Dawn French
Known For: Acting
Birthday: 1957-10-11
Place of Birth: Holyhead, Anglesey, Wales, UK
Popularity: 1.6
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.
Known For Filmography
The Graham Norton Show
2007
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
2004
Agatha Christie's Marple
2004
The One Show
2006
Coraline
2009
Wogan
1982
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
2005
The Comic Strip Presents...
1982
The Paul O'Grady Show
2004
Absolutely Fabulous
1992
An Audience with...
1978
V Graham Norton
2002
Parkinson
1998
The Young Ones
1982
Going Live!
1987
RuPaul's Drag Race UK
2019
Lark Rise to Candleford
2008
Murder Most Horrid
1991
The Storyteller
1988
The BAFTA Awards
1949
Death on the Nile
2022
Travel Man: 48 Hours in...
2015
Screen One
1989
The Vicar of Dibley
1994
Delicious
2016
TFI Friday
1996
Psychoville
2009
French & Saunders
1987
Harry Enfield and Chums
1994
The Secret Policeman's Ball
1976
Jam and Jerusalem
2006
The F Word
2005
David Copperfield
1999
Wild West
2002
Girls On Top
1985
The Wrong Mans
2013
The Legends of Treasure Island
1993
The Magician's Elephant
2023
The Adventures of Pinocchio
1996
Happy Families
1985
The Trouble with Maggie Cole
2020
Can You Keep a Secret?
2026
Happiness
2001
Love and Other Disasters
2006
Heading Out
2013No Photo
Davina
2006No Photo
Look at the State We're In!
1995
Let Them Eat Cake
1999
Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie
2016
Maybe Baby
2000
Bad News
1983
Superstar
2012
A Bucket O' French and Saunders
2007
The Nearly Complete and Utter History of Everything
2000
Eat the Rich
1987
Roger & Val Have Just Got In
2010
BeddyByes
2025No Photo
Pongwiffy
2002
An Audience with Adele
2021
More Dawn French's Boys Who Do: Comedy
2007
Remember the Secret Policeman's Ball?
2004
Roald & Beatrix: The Tail of the Curious Mouse
2020
The Legends of Treasure Island
1993
British Sitcom: 60 Years of Laughing at Ourselves
2016
Dawn French's Girls Who Do Comedy
2002
Amnesty International's Big 30
1991No Photo
Comedy Shuffle
2007
When Comedy Changed Forever
2006
The Strike
1988
Little Big Shots
2017No Photo
Ted and Alice
2002
Shaun Tan's Tales from Outer Suburbia
2026No Photo
Walk the Line
2021
The Supergrass
1985No Photo
The Funny Blokes of British Comedy
2005
The Vicar of Dibley: Inside Out
2021
GLC: The Carnage Continues
1990
An Audience With Victoria Wood
1988
Tender Loving Care
1993
Completely Bad News
2019No Photo
Michael Bublé: Home for Christmas
2011
Happy Families
1985
Psychoville Halloween Special
2010
Space Virgins from Planet Sex
1993
Coraline: The Making of 'Coraline'
2009
The Big Night In
2020
Joan Rivers at the BBC
2024
Consuela (or, The New Mrs Saunders)
1986
Kirsty: The Life and Songs of Kirsty MacColl
2001
The Secret Policeman’s Biggest Ball
1989
Donizetti: La Fille du Régiment
2007
Five Go Mad in Dorset
1982
Red Nose of Courage
1992
Catherine Tate: Laughing at the Noughties
2011
The Secret World Of...
2021
Comedians Do It On Stage
1986
More Dawn French's Girls Who Do: Comedy
2006
French & Saunders: Funny Women
2021No Photo
Comic Aid
2005
More Bad News
1988
Sex & Chocolate
1997
Red Riding Hood: After Ever After
2022
Summer School
1983
Susie
1984
Victoria Wood: Seen on TV
2009
Kirsty MacColl at the BBC
2024
The Tale of Little Pig Robinson
1990No Photo
Treasure Island
1997
Darcey Bussell: My Life on the BBC
2016
30 Years of Comic Strip
2012
The Comic Strip
1981
Becoming Victoria Wood
2026
Eddie Monsoon - a Life?
1984No Photo
In Dreams
1992
imagine... French & Saunders: Pointed, Bitchy, Bitter
2023No Photo
Bosom Pals
2004
Milk
1999
Employees From Hell
1989
A Fistful of Travellers' Cheques
1984
Dirty Movie
1984
The Nevermets
2024
Gino: Full Story and Pics
1984
South Atlantic Raiders: Part 2 Argie Bargie!
1990No Photo
Dawn French's Boys Who Do Comedy
2007
The Comic Relief Utterly Utterly Rude Video Live
1986
French & Saunders LIVE
1990
TFI Friday
2015
Slags
1984
Four Men in a Car
1998
Spaghetti Hoops
1990
Matthew Bourne's Christmas
2011
Dusty
1994
South Atlantic Raiders: Part 1
1990
Communicators From Hell
1989
Five Go Mad on Mescalin
1983
Dawn French Is a Huge Twat
2023
It’s Lulu
1999
Comic Relief: Red Nose Day
2017
Oxford
1990
The Beat Generation
1983
Mr Jolly Lives Next Door
1988
Five Go to Rehab
2012
French & Saunders: Still Alive
2008
Private Enterprise
1986
Dawn French Live: 30 Million Minutes
2016No Photo
Experiment IV
N/A
Comedy Classics: The Vicar of Dibley
2022
War
1983
The Storyteller: Sapsorrow
1988
Customer Service From Hell
1989
Colleagues From Hell
1989
French & Saunders: The Ingenue Years
2011
Gentlemen Prefer French & Saunders
2011
300 Years of French & Saunders
2017
The Comic Strip - A Retrospective
2005
Bosses From Hell
1989
Interviewers From Hell
1989
French and Saunders' Christmas Carol
1994No Photo
The Silurian Disruption
1987
French & Saunders - Live
2000
French & Saunders: At the Movies
1993
The Vicar of Dibley: In Lockdown
2020
A Baby Reindeer's First Christmas
2020
The Best of French & Saunders
2002