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
Movies
- The Chronicles of Narni...
2005
- Mr Jolly Lives Next Door
1988
- Love and Other Disasters
2006
- An Audience with Adele
2021
- The Magician's Elephant
2023
- Coraline
2009
- Remember the Secret Pol...
2004
- Kirsty: The Life and So...
2001
- When Comedy Changed For...
2006
- French and Saunders: St...
2008
- The Secret Policeman’s ...
1989
- The Supergrass
1985
- An Audience With Victor...
1988
- Comic Relief: Red Nose ...
2017
- Catherine Tate: Laughin...
2011
- The Best of French & Sa...
2002
- Matthew Bourne's Christ...
2011
- French & Saunders LIVE
1990
- Psychoville Halloween S...
2010
- Summer School
1983
- Five Go Mad in Dorset
1982
- The Legends of Treasure...
1993
- Four Men in a Car
1998
- Eddie Monsoon - a Life?
1984
- War
1983
- The Beat Generation
1983
- Five Go Mad on Mescalin
1983
- Susie
1984
- Dirty Movie
1984
- Gino: Full Story and Pi...
1984
- Consuela (or, The New M...
1986
- Slags
1984
- Private Enterprise
1986
- South Atlantic Raiders:...
1990
- Oxford
1990
- South Atlantic Raiders:...
1990
- Red Nose of Courage
1992
- Spaghetti Hoops
1990
- Five Go to Rehab
2012
- Dawn French Is a Huge T...
2023
- imagine... French & Sau...
2023
- 30 Years of Comic Strip
2012
- Michael Bublé: Home for...
2011
- The Comic Strip - A Ret...
2005
- Darcey Bussell: My Life...
2016
- Amnesty International's...
1991
- The Adventures of Pinoc...
1996
- Comic Aid
2005
- Eat the Rich
1987
- Red Riding Hood: After ...
2022
- Comedy Classics: The Vi...
2022
- Treasure Island
1997
- Absolutely Fabulous: Th...
2016
- Tender Loving Care
1993
- The Comic Strip
1981
- French & Saunders - Live
2000
- Sex & Chocolate
1997
- Donizetti: La Fille du ...
2007
- In Dreams
1992
- Comedians Do It On Stage
1986
- Dawn French Live: 30 Mi...
2016
- Milk
1999
- British Sitcom: 60 Year...
2016
- Harry Potter and the Pr...
2004
- The Strike
1988
- Maybe Baby
2000
- 300 Years of French & S...
2017
- More Bad News
1988
- Bad News
1983
- Space Virgins from Plan...
1993
- Dusty
1994
- Death on the Nile
2022
- GLC: The Carnage Contin...
1990
- Completely Bad News
2019
- The Tale of Little Pig ...
1990
- The Comic Relief Utterl...
1986
- Gentlemen Prefer French...
2011
- French & Saunders: The ...
2011
- Coraline: The Making of...
2009
- Roald & Beatrix: The Ta...
2020
- The Vicar of Dibley: In...
2020
- A Baby Reindeer's First...
2020
- The Vicar of Dibley: In...
2021
- French & Saunders: At t...
1993
- A Fistful of Travellers...
1984
- French & Saunders: Funn...
2021
- Joan Rivers at the BBC
2024
- Kirsty MacColl at the B...
2024
- Bosses From Hell
1989
- Communicators From Hell
1989
- Employees From Hell
1989
- The Silurian Disruption
1987
- It’s Lulu
1999
- Victoria Wood: Seen on ...
2009
- Becoming Victoria Wood
2026
- Experiment IV
- Design on the Nile
2022
- Branagh/Poirot
2022
- Happy Families
1985
- The Big Night In
2020
TV Shows
- French & Saunders
1987
- Murder Most Horrid
1991
- Let Them Eat Cake
1999
- The F Word
2005
- The One Show
2006
- Girls On Top
1985
- Davina
2006
- RuPaul's Drag Race UK
2019
- TFI Friday
1996
- The Vicar of Dibley
1994
- The Paul O'Grady Show
2004
- The Secret Policeman's ...
1976
- The Young Ones
1982
- The Young Ones
1982
- Wild West
2002
- Lark Rise to Candleford
2008
- The Storyteller
1988
- The Young Ones
1982
- Happy Families
1985
- The Legends of Treasure...
1993
- A Bucket O' French and ...
2007
- V Graham Norton
2002
- Psychoville
2009
- Comedy Shuffle
2007
- Pongwiffy
2002
- Ted and Alice
2002
- Bosom Pals
2004
- Roger & Val Have Just G...
2010
- Heading Out
2013
- The One Show
2006
- Walk the Line
2021
- The Graham Norton Show
2007
- Happiness
2001
- An Audience with...
1978
- Little Big Shots
2017
- Wogan
1982
- David Copperfield
1999
- Going Live!
1987
- Delicious
2016
- Superstar
2012
- Dawn French's Boys Who ...
2007
- More Dawn French's Boys...
2007
- Agatha Christie's Marple
2004
- The Secret World Of...
2021
- Travel Man: 48 Hours in...
2015
- Absolutely Fabulous
1992
- Dawn French's Girls Who...
2002
- The Nevermets
2024
- The Nearly Complete and...
2000
- The Trouble with Maggie...
2020
- The Comic Strip Present...
1982
- The Comic Strip Present...
1982
- The Comic Strip Present...
1982
- The Comic Strip Present...
1982
- The Comic Strip Present...
1982
- The Comic Strip Present...
1982
- The Comic Strip Present...
1982
- The Comic Strip Present...
1982
- The Comic Strip Present...
1982
- The Comic Strip Present...
1982
- The Comic Strip Present...
1982
- The Comic Strip Present...
1982
- The Comic Strip Present...
1982
- The Comic Strip Present...
1982
- The Comic Strip Present...
1982
- The Comic Strip Present...
1982
- The Comic Strip Present...
1982
- The Comic Strip Present...
1982
- The Comic Strip Present...
1982
- The Comic Strip Present...
1982
- The Comic Strip Present...
1982
- Can You Keep a Secret?
2026
- The Wrong Mans
2013
- The Comic Strip Present...
1982
- The BAFTA Awards
1949
- Parkinson
1998
- Harry Enfield and Chums
1994
- BeddyByes
2025
- Jam and Jerusalem
2006
- More Dawn French's Girl...
2006
- Look at the State We're...
1995
- Shaun Tan's Tales from ...
2026