Dawn French Biography
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Dawn French (born October 11, 1957) is a
British comedienne and actress best known as one half of the comic duo
French & Saunders, the other half being Jennifer Saunders of Absolutely
Fabulous fame.
French was born in Holyhead, Wales. She
first came to public attention as a member of The Comic Strip -- part of
the alternative comedy scene in the early 1980s. Here she met her future
husband Lenny Henry, with whom she has an adopted daughter. A successful
television series French and Saunders followed in 1987. Her first
post-Saunders project was Murder Most Horrid, a dark comedy satire of
murder mysteries.
Her biggest solo television role to date
has been as the title figure in the long running BBC comedy The Vicar of
Dibley, created by Richard Curtis. Since finishing The Vicar of Dibley,
she starred in the BBC sitcom Wild West, in which she plays a woman
living in Cornwall who is a lesbian more through lack of choice than any
specific natural urge. This series was not met with as much success as
her earlier role. She played the "Fat Lady" in the film adaptation of
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, replacing the less well-known
actress Elizabeth Spriggs who played the character in the first film of
the series.
As a particularly large woman, she is known
for her efforts to promote the notion that big can be beautiful. As part
of this she has her own line of clothes, Sixteen 47, deriving its name
from the statistic that 47% of the British female population are at
least a size 16. It aims to produce clothes that larger woman can look
beautiful in. For her large size and admitted chocoholism, she was
chosen as the face of the confection, Terry's Chocolate Orange using the
slogan "It's not Terry's, it's mine."
In 2001, she and Saunders declined an OBE.
In 2003, she was listed in The Observer as one of the 50 funniest acts
in British comedy.
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