Jennifer Jane Saunders was born on 6 July 1958 in Sleaford, Lincolnshire. She was educated from the age of five to 18 in boarding schools. After school, she worked for a year in Italy as an au pair. In 1977, she received a place at the Central School of Speech and Drama. She met her future comedy partner, Dawn French, on a drama teachers’ course.
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Jennifer Jane Saunders was born on 6 July 1958 in Sleaford, Lincolnshire. She was educated from the age of five to 18 in boarding schools. After school, she worked for a year in Italy as an au pair. In 1977, Saunders received a place at the Central School of Speech and Drama. She met her future comedy partner, Dawn French, on a drama teachers’ course. French and Saunders came from RAF backgrounds, and had grown up on the same base, even having had the same best friend, without ever meeting. The comic duo originally did not get on well, and as far as Saunders was concerned, French was a \”cocky little upstart\”. The distrust was mutual: French considered Saunders snooty and uptight. The two performed together after graduation, working the festival, cabaret, and stand-up circuits. They formed a double-act called The Menopause Sisters. The group performed at the Boulevard Theatre, above Soho’s Raymond Revuebar, and gained a cult following, with visiting audience members including Dustin Hoffman, Jack Nicholson, and Robin Williams. The comedy group appeared on Channel 4’s first night on air, in the first episode of The Comic Strip Presents Mad In Dorset, broadcast on 2 November 1982.
In 1985, Saunders starred in and co-wrote Girls on Top Girls. She also appeared in Ben’s Happy Families where she played various members of the same family, including four Fuddle sisters in the six-episode film. In the episodes of Bad News, Saunders plays a fictional heavy rocky rocky journalist touring with the band Bad News. In 2009, Saunders and French jointly received a BAFTA Fellowship for their sketch show, French & Saunders. Saunders later received acclaim in the 1990s for writing and playing her character Edina Monsoon in her sitcom Absolutely Fabulous. She is married to Adrian Edmondson and has a son, Jack, with whom she has a daughter, Elton, and a stepson, Jack. She has two step-daughters and a son with her ex-partner, David Walliams, who is also a comedian. She currently lives in London with her husband and two children, Jack and Jack. The couple have a son called Jack, who was born in 1998 and a daughter with a daughter named Charlotte, who lives in the US with her mother, Emily, and an ex-boyfriend, James, who also lives in New York.
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