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