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Jennifer Jane Saunders (born 6 July 1958) is an English comedienne, screenwriter, actress and teacher. She has won three BAFTAs (including the BAFTA Fellowship), an International Emmy Award, a British Comedy Award, a Rose d'Or Light Entertainment Festival Award, two Writers' Guild of Great Britain Awards, and a People's Choice Award. She first found widespread attention in the 1980s when she became a member of the Comic Strip after graduating from the Central School of Speech and Drama in London. With her comedy partner Dawn French, she wrote and starred in their eponymous sketch show, ''French and Saunders'', for which she and French received a BAFTA fellowship in 2009. She received worldwide acclaim through the early to mid-1990s for writing and playing the lead role of Edina Monsoon in the sitcom ''Absolutely Fabulous''. She has guest-starred in the American sitcoms ''Roseanne'' and ''Friends'', and won the American People's Choice Award for voicing the evil Fairy Godmother in DreamWorks' animated ''Shrek 2''. In 2015 she voiced Queen Elizabeth II in the animated comedy film ''Minions''. ==Early life== Jennifer Saunders was born in Sleaford, Lincolnshire, England on 6 July 1958.〔Hannah Hamad. ''(Jennifer Saunders )'' — screenonline.org. Retrieved 4 October 2007.〕〔Editors at The Times. ''(Birthdays )'' — timesonline.co.uk. Retrieved 5 October 2007.〕 Her mother, Jane, was a biology teacher, and her father, Robert Thomas Saunders, served as a pilot in the Royal Air Force (RAF), reached the rank of Air Marshal and later worked for British Aerospace. She has three brothers.〔Decca Aitkenhead. ''(What are you looking at? )'' — guardian.co.uk. Retrieved 5 October 2007.〕〔Chrissy Iley. ''(Farewell French and Saunders )'' — timesonline.co.uk. Retrieved 30 August 2007〕 Because her father was in the armed forces, Saunders moved to different schools many times.〔 She was educated from the age of five to 18 in boarding schools and then at St Paul's Girls' School, an independent school in west London. After school, she worked for a year in Italy as an au pair.〔Editors at Teletronic. ''(Dawn French )'' — teletronic.co.uk. Retrieved 4 October 2007. 〕 She later received a place at the Central School of Speech and Drama in London on a drama teachers' course in 1977,〔 where she met her future comedy partner, Dawn French.〔William Langley. ''('We know how to use our mighty weight and the power of a full and voluptuous body' )'' — telegraph.co.uk. Retrieved 6 December 2007.〕 Both came from RAF backgrounds. They had grown up on the same base, even having had the same best friend, without ever meeting.〔 The comic duo originally did not get on well, and as far as Saunders was concerned, French was a "cocky little upstart". The distrust was mutual: French considered Saunders snooty and uptight.〔 French actually wanted to become a drama teacher,〔 whereas Saunders loathed the idea and had not fully understood what the course was about; thus, she disliked French for being enthusiastic and confident about the course.〔 Saunders was shocked to find that she was actually taking courses to become a teacher, as her mother had filled out the application form.〔 Her mother, however, was saddened when Saunders chose not to apply for an Oxbridge university education.〔 After the initial friction, while at college Saunders and French shared a flat together. French has remarked on Saunders's messy habits when sharing the house, stating, "When we lived together in Chalk Farm she had a room at the top of the house. We got broken into and the police said, 'Well, it is quite bad, but the worst is that room at the top.' And, of course, nobody had been in there."〔 The two performed together after graduation, working the festival, cabaret〔 and stand-up circuits. They formed a double-act called The Menopause Sisters. Saunders described the act, which involved wearing tampons in their ears, as "cringeworthy."〔 The manager of the club where they performed recalled, "They didn't seem to give a damn. There was no star quality about them at all."〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Jennifer Saunders」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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