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Known For
Acting
Birthday
October 11, 1957
Place of Birth
Holyhead, Anglesey, Wales, UK
Also Known As
- 돈 프렌치
- Dawn Roma French
Dawn French
0.7 Popularity
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.
Known For
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Gramma Leeba
BeddyByes
2025
5.0
Self (archive footage)
Kirsty MacColl at the BBC
2024
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Self (archive footage)
Joan Rivers at the BBC
2024
0.0
Narrator
The Nevermets
2024
8.5
Self
Dawn French Is a Huge Twat
2023
7.0
Self - featured artist
imagine... French & Saunders: Pointed, Bitchy, Bitter
2023
6.9
Sister Marie (voice)
The Magician's Elephant
2023
0.0
Self (archive material)
Comedy Classics: The Vicar of Dibley
2022
4.0
Twit
Red Riding Hood: After Ever After
2022
6.4
Bowers
Death on the Nile
2022
Credits
BeddyByes
as Gramma Leeba
2025
0.0
Kirsty MacColl at the BBC
as Self (archive footage)
2024
5.0
Joan Rivers at the BBC
as Self (archive footage)
2024
0.0
The Nevermets
as Narrator
2024
0.0
Dawn French Is a Huge Twat
as Self
2023
8.5
imagine... French & Saunders: Pointed, Bitchy, Bitter
as Self - featured artist
2023
7.0
The Magician's Elephant
as Sister Marie (voice)
2023
6.9
Comedy Classics: The Vicar of Dibley
as Self (archive material)
2022
0.0
Red Riding Hood: After Ever After
as Twit
2022
4.0
Death on the Nile
as Bowers
2022
6.4
🎬
Walk the Line
as Self - Judge
2021
0.0
An Audience with Adele
as Self
2021
8.3
The Secret World Of...
as Self - Narrator
2021
0.0
French & Saunders: Funny Women
as Self
2021
8.0
The Vicar of Dibley: Inside Out
as Self
2021
0.0
Roald & Beatrix: The Tail of the Curious Mouse
as Beatrix Potter
2020
5.9
A Baby Reindeer's First Christmas
as Narrator
2020
0.0
The Vicar of Dibley: In Lockdown
as Geraldine Granger
2020
6.0
The Trouble with Maggie Cole
as Maggie Cole
2020
6.4
Completely Bad News
as Tracy
2019
0.0
RuPaul's Drag Race UK
as Self - Guest Judge
2019
7.2
300 Years of French & Saunders
2017
0.0
Comic Relief: Red Nose Day
as Self
2017
9.0
Little Big Shots
as Host
2017
0.0
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Confessions of the Paparazzi
as Self
2017
0.0
Dawn French Live: 30 Million Minutes
as Self
2016
7.4
Delicious
as Gina Benelli
2016
6.3
Darcey Bussell: My Life on the BBC
as Self
2016
0.0
British Sitcom: 60 Years of Laughing at Ourselves
as Various Characters (archive footage) (uncredited)
2016
5.7
Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie
as Interviewer
2016
5.3
Travel Man: 48 Hours in...
