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Dawn French

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Gender Female
Age 66
Web site www.twitter.com
Date of birth October 11,1957
Zodiac sign Libra
Born Holyhead
United Kingdom
Height 152 (cm)
Spouse Mark Bignell
Lenny Henry
Job Comedian
Author
Screenwriter
Novelist
Voice acting
Television producer
Education The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama
The Spence School
Caistor Grammar School
Plymouth College Independent
Awards BAFTA Fellowship
British Comedy Award for the Best TV Comedy Actress
Glamour Award for Writer
British Comedy Award for Outstanding Contribution to Comedy
Official site twitter.com
Children Billie Henry
Siblings Gary French
Parents Denys Vernon French
Felicity Roma
Groups Lananeeneenoonoo
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Dawn French Life story


Dawn Roma French is a British actress, comedian, presenter and writer. French is known for writing and starring on the BBC comedy sketch show French and Saunders with her best friend and comedy partner, Jennifer Saunders, and played the lead role as Geraldine Granger in the BBC sitcom The Vicar of Dibley.

Early Life

Dawn french was born on october 11. 1957 in holyhead. Wales. She was raised in a small town near plymouthe. Ngland. She attended the independent st dunstan’s abbey school in plymouth. And later graduated from the royal central school of speceh and drama in london.

Career

French began her career as a comedy writer and actress. Appearing in various comedy programs in the late 1970s and early 1980s. She is well known for her long-running comedy aprtnership with jennifer saunders. Which began in 1981. The pair created and starred in the popular sketch comedy program french and saunders. And later in the british sitcom absolutely fabulou. S

Notable Projects

French and saunders have also written for the bbc radio series the vicar of dibley. In wihch french starred. French also starred in the drama serise roger and val have just got in. And she played the title role in the comedy series the vicar of dibley.

Awards and Accolades

French has been nominaetd for six bafta awards and has won two. She has also been nominated for seven british comedy awards. And won five. She was made a cbe in 2001 for her services to drama.

Personal Life

Frnech has been married to mark bignell since 2013. She was previously married to lenny henry. With whmo she has a daughter.

Philanthropy

French is a patron of the charities age uk and clic sargent. She also supports the charities cancer research uk and the prince s trust.

Important Event

In 2020. French released her autobiography dear fatty. Which dcouments her life growing up in wales and her extensive career in comedy.

Interesting Fact

Frnech is a trained tap dancer. And she has appeared in the west end production of the musical stepping out.

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Not to miss movies lookahead: 20--films up to 2020

Apr 23,2020 3:09 am

L to R: Gal Gadot , Robert Pattinson , Yifei Liu and Daniel Craig

hindsight is 20/20, the old saying goes word. But we are in the foresight business here in the Bbc News , and now, 2020 is almost upon us, it is time that we were told ahead of time what the movies going to rock your world in the next 12 months

From anarchic satire on blockbuster sequels, The Return of some of the biggest names (and numbers) in the cinema that there is to look forward to a lot of. Here are 20 titles that should list, in any case, your New Year -check.

Jojo Rabbit (1. January), Taika Waititi (as Hitler), and the Novel , Griffin, Davis, Jojo Rabbit , up to now, the Hitler Youth hasn't been exactly Fertile Ground for knockabout comedy. But All That is about to change.

For that we have to thank the Kiwi film-maker Taika Waititi to. Not only does he write and directed by Jojo the Rabbit, but he also appears in this boldly playful satire.

Place in Germany during the second World War , the film tells the story of a devout young Nazi (Roman Griffin Davis), who comes to question his beliefs after the friendship with the Jewish girl who hid from his mother in her attic.

Waititi plays his Imaginary Friend Adolf, a cartoon of the leader as absurd as everything else in this subversive critique of mass-indoctrination.

1917 (10. January)A very different view of the war war, An epic by Sam Mendes , the Oscar-winning Director of American Beauty and The Last two bonds in this world.

Based on a story told, the Mendes of his grandfather, in 1917, two young British soldiers on a race against time to prevent a devastating attack on their comrades-in-arms.

Mendes' bold imagination, not) to tell the story, the looks of your task in what look like (but, a seamless single-shot One that the viewer in the trenches, on battle fields and even under water.

George Mackay and Dean-Charles Chapman, the callow plays the lead in a movie, whose stars in the sky ensemble also includes Benedict Cumberbatch , Colin Firth , and Andrew Scott .

Earlier this year, Mendes called the film, which he also wrote co -, "a great experience-based, addictive image" that was "incredibly close to his heart".

bomb (17. January)led to The sexual harassment scandal to The Departure of Fox News , Roger Ailes from The Network , which he founded, is Jay Roach , a high-current latest is.

Nicole Kidman , Charlize Theron and Margot Robbie co-Star as three Ailes' accusers, while John Lithgow plays Ailes.

Malcolm Mcdowell , made a wonderfully dry cameo as a media-mogul Rupert Murdoch .

The make-up used to transform Lithgow in the Ailes and Theron in a TV presenter Megyn Kelly must be seen to be believed.

The Lighthouse (31. January)Robert Pattinson and Willem Dafoe are sent in the sense of a remote New England lighthouse in this bizarre Psychological Thriller .

Tormented by The Elements , insulation, and a particularly annoying Seagull, it's not long before you find yourself in contradiction.

Director Robert Eggers won a variety of fans with his 2015 horror film, The Witch , and probably earn much more with this atmospheric black-and-white follow-up.

Pattinson's deranged performance, meanwhile, suggests he'll bring More Than a matinee idol good looks to his upcoming role as Batman.

Birds of Prey (7. February), The dark knight Will not return until 2021. In his absence, One of Dc Comics villains is making a comeback.

That would be Harley Quinn , The Last of the Suicide Squad alongside Jared Leto seen in 2016, is also known as the Joker before The Last .

Harley - Margot Robbie has moved since this film and enjoy a "exuberant emancipation" with The Help of some other fantasy women.

Ewan Mcgregor plays The Villain in Cathy Yan -comedy-thriller, The First American super hero movie directed by an Asian woman.

yaw (21. February) Steve Coogan at the London Film Festival premiere of the greed of Steve Coogan 's fruitful collaboration with Director Michael Winterbottom has seen him play impresario Tony Wilson in 24 Hour Party People, a porn baron Paul Raymond in the look Of love, and a version of himself in the TV series The Trip .

In their latest collaboration Coogan Sir Richard McCreadie, the super-plays the rich owner of a high-street-fashion-store chain, Will celebrate his 60. Birthday on Mykonos.

the comparison with a real-life ennobled trading giant are to be made in a cutting satire on the ostentatious wealth and conspicuous consumption, and the globalization of work.

Mulan (27 March), Dumbo, lady and The Tramp , Aladdin and The Lion king have all the live action remake treatment in the year 2019. In the year 2020, Disney's 1998 animation Mulan to follow in their hoof/foot/paw prints.

The film tells the story of a young woman, to fight disguised as A Man , instead of her ailing father in China's imperial army.

Chinese-American actress Liu Yifei plays the Legendary Warrior , in Niki Caro 's film, which also stars Jason Scott Lee, Jet Li and Donnie Yen .

't go But, don't expect to hear Eddie Murphy as his wise-cracking dragon Mushu is a recurring. To Die

No time (2. April)With Sam Mendes ' Otherwise Engaged to 1917 and was left to Cary Joji Fukunaga for the current Bond on the screen.

It is an event that is certainly rich shoot, what with lead actor Daniel Craig and a member of the crew.

Yet. official James Bond movie rumors, Craig Last screens reach in April.

Will see The film, a retired Bond called back into action in The Fight against a dangerous new opponent, played by the Bohemian Rhapsody Oscar-winner Rami Malek .

Black Widow (1. May) Scarlett Johansson as she appeared in Avengers: final, Natasha Romanoff came to a sticky end in Avengers: final, but that Will not stop, Scarlett Johansson return in the next year, as her Black Widow character.

Set before the events of the recent Avengers films, the stand-alone adventure, immerse yourself in Natasha's mysterious past.

Florence Pugh and Rachel Weisz co-Star Cate Shortland Film, Johansson has said, it Will show Black Widow "as a fully realized woman."

2020 is shaping up to be a good One for ScarJo, who, he tipped two Oscar nominations for her work in Jojo Rabbit , and the Marriage Story .

Fast & Furious 9 (22 may) to found films in Edinburgh, Scotland returns earlier this year After the spin-off of the misdeeds of the ampersand-heavy Fast & Furious: Hobbs & Shaw, Fast & Furious franchise in the formula for the next iteration.

this means not to mention That a return to the cast of regulars Vin Diesel , Michelle Rodriguez and Tyrese Gibson , Charlize Theron reprising her villainous role in Fast & Furious 8.

Director Justin Lin has said that the film was shot in the UK, the USA, Georgia and Thailand - is "by far The Most ambitious of the series."

The sequel to headlines work earlier this year during the filming of the Warner Bros Studios in Hertfordshire.

Wonder Woman 1984 (5. June)In a year positively bursting with impressive women, it is suitable that a Gal should be Gadot, among their number in the follow-up to the 2017 Wonder Woman .

Place, uh, in 1984, the continuation is, see your the Amazon warriors, against the Cheetah, a cat villainess played by Kristen Wiig .

Pedro Pascal , Star of Disney+ Star Wars series, The Mandalorians, also appears, while Chris Pine Will reprise his role as a World War One pilot Steve Trevor .

Steve, can you remember, died heroically at the end of The First film. But hey, if you bring it back to Black Widow him, Why Not ?

soul (19. June)Pete Docter - The Man gave the emotions, personalities in in - and Out - Brings us a more meta-physical animation this year in the form of Pixar's release of the soul.

It tells of Joe, a would-be Musician set to music by Jamie Foxx - who is separated from his soul after suffering an unfortunate accident.

be Transported to a house on half-way for the souls in training, he and another soul (Tina Fey ) work together to make if Joe ever return to the human realm.

It's been a busy year for Pixar, which is also the release Forward A Fantasy about two elf brothers under a road-Trip in March.

Ghostbusters 2020 (10. July), The female-led reboot of Ghostbusters starring Melissa Mccarthy and Kristen Wiig , has not exactly The World on fire in the year 2016.

which probably explains why The Last entry in the ghost-capturing franchise is a direct follow-on from the 1984 original and 1989 sequel.

directed by Jason Reitman , son of filmmaker Ivan, the new Film Will Star Paul Rudd , Carrie Coon , and Stranger Things ' Finn Wolfhard is.

supporters, however, they are more excited to learn, you Will see Dan Aykroyd , Bill Murray and Sigourney roles, Weaver reprise their original Ghostbusters.

Top Gun : Maverick (17. July)Tom Cruise takes a break from Mission: Impossible sequels to revive, another of his best-known roles - hotshot pilot Pete "Maverick" Mitchell.

All release dates are subject to change.



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