Acting
Dawn French
Born 1957-10-11
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.
Acting
Becoming Victoria Wood
2026 · Self
Kirsty MacColl at the BBC
2024 · Self (archive footage)
Joan Rivers at the BBC
2024 · Self (archive footage)
Dawn French Is a Huge Twat
2023 · Self
imagine... French & Saunders: Pointed, Bitchy, Bitter
2023 · Self - Featured Artist
The Magician's Elephant
2023 · Sister Marie (voice)
Comedy Classics: The Vicar of Dibley
2022 · Self (archive material)
Red Riding Hood: After Ever After
2022 · Twit
Death on the Nile
2022 · Bowers
An Audience with Adele
2021 · Self
French & Saunders: Funny Women
2021 · Self
The Vicar of Dibley: Inside Out
2021 · Self
Roald & Beatrix: The Tail of the Curious Mouse
2020 · Beatrix Potter
A Baby Reindeer's First Christmas
2020 · Narrator
The Vicar of Dibley: In Lockdown
2020 · Geraldine Granger
The Big Night In
2020 · Self
Completely Bad News
2019 · Tracy
300 Years of French & Saunders
2017
Comic Relief: Red Nose Day
2017 · Self
Dawn French Live: 30 Million Minutes
2016 · Self
Darcey Bussell: My Life on the BBC
2016 · Self
British Sitcom: 60 Years of Laughing at Ourselves
2016 · Various Characters (archive footage) (uncredited)
Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie
2016 · Interviewer
Five Go to Rehab
2012 · George
30 Years of Comic Strip
2012
Matthew Bourne's Christmas
2011 · Self - Host
Michael Bublé: Home for Christmas
2011 · Self
Catherine Tate: Laughing at the Noughties
2011 · Self
French & Saunders: The Ingenue Years
2011
Gentlemen Prefer French & Saunders
2011
Psychoville Halloween Special
2010 · Joy Aston
Victoria Wood: Seen on TV
2009
Writer
Dawn French Is a Huge Twat
2023
French & Saunders: Still Alive
2008
The Best of French & Saunders
2002
Absolutely Fabulous
2001
French & Saunders - Live
2000
How to Be Absolutely Fabulous
1995
French and Saunders' Christmas Carol
1994
French And Saunders - Christmas Special '88
1988
The Silurian Disruption
1987
Consuela (or, The New Mrs Saunders)
1986
Summer School
1983
The Comic Strip
1981