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Personal Info

Gender

Female

Birthday

1968-09-09 (56 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.

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Known For

Acting

2024

2016

British Sitcom: 60 Years of Laughing at Ourselves as Comedy Role (archive footage) (uncredited)

2014

Remember Me as Jan Ward

2012

2008

2007

Cranford as Jessie Brown

2004

Agatha Christie's Marple as Mrs. Cresswell

2003

Hornblower: Loyalty as Maria Mason
Hornblower: Duty as Maria Hornblower

2002

The Final Curtain as Karen Willet

2001

2000

Chicken Run as Ginger (voice)
Mirrorball as Freda Keill
Time Gentlemen Please as Janet Wilson

1999

The Flint Street Nativity as Dawn/Wise Man 1
Loose Women as Self

1998

Absolutely Fabulous: A Life as Saffron "Saffy" Monsoon (archive footage)
Hornblower as Maria Mason

1997

Jonathan Creek as Carla Borrego
Ain't Misbehavin' as Dolly Nightingale
Midsomer Murders as Penny Henderson

1996

The Wind in the Willows as The Jailer's Daughter

1995

How to Be Absolutely Fabulous as Saffron "Saffy" Monsoon (archive footage)
Pride and Prejudice as Lydia Bennet
Faith in the Future as Hannah Grayshot

1994

Martin Chuzzlewit as Mercy Pecksniff

1992

1991

Buddy's Song as Kelly
Second Thoughts as Hannah Grayshot
Bottom as Veronica Head

1990

El C.I.D. as Trudy
Spatz as Chloe Fairbanks

1989

Press Gang as Lynda Day

1987

Inspector Morse as Rachel

1986

Lovejoy as Joanna
Casualty as Nikki Watson

1976