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Dawn Frenchborn 1957

usually

Actor

Popularity

3.2

Famous

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.

Credits

Kirsty MacColl at the BBC

2024

Music

as Self (archive footage)

5(1)

0.2

Joan Rivers at the BBC

2024

Comedy • Documentary

as Self (archive footage)

0(0)

0.2

Dawn French Is a Huge Twat

2023

Comedy

as Self

8.5(1)

0.1

imagine... French & Saunders: Pointed, Bitchy, Bitter

2023

Documentary

as Self - featured artist

7(1)

0.3

The Magician's Elephant

2023

Adventure • Animation • Comedy • Family • Fantasy

as Sister Marie (voice)

6.9(214)

1.6

Comedy Classics: The Vicar of Dibley

2022

as Self (archive material)

0(0)

0.1

Red Riding Hood: After Ever After

2022

Comedy • Family • Fantasy

as Twit

4(1)

0.2

Death on the Nile

2022

Crime • Mystery • Thriller

as Bowers

6.4(3,843)

6.7

An Audience with Adele

2021

Documentary • Music

as Self

8.3(39)

0.5

French & Saunders: Funny Women

2021

Comedy • Documentary

as Self

8(1)

0.1

The Vicar of Dibley: Inside Out

2021

Comedy • Documentary

as Self

0(0)

0.6

Roald & Beatrix: The Tail of the Curious Mouse

2020

Drama • Family

as Beatrix Potter

5.9(19)

0.7

A Baby Reindeer's First Christmas

2020

Documentary

as Narrator

0(0)

The Vicar of Dibley: In Lockdown

2020

as Geraldine Granger

6(2)

0.2

Completely Bad News

2019

as Tracy

0(0)

0.2

300 Years of French & Saunders

2017

Comedy

0(0)

0.2

Comic Relief: Red Nose Day

2017

Comedy • Documentary • TV Movie

as Self

9(2)

0.4

Confessions of the Paparazzi

2017

Documentary

as Self

0(0)

0.1

Dawn French Live: 30 Million Minutes

2016

Comedy

as Self

7.4(5)

0.1

Darcey Bussell: My Life on the BBC

2016

Documentary

as Self

0(0)

0.1

British Sitcom: 60 Years of Laughing at Ourselves

2016

Comedy • Documentary

as Various Characters (archive footage) (uncredited)

5.7(2)

0.2

Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie

2016

Comedy

as Interviewer

5.3(245)

0.8

Five Go to Rehab

2012

Comedy

as George

0(0)

0.3

30 Years of Comic Strip

2012

Comedy • Documentary

0(0)

0.3

Matthew Bourne's Christmas

2011

Music

as Self - Host

10(2)

0.1

Michael Bublé: Home for Christmas

2011

Music

as Self

6.8(2)

0.1

Catherine Tate: Laughing at the Noughties

2011

Comedy • Documentary

as Self

10(2)

0.4

French & Saunders: The Ingenue Years

2011

0(0)

0.1

Gentlemen Prefer French & Saunders

2011

0(0)

0.1

Psychoville Halloween Special

2010

Comedy • Horror

as Joy Aston

0(0)

0.1

Coraline: The Making of 'Coraline'

2009

Animation • Documentary

as Self

5(1)

Coraline

2009

Animation • Family • Fantasy

as Miss Miriam Forcible / Other Forcible (voice)

7.9(8,373)

25.6

French and Saunders: Still Alive

2008

Comedy

as Self

5.2(3)

0.2

Donizetti: La Fille du Régiment

2007

Comedy • Music

as La Duchesse de Crackentorp

8(1)

0.2

Love and Other Disasters

2006

Comedy • Romance

as Therapist

5.8(332)

1.2

When Comedy Changed Forever

2006

Documentary

as Self (archive material)

0(0)

0.2

The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

2005

Adventure • Family • Fantasy

as Mrs. Beaver (voice)

7.1(10,916)

The Comic Strip - A Retrospective

2005

Documentary

as Self

6(1)

0.2

Comic Aid

2005

Comedy

5(1)

0.5

Remember the Secret Policeman's Ball?

