Jennifer Jane Saunders is an English comedienne, screenwriter and actress. She has won three BAFTAs , an International Emmy Award, a British Comedy Award, a Rose dOr Light Entertainment Festival Award, two Writers Guild of Great Britain Awards, and a Peoples Choice Award.
Jennifer Saunders was born in Sleaford, Lincolnshire, England onJuly 1958. Her mother, Jane, was a biology teacher, and her father, Robert Thomas Saunders, served as a pilot in the Royal Air Force , reached the rank of Air Marshal and later worked for British Aerospace. She has three brothers. Because her father was in the armed forces, Saunders moved to different schools many times. She was educated from the age of five toin boarding schools and then at St Pauls Girls School, an independent school in west London. After school, she worked for a year in Italy as an au pair.
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