Julia Sawalha

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Female

Birthday

1968-09-09 (57 years old)

Place of Birth

Wandsworth, London, England

Julia Sawalha

Biography

Julia Sawalha (born September 9, 1968) is an English actress, who is best known for her role as Saffron "Saffy" Monsoon in the BBC sitcom Absolutely Fabulous. She is also known for portraying Lynda Day, editor of the Junior Gazette, in Press Gang, Lydia Bennet in the 1995 television miniseries of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice, and voicing Ginger in Chicken Run. Additionally, she played Dorcas Lane in the BBC's costume drama Lark Rise to Candleford, Carla Borrego in Jonathan Creek, and Jan Ward in the 2014 BBC One mystery Remember Me. Description above from the Wikipedia article Julia Sawalha, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contrib...

Acting

2000

Chicken Run

as Ginger (voice)

2002

The Final Curtain

as Karen Willet

1996

The Wind in the Willows

as The Jailer's Daughter

2003

Hornblower: Loyalty

as Maria Mason

1991

Buddy's Song

as Kelly

1997

2001

1999

The Flint Street Nativity

as Dawn/Wise Man 1

1998

Absolutely Fabulous: A Life

as Saffron "Saffy" Monsoon (archive footage)

1995

How to Be Absolutely Fabulous

as Saffron "Saffy" Monsoon (archive footage)

2016

2003

Hornblower: Duty

as Maria Hornblower

2016

British Sitcom: 60 Years of Laughing at Ourselves

as Comedy Role (archive footage) (uncredited)

2000

Mirrorball

as Freda Keill

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