Jennifer Saunders
Year Programme Role Notes
1982-1998 2011-2012 The Comic Strip Presents Various characters Main cast 30 episodes ( plus 6 specials )
1982-1984 The Young Ones Helen Mucus/Sue 2 episodes : Interesting and Time
1985 Happy Families Granny Fuddle
1985-1986 Girls on Top Jennifer Marsh 13 episodes
1987-2007 French and Saunders Various characters Main cast ( 48 episodes )
1992-1996 2001-2004 2011-2012 Absolutely Fabulous Edina Monsoon Also creator and writer 35 episodes ( plus 4 aired specials )
1996 Roseanne Edina Monsoon 1 episode : Satan , Darling
1998 Friends Andrea Waltham 2 episodes : The One with Ross 's Wedding : Part Two and The One After Ross Says Rachel
1999 Let Them Eat Cake Colombine 6 episodes
2000 Mirrorball Vivienne Keill TV pilot
2006-2009 Jam & Jerusalem Caroline Martin
2007 The Life and Times of Vivienne Vyle Vivienne Vyle 6 episodes
2011-2014 This is Jinsy Miss Reason
2012 Dead Boss Governor Margaret 6 episodes
2013-2014 Blandings Lady Constance Keeble 13 episodes
2014 The Boy in the Dress Miss Windsor TV Movie
2015-present Josh Judith 3 episodes
2017 The Simpsons Phoebe Voice , 1 episode : Looking for Mr. Goodbart
2017 Grandpa 's Great Escape Miss Dandy TV Movie
2017 Joanna & Jennifer : Absolutely Champers Herself/co-presenter One-off BBC Documentary , co-presented by Joanna Lumley
Filmography -- Television
Jennifer Jane Saunders (born 6 July 1958) is an English comedian, screenwriter, singer and actress. She has won three BAFTAs (including the BAFTA Fellowship), a British Comedy Award, a Rose d'Or Light Entertainment Festival Award, two Writers' Guild of Great Britain Awards, and a People's Choice Award. Saunders first found attention in the 1980s when she became a member of The Comic Strip after graduating from the Central School of Speech and Drama in London. With her comedy partner Dawn French, she wrote and starred in their eponymous sketch show, French and Saunders, for which she and French received a BAFTA fellowship in 2009. Saunders received acclaim through the early to mid-1990s for writing and playing the main character of Edina Monsoon in the BBC sitcom Absolutely Fabulous. She has guest-starred in the American sitcoms Roseanne and Friends and won the People's Choice Awards for voicing the evil Fairy Godmother in DreamWorks' animated Shrek 2. In 2015, Saunders voiced Queen Elizabeth II in the animated comedy film Minions, and in 2016 she voiced Nana Noodleman in the animated musical film Sing.