as Self - Guest
2015
6.6
The Wrong Mans
as Linda
2013
7.3
Heading Out
as Frances
2013
5.8
Five Go to Rehab
as George
2012
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30 Years of Comic Strip
2012
0.0
Superstar
as Self - Chief Judge
2012
0.0
Matthew Bourne's Christmas
as Self - Host
2011
10.0
🎬
Michael Bublé: Home for Christmas
as Self
2011
6.8
Catherine Tate: Laughing at the Noughties
as Self
2011
10.0
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Gentlemen Prefer French & Saunders
2011
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French & Saunders: The Ingenue Years
2011
0.0
Psychoville Halloween Special
as Joy Aston
2010
0.0
Roger & Val Have Just Got In
as Val Stevenson
2010
7.4
Coraline: The Making of 'Coraline'
as Self
2009
5.0
Psychoville
as Joy Aston
2009
6.8
Coraline
as Miss Miriam Forcible / Other Forcible (voice)
2009
7.9
French and Saunders: Still Alive
as Self
2008
5.2
Lark Rise to Candleford
as Caroline Arless
2008
8.3
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Dawn French's Boys Who Do Comedy
as Presenter
2007
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More Dawn French's Boys Who Do: Comedy
as Presenter
2007
5.0
A Bucket O' French and Saunders
2007
6.2
Donizetti: La Fille du Régiment
as La Duchesse de Crackentorp
2007
8.0
The Graham Norton Show
as Self
2007
7.2
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Comedy Shuffle
2007
0.0
Jam and Jerusalem
as Rosie Bales
2006
7.0
Love and Other Disasters
as Therapist
2006
5.8
The One Show
as Self - Guest
2006
4.5
The One Show
as Self
2006
4.5
When Comedy Changed Forever
as Self (archive material)
2006
0.0
🎬
Davina
2006
0.0
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
as Mrs. Beaver (voice)
2005
7.1
The F Word
2005
6.2
The Comic Strip - A Retrospective
as Self
2005
6.0
🎬
Comic Aid
2005
5.0
Agatha Christie's Marple
as Janet Erskine
2004
7.7
Remember the Secret Policeman's Ball?
as Self - Narrator
2004
4.8
The Paul O'Grady Show
2004
4.6
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
as The Fat Lady
2004
8.0
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Bosom Pals
2004
0.0
Wild West
as Mary Trewednack
2002
6.2
Dawn French's Girls Who Do Comedy
2002
6.3
The Best of French & Saunders
as Various
2002
0.0
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Pongwiffy
2002
0.0
V Graham Norton
as Self
2002
5.0
🎬
Ted and Alice
2002
2.0
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Happiness
as Dawn French
2001
6.0
Kirsty: The Life and Songs of Kirsty MacColl
as Self
2001
0.0
French & Saunders - Live
as Various roles
2000
8.5
Maybe Baby
as Charlene
2000
5.4
The Nearly Complete and Utter History of Everything
2000
0.0
David Copperfield
as Mrs. Crupp
1999
7.1
Watership Down
1999
7.5
Let Them Eat Cake
1999
6.8
Milk
as Virginia
1999
2.0
Four Men in a Car
as Stella
1998
0.0
Parkinson
as Self
1998
0.0
Sex & Chocolate
as Bev Bodger
1997
7.0
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Treasure Island
as Jim Hawkins
1997
0.0
The Adventures of Pinocchio
as Baker's Wife
1996
5.2
TFI Friday
as Self
1996
6.8
🎬
Look at the State We're In!
as Clerk
1995
0.0
The Vicar of Dibley
as Revd Geraldine Granger
1994
7.3
Harry Enfield and Chums
as Mrs Goggins
1994
7.1
Dusty
as Self - Presenter
1994
8.0
Tender Loving Care
as Elaine Dobbs
1993
0.0
The Legends of Treasure Island
as Jim Hawkins (voice)
1993
7.4
The Legends of Treasure Island
as Jim Hawkins (voice)
1993
8.0
Space Virgins from Planet Sex
as Gaynor
1993
0.0
French & Saunders: At the Movies
1993
7.5
🎬
In Dreams
as Driving Instructor
1992
7.0
Absolutely Fabulous
as Kathy
1992
7.5
Red Nose of Courage
as Glynis Kinnock
1992
0.0
Amnesty International's Big 30
as Self
1991
4.0
Murder Most Horrid
as Various characters
1991
6.6
The Tale of Little Pig Robinson
as Porcas
1990
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French & Saunders LIVE
1990
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Spaghetti Hoops
as Francesca
1990
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Oxford
as Caroline
1990
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South Atlantic Raiders: Part 1
as Frances / Mrs. Shines
1990
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South Atlantic Raiders: Part 2 Argie Bargie!
