Name: Dawn French
Date of Birth: 11 October 1957
Place of Birth: Holyhead, Wales
Dawn French has been on the map since 1981, when she acted in the show
The Comic Strip. Now is she not only an actress, she's the co-writer and co-star of her show
French & Saunders. Her recent works include being The Fat Lady in
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Mrs. Beaver in
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, and on stage in
A Midsummer Night's Dream.
In her lifetime, Dawn has been nominated for eleven various awards. She's currently won a British Comedy Award, a Writers' Guild of Great Britain Award for TV, and shares a Rose d'Or Light Entertainment Festival Award with Jennifer Saunders.
Interesting Facts:
* Studied at London's Central School of Speech and Drama where she met her future comedy partner Jennifer Saunders
* Wrote best-selling autobiography, entitled
Dear Fatty, full of letters to the different people who have been in her life
* Acted in 25 different television shows, 11 plays, and 5 films
Recent Filmography
* Coraline (2009) (Voice)
* Fille du régiment, La (2009) (TV)
* Psychoville (2009) (TV)
* Lark Rise to Candleford (2008) (7 episodes TV)
* Jam & Jerusalem (2006-2008) (13 episodes TV)
* The Vicar of Dibley (1994-2007) (24 episodes TV)
* Little Britain (2006) (2 episodes TV)
* Love and Other Disasters (2006) (Film)
* Marple: Sleeping Murder (2006) (TV)
* French and Saunders (1987-2007) (TV)
* The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (2005) (Voice)
* Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004) (Film)
Info from
Imdb.
French, Dawn - The Fat Lady 
