Julia Sawalha

Actor Sep 9 (age 57) Wandsworth, London, England 1976–2024 (48 year career)

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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 Wa…

Known For

Film

Chicken Run

Ginger (voice)

Film

Pride and Prejudice

Lydia Bennet

Film

Absolutely Fabulous

Saffron

Film

Cranford

Jessie Brown

Film

Jonathan Creek

Carla Borrego

Film

Doctor Who: The Curse of Fatal Death

Emma

Film

Lark Rise to Candleford

Dorcas Lane

Film

Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie

Saffron Monsoon

Filmography

Acting (57)

Movies (22)

Absolutely Fabulous: Inside Out

2024

as Self

10.0

Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie

2016

as Saffron Monsoon

5.3

We Love Sitcom

2016

British Sitcom: 60 Years of Laughing at Ourselves

2016

as Comedy Role (archive footage) (uncredited)

5.7

Wallace & Gromit x Google Hangout | A Video Call with Aardman Friends!

2012

as Ginger

8.0

Bottom Mindless Violence

2004

as Veronica Head (archive footage) (uncredited)

7.5

Kipper: Fun In The Sun

Hornblower: Duty

as Maria Hornblower

Hornblower: Loyalty

as Maria Mason

The Final Curtain

as Karen Willet

Venus and Mars

as Marie

Chicken Run

as Ginger (voice)

Mirrorball

as Freda Keill

Doctor Who: The Curse of Fatal Death

1999

as Emma

7.4

The Flint Street Nativity

1999

as Dawn/Wise Man 1

5.4

Absolutely Fabulous: A Life

1998

as Saffron "Saffy" Monsoon (archive footage)

10.0

Kipper: Puppy Love

1997

as Mouse

10.0

The Wind in the Willows

1996

as The Jailer's Daughter

5.7

Absolutely Fabulous: The Last Shout

1996

as Saffron Monsoon

7.3

In the Bleak Midwinter

1995

as Nina

7.1

How to Be Absolutely Fabulous

1995

as Saffron "Saffy" Monsoon (archive footage)

6.0

Buddy's Song

1991

as Kelly

5.2

Television (35)

Remember Me

2014

as Jan Ward

6.9

Father Brown

2013

as Mrs Cynthia Wendle

7.6

Lark Rise to Candleford

2008

as Dorcas Lane

8.4

The Underdog Show

2008

The Graham Norton Show

2007

as Self

7.2

The Alan Titchmarsh Show

as Self

Cranford

as Jessie Brown

Agatha Christie's Marple

2004

as Mrs. Cresswell

7.8

Who Do You Think You Are?

as Self

Comedy Connections

Time Gentlemen Please

as Janet Wilson

Loose Women

as Self

Hornblower

as Maria Mason

Midsomer Murders

as Penny Henderson

Jonathan Creek

as Carla Borrego

Jonathan Creek

as Carla Borrego

Kipper

as Mouse (voice)

Ain't Misbehavin'

as Dolly Nightingale

Pride and Prejudice

as Lydia Bennet

Faith in the Future

as Hannah Grayshot

Martin Chuzzlewit

as Mercy Pecksniff

Absolutely Fabulous

as Saffron

Absolutely Fabulous

as Saffron

Bottom

as Veronica Head

Second Thoughts

as Hannah Grayshot

El C.I.D.

as Trudy

Spatz

as Chloe Fairbanks

Tales from the Crypt

as Teresa

Press Gang

as Lynda Day

Inspector Morse

as Rachel

French & Saunders

as Herself

Casualty

as Nikki Watson

Lovejoy

as Joanna

The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin

as Narrator

Omnibus

as Self