Acting

Julia Sawalha

Born 1968-09-09 · Wandsworth, London, England

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 contributors on Wikipedia.

Credits

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Absolutely Fabulous: Inside Out
as Self / Saffron "Saffy" Monsoon
2024
Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget
as Ginger -Flashback Scene (voice)
2023
British Sitcom: 60 Years of Laughing at Ourselves
as Comedy Role (archive footage) (uncredited)
2016
We Love Sitcom
2016
Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie
as Saffron Monsoon
2016
Remember Me
as Jan Ward
2014
Father Brown
as Mrs Cynthia Wendle
2013
Wallace & Gromit x Google Hangout | A Video Call with Aardman Friends!
as Ginger
2012
HiT Favorites: Friends and Family
as Mouse (voice)
2011
Vera
as Helen Rushden
2011
The Underdog Show
2008
Lark Rise to Candleford
as Dorcas Lane
2008
Cranford
as Jessie Brown
2007
The Alan Titchmarsh Show
as Self
2007
The Graham Norton Show
as Self
2007
Agatha Christie's Marple
as Mrs. Cresswell
2004
Bottom Mindless Violence
as Veronica Head (archive footage) (uncredited)
2004
Who Do You Think You Are?
as Self
2004
Comedy Connections
2003
Kipper: Fun In The Sun
2003
Hornblower: Duty
as Maria Hornblower
2003
Hornblower: Loyalty
as Maria Mason
2003
The Final Curtain
as Karen Willet
2002
Venus and Mars
as Marie
2001
Mirrorball
as Freda Keill
2000
Time Gentlemen Please
as Janet Wilson
2000
Chicken Run
as Ginger (voice)
2000
Sheeep
as Georgina (voice)
2000
Bob Martin
as Julia Sawalha
2000
The Nearly Complete and Utter History of Everything
as Catherine Parr
2000
The Flint Street Nativity
as Dawn/Wise Man 1
1999
Loose Women
as Self
1999
Doctor Who: The Curse of Fatal Death
as Emma
1999
Absolutely Fabulous: A Life
as Saffron "Saffy" Monsoon (archive footage)
1998
Hornblower
as Maria Mason
1998
Kipper
as Mouse (voice)
1997
Ain't Misbehavin'
as Dolly Nightingale
1997
Jonathan Creek
1997
Jonathan Creek
as Carla Borrego
1997
Midsomer Murders
as Penny Henderson
1997
Kipper: Puppy Love
as Mouse
1997
Absolutely Fabulous: The Last Shout
as Saffron Monsoon
1996
The Wind in the Willows
as The Jailer's Daughter
1996
Faith in the Future
as Hannah Grayshot
1995
In the Bleak Midwinter
as Nina
1995
Pride and Prejudice
as Lydia Bennet
1995
How to Be Absolutely Fabulous
as Saffron "Saffy" Monsoon (archive footage)
1995
Martin Chuzzlewit
as Mercy Pecksniff
1994
Absolutely Fabulous
as Saffron 'Saffy' Monsoon
1992
Bottom
as Veronica Head
1991
Second Thoughts
as Hannah Grayshot
1991
Buddy's Song
as Kelly
1991
The Word
1990
He-Play
as Alison
1990
Spatz
as Chloe Fairbanks
1990
El C.I.D.
as Trudy
1990
Tales from the Crypt
as Teresa
1989
Press Gang
as Lynda Day
1989
French & Saunders
as Herself
1987
Inspector Morse
as Rachel
1987
Casualty
as Nikki Watson
1986
Lovejoy
as Joanna
1986
Educating Marmalade
as Good Girl
1982
Fame Is the Spur
as Amy Ryerson
1982
Masterpiece Mystery
as Mrs Cresswell
1980
Omnibus
as Self
1967