Dawn French
Acting • Born 1957-10-11
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.
Filmography
187 credits
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
Movie • 2005
Mrs. Beaver (voice)
Mr Jolly Lives Next Door
Movie • 1988
Mrs. Cooper
Love and Other Disasters
Movie • 2006
Therapist
An Audience with Adele
Movie • 2021
Self
The Magician's Elephant
Movie • 2023
Sister Marie (voice)
Coraline
Movie • 2009
Miss Miriam Forcible / Other Forcible (voice)
Remember the Secret Policeman's Ball?
Movie • 2004
Self - Narrator
Kirsty: The Life and Songs of Kirsty MacColl
Movie • 2001
Self
When Comedy Changed Forever
Movie • 2006
Self (archive material)
French and Saunders: Still Alive
Movie • 2008
Self
The Secret Policeman’s Biggest Ball
Movie • 1989
Self
The Supergrass
Movie • 1985
Andrea
An Audience With Victoria Wood
Movie • 1988
Self
Comic Relief: Red Nose Day
Movie • 2017
Self
Catherine Tate: Laughing at the Noughties
Movie • 2011
Self
The Best of French & Saunders
Movie • 2002
Various
Matthew Bourne's Christmas
Movie • 2011
Self - Host
French & Saunders LIVE
Movie • 1990
Psychoville Halloween Special
Movie • 2010
Joy Aston
Summer School
Movie • 1983
Ursula
Five Go Mad in Dorset
Movie • 1982
George
The Legends of Treasure Island
Movie • 1993
Jim Hawkins (voice)
Four Men in a Car
Movie • 1998
Stella
Eddie Monsoon - a Life?
Movie • 1984
Veronica
War
Movie • 1983
Hermine
The Beat Generation
Movie • 1983
Eleanor
Five Go Mad on Mescalin
Movie • 1983
George
Susie
Movie • 1984
Susie
Dirty Movie
Movie • 1984
Monica
Gino: Full Story and Pics
Movie • 1984
Fiona/Frances
Consuela (or, The New Mrs Saunders)
Movie • 1986
Consuela
Slags
Movie • 1984
Passion
Private Enterprise
Movie • 1986
Nayler
South Atlantic Raiders: Part 1
Movie • 1990
Frances / Mrs. Shines
Oxford
Movie • 1990
Caroline
South Atlantic Raiders: Part 2 Argie Bargie!
Movie • 1990
Frances
Red Nose of Courage
Movie • 1992
Glynis Kinnock
Spaghetti Hoops
Movie • 1990
Francesca
Five Go to Rehab
Movie • 2012
George
Dawn French Is a Huge Twat
Movie • 2023
Self
imagine... French & Saunders: Pointed, Bitchy, Bitter
Movie • 2023
Self - Featured Artist
30 Years of Comic Strip
Movie • 2012
Michael Bublé: Home for Christmas
Movie • 2011
Self
The Comic Strip - A Retrospective
Movie • 2005
Self
Darcey Bussell: My Life on the BBC
Movie • 2016
Self
Amnesty International's Big 30
Movie • 1991
Self
The Adventures of Pinocchio
Movie • 1996
Baker's Wife
Comic Aid
Movie • 2005
Eat the Rich
Movie • 1987
Debbie Draws
Red Riding Hood: After Ever After
Movie • 2022
Twit
Comedy Classics: The Vicar of Dibley
Movie • 2022
Self (archive material)
Treasure Island
Movie • 1997
Jim Hawkins
Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie
Movie • 2016
Interviewer
Tender Loving Care
Movie • 1993
Elaine Dobbs
The Comic Strip
Movie • 1981
French & Saunders - Live
Movie • 2000
Various roles
Sex & Chocolate
Movie • 1997
Bev Bodger
Donizetti: La Fille du Régiment
Movie • 2007
La Duchesse de Crackentorp
In Dreams
Movie • 1992
Driving Instructor
Comedians Do It On Stage
Movie • 1986
Self
Dawn French Live: 30 Million Minutes
Movie • 2016
Self
Milk
Movie • 1999
Virginia
British Sitcom: 60 Years of Laughing at Ourselves
Movie • 2016
Various Characters (archive footage) (uncredited)
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
Movie • 2004
The Fat Lady
The Strike
Movie • 1988
Verity/Old Lady/Celebrity
Maybe Baby
Movie • 2000
Charlene
300 Years of French & Saunders
Movie • 2017
More Bad News
Movie • 1988
Rachel
Bad News
Movie • 1983
Tracy
Space Virgins from Planet Sex
Movie • 1993
Gaynor
Dusty
Movie • 1994
Self - Presenter
Death on the Nile
Movie • 2022
Bowers
GLC: The Carnage Continues
Movie • 1990
Cher as Joan Ruddock
Completely Bad News
Movie • 2019
Tracy
The Tale of Little Pig Robinson
Movie • 1990
Porcas
The Comic Relief Utterly Utterly Rude Video Live
Movie • 1986
Self
Gentlemen Prefer French & Saunders
Movie • 2011
French & Saunders: The Ingenue Years
Movie • 2011
Coraline: The Making of 'Coraline'
Movie • 2009
Self
Roald & Beatrix: The Tail of the Curious Mouse
Movie • 2020
Beatrix Potter
The Vicar of Dibley: In Lockdown
Movie • 2020
Geraldine Granger
A Baby Reindeer's First Christmas
Movie • 2020
Narrator
The Vicar of Dibley: Inside Out
Movie • 2021
Self
French & Saunders: At the Movies
