Overview
Known for
Acting
Gender
Female
Birthday
Oct 11, 1957 (68 years old)
Dawn French
Known For
Dawn French Is a Huge Twat
Live (almost) from London’s iconic Palladium theatre, the nation’s favourite...
imagine... French & Saunders: Pointed, Bitchy, Bitter
imagine... profiles the UK’s most successful double act of the...
Comedy Classics: The Vicar of Dibley
Celebrating the legendary comedy with clips and insights from the...
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.
Acting
2024
Kirsty MacColl at the BBC
2024
Joan Rivers at the BBC
2024
The Nevermets
2023
Dawn French Is a Huge Twat
2023
imagine... French & Saunders: Pointed, Bitchy, Bitter
2023
The Magician's Elephant
2022
Comedy Classics: The Vicar of Dibley
2022
Red Riding Hood: After Ever After
2022
Death on the Nile
2021
Walk the Line
2021
An Audience with Adele
2021
French & Saunders: Funny Women
2021
The Vicar of Dibley: Inside Out
2020
Roald & Beatrix: The Tail of the Curious Mouse
2020
A Baby Reindeer's First Christmas
2020
The Vicar of Dibley: In Lockdown
2020
The Trouble with Maggie Cole
2017
300 Years of French & Saunders
2017
Comic Relief: Red Nose Day
2017
Little Big Shots
2017
Confessions of the Paparazzi
2016
Dawn French Live: 30 Million Minutes
2016
Delicious
2016
Darcey Bussell: My Life on the BBC
2016
British Sitcom: 60 Years of Laughing at Ourselves
2016
Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie
2012
Five Go to Rehab
2012
30 Years of Comic Strip
2012
Superstar
2011
Michael Bublé: Home for Christmas
2011
Catherine Tate: Laughing at the Noughties
2011
French & Saunders: The Ingenue Years
2010
Psychoville Halloween Special
2010
Roger & Val Have Just Got In
2009
Coraline: The Making of 'Coraline'
2009
Psychoville
2009
Coraline
2008
Lark Rise to Candleford
2007
Dawn French's Boys Who Do Comedy
2007
More Dawn French's Boys Who Do: Comedy
2007
A Bucket O' French and Saunders
2006
Love and Other Disasters
2006
When Comedy Changed Forever
2005
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
2005
The Comic Strip - A Retrospective
2005
Comic Aid
2004
Remember the Secret Policeman's Ball?
2004
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
2004
Bosom Pals
2002
Wild West
2002
Dawn French's Girls Who Do Comedy
2002
The Best of French & Saunders
2002
Pongwiffy
2002
Ted and Alice
2001
Kirsty: The Life and Songs of Kirsty MacColl
2000
French & Saunders - Live
2000
Maybe Baby
2000
The Nearly Complete and Utter History of Everything
1999
David Copperfield
1999
Watership Down
1999
Let Them Eat Cake
1998
Four Men in a Car
1997
Sex & Chocolate
1997
Treasure Island
1996
The Adventures of Pinocchio
1995
Look at the State We're In!
1994
The Vicar of Dibley
1994
Dusty
1993
Tender Loving Care
1993
The Legends of Treasure Island
1993
The Legends of Treasure Island
1993
Space Virgins from Planet Sex
1993
French & Saunders: At the Movies
1992
In Dreams
1992
Red Nose of Courage
1991
Amnesty International's Big 30
1991
Murder Most Horrid
1990
The Tale of Little Pig Robinson
1990
French & Saunders LIVE
1990
Spaghetti Hoops
1990
Oxford
1990
South Atlantic Raiders: Part 1
1990
South Atlantic Raiders: Part 2 Argie Bargie!
1990
GLC: The Carnage Continues
1989
Communicators From Hell
1989
Bosses From Hell
1989
Employees From Hell
1989
The Secret Policeman’s Biggest Ball
1988
More Bad News
1988
The Strike
1987
French & Saunders
1987
The Silurian Disruption
1986
Experiment IV
1986
Comedians Do It On Stage
1986
Private Enterprise
1986
Consuela (or, The New Mrs Saunders)
1985
Girls On Top