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Dawn French

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

Born: Holyhead, Anglesey, Wales, UK, 1957-10-11

Died: null

Film

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1981	The Comic Strip		0
2	1982	Five Go Mad in Dorset	George	0
3	1983	War	Hermine	100
4	1983	The Beat Generation	Eleanor	0
5	1983	Bad News	Tracy	87
6	1983	Summer School	Ursula	0
7	1983	Five Go Mad on Mescalin	George	0
8	1984	Dirty Movie	Monica	0
9	1984	Susie	Susie	0
10	1984	A Fistful of Travellers' Cheques	Jackie	70
11	1984	Gino: Full Story and Pics	Fiona/Frances	0
12	1984	Eddie Monsoon - a Life?	Veronica	0
13	1984	Slags	Passion	0
14	1985	The Supergrass	Andrea	62
15	1986	Consuela (or, The New Mrs Saunders)	Consuela	0
16	1986	Private Enterprise	Nayler	0
17	1986	Comedians Do It On Stage	Self	0
18	1986	The Comic Relief Utterly Utterly Rude Video Live	Self	60
19	1986	Experiment IV	Lab Assistant 1	40
20	1987	The Silurian Disruption	Silurian #1	0
21	1987	Eat the Rich	Debbie Draws	62
22	1988	The Strike	Verity/Old Lady/Celebrity	70
23	1988	More Bad News	Rachel	98
24	1988	Mr Jolly Lives Next Door	Mrs. Cooper	82
25	1988	An Audience With Victoria Wood	Self	52
26	1989	The Secret Policeman’s Biggest Ball	Self	75
27	1989	Bosses From Hell		0
28	1989	Communicators From Hell		0
29	1989	Employees From Hell		0
30	1990	GLC: The Carnage Continues	Cher as Joan Ruddock	0
31	1990	South Atlantic Raiders: Part 1	Frances / Mrs. Shines	0
32	1990	South Atlantic Raiders: Part 2 Argie Bargie!	Frances	0
33	1990	Oxford	Caroline	0
34	1990	Spaghetti Hoops	Francesca	0
35	1990	French & Saunders LIVE		0
36	1990	The Tale of Little Pig Robinson	Porcas	0
37	1991	Amnesty International's Big 30	Self	40
38	1992	Red Nose of Courage	Glynis Kinnock	0
39	1992	In Dreams	Driving Instructor	70
40	1993	French & Saunders: At the Movies		75
41	1993	Space Virgins from Planet Sex	Gaynor	0
42	1993	The Legends of Treasure Island	Jim Hawkins (voice)	80
43	1993	Tender Loving Care	Elaine Dobbs	0
44	1994	Dusty	Self - Presenter	80
45	1996	The Adventures of Pinocchio	Baker's Wife	52
46	1997	Treasure Island	Jim Hawkins	0
47	1997	Sex & Chocolate	Bev Bodger	70
48	1998	Four Men in a Car	Stella	0
49	1999	Milk	Virginia	20
50	2000	Maybe Baby	Charlene	54
51	2000	French & Saunders - Live	Various roles	85
52	2001	Kirsty: The Life and Songs of Kirsty MacColl	Self	0
53	2002	The Best of French & Saunders	Various	0
54	2004	Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban	The Fat Lady	80
55	2004	Remember the Secret Policeman's Ball?	Self - Narrator	48
56	2005	Comic Aid		50
57	2005	The Comic Strip - A Retrospective	Self	60
58	2005	The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe	Mrs. Beaver (voice)	71
59	2006	When Comedy Changed Forever	Self (archive material)	0
60	2006	Love and Other Disasters	Therapist	58
61	2007	Donizetti: La Fille du Régiment	La Duchesse de Crackentorp	80
62	2008	French and Saunders: Still Alive	Self	52
63	2009	Coraline	Miss Miriam Forcible / Other Forcible (voice)	79
64	2009	Coraline: The Making of 'Coraline'	Self	50
65	2010	Psychoville Halloween Special	Joy Aston	0
66	2011	French & Saunders: The Ingenue Years		0
67	2011	Gentlemen Prefer French & Saunders		0
68	2011	Catherine Tate: Laughing at the Noughties	Self	100
69	2011	Michael Bublé: Home for Christmas	Self	68
70	2011	Matthew Bourne's Christmas	Self - Host	100
71	2012	30 Years of Comic Strip		0
72	2012	Five Go to Rehab	George	0
73	2016	Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie	Interviewer	53
74	2016	British Sitcom: 60 Years of Laughing at Ourselves	Various Characters (archive footage) (uncredited)	57
75	2016	Darcey Bussell: My Life on the BBC	Self	0
76	2016	Dawn French Live: 30 Million Minutes	Self	74
77	2017	Confessions of the Paparazzi	Self	0
78	2017	Comic Relief: Red Nose Day	Self	90
79	2017	300 Years of French & Saunders		0
80	2019	Completely Bad News	Tracy	0
81	2020	The Vicar of Dibley: In Lockdown	Geraldine Granger	60
82	2020	Roald & Beatrix: The Tail of the Curious Mouse	Beatrix Potter	59
83	2020	A Baby Reindeer's First Christmas	Narrator	0
84	2021	The Vicar of Dibley: Inside Out	Self	0
85	2021	French & Saunders: Funny Women	Self	80
86	2021	An Audience with Adele	Self	83
87	2022	Death on the Nile	Bowers	64
88	2022	Red Riding Hood: After Ever After	Twit	40
89	2022	Comedy Classics: The Vicar of Dibley	Self (archive material)	0
90	2023	The Magician's Elephant	Sister Marie (voice)	69
91	2023	imagine... French & Saunders: Pointed, Bitchy, Bitter	Self - featured artist	70
92	2023	Dawn French Is a Huge Twat	Self	85
93	2024	Joan Rivers at the BBC	Self (archive footage)	0
94	2024	Kirsty MacColl at the BBC	Self (archive footage)	50

