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Julia Sawalha is an English actress and voice artist known mainly for her role as Saffron 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.
Born
Monday, