Dawn French
October 11, 1957 (67 years old) in 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.
Known For
Credits
- 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 as Self - Judge
- 2021 · An Audience with Adele as Self
- 2021 · The Secret World Of... as Self - Narrator
- 2021 · The Vicar of Dibley: Inside Out as Self
- 2020 · Roald & Beatrix: The Tail of the Curious Mouse as Beatrix Potter
- 2020 · The Trouble with Maggie Cole as Maggie Cole
- 2019 · RuPaul's Drag Race UK as Self - Judge
- 2017 · Little Big Shots as Host
- 2016 · Delicious 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 · Travel Man: 48 Hours in... as Self - Guest
- 2013 · The Wrong Mans as Linda
- 2013 · Heading Out as Frances
- 2012 · Five Go to Rehab as George
- 2012 · 30 Years of Comic Strip as
- 2012 · Superstar as Self - Chief Judge
- 2011 · Catherine Tate: Laughing at the Noughties as Self
- 2010 · Roger & Val Have Just Got In as Val Stevenson
- 2009 · Coraline: The Making of 'Coraline' as Self
- 2009 · Psychoville as Joy Aston
- 2009 · Coraline as Miriam Forcible (voice)
- 2008 · French and Saunders: Still Alive as Self
- 2008 · Lark Rise to Candleford as Caroline Arless
- 2007 · More Dawn French's Boys Who Do: Comedy as Presenter
- 2007 · A Bucket O' French and Saunders as
- 2007 · The Graham Norton Show as Self
- 2007 · Comedy Shuffle as
- 2006 · Jam & Jerusalem as Rosie Bales
- 2006 · Love and Other Disasters as Therapist
- 2006 · The One Show as Self - Guest
- 2006 · The One Show as Self
- 2006 · When Comedy Changed Forever as Self (archive material)
- 2006 · Davina as
- 2005 · The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe as Mrs. Beaver (voice)
- 2005 · The F Word as
- 2005 · The Comic Strip - A Retrospective as Self
- 2004 · Agatha Christie's Marple as Janet Erskine
- 2004 · Remember the Secret Policeman's Ball? as Self - Narrator
- 2004 · The Paul O'Grady Show as
- 2004 · Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban as The Fat Lady
- 2004 · Bosom Pals as
- 2003 · Little Britain as
- 2003 · Little Britain as Myfanwy
- 2002 · Wild West as Mary Trewednack
- 2002 · Dawn French's Girls Who Do Comedy as
- 2002 · The Best of French & Saunders as Various
- 2002 · Pongwiffy as
- 2002 · V Graham Norton as Self
- 2001 · Happiness as Dawn French
- 2001 · Kirsty: The Life and Songs of Kirsty MacColl as Self
- 2000 · Maybe Baby as Charlene
- 2000 · The Nearly Complete and Utter History of Everything as
- 1999 · David Copperfield as Mrs. Cupp
- 1999 · Watership Down as
- 1999 · Let Them Eat Cake as
- 1998 · Parkinson as Self
- 1997 · Treasure Island as Jim Hawkins
- 1996 · The Adventures of Pinocchio as Baker's Wife
- 1996 · TFI Friday as Self
- 1995 · Look at the State We're In! as Clerk
- 1994 · The Vicar of Dibley as Revd Geraldine Granger
- 1993 · The Legends of Treasure Island 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 as
- 1992 · In Dreams as Driving Instructor
- 1992 · Absolutely Fabulous as Kathy
- 1992 · Red Nose of Courage as Glynis Kinnock
- 1991 · Murder Most Horrid as Various characters
- 1990 · The Tale of Little Pig Robinson as Porcas
- 1990 · South Atlantic Raiders: Part 1 as Frances / Mrs. Shines
- 1990 · South Atlantic Raiders: Part 2 Argie Bargie! as Frances
- 1990 · GLC: The Carnage Continues as Cher as Joan Ruddock
- 1989 · The Secret Policeman’s Biggest Ball as Self
- 1989 · Communicators From Hell as
- 1988 · An Audience With Victoria Wood as Self
- 1988 · The Storyteller as Badsister 2
- 1988 · Mr Jolly Lives Next Door as Mrs. Cooper
- 1988 · Comic Relief as
- 1987 · Eat the Rich as Debbie Draws
- 1987 · Going Live! as Self
- 1987 · French & Saunders as Various Characters
- 1986 · The Comic Relief Utterly Utterly Rude Video Live as
- 1985 · The Supergrass as Andrea
- 1985 · Girls On Top as Amanda
- 1985 · Happy Families as