Television

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1949	The BAFTA Awards	Self	100
2	1976	The Secret Policeman's Ball	Self	50
3	1978	An Audience with...	Self	53
4	1982	Wogan	Self	45
5	1982	The Comic Strip Presents...	George	74
6	1982	The Comic Strip Presents...	Ursula	74
7	1982	The Comic Strip Presents...	Hermine	74
8	1982	The Comic Strip Presents...	Veronica	74
9	1982	The Comic Strip Presents...	Passion	74
10	1982	The Comic Strip Presents...	Eleanor	74
11	1982	The Comic Strip Presents...	Nayler	74
12	1982	The Comic Strip Presents...	Jackie/First Nun	74
13	1982	The Comic Strip Presents...	Consuela	74
14	1982	The Comic Strip Presents...	Susie	74
15	1982	The Comic Strip Presents...	Fiona/Frances	74
16	1982	The Comic Strip Presents...	Tracy	74
17	1982	The Comic Strip Presents...	Monica	74
18	1982	The Comic Strip Presents...	Verity/Old Lady/Celebrity	74
19	1982	The Comic Strip Presents...	Rachel	74
20	1982	The Comic Strip Presents...	Mrs. Cooper	74
21	1982	The Comic Strip Presents...	Joan	74
22	1982	The Comic Strip Presents...	Frances/Mrs. Shines	74
23	1982	The Comic Strip Presents...	Frances	74
24	1982	The Comic Strip Presents...	Caroline	74
25	1982	The Comic Strip Presents...	Gaynor	74
26	1982	The Comic Strip Presents...	Glynis Kinnock	74
27	1982	The Comic Strip Presents...	Francesca	74
28	1982	The Comic Strip Presents...	Stella	74
29	1982	The Comic Strip Presents...		74
30	1982	The Young Ones	Christian Evangelist	79
31	1982	The Young Ones	Devil in Advert	79
32	1982	The Young Ones	Easter Bunny	79
33	1985	Happy Families	Cook	67
34	1985	Girls On Top	Amanda	48
35	1987	French & Saunders	Various Characters	75
36	1987	Going Live!	Self	60
37	1988	The Storyteller	Badsister 2	82
38	1991	Murder Most Horrid	Various characters	66
39	1992	Absolutely Fabulous	Kathy	75
40	1993	The Legends of Treasure Island	Jim Hawkins (voice)	74
41	1994	Harry Enfield and Chums	Mrs Goggins	71
42	1994	The Vicar of Dibley	Revd Geraldine Granger	73
43	1995	Look at the State We're In!	Clerk	0
44	1996	TFI Friday	Self	68
45	1998	Parkinson	Self	0
46	1999	Let Them Eat Cake		68
47	1999	Watership Down		73
48	1999	David Copperfield	Mrs. Crupp	71
49	2000	The Nearly Complete and Utter History of Everything		0
50	2001	Happiness	Dawn French	60
51	2002	Ted and Alice		20
52	2002	V Graham Norton	Self	50
53	2002	Pongwiffy		0
54	2002	Dawn French's Girls Who Do Comedy		63
55	2002	Wild West	Mary Trewednack	62
56	2004	Bosom Pals		0
57	2004	The Paul O'Grady Show		46
58	2004	Agatha Christie's Marple	Janet Erskine	77
59	2005	The F Word		62
60	2006	Davina		0
61	2006	The One Show	Self - Guest	45
62	2006	The One Show	Self	45
63	2006	Jam and Jerusalem	Rosie Bales	70
64	2007	Comedy Shuffle		0
65	2007	The Graham Norton Show	Self	72
66	2007	A Bucket O' French and Saunders		62
67	2007	More Dawn French's Boys Who Do: Comedy	Presenter	50
68	2007	Dawn French's Boys Who Do Comedy	Presenter	0
69	2008	Lark Rise to Candleford	Caroline Arless	83
70	2009	Psychoville	Joy Aston	68
71	2010	Roger & Val Have Just Got In	Val Stevenson	74
72	2012	Superstar	Self - Chief Judge	0
73	2013	Heading Out	Frances	58
74	2013	The Wrong Mans	Linda	73
75	2015	Travel Man: 48 Hours in...	Self - Guest	66
76	2016	Delicious	Gina Benelli	63
77	2017	Little Big Shots	Host	0
78	2019	RuPaul's Drag Race UK	Self - Guest Judge	72
79	2020	The Trouble with Maggie Cole	Maggie Cole	64
80	2021	The Secret World Of...	Self - Narrator	0
81	2021	Walk the Line	Self - Judge	0
82	2024	The Nevermets	Narrator	0
83		Can You Keep a Secret?	Debbie Fendon	0
84	2025	BeddyByes	Gramma Leeba	0