Dawn French

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Known For Acting

Known Credits 140

Gender Female

Birthday October 11, 1957 (66 years old)

Place of Birth Holyhead, Anglesey, Wales, UK

Also Known As

돈 프렌치
Dawn Roma French

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Dawn French

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

Acting

2024

as Self (Archive Footage)

2023		Dawn French Is a Huge Tw*t as Self
2023		imagine... French & Saunders: Pointed, Bitchy, Bitter as Self - featured artist
2023		The Magician's Elephant as Sister Marie (voice)

2022		Comedy Classics: The Vicar of Dibley as Self (archive material)
2022		Red Riding Hood: After Ever After as Twit
2022		Death on the Nile as Bowers

2021		Walk the Line (6 episodes) as Self - Judge
2021		An Audience with Adele as Self
2021		The Secret World Of... (3 episodes) as Self - Narrator
2021		French & Saunders: Funny Women as Herself
2021		The Vicar of Dibley: Inside Out as Self

2020		A Baby Reindeer's First Christmas as Narrator
2020		Roald & Beatrix: The Tail of the Curious Mouse as Beatrix Potter
2020		The Vicar of Dibley: In Lockdown as Geraldine Granger
2020		The Trouble with Maggie Cole (6 episodes) as Maggie Cole

2019		Completely Bad News as Tracy
2019		RuPaul's Drag Race UK (1 episode) as Self - Judge

2017		300 Years of French & Saunders
2017		Comic Relief: Red Nose Day as Self
2017		Little Big Shots (12 episodes) as Host
2017		Confessions of the Paparazzi as Herself

2016		Dawn French Live: 30 Million Minutes as Herself
2016		Delicious (12 episodes) as Gina Benelli
2016		Darcey Bussell: My Life on the BBC as Self
2016		British Sitcom: 60 Years of Laughing at Ourselves as Various Characters (archive footage) (uncredited)
2016		Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie as Interviewer

2015

(1 episode) as Self - Guest

2013

(1 episode) as Frances

2012		Five Go to Rehab as George
2012		30 Years of Comic Strip
2012		Superstar (12 episodes) as Panel Judge

2011		Matthew Bourne's Christmas as Herself/Host
2011		Michael Bublé: Home for Christmas as Self
2011		Catherine Tate: Laughing at the Noughties as Self
2011		Gentlemen Prefer French & Saunders
2011		French & Saunders: The Ingenue Years

2010		Psychoville Halloween Special as Joy Aston
2010		Roger & Val Have Just Got In (12 episodes) as Val Stevenson

2009		Coraline: The Making of 'Coraline' as Self
2009		Psychoville (13 episodes) as Joy Aston
2009		Coraline as Miriam Forcible (voice)

2008		French and Saunders: Still Alive as Herself
2008		Lark Rise to Candleford (40 episodes) as Caroline Arless

2007		Dawn French's Boys Who Do Comedy (3 episodes) as Presenter
2007		More Dawn French's Boys Who Do: Comedy (6 episodes) as Presenter
2007		A Bucket O' French and Saunders (5 episodes)
2007		Donizetti: La Fille du Régiment as La Duchesse de Crackentorp
2007		The Graham Norton Show (14 episodes) as Self
2007		Comedy Shuffle (1 episode)

2006		Jam & Jerusalem (19 episodes) as Rosie Bales
2006		Love and Other Disasters as Therapist
2006		The One Show (1 episode) as Self (2 episodes) as Self - Guest
2006		When Comedy Changed Forever as Self (archive material)
2006		Davina (1 episode)

2005		The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe as Mrs. Beaver (voice)
2005		The F Word (1 episode)
2005		The Comic Strip - A Retrospective as Self
2005		Comic Aid

2004		Agatha Christie's Marple (1 episode) as Janet Erskine
2004		Remember the Secret Policeman's Ball? as Self - Narrator
2004		The Paul O'Grady Show (1 episode)
2004		Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban as The Fat Lady
2004		Bosom Pals (2 episodes)

2003

(1 episode) as Myfanwy (2 episodes)

2002		Wild West (12 episodes) as Mary Trewednack
2002		Dawn French's Girls Who Do Comedy (3 episodes)
2002		The Best of French & Saunders as Various
2002		Pongwiffy (14 episodes)
2002		V Graham Norton (1 episode) as Self
2002		Ted and Alice (3 episodes)

