Dawn French
Profile info
Known forActing
GenderFemale
Birthday11 October 1957 (68 years old)
Place of birthHolyhead, Wales, UK
Known credits168
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.
Becoming Victoria Wood
2026 · Self
Can You Keep a Secret?
2026 · Debbie Fendon
Can You Keep a Secret?
2026 · Executive Producer
Shaun Tan's Tales from Outer Suburbia
2026
BeddyByes
2025 · Gramma Leeba
Kirsty MacColl at the BBC
2024 · Self (archive footage)
Joan Rivers at the BBC
2024 · Self (archive footage)
The Nevermets
2024 · Narrator
Dawn French Is a Huge Twat
2023 · Self
Dawn French Is a Huge Twat
2023 · Writer
imagine... French & Saunders: Pointed, Bitchy, Bitter
2023 · Self - Featured Artist
The Magician's Elephant
2023 · Sister Marie (voice)
Comedy Classics: The Vicar of Dibley
2022 · Self (archive material)
Red Riding Hood: After Ever After
2022 · Twit
Death on the Nile
2022 · Bowers
Walk the Line
2021 · Self - Judge
An Audience with Adele
2021 · Self
The Secret World Of...
2021 · Self - Narrator
French & Saunders: Funny Women
2021 · Self
The Vicar of Dibley: Inside Out
2021 · Self
Roald & Beatrix: The Tail of the Curious Mouse
2020 · Beatrix Potter
A Baby Reindeer's First Christmas
2020 · Narrator
The Vicar of Dibley: In Lockdown
2020 · Geraldine Granger
Sackboy: A Big Adventure
2020 · Scarlet
The Big Night In
2020 · Self
The Trouble with Maggie Cole
2020 · Maggie Cole
Completely Bad News
2019 · Tracy
RuPaul's Drag Race UK
2019 · Self - Guest Judge
300 Years of French & Saunders
2017
Comic Relief: Red Nose Day
2017 · Self
Little Big Shots
2017 · Self - Host
Dawn French Live: 30 Million Minutes
2016 · Self
Delicious
2016 · Gina Benelli
Darcey Bussell: My Life on the BBC
2016 · Self
British Sitcom: 60 Years of Laughing at Ourselves
2016 · Various Characters (archive footage) (uncredited)
Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie
2016 · Interviewer
TFI Friday
2015 · Self
Travel Man: 48 Hours in...
2015 · Self - Guest
The Wrong Mans
2013 · Linda
Heading Out
2013 · Frances
Five Go to Rehab
2012 · George
30 Years of Comic Strip
2012
Superstar
2012 · Self - Chief Judge
Matthew Bourne's Christmas
2011 · Self - Host
Michael Bublé: Home for Christmas
2011 · Self
Catherine Tate: Laughing at the Noughties
2011 · Self
French & Saunders: The Ingenue Years
2011
Gentlemen Prefer French & Saunders
2011
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