Dawn French
Known for: Acting
Born: October 11, 1957
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
Remember the Secret Policeman's Ball?
2004
The Best of French & Saunders
2002
Matthew Bourne's Christmas
2011
French & Saunders LIVE
1990
Consuela (or, The New Mrs Saunders)
1986
Dawn French Is a Huge Twat
2023
Comedy Classics: The Vicar of Dibley
2022
Tender Loving Care
1993
Sex & Chocolate
1997
Dawn French Live: 30 Million Minutes
2016
300 Years of French & Saunders
2017
Space Virgins from Planet Sex
1993
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
Experiment IV
French and Saunders' Christmas Carol
1994
French & Saunders: Still Alive
2008
Five Go Mad in Dorset
1982
Four Men in a Car
1998
The Beat Generation
1983
Five Go Mad on Mescalin
1983
Oxford
1990
Red Nose of Courage
1992
Five Go to Rehab
2012
imagine... French & Saunders: Pointed, Bitchy, Bitter
2023
Michael Bublé: Home for Christmas
2011
Treasure Island
1997
French & Saunders - Live
2000
GLC: The Carnage Continues
1990
The Tale of Little Pig Robinson
1990
French & Saunders: The Ingenue Years
2011
Gentlemen Prefer French & Saunders
2011
French & Saunders: Funny Women
2021
Communicators From Hell
1989
The Silurian Disruption
1987
Interviewers From Hell
1989
French And Saunders - Christmas Special '88
1988
Eddie Monsoon - a Life?
1984
War
1983
Susie
1984
South Atlantic Raiders: Part 1
1990
South Atlantic Raiders: Part 2 Argie Bargie!
1990
The Comic Strip - A Retrospective
2005
Darcey Bussell: My Life on the BBC
2016
In Dreams
1992
Comedians Do It On Stage
1986
Milk
1999
Dusty
1994
Bosses From Hell
1989
It’s Lulu
1999
Becoming Victoria Wood
2026
Happy Families
1985
Colleagues From Hell
1989
Coraline
2009
The Legends of Treasure Island
1993
Dirty Movie
1984
Gino: Full Story and Pics
1984
Spaghetti Hoops
1990
The Strike
1988
A Fistful of Travellers' Cheques
1984
Kirsty MacColl at the BBC
2024
Employees From Hell
1989
Mr Jolly Lives Next Door
1988
Private Enterprise
1986
Completely Bad News
2019
Joan Rivers at the BBC
2024
The Storyteller: Sapsorrow
1988
Red Riding Hood: After Ever After
2022
Bad News
1983
More Bad News
1988
Death on the Nile
2022
Customer Service From Hell
1989
Kirsty: The Life and Songs of Kirsty MacColl
2001
The Supergrass
1985
Summer School
1983
Slags
1984
The Comic Strip
1981
The Comic Relief Utterly Utterly Rude Video Live
1986
Coraline: The Making of 'Coraline'
2009
Victoria Wood: Seen on TV
2009
The Funny Blokes of British Comedy
2005
Donizetti: La Fille du Régiment
2007
Love and Other Disasters
2006
The Secret Policeman’s Biggest Ball
1989
The Adventures of Pinocchio
1996
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
2005
Psychoville Halloween Special
2010
The Magician's Elephant
2023
An Audience With Victoria Wood
1988
Comic Relief: Red Nose Day
2017
30 Years of Comic Strip
2012
Comic Aid
2005
An Audience with Adele
2021
The Big Night In
2020
Catherine Tate: Laughing at the Noughties
2011
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
2004
When Comedy Changed Forever
2006
Eat the Rich
1987
Maybe Baby
2000
Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie
2016
Amnesty International's Big 30
1991
British Sitcom: 60 Years of Laughing at Ourselves
2016
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
Wild West
2002
Lark Rise to Candleford
2008
The Storyteller
1988
Happy Families
1985
The Legends of Treasure Island
1993
A Bucket O' French and Saunders
2007
V Graham Norton
2002
Comedy Shuffle
2007
Pongwiffy
2002
Ted and Alice
2002
Bosom Pals
2004
Roger & Val Have Just Got In
2010
Heading Out
2013
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
The Comic Strip Presents...
1982
Can You Keep a Secret?
2026
The Wrong Mans
2013
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
Murder Most Horrid
1991
Psychoville
2009
TFI Friday
2015
Screen One
1989