2004

Comedy • Documentary

as Self - Narrator

4.8(3)

0.3

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

2004

Adventure • Fantasy

as The Fat Lady

8(22,104)

19.4

The Best of French & Saunders

2002

as Various

0(0)

0.2

Kirsty: The Life and Songs of Kirsty MacColl

2001

Documentary • Music

as Self

0(0)

0.4

French & Saunders - Live

2000

Comedy

as Various roles

8.5(2)

0.1

Maybe Baby

2000

Comedy • Romance

as Charlene

5.4(97)

0.8

Milk

1999

Comedy

as Virginia

2(1)

0.3

Four Men in a Car

1998

Comedy

as Stella

0(0)

0.1

Sex & Chocolate

1997

Drama • Romance • TV Movie

as Bev Bodger

7(2)

0.1

Treasure Island

1997

Adventure • Animation • Family

as Jim Hawkins

0(0)

0.1

The Adventures of Pinocchio

1996

Adventure • Drama • Family • Fantasy

as Baker's Wife

5.2(231)

0.8

Dusty

1994

Documentary • Music

as Self - Presenter

8(1)

0.1

Tender Loving Care

1993

Crime • Drama • TV Movie

as Elaine Dobbs

0(0)

0.1

The Legends of Treasure Island

1993

Animation • Family

as Jim Hawkins (voice)

8(1)

0.2

Space Virgins from Planet Sex

1993

Comedy • Science Fiction

as Gaynor

0(0)

0.3

French & Saunders: At the Movies

1993

Comedy

7.5(1)

0.1

In Dreams

1992

TV Movie

as Driving Instructor

7(1)

0.2

Red Nose of Courage

1992

Comedy

as Glynis Kinnock

0(0)

0.2

Amnesty International's Big 30

1991

Comedy • Documentary

as Self

4(1)

0.2

The Tale of Little Pig Robinson

1990

Family

as Porcas

0(0)

0.2

French & Saunders LIVE

1990

Comedy

0(0)

0.4

Spaghetti Hoops

1990

Comedy

as Francesca

0(0)

0.2

Oxford

1990

Comedy

as Caroline

0(0)

0.2

South Atlantic Raiders: Part 1

1990

as Frances / Mrs. Shines

0(0)

0.2

South Atlantic Raiders: Part 2 Argie Bargie!

1990

Comedy

as Frances

0(0)

0.2

GLC: The Carnage Continues

1990

Comedy

as Cher as Joan Ruddock

0(0)

0.2

The Secret Policeman’s Biggest Ball

1989

Comedy • Music

as Self

7.5(2)

0.4

Bosses From Hell

1989

0(0)

0.4

Communicators From Hell

1989

0(0)

0.3

Employees From Hell

1989

0(0)

0.1

An Audience With Victoria Wood

1988

Comedy

as Self

5.2(3)

0.2

Mr Jolly Lives Next Door

1988

Comedy • Horror • TV Movie

as Mrs. Cooper

8.2(4)

0.3

More Bad News

1988

Comedy • Music

as Rachel

9.8(4)

0.2

The Strike

1988

Comedy • TV Movie

as Verity/Old Lady/Celebrity

7(3)

0.3

Eat the Rich

1987

Action • Comedy • Crime

as Debbie Draws

6.2(33)

0.8

The Silurian Disruption

1987

Comedy • Science Fiction

as Silurian #1

0(0)

0.1

Experiment IV

1986

Horror • Science Fiction

as Lab Assistant 1

4(1)

The Comic Relief Utterly Utterly Rude Video Live

1986

Comedy

6(1)

0.2

Comedians Do It On Stage

1986

Comedy

as Self

0(0)

0.2

Private Enterprise

1986

Comedy

as Nayler

0(0)

0.1

Consuela (or, The New Mrs Saunders)

1986

Comedy

as Consuela

0(0)

0.3

The Supergrass

1985

Comedy

as Andrea

6.2(12)

0.3

Slags

1984

Comedy

as Passion

0(0)

0.4

Eddie Monsoon - a Life?

1984

Comedy

as Veronica

0(0)

0.4

Gino: Full Story and Pics

1984

Comedy

as Fiona/Frances

0(0)

0.3

A Fistful of Travellers' Cheques

1984

Comedy • TV Movie • Western

as Jackie

7(1)

0.3

Susie

1984

Comedy

as Susie

0(0)

0.2

Dirty Movie

1984

Comedy

as Monica

0(0)

0.2

Five Go Mad on Mescalin

1983

Comedy

as George

0(0)

0.3

Summer School

1983

Comedy

as Ursula

0(0)

0.1

Bad News

1983

Comedy • Music

as Tracy

8.7(6)

0.2

The Beat Generation

1983

Comedy

as Eleanor

0(0)

0.2

War

1983

Comedy

as Hermine

10(1)

0.2

Five Go Mad in Dorset

1982

Comedy

as George

0(0)

0.2

The Comic Strip

1981

Comedy • TV Movie

0(0)

0.3