Personal Info
Birthday
October 11, 1957
Place of Birth
Holyhead, Anglesey, Wales, UK
Known For
Acting
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.
Acting Filmography (150)
No Backdrop
6.0
Becoming Victoria Wood
Movie2026
7.4
Can You Keep a Secret?
TV Series2026
9.0
Shaun Tan's Tales from Outer Suburbia
TV Series2026
0.0
BeddyByes
TV Series2025
6.5
Kirsty MacColl at the BBC
Movie2024
No Backdrop
0.0
Joan Rivers at the BBC
Movie2024
0.0
The Nevermets
TV Series2024
8.5
Dawn French Is a Huge Twat
Movie2023
7.0
imagine... French & Saunders: Pointed, Bitchy, Bitter
Movie2023
6.8
The Magician's Elephant
Movie2023
No Backdrop
0.0
Comedy Classics: The Vicar of Dibley
Movie2022
7.0
Red Riding Hood: After Ever After
Movie2022
6.4
Death on the Nile
Movie2022
8.4
An Audience with Adele
Movie2021
0.0
The Secret World Of...
TV Series2021
No Backdrop
8.0
French & Saunders: Funny Women
Movie2021
No Backdrop
0.0
The Vicar of Dibley: Inside Out
Movie2021
6.0
Roald & Beatrix: The Tail of the Curious Mouse
Movie2020
10.0
A Baby Reindeer's First Christmas
Movie2020
6.0
The Vicar of Dibley: In Lockdown
Movie2020
No Backdrop
9.0
The Big Night In
Movie2020
6.4
The Trouble with Maggie Cole
TV Series2020
0.0
Completely Bad News
Movie2019
7.1
RuPaul's Drag Race UK
TV Series2019
0.0
300 Years of French & Saunders
Movie2017
9.0
Comic Relief: Red Nose Day
Movie2017
0.0
Little Big Shots
TV Series2017
7.4
Dawn French Live: 30 Million Minutes
Movie2016
6.0
Delicious
TV Series2016
No Backdrop
0.0
Darcey Bussell: My Life on the BBC
Movie2016
5.7
British Sitcom: 60 Years of Laughing at Ourselves
Movie2016
5.3
Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie
Movie2016
0.0
TFI Friday
TV Series2015
6.4
Travel Man: 48 Hours in...
TV Series2015
7.3
The Wrong Mans
TV Series2013
5.4
Heading Out
TV Series2013
0.0
Five Go to Rehab
Movie2012
No Backdrop
5.0
30 Years of Comic Strip
Movie2012
No Backdrop
0.0
Superstar
TV Series2012
10.0
Matthew Bourne's Christmas
Movie2011
10.0
Catherine Tate: Laughing at the Noughties
Movie2011
No Backdrop
0.0
French & Saunders: The Ingenue Years
Movie2011
No Backdrop
0.0
Gentlemen Prefer French & Saunders
Movie2011
No Backdrop
0.0
Psychoville Halloween Special
Movie2010
7.4
Roger & Val Have Just Got In
TV Series2010
No Backdrop
0.0
Victoria Wood: Seen on TV
Movie2009
5.0
Coraline: The Making of 'Coraline'
Movie2009
6.9
Psychoville
TV Series2009
7.9
Coraline
Movie2009
5.2
French & Saunders: Still Alive
Movie2008
8.4
Lark Rise to Candleford
TV Series2008
5.0
More Dawn French's Boys Who Do: Comedy
TV Series2007
6.2
A Bucket O' French and Saunders
TV Series2007
8.0
Donizetti: La Fille du Régiment
Movie2007
7.2
The Graham Norton Show
TV Series2007
0.0
More Dawn French's Girls Who Do: Comedy
TV Series2006
7.1
Jam and Jerusalem
TV Series2006
5.7
Love and Other Disasters
Movie2006
4.4
The One Show
TV Series2006
No Backdrop
0.0
When Comedy Changed Forever
Movie2006
7.1
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
Movie2005
No Backdrop
6.2
The F Word
TV Series2005
No Backdrop
7.5
The Comic Strip - A Retrospective
Movie2005
7.8
Agatha Christie's Marple
TV Series2004
4.8
Remember the Secret Policeman's Ball?
