chocolate
Catherine Tate: Laughing at the Noughties
Comedy Classics: The Vicar of Dibley
The Strike
Kirsty: The Life and Songs of Kirsty MacColl
South Atlantic Raiders: Part 2 Argie Bargie!
Darcey Bussell: My Life on the BBC
Five Go to Rehab
Gentlemen Prefer French & Saunders
Dirty Movie
Susie
The Comic Relief Utterly Utterly Rude Video Live
Oxford
War
Dawn French Live: 30 Million Minutes
A Baby Reindeer's First Christmas