as Frances
1990
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GLC: The Carnage Continues
as Cher as Joan Ruddock
1990
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The Secret Policeman’s Biggest Ball
as Self
1989
7.5
Communicators From Hell
1989
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Bosses From Hell
1989
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Employees From Hell
1989
0.0
An Audience With Victoria Wood
as Self
1988
5.2
The Storyteller
as Badsister 2
1988
8.1
Mr Jolly Lives Next Door
as Mrs. Cooper
1988
8.2
More Bad News
as Rachel
1988
9.8
The Strike
as Verity/Old Lady/Celebrity
1988
7.0
Eat the Rich
as Debbie Draws
1987
6.2
Going Live!
as Self
1987
6.0
French & Saunders
as Various Characters
1987
7.5
🎬
The Silurian Disruption
as Silurian #1
1987
0.0
Experiment IV
as Lab Assistant 1
1986
4.0
The Comic Relief Utterly Utterly Rude Video Live
1986
6.0
Comedians Do It On Stage
as Self
1986
0.0
Private Enterprise
as Nayler
1986
0.0
Consuela (or, The New Mrs Saunders)
as Consuela
1986
0.0
The Supergrass
as Andrea
1985
6.2
Girls On Top
as Amanda
1985
4.8
Happy Families
as Cook
1985
6.7
Slags
as Passion
1984
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Eddie Monsoon - a Life?
as Veronica
1984
0.0
Gino: Full Story and Pics
as Fiona/Frances
1984
0.0
A Fistful of Travellers' Cheques
as Jackie
1984
7.0
Susie
as Susie
1984
0.0
Dirty Movie
as Monica
1984
0.0
Five Go Mad on Mescalin
as George
1983
0.0
Summer School
as Ursula
1983
0.0
Bad News
as Tracy
1983
8.7
The Beat Generation
as Eleanor
1983
0.0
War
as Hermine
1983
10.0
The Young Ones
as Christian Evangelist
1982
7.9
The Young Ones
as Devil in Advert
1982
7.9
The Young Ones
as Easter Bunny
1982
7.9
The Comic Strip Presents...
as George
1982
7.4
The Comic Strip Presents...
as Passion
1982
7.4
The Comic Strip Presents...
as Tracy
1982
7.4
The Comic Strip Presents...
as Susie
1982
7.4
The Comic Strip Presents...
as Veronica
1982
7.4
The Comic Strip Presents...
as Ursula
1982
7.4
The Comic Strip Presents...
as Hermine
1982
7.4
The Comic Strip Presents...
as Jackie/First Nun
1982
7.4
The Comic Strip Presents...
as Consuela
1982
7.4
The Comic Strip Presents...
as Eleanor
1982
7.4
The Comic Strip Presents...
as Monica
1982
7.4
The Comic Strip Presents...
as Nayler
1982
7.4
The Comic Strip Presents...
as Fiona/Frances
1982
7.4
The Comic Strip Presents...
as Verity/Old Lady/Celebrity
1982
7.4
The Comic Strip Presents...
as Rachel
1982
7.4
The Comic Strip Presents...
as Mrs. Cooper
1982
7.4
The Comic Strip Presents...
as Frances/Mrs. Shines
1982
7.4
The Comic Strip Presents...
as Frances
1982
7.4
The Comic Strip Presents...
as Joan
1982
7.4
The Comic Strip Presents...
as Francesca
1982
7.4
The Comic Strip Presents...
as Caroline
1982
7.4
The Comic Strip Presents...
as Gaynor
1982
7.4
The Comic Strip Presents...
as Glynis Kinnock
1982
7.4
The Comic Strip Presents...
as Stella
1982
7.4
The Comic Strip Presents...
1982
7.4
Five Go Mad in Dorset
as George
1982
0.0
Wogan
as Self
1982
4.5
The Comic Strip
1981
0.0
An Audience with...
as Self
1978
5.3
The Secret Policeman's Ball
as Self
1976
5.0
The BAFTA Awards
as Self
1949
10.0
🎬
Can You Keep a Secret?
as Debbie Fendon
N/A
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