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 Dawn was educated at a weekly boarding school in Plymouth and spent the weekends with her grandparents who lived nearby She never felt at home at the school as it was too posh. She met Jennifer Saunders while training to be a teacher at the Central School of Speech and Drama and became flat mates and started writing together. When the Comedy Store opened they started attending and it was there that she met Lenny Henry who she later married.
Bio:
Dawn was educated at a weekly boarding school in Plymouth and spent the weekends with her grandparents who lived nearby She never felt at home at the school as it was too posh. She met Jennifer Saunders while training to be a teacher at the Central School of Speech and Drama and became flat mates and started writing together. When the Comedy Store opened they started attending and it was there that she met Lenny Henry who she later married.
Tivia:
She has a deep and abiding interest in helping women of size find attractive clothing and, to that end, co-wrote two books on knitting -- "Big Knits" and "Great Big Knits" -- and founded a clothing store that carries fashionable and affordable designs.When she was age 19, her father committed suicide.She and her first husband, Lenny Henry, have a daughter, Billie Henry (b.1991 and adopted in infancy).She is the longtime comedy partner of Jennifer Saunders, though each works on projects without the other.She originally studied to be a drama teacher.In 2017, Doctor Who (1963) legend Tom Baker, who is almost always voted the best Doctor from the original run of the series, nominated French as a good choice for the Doctor in Doctor Who (2005) because "she's got such a wry sense of humour and also has a way with her that faintly suggests she's got secrets".Her second husband, Mark Bignell, proposed to her during a gondola ride in Venice.In 2011, French underwent a hysterectomy operation after unintentionally losing almost 100lbs.RAF Leconfield archive footage from summer 1961 shows Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother going to tea at the home of Sgt Denys French and family, including his daughter Dawn French, aged 3 years and 9 months. A section of the footage was included in French's comedy tour/video ''Thirty Million Minutes''.Dawn and her adopted daughter Billie, both have the middle name 'Roma', after Dawn's mother Felicity Roma.French was born in Anglesey, Wales of English, Irish, and Cornish descent.French has stated the she deliberately lost weight around the time of her divorce from Lenny Henry in order to have a hysterectomy via keyhole surgery.Thanked in the credits of the film King Ralph.She ,Imelda Staunton and Billy Connelly turned down a Peter Greenaway 1998 film because it involved full frontal nudity. |
| Name: |
Dawn French |
Type: |
Actress,Writer,Producer (IMDB) |
| Area: |
All World |
Platform: |
IMDB |
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Business scope: |
Actress,Writer,Producer |
| Products for sale: |
Actress,Writer,Producer |
| Last update: |
2024-07-01 04:19:51 |
| Height: |
5' (1.52 m) |
| Biography: |
Dawn was educated at a weekly boarding school in Plymouth and spent the weekends with her grandparents who lived nearby She never felt at home at the school as it was too posh. She met Jennifer Saunders while training to be a teacher at the Central S |
| Trivia: |
She has a deep and abiding interest in helping women of size find attractive clothing and, to that end, co-wrote two books on knitting -- "Big Knits" and "Great Big Knits" -- and founded a clothing store that carries fashionable and affordable designs.When she was age 19, her father committed suicide.She and her first husband, Lenny Henry, have a daughter, Billie Henry (b.1991 and adopted in infancy).She is the longtime comedy partner of Jennifer Saunders, though each works on projects without the other.She originally studied to be a drama teacher.In 2017, Doctor Who (1963) legend Tom Baker, who is almost always voted the best Doctor from the original run of the series, nominated French as a good choice for the Doctor in Doctor Who (2005) because "she's got such a wry sense of humour and also has a way with her that faintly suggests she's got secrets".Her second husband, Mark Bignell, proposed to her during a gondola ride in Venice.In 2011, French underwent a hysterectomy operation after unintentionally losing almost 100lbs.RAF Leconfield archive footage from summer 1961 shows Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother going to tea at the home of Sgt Denys French and family, including his daughter Dawn French, aged 3 years and 9 months. A section of the footage was included in French's comedy tour/video ''Thirty Million Minutes''.Dawn and her adopted daughter Billie, both have the middle name 'Roma', after Dawn's mother Felicity Roma.French was born in Anglesey, Wales of English, Irish, and Cornish descent.French has stated the she deliberately lost weight around the time of her divorce from Lenny Henry in order to have a hysterectomy via keyhole surgery.Thanked in the credits of the film King Ralph.She ,Imelda Staunton and Billy Connelly turned down a Peter Greenaway 1998 film because it involved full frontal nudity. |
| Trademarks: |
Often performs alongside Jennifer Saunders |
| Quotes: |
Brit sitcom is usually good character observation and less gags. The Americans love the comedy to be high gag quota and slick.
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Fawlty Towers (1975) was an enormous favorite. I once laughed so hard with my dad at this series that I actually wet my pants and then my dad wet his. We were in genuine physical pain with laughing. Lovely
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I am not, I repeat, NOT a lesbian - even though I'd like to be one when I grow up. |
| Job title: |
Actress,Writer,Producer |
| Others works: |
Appears in "BBC: Serious About Comedy" TV commercial for BBC America (2000)
1986: Plays a lab assistant in Kate Bush's science-fiction music video "Experiment IV."
Appeared in a business training video "The Balance Sheet Ba |
| Spouse: |
Mark Bignell (April 20, 2013 - present) Lenny Henry (October 20, 1984 - October 25, 2010) (divorced, 1 child) |
| Parents: |
Denys Vernon French
Felicity \"Roma\" O'Brien |
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