Dawn French
- 67 years old
- Welsh
- Actor, writer and comedian
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Need a laugh? It's French and Saunders to the rescue
When the days are cold and dark and the times are bleak, you have to take the laughs where you can get them. So thank goodness for Dawn French and Jennifer Saunders, charging to the rescue like knights on a white stallion - or perhaps more like two drunk aunties on a pantomime horse.
Charlotte Runcie, The Telegraph, 6th January 2021Dawn French blagged £17,000 Concorde tickets
Dawn French once bagged £17,000 of Concorde tickets by dressing up as a priest as she cashed in on her Vicar Of Dibley fame.
She revealed British Airways gave her the gift for posing as her character, Geraldine Granger, at a leaving party for a member of their cabin crew.
Clemmie Moodie, The Sun, 27th December 2020Review: Roald & Beatrix: The Tail Of The Curious Mouse
Festive nostalgia marred by Dahl's real-life antisemitism.
Adam White, The Independent, 24th December 2020Review: Roald & Beatrix: The Tail Of The Curious Mouse
This inventive drama, that imagined Roald Dahl paying Beatrix Potter a visit, lacked a sprinkling of Christmas magic.
Anita Singh, The Telegraph, 24th December 2020Review: Roald & Beatrix: The Tail Of The Curious Mouse
Twinkly tale for troubled times.
Joseph Walsh, The Arts Desk, 24th December 2020Dawn French interview
Dawn French on her latest book, playing Beatrix Potter and bringing back The Vicar Of Dibley for Christmas
Miranda Sawyer, Radio Times, 19th December 2020Dibley viewers 'in tears' over Emma Chambers tribute
The Vicar Of Dibley viewers were left in "floods of tears" after Dawn French paid an emotional tribute to her late co-star Emma Chambers.
Isobel Lewis, The Independent, 15th December 2020Dawn French wasn't the first choice for Dibley
The hit 90s comedy recently returned to the BBC for a series of lockdown specials and producer Peter Bennett-Jones has opened up on some behind-the-scenes secrets, revealing that Richard Curtis never actually wrote the role of Geraldine Grainger for Dawn.
Rebecca Lewis, The Sun, 14th December 2020The Vicar Of Dibley in Lockdown, review
Did the Vicar taking a knee warrant such pearl-clutching?
Michael Hogan, The Telegraph, 14th December 2020Why is The Vicar of Dibley taking the knee?
Even fictional characters are now expected to deliver woke sermons.
Paddy Hannam, Spiked, 8th December 2020