Movie • 1993
A Fistful of Travellers' Cheques
Movie • 1984
Jackie
French & Saunders: Funny Women
Movie • 2021
Self
Joan Rivers at the BBC
Movie • 2024
Self (archive footage)
Kirsty MacColl at the BBC
Movie • 2024
Self (archive footage)
Bosses From Hell
Movie • 1989
Communicators From Hell
Movie • 1989
Employees From Hell
Movie • 1989
The Silurian Disruption
Movie • 1987
Silurian #1
It’s Lulu
Movie • 1999
Self
Victoria Wood: Seen on TV
Movie • 2009
Becoming Victoria Wood
Movie • 2026
Self
Experiment IV
Movie
First Assistant
Happy Families
Movie • 1985
Cook
The Big Night In
Movie • 2020
Self
The Storyteller: Sapsorrow
Movie
Badsister 2
Customer Service From Hell
Movie • 1989
Colleagues From Hell
Movie • 1989
Interviewers From Hell
Movie • 1989
French And Saunders - Christmas Special '88
Movie • 1988
Various Characters
French and Saunders' Christmas Carol
Movie • 1994
Various Roles
The Funny Blokes of British Comedy
Movie • 2005
Self
French & Saunders
TV • 1987
Various Characters
Murder Most Horrid
TV • 1991
Various characters
Let Them Eat Cake
TV • 1999
The F Word
TV • 2005
The One Show
TV • 2006
Self - Guest
Girls On Top
TV • 1985
Amanda
Davina
TV • 2006
RuPaul's Drag Race UK
TV • 2019
Self - Guest Judge
TFI Friday
TV • 1996
Self
The Vicar of Dibley
TV • 1994
Revd Geraldine Granger
The Paul O'Grady Show
TV • 2004
The Secret Policeman's Ball
TV • 1976
Self
The Young Ones
TV • 1982
Christian Evangelist
The Young Ones
TV • 1982
Devil in Advert
Wild West
TV • 2002
Mary Trewednack
Lark Rise to Candleford
TV • 2008
Caroline Arless
The Storyteller
TV • 1988
Badsister 2
The Young Ones
TV • 1982
Easter Bunny
Happy Families
TV • 1985
Cook
The Legends of Treasure Island
TV • 1993
Jim Hawkins (voice)
A Bucket O' French and Saunders
TV • 2007
V Graham Norton
TV • 2002
Self
Psychoville
TV • 2009
Joy Aston
Comedy Shuffle
TV • 2007
Pongwiffy
TV • 2002
Ted and Alice
TV • 2002
Bosom Pals
TV • 2004
Roger & Val Have Just Got In
TV • 2010
Val Stevenson
Heading Out
TV • 2013
Frances
The One Show
TV • 2006
Self
Walk the Line
TV • 2021
Self - Judge
The Graham Norton Show
TV • 2007
Self
Happiness
TV • 2001
Dawn French
An Audience with...
TV • 1978
Self
Little Big Shots
TV • 2017
Host
Wogan
TV • 1982
Self
David Copperfield
TV • 1999
Mrs. Crupp
Going Live!
TV • 1987
Self
Delicious
TV • 2016
Gina Benelli
Superstar
TV • 2012
Self - Chief Judge
Dawn French's Boys Who Do Comedy
TV • 2007
Presenter
More Dawn French's Boys Who Do: Comedy
TV • 2007
Presenter
Agatha Christie's Marple
TV • 2004
Janet Erskine
The Secret World Of...
TV • 2021
Self - Narrator
Travel Man: 48 Hours in...
TV • 2015
Self - Guest
Dawn French's Girls Who Do Comedy
TV • 2002
The Nevermets
TV • 2024
Narrator
The Nearly Complete and Utter History of Everything
TV • 2000
The Trouble with Maggie Cole
TV • 2020
Maggie Cole
The Comic Strip Presents...
TV • 1982
George
The Comic Strip Presents...
TV • 1982
Passion
The Comic Strip Presents...
TV • 1982
Tracy
The Comic Strip Presents...
TV • 1982
Susie
The Comic Strip Presents...
TV • 1982
Veronica
The Comic Strip Presents...
TV • 1982
Ursula
The Comic Strip Presents...
TV • 1982
Hermine
The Comic Strip Presents...
TV • 1982
Jackie/First Nun
The Comic Strip Presents...
TV • 1982
Consuela
The Comic Strip Presents...
TV • 1982
Eleanor
The Comic Strip Presents...
TV • 1982
Monica
The Comic Strip Presents...
TV • 1982
Nayler
The Comic Strip Presents...
TV • 1982
Fiona/Frances
The Comic Strip Presents...
TV • 1982
Verity/Old Lady/Celebrity
The Comic Strip Presents...
TV • 1982
Rachel
The Comic Strip Presents...
TV • 1982
Mrs. Cooper
The Comic Strip Presents...
TV • 1982
Frances/Mrs. Shines
The Comic Strip Presents...
TV • 1982
Frances
The Comic Strip Presents...
TV • 1982
Joan
The Comic Strip Presents...
TV • 1982
Francesca
The Comic Strip Presents...
TV • 1982
Caroline
Can You Keep a Secret?
TV • 2026
Debbie Fendon
The Wrong Mans
TV • 2013
Linda
The Comic Strip Presents...
TV • 1982
The BAFTA Awards
TV • 1949
Self
Parkinson
TV • 1998
Self
Harry Enfield and Chums
TV • 1994
Mrs Goggins
BeddyByes
TV • 2025
Gramma Leeba
Jam and Jerusalem
TV • 2006
Rosie Bales
More Dawn French's Girls Who Do: Comedy
TV • 2006
Presenter
Look at the State We're In!
TV • 1995
Mrs Duvet
Shaun Tan's Tales from Outer Suburbia
TV • 2026
Absolutely Fabulous
TV • 1992
Kathy