- 1984 · Eddie Monsoon - a Life? as Veronica
- 1984 · Gino: Full Story and Pics as Fiona/Frances
- 1984 · A Fistful of Travellers' Cheques as Jackie
- 1983 · Five Go Mad on Mescalin as George
- 1983 · Summer School as Ursula
- 1983 · Bad News as Tracy
- 1983 · The Beat Generation as Eleanor
- 1982 · The Young Ones as Christian Evangelist
- 1982 · The Young Ones as Devil in Advert
- 1982 · The Young Ones as Easter Bunny
- 1982 · The Comic Strip Presents... as Andrea
- 1982 · The Comic Strip Presents... as George
- 1982 · The Comic Strip Presents... as Passion
- 1982 · The Comic Strip Presents... as Tracy
- 1982 · The Comic Strip Presents... as Susie
- 1982 · The Comic Strip Presents... as Veronica
- 1982 · The Comic Strip Presents... as Ursula
- 1982 · The Comic Strip Presents... as Hermine
- 1982 · The Comic Strip Presents... as Jackie/First Nun
- 1982 · The Comic Strip Presents... as Consuela
- 1982 · The Comic Strip Presents... as Eleanor
- 1982 · The Comic Strip Presents... as Monica
- 1982 · The Comic Strip Presents... as Nayler
- 1982 · The Comic Strip Presents... as Fiona/Frances
- 1982 · The Comic Strip Presents... as Verity/Old Lady/Celebrity
- 1982 · The Comic Strip Presents... as Rachel
- 1982 · The Comic Strip Presents... as Mrs. Cooper
- 1982 · The Comic Strip Presents... as Frances/Mrs. Shines
- 1982 · The Comic Strip Presents... as Frances
- 1982 · The Comic Strip Presents... as Joan
- 1982 · The Comic Strip Presents... as Francesca
- 1982 · The Comic Strip Presents... as Caroline
- 1982 · The Comic Strip Presents... as Gaynor
- 1982 · The Comic Strip Presents... as Glynis Kinnock
- 1982 · The Comic Strip Presents... as Stella
- 1982 · The Comic Strip Presents... as Dawn
- 1982 · The Comic Strip Presents... as
- 1982 · Five Go Mad in Dorset as George
- 1982 · Wogan as Self
- 1978 · An Audience with... as Self
- 1976 · The Secret Policeman's Ball as Self
- 1949 · The BAFTA Awards as Self
- Future · Can You Keep a Secret? as Debbie Fenton
- 2024 · Kirsty MacColl at the BBC as Self (archive footage)
- 2024 · Joan Rivers at the BBC as Self (archive footage)
- 2024 · The Nevermets as Narrator
- 2023 · Dawn French Is a Huge Twat as Self
- 2021 · French & Saunders: Funny Women as Self
- 2020 · A Baby Reindeer's First Christmas as Narrator
- 2020 · The Vicar of Dibley: In Lockdown as Geraldine Granger
- 2019 · Completely Bad News as Tracy
- 2017 · 300 Years of French & Saunders as
- 2017 · Comic Relief: Red Nose Day as Self
- 2017 · Confessions of the Paparazzi as Self
- 2016 · Dawn French Live: 30 Million Minutes as Self
- 2011 · Matthew Bourne's Christmas as Self - Host
- 2011 · Michael Bublé: Home for Christmas as Self
- 2011 · Gentlemen Prefer French & Saunders as
- 2011 · French & Saunders: The Ingenue Years as
- 2010 · Psychoville Halloween Special as Joy Aston
- 2007 · Dawn French's Boys Who Do Comedy as Presenter
- 2007 · Donizetti: La Fille du Régiment as La Duchesse de Crackentorp
- 2005 · Comic Aid as
- 2002 · Ted and Alice as
- 2000 · French & Saunders - Live as Various roles
- 1999 · Milk as Virginia
- 1998 · Four Men in a Car as Stella
- 1997 · Sex & Chocolate as Bev Bodger
- 1994 · Dusty as Self - Presenter
- 1993 · Tender Loving Care as Elaine Dobbs
- 1991 · Amnesty International's Big 30 as Self
- 1990 · French & Saunders LIVE as
- 1990 · Spaghetti Hoops as Francesca
- 1990 · Oxford as Caroline
- 1989 · Bosses From Hell as
- 1989 · Employees From Hell as
- 1988 · More Bad News as Rachel
- 1988 · The Strike as Verity/Old Lady/Celebrity
- 1986 · Experiment IV as Lab Assistant 1
- 1986 · Comedians Do It On Stage as Self
- 1986 · Private Enterprise as Nayler
- 1986 · Consuela (or, The New Mrs Saunders) as Consuela
- 1984 · Slags as Passion
- 1984 · Susie as Susie
- 1984 · Dirty Movie as Monica
- 1983 · War as Hermine
- 1981 · The Comic Strip as