Movie2004
No Backdrop
5.1
The Paul O'Grady Show
TV Series2004
8.0
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
Movie2004
6.5
Wild West
TV Series2002
7.3
Dawn French's Girls Who Do Comedy
TV Series2002
No Backdrop
0.0
The Best of French & Saunders
Movie2002
No Backdrop
5.3
V Graham Norton
TV Series2002
No Backdrop
6.3
Happiness
TV Series2001
No Backdrop
10.0
Kirsty: The Life and Songs of Kirsty MacColl
Movie2001
No Backdrop
8.3
French & Saunders - Live
Movie2000
5.4
Maybe Baby
Movie2000
No Backdrop
0.0
The Nearly Complete and Utter History of Everything
TV Series2000
7.1
David Copperfield
TV Series1999
7.0
It’s Lulu
Movie1999
7.3
Let Them Eat Cake
TV Series1999
No Backdrop
4.0
Milk
Movie1999
No Backdrop
0.0
Four Men in a Car
Movie1998
No Backdrop
0.0
Parkinson
TV Series1998
No Backdrop
7.0
Sex & Chocolate
Movie1997
5.3
The Adventures of Pinocchio
Movie1996
7.1
TFI Friday
TV Series1996
No Backdrop
0.0
French and Saunders' Christmas Carol
Movie1994
7.3
The Vicar of Dibley
TV Series1994
7.2
Harry Enfield and Chums
TV Series1994
8.0
Dusty
Movie1994
No Backdrop
0.0
Tender Loving Care
Movie1993
8.0
The Legends of Treasure Island
Movie1993
7.9
The Legends of Treasure Island
TV Series1993
No Backdrop
0.0
Space Virgins from Planet Sex
Movie1993
No Backdrop
7.5
French & Saunders: At the Movies
Movie1993
7.6
Absolutely Fabulous
TV Series1992
No Backdrop
8.0
Red Nose of Courage
Movie1992
No Backdrop
4.0
Amnesty International's Big 30
Movie1991
6.9
Murder Most Horrid
TV Series1991
No Backdrop
0.0
The Tale of Little Pig Robinson
Movie1990
0.0
French & Saunders LIVE
Movie1990
No Backdrop
0.0
Spaghetti Hoops
Movie1990
No Backdrop
0.0
Oxford
Movie1990
No Backdrop
0.0
South Atlantic Raiders: Part 1
Movie1990
No Backdrop
0.0
South Atlantic Raiders: Part 2 Argie Bargie!
Movie1990
No Backdrop
0.0
GLC: The Carnage Continues
Movie1990
7.2
Screen One
TV Series1989
No Backdrop
7.7
The Secret Policeman’s Biggest Ball
Movie1989
No Backdrop
0.0
Bosses From Hell
Movie1989
No Backdrop
0.0
Communicators From Hell
Movie1989
No Backdrop
0.0
Employees From Hell
Movie1989
No Backdrop
0.0
Customer Service From Hell
Movie1989
No Backdrop
0.0
Colleagues From Hell
Movie1989
No Backdrop
0.0
Interviewers From Hell
Movie1989
No Backdrop
0.0
French And Saunders - Christmas Special '88
Movie1988
6.1
An Audience With Victoria Wood
Movie1988
No Backdrop
0.0
The Storyteller: Sapsorrow
Movie1988
8.2
The Storyteller
TV Series1988
9.0
Mr Jolly Lives Next Door
Movie1988
9.8
More Bad News
Movie1988
No Backdrop
7.0
The Strike
Movie1988
6.2
Eat the Rich
Movie1987
No Backdrop
8.0
Going Live!
TV Series1987
7.4
French & Saunders
TV Series1987
8.0
The Comic Relief Utterly Utterly Rude Video Live
Movie1986
0.0
Comedians Do It On Stage
Movie1986
No Backdrop
0.0
Private Enterprise
Movie1986
No Backdrop
0.0
Consuela (or, The New Mrs Saunders)
Movie1986
6.1
The Supergrass
Movie1985
4.9
Girls On Top
TV Series1985
No Backdrop
0.0
Happy Families
Movie1985
7.3
Happy Families
TV Series1985
No Backdrop
2.0
Slags
Movie1984
0.0
Eddie Monsoon - a Life?
Movie1984
No Backdrop
0.0
Gino: Full Story and Pics
Movie1984
7.0
A Fistful of Travellers' Cheques
Movie1984
No Backdrop
0.0
Susie
Movie1984
No Backdrop
0.0
Dirty Movie
Movie1984
0.0
Five Go Mad on Mescalin
Movie1983
No Backdrop
0.0
Summer School
Movie1983
8.7
Bad News
Movie1983
No Backdrop
0.0
The Beat Generation
Movie1983
No Backdrop
10.0
War
Movie1983
7.9
The Young Ones
TV Series1982
0.0
Five Go Mad in Dorset
Movie1982
7.4
The Comic Strip Presents...
TV Series1982
5.3
Wogan
TV Series1982
8.0
The Comic Strip
Movie1981
5.3
An Audience with...
TV Series1978
5.0
The Secret Policeman's Ball
TV Series1976
10.0
The BAFTA Awards
TV Series1949