Dawn French
Acting
- Born:
- 1957-10-11
- Place of birth:
- Holyhead, Anglesey, Wales, UK
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
Filmography
TFI Unplugged
Becoming Victoria Wood
Can You Keep a Secret?
Shaun Tan's Tales from Outer Suburbia
BeddyByes
Kirsty MacColl at the BBC
Joan Rivers at the BBC
The Nevermets
Dawn French Is a Huge Twat
imagine... French & Saunders: Pointed, Bitchy, Bitter
The Magician's Elephant
Comedy Classics: The Vicar of Dibley
Red Riding Hood: After Ever After
Death on the Nile
Walk the Line
An Audience with Adele
The Secret World Of...
French & Saunders: Funny Women
The Vicar of Dibley: Inside Out
Roald & Beatrix: The Tail of the Curious Mouse
A Baby Reindeer's First Christmas
The Vicar of Dibley: In Lockdown
The Big Night In
The Trouble with Maggie Cole
Completely Bad News
RuPaul's Drag Race UK
300 Years of French & Saunders
Comic Relief: Red Nose Day
Little Big Shots
Dawn French Live: 30 Million Minutes
Delicious
Darcey Bussell: My Life on the BBC
British Sitcom: 60 Years of Laughing at Ourselves
Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie
TFI Friday
Travel Man: 48 Hours in...
The Wrong Mans
Heading Out
Five Go to Rehab
30 Years of Comic Strip
Superstar
Matthew Bourne's Christmas
Michael Bublé: Home for Christmas
Catherine Tate: Laughing at the Noughties
50 Greatest Harry Potter Moments
French & Saunders: The Ingenue Years
Gentlemen Prefer French & Saunders
Little Crackers
Psychoville Halloween Special
Roger & Val Have Just Got In
Victoria Wood: Seen on TV
Coraline: The Making of 'Coraline'
Psychoville
Coraline
French & Saunders: Still Alive
Lark Rise to Candleford
Dawn French's Boys Who Do Comedy
More Dawn French's Boys Who Do: Comedy
A Bucket O' French and Saunders
Donizetti: La Fille du Régiment
The Graham Norton Show
Comedy Shuffle
More Dawn French's Girls Who Do: Comedy
Jam and Jerusalem
Love and Other Disasters
The One Show
When Comedy Changed Forever
Davina
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
The F Word
The Comic Strip - A Retrospective
The Funny Blokes of British Comedy
Comic Aid
Agatha Christie's Marple
Remember the Secret Policeman's Ball?
The Paul O'Grady Show
Parkinson
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
Bosom Pals
More Great Comedy Moments
Wild West
Dawn French's Girls Who Do Comedy
The Best of French & Saunders
Pongwiffy
V Graham Norton
Ted and Alice
We Know Where You Live. Live!
Happiness
Kirsty: The Life and Songs of Kirsty MacColl
French & Saunders - Live
Maybe Baby
The Nearly Complete and Utter History of Everything
David Copperfield
It’s Lulu
Let Them Eat Cake
Milk
Four Men in a Car
Parkinson
Sex & Chocolate
Treasure Island
The Adventures of Pinocchio
TFI Friday
Look at the State We're In!
French and Saunders' Christmas Carol
The Vicar of Dibley
Harry Enfield and Chums
Dusty
Tender Loving Care
The Legends of Treasure Island
The Legends of Treasure Island
Space Virgins from Planet Sex
French & Saunders: At the Movies
In Dreams
Absolutely Fabulous
Red Nose of Courage
Amnesty International's Big 30
Murder Most Horrid
The Tale of Little Pig Robinson
French & Saunders LIVE
Spaghetti Hoops
Oxford
South Atlantic Raiders: Part 1
South Atlantic Raiders: Part 2 Argie Bargie!
GLC: The Carnage Continues
Screen One
The Secret Policeman’s Biggest Ball
Bosses From Hell
Communicators From Hell
Employees From Hell
Customer Service From Hell
Colleagues From Hell
Interviewers From Hell
French And Saunders - Christmas Special '88
An Audience With Victoria Wood
The Storyteller: Sapsorrow
The Storyteller
Mr Jolly Lives Next Door
More Bad News
The Strike
Comic Relief
Eat the Rich
Going Live!
French & Saunders
The Silurian Disruption
The Comic Relief Utterly Utterly Rude Video Live
Comedians Do It On Stage
Private Enterprise
Consuela (or, The New Mrs Saunders)
The Supergrass
Girls On Top
Happy Families
Slags
Eddie Monsoon - a Life?
Gino: Full Story and Pics
A Fistful of Travellers' Cheques
Susie
Dirty Movie
Five Go Mad on Mescalin
Summer School
Bad News
The Beat Generation
War
The Young Ones
Five Go Mad in Dorset
The Comic Strip Presents...
Wogan
The Comic Strip
The South Bank Show
An Audience with...
The Secret Policeman's Ball
The BAFTA Awards
Experiment IV