biography
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| female
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| lived:
| (1958– )
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| biography:
| British comedy writer and actress. Trained at the Central School of Speech and Drama, London, she teamed up with Dawn French in a comedy act, taking it from clubs to theatre (An Evening with French and Saunders, 1989), and making a successful breakthrough into television with ‘The Comic Strip Presents ...’ (1990), ‘Girls on Top’ and five series of ‘French and Saunders’. She became internationally known following the success of her comedy series Absolutely Fabulous (1993–5, 2001; Emmy, 1993), starring herself and Joanna Lumley, which generated a US version in 1995. In 1999 she teamed up again with French in the series Let Them Eat Cake. |
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