Acting · Wandsworth, London, England · Born September 9, 1968
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.
MovieAbsolutely Fabulous: Inside Out
2024
as Self / Saffron "Saffy" Monsoon
MovieBritish Sitcom: 60 Years of Laughing at Ourselves
2016
as Comedy Role (archive footage) (uncredited)
We Love Sitcom
2016
MovieAbsolutely Fabulous: The Movie
2016
as Saffron Monsoon
TVRemember Me
2014
as Jan Ward
TVFather Brown
2013
as Mrs Cynthia Wendle
MovieWallace & Gromit x Google Hangout | A Video Call with Aardman Friends!
2012
as Ginger
The Underdog Show
2008
TVLark Rise to Candleford
2008
as Dorcas Lane
TVCranford
2007
as Jessie Brown
The Alan Titchmarsh Show
2007
as Self
TVThe Graham Norton Show
2007
as Self
TVAgatha Christie's Marple
2004
as Mrs. Cresswell
MovieBottom Mindless Violence
2004
as Veronica Head (archive footage) (uncredited)
TVWho Do You Think You Are?
2004
as Self
TVComedy Connections
2003
MovieKipper: Fun In The Sun
2003
MovieHornblower: Duty
2003
as Maria Hornblower
MovieHornblower: Loyalty
2003
as Maria Mason
MovieThe Final Curtain
2002
as Karen Willet
MovieVenus and Mars
2001
as Marie
MovieMirrorball
2000
as Freda Keill
TVTime Gentlemen Please
2000
as Janet Wilson
MovieChicken Run
2000
as Ginger (voice)
MovieThe Flint Street Nativity
1999
as Dawn/Wise Man 1
TVLoose Women
1999
as Self
MovieDoctor Who: The Curse of Fatal Death
1999
as Emma
MovieAbsolutely Fabulous: A Life
1998
as Saffron "Saffy" Monsoon (archive footage)
TVHornblower
1998
as Maria Mason
TVKipper
1997
as Mouse (voice)
TVAin't Misbehavin'
1997
as Dolly Nightingale
TVJonathan Creek
1997
TVMidsomer Murders
1997
as Penny Henderson
MovieKipper: Puppy Love
1997
as Mouse
MovieAbsolutely Fabulous: The Last Shout
1996
as Saffron Monsoon
MovieThe Wind in the Willows
1996
as The Jailer's Daughter
TVFaith in the Future
1995
as Hannah Grayshot
MovieIn the Bleak Midwinter
1995
as Nina
TVPride and Prejudice
1995
as Lydia Bennet
MovieHow to Be Absolutely Fabulous
1995
as Saffron "Saffy" Monsoon (archive footage)
TVMartin Chuzzlewit
1994
as Mercy Pecksniff
TVAbsolutely Fabulous
1992
as Saffron 'Saffy' Monsoon
TVBottom
1991
as Veronica Head
TVSecond Thoughts
1991
as Hannah Grayshot
MovieBuddy's Song
1991
as Kelly
TVThe Word
1990
TVSpatz
1990
as Chloe Fairbanks
El C.I.D.
1990
as Trudy
TVTales from the Crypt
1989
as Teresa
TVPress Gang
1989
as Lynda Day
TVFrench & Saunders
1987
as Herself
TVInspector Morse
1987
as Rachel
TVCasualty
1986
as Nikki Watson
TVLovejoy
1986
as Joanna
Fame Is the Spur
1982
as Amy Ryerson
TVOmnibus
1967
as Self