2001		Happiness (1 episode) as Herself
2001		Kirsty: The Life and Songs of Kirsty MacColl as Self

2000		French & Saunders - Live as Various roles
2000		Maybe Baby as Charlene
2000		The Nearly Complete and Utter History of Everything (2 episodes)

1999		David Copperfield (2 episodes) as Mrs. Cupp
1999		Watership Down (39 episodes)
1999		Let Them Eat Cake (6 episodes)
1999		Milk as Virginia

1998

as Stella

1997		Sex & Chocolate as Bev Bodger
1997		Treasure Island as Jim Hawkins

1996		The Adventures of Pinocchio as Baker's Wife
1996		TFI Friday (1 episode) as Self

1995

(6 episodes) as Clerk

1994		The Vicar of Dibley (14 episodes) as Revd Geraldine Granger
1994		Dusty as Self - Presenter

1993		Tender Loving Care as Elaine Dobbs
1993		The Legends of Treasure Island (26 episodes) as Jim Hawkins (voice)
1993		The Legends of Treasure Island as Jim Hawkins (voice)
1993		Space Virgins from Planet Sex as Gaynor
1993		French & Saunders: At the Movies

1992		Absolutely Fabulous (1 episode) as Kathy
1992		Red Nose of Courage as Glynis Kinnock

1991		Amnesty International's Big 30 as Self
1991		Murder Most Horrid (24 episodes) as Various characters

1990		The Tale of Little Pig Robinson as Porcas
1990		French & Saunders LIVE
1990		Spaghetti Hoops as Francesca
1990		Oxford as Caroline
1990		South Atlantic Raiders: Part 2 Argie Bargie! as Frances
1990		South Atlantic Raiders: Part 1 as Frances / Mrs. Shines
1990		GLC: The Carnage Continues as Cher as Joan Ruddock

1989

as Herself

1988		An Audience With Victoria Wood as Herself
1988		The Storyteller (1 episode) as Badsister 2
1988		Mr Jolly Lives Next Door as Mrs. Cooper
1988		More Bad News as Rachel
1988		The Strike as Verity/Old Lady/Celebrity
1988		Comic Relief (0 episodes)

1987		Eat the Rich as Debbie Draws
1987		Going Live! (1 episode) as Self
1987		French & Saunders (39 episodes) as Various Characters

1986		The Comic Relief Utterly Utterly Rude Video Live
1986		Private Enterprise as Nayler
1986		Consuela (or, The New Mrs Saunders) as Consuela

1985		The Supergrass as Andrea
1985		Girls On Top (13 episodes) as Amanda
1985		Happy Families (6 episodes)

1984		Slags as Passion
1984		Eddie Monsoon - a Life? as Veronica
1984		Gino: Full Story and Pics as Fiona/Frances
1984		A Fistful of Travellers' Cheques as Jackie
1984		Susie as Susie
1984		Dirty Movie as Monica

1983		Five Go Mad on Mescalin as George
1983		Summer School as Ursula
1983		Bad News Tour as Tracy
1983		The Beat Generation as Eleanor
1983		War as Hermine

1982		The Young Ones (1 episode) as Easter Bunny (1 episode) as Devil in Advert (1 episode) as Christian Evangelist
1982		The Comic Strip Presents... (46 episodes) (1 episode) as Dawn (1 episode) as Stella (1 episode) as Gaynor (1 episode) as Glynis Kinnock (1 episode) as Francesca (1 episode) as Caroline (1 episode) as Joan (1 episode) as Frances (1 episode) as Frances/Mrs. Shines (1 episode) as Mrs. Cooper (1 episode) as Rachel (1 episode) as Verity/Old Lady/Celebrity (1 episode) as Nayler (1 episode) as Consuela (1 episode) as Passion (1 episode) as Veronica (1 episode) as Fiona/Frances (1 episode) as Jackie/First Nun (1 episode) as Susie (1 episode) as Monica (1 episode) as Ursula (1 episode) as Tracy (1 episode) as Eleanor (1 episode) as Hermine (3 episodes) as George
1982		Five Go Mad in Dorset as George
1982		Wogan (3 episodes) as Self

1981

1978

(1 episode) as Self

1976

(15 episodes) as Self

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