Dawn French
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
War
1983 · 10.0
A Baby Reindeer's First Christmas
2020 · 10.0
More Bad News
1988 · 9.8
Shaun Tan's Tales from Outer Suburbia
2026 · 9.0
300 Years of French & Saunders
2017 · 9.0
Mr Jolly Lives Next Door
1988 · 9.0
Bad News
1983 · 8.7
Lark Rise to Candleford
2008 · 8.4
French & Saunders - Live
2000 · 8.3
The Storyteller
1988 · 8.2
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
2004 · 8.0
The Comic Strip
1981 · 8.0
The Legends of Treasure Island
1993 · 8.0
Red Nose of Courage
1992 · 8.0
Bosom Pals
2004 · 8.0
Donizetti: La Fille du Régiment
2007 · 8.0
Coraline
2009 · 7.9
Agatha Christie's Marple
2004 · 7.9
The Young Ones
1982 · 7.9
The Legends of Treasure Island
1993 · 7.9
Let Them Eat Cake
1999 · 7.7
Absolutely Fabulous
1992 · 7.6
Can You Keep a Secret?
2026 · 7.6
French & Saunders: At the Movies
1993 · 7.5
The Comic Strip Presents...
1982 · 7.4
French & Saunders
1987 · 7.4
The Vicar of Dibley
1994 · 7.4
Roger & Val Have Just Got In
2010 · 7.4
The Wrong Mans
2013 · 7.3
Screen One
1989 · 7.2
Harry Enfield and Chums
1994 · 7.2
Jam and Jerusalem
2006 · 7.2
Happy Families
1985 · 7.2
Dawn French's Girls Who Do Comedy
2002 · 7.2
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
2005 · 7.1
TFI Friday
1996 · 7.1
David Copperfield
1999 · 7.1
Red Riding Hood: After Ever After
2022 · 7.0
A Fistful of Travellers' Cheques
1984 · 7.0
The Strike
1988 · 7.0
Murder Most Horrid
1991 · 6.9
Psychoville
2009 · 6.9
Little Crackers
2010 · 6.8
The Magician's Elephant
2023 · 6.8
Wild West
2002 · 6.5
Comic Aid
2005 · 6.5
Death on the Nile
2022 · 6.4
The Trouble with Maggie Cole
2020 · 6.4
Happiness
2001 · 6.3
The F Word
2005 · 6.2
Eat the Rich
1987 · 6.2
A Bucket O' French and Saunders
2007 · 6.2
The Supergrass
1985 · 6.1
Delicious
2016 · 6.0
Comic Relief
1988 · 6.0
Roald & Beatrix: The Tail of the Curious Mouse
2020 · 6.0
The Vicar of Dibley: In Lockdown
2020 · 6.0
Love and Other Disasters
2006 · 5.8
British Sitcom: 60 Years of Laughing at Ourselves
2016 · 5.7
The South Bank Show
1978 · 5.6
Maybe Baby
2000 · 5.5
Girls On Top
1985 · 5.4
Heading Out
2013 · 5.4
Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie
2016 · 5.3
The Adventures of Pinocchio
1996 · 5.3
The Paul O'Grady Show
2004 · 5.1
More Dawn French's Boys Who Do: Comedy
2007 · 5.0
30 Years of Comic Strip
2012 · 5.0
Ted and Alice
2002 · 4.7
Experiment IV
— · 4.0
Milk
1999 · 4.0
Slags
1984 · 2.0
TFI Unplugged
2026 · 0.0
BeddyByes
2025 · 0.0
More Dawn French's Girls Who Do: Comedy
2006 · 0.0
Summer School
1983 · 0.0
Look at the State We're In!
1995 · 0.0
Davina
2006 · 0.0
French And Saunders - Christmas Special '88
1988 · 0.0
The Nearly Complete and Utter History of Everything
2000 · 0.0
More Great Comedy Moments
2003 · 0.0
Gino: Full Story and Pics
1984 · 0.0
French and Saunders' Christmas Carol
1994 · 0.0
Treasure Island
1997 · 0.0
Spaghetti Hoops
1990 · 0.0
Comedy Shuffle
2007 · 0.0
Tender Loving Care
1993 · 0.0
Customer Service From Hell
1989 · 0.0
The Storyteller: Sapsorrow
1988 · 0.0
Pongwiffy
2002 · 0.0
Bosses From Hell
1989 · 0.0
Coraline e o Mundo Secreto
— · 0.0
Space Virgins from Planet Sex
1993 · 0.0
Colleagues From Hell
1989 · 0.0
Employees From Hell
1989 · 0.0
Interviewers From Hell
1989 · 0.0
South Atlantic Raiders: Part 1
1990 · 0.0
Private Enterprise
1986 · 0.0
Four Men in a Car
1998 · 0.0
Eddie Monsoon - a Life?
1984 · 0.0
Five Go Mad on Mescalin
1983 · 0.0
Communicators From Hell
1989 · 0.0
The Beat Generation
1983 · 0.0
Five Go to Rehab
2012 · 0.0
GLC: The Carnage Continues
1990 · 0.0
Gentlemen Prefer French & Saunders
2011 · 0.0
French & Saunders: The Ingenue Years
2011 · 0.0
Consuela (or, The New Mrs Saunders)
1986 · 0.0
The Best of French & Saunders
2002 · 0.0
Dawn French's Boys Who Do Comedy
2007 · 0.0
Psychoville Halloween Special
2010 · 0.0
Five Go Mad in Dorset
1982 · 0.0
The Tale of Little Pig Robinson
1990 · 0.0
Completely Bad News
2019 · 0.0
The Nevermets
2024 · 0.0
South Atlantic Raiders: Part 2 Argie Bargie!
1990 · 0.0
French & Saunders LIVE
1990 · 0.0
Oxford
1990 · 0.0
Dirty Movie
1984 · 0.0
Susie
1984 · 0.0
The Silurian Disruption
1987 · 0.0