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