Dawn French
Department: Acting
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
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
2005
Mr Jolly Lives Next Door
1988
Love and Other Disasters
2006
An Audience with Adele
2021
The Magician's Elephant
2023
Coraline
2009
Remember the Secret Policeman's Ball?
2004
Kirsty: The Life and Songs of Kirsty MacColl
2001
When Comedy Changed Forever
2006
French and Saunders: Still Alive
2008
The Secret Policeman’s Biggest Ball
1989
The Supergrass
1985
An Audience With Victoria Wood
1988
Comic Relief: Red Nose Day
2017
Catherine Tate: Laughing at the Noughties
2011
The Best of French & Saunders
2002
Matthew Bourne's Christmas
2011
French & Saunders LIVE
1990
Psychoville Halloween Special
2010
Summer School
1983
The Legends of Treasure Island
1993
Five Go Mad in Dorset
1982
Four Men in a Car
1998
Eddie Monsoon - a Life?
1984
War
1983
The Beat Generation
1983
Five Go Mad on Mescalin
1983
Dirty Movie
1984
Susie
1984
Gino: Full Story and Pics
1984
Slags
1984
Private Enterprise
1986
Consuela (or, The New Mrs Saunders)
1986
South Atlantic Raiders: Part 1
1990
South Atlantic Raiders: Part 2 Argie Bargie!
1990
Oxford
1990
Red Nose of Courage
1992
Spaghetti Hoops
1990
Five Go to Rehab
2012
Dawn French Is a Huge Twat
2023
imagine... French & Saunders: Pointed, Bitchy, Bitter
2023
30 Years of Comic Strip
2012
Michael Bublé: Home for Christmas
2011
The Comic Strip - A Retrospective
2005
Darcey Bussell: My Life on the BBC
2016
Amnesty International's Big 30
1991
The Adventures of Pinocchio
1996
Comic Aid
2005
Eat the Rich
1987
Red Riding Hood: After Ever After
2022
Comedy Classics: The Vicar of Dibley
2022
Treasure Island
1997
Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie
2016
Tender Loving Care
1993
The Comic Strip
1981
French & Saunders - Live
2000
Sex & Chocolate
1997
Donizetti: La Fille du RĂ©giment
2007
In Dreams
1992
Comedians Do It On Stage
1986
Dawn French Live: 30 Million Minutes
2016
Milk
1999
British Sitcom: 60 Years of Laughing at Ourselves
2016
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
2004
The Strike
1988
Maybe Baby
2000
300 Years of French & Saunders
2017
More Bad News
1988
Bad News
1983
Space Virgins from Planet Sex
1993
Dusty
1994
Death on the Nile
2022
GLC: The Carnage Continues
1990
Completely Bad News
2019
The Tale of Little Pig Robinson
1990
The Comic Relief Utterly Utterly Rude Video Live
1986
French & Saunders: The Ingenue Years
2011
Gentlemen Prefer French & Saunders
2011
Coraline: The Making of 'Coraline'
2009
Roald & Beatrix: The Tail of the Curious Mouse
2020
The Vicar of Dibley: In Lockdown
2020
A Baby Reindeer's First Christmas
2020
The Vicar of Dibley: Inside Out
2021
French & Saunders: At the Movies
1993
A Fistful of Travellers' Cheques
1984
French & Saunders: Funny Women
2021
Joan Rivers at the BBC
2024
Kirsty MacColl at the BBC
2024
Bosses From Hell
1989
Communicators From Hell
1989
Employees From Hell
1989
The Silurian Disruption
1987
It’s Lulu
1999
Victoria Wood: Seen on TV
2009
Becoming Victoria Wood
2026
Experiment IV
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Happy Families
1985
The Big Night In
2020
The Storyteller: Sapsorrow
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Customer Service From Hell
1989
Colleagues From Hell
1989
Interviewers From Hell
1989
French And Saunders - Christmas Special '88
1988
French and Saunders' Christmas Carol
1994
The Funny Blokes of British Comedy
2005
Murder Most Horrid
1991
French & Saunders
1987
Let Them Eat Cake
1999
The F Word
2005
The One Show
2006
Girls On Top
1985
Davina
2006
RuPaul's Drag Race UK
2019
TFI Friday
1996
The Vicar of Dibley
1994
The Paul O'Grady Show
2004
The Secret Policeman's Ball
1976
The Young Ones
1982
The Young Ones
1982
Wild West
2002
Lark Rise to Candleford
2008
The Storyteller
1988
The Young Ones
1982
Happy Families
1985
The Legends of Treasure Island
1993
A Bucket O' French and Saunders
2007
V Graham Norton
2002
Psychoville
2009
Comedy Shuffle
2007
Pongwiffy
2002
Ted and Alice
2002
Bosom Pals
2004
Roger & Val Have Just Got In
2010
Heading Out
2013
The One Show
2006
Walk the Line
2021
The Graham Norton Show
2007
Happiness
2001
An Audience with...
1978
Little Big Shots
2017
Wogan
1982
David Copperfield
1999
Going Live!
1987
Delicious
2016
Superstar
2012
Dawn French's Boys Who Do Comedy
2007
More Dawn French's Boys Who Do: Comedy
2007
Agatha Christie's Marple
2004
The Secret World Of...
2021
Travel Man: 48 Hours in...
2015
Dawn French's Girls Who Do Comedy
2002
The Nevermets
2024
The Nearly Complete and Utter History of Everything
2000
The Trouble with Maggie Cole
2020
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Can You Keep a Secret?
2026
The Wrong Mans
2013
The Comic Strip Presents...
1982
The BAFTA Awards
1949
Parkinson
1998
Harry Enfield and Chums
1994
BeddyByes
2025
Jam and Jerusalem
2006
More Dawn French's Girls Who Do: Comedy
2006
Look at the State We're In!
1995
Shaun Tan's Tales from Outer Suburbia
2026
Absolutely Fabulous
1992