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Salima Saxton is a British actress and writer. She graduated from Girton College, Cambridge University in 2000. She appears as a regular character in Jennifer Saunders' BBC1 comedy series Jam and Jerusalem.
Jennifer Jane Saunders (born 6 July 1958) is an English comedienne, screenwriter, actress and teacher. She has won three BAFTAs (including the BAFTA Fellowship), an International Emmy Award, a British Comedy Award, a Rose d'Or Light Entertainment Festival Award, two Writers' Guild of Great Britain Awards, and a People's Choice Award.
She first found widespread attention in the 1980s when she became a member of the Comic Strip after graduating from the Central School of Speech and Drama in London. With her comedy partner Dawn French, she wrote and starred in their eponymous sketch show, French and Saunders, for which she and French received a BAFTA fellowship in 2009. She received worldwide acclaim through the early to mid-1990s for writing and playing the lead role of Edina Monsoon in the sitcom Absolutely Fabulous.
She has guest-starred in the American sitcoms Roseanne and Friends, and won the American People's Choice Award for voicing the evil Fairy Godmother in DreamWorks' animated Shrek 2. In 2015 she voiced Queen Elizabeth II in the animated comedy film Minions.
Jan Hartley showreel includes 2 short clips from the BBC comedy "Jam And Jerusalem". Series 2, episode 3. Written by Jennifer Saunders and Abigail Wilson. Starring, in no particular order, Jan Hartley, Dawn French, Jennifer Saunders, Sue Johnston, Maggie Steed, Pauline Mclynn, Sally Phillips, David Mitchel, Patrick Barlow, Susie Aitchison, Rosie Cavaliero, Doreen Mantle, Salima Saxton. A short clip from "Falstaff" by Verdi, adapted by Tony Britten for Capriol Films. The clip features, in no particular order, Rosamund Shelley, Marilyn Cutts, Andy Morton Katie Lovell and Jan Hartley. Youtube sensation, "British Airways Commercial Alternative" filmed at Kilworth House Hotel info@kilworthhouse.co.uk and Starring Nicola Keen and Jan Hartley. On piano, Dominic Barlow. Music by Delibes, and Lyri...
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Cast: Alexander Kirk, Beattie Edmondson, Charles Dance, Clive Russell, David Mitchell, Dawn French, Doreen Mantle, Ebony the Dog, Elanor Grimes, Freya Edmondson, Hazel John, Jan Hartley, Jennifer Saunders, Joanna Lumley, Maggie Steed, Marcia Warren, Menna Trussler, Nigel Lindsay, Patricia Potter, Patrick Barlow, Pauline McLynn, Robbie Richardson, Rosie Cavaliero, Salima Saxton, Sally Phillips, Simon Farnaby, Simon Saunders, Sue Johnston, Suzy Aitchison, Thomas Assafuah, Tim Vine, Wendy Hill
Jan Hartley showreel includes 2 short clips from the BBC comedy "Jam And Jerusalem". Series 2, episode 3. Written by Jennifer Saunders and Abigail Wilson. Starring, in no particular order, Jan Hartley, Dawn French, Jennifer Saunders, Sue Johnston, Maggie Steed, Pauline Mclynn, Sally Phillips, David Mitchel, Patrick Barlow, Susie Aitchison, Rosie Cavaliero, Doreen Mantle, Salima Saxton. A short clip from "Falstaff" by Verdi, adapted by Tony Britten for Capriol Films. The clip features, in no particular order, Rosamund Shelley, Marilyn Cutts, Andy Morton Katie Lovell and Jan Hartley. Youtube sensation, "British Airways Commercial Alternative" filmed at Kilworth House Hotel info@kilworthhouse.co.uk and Starring Nicola Keen and Jan Hartley. On piano, Dominic Barlow. Music by Delibes, and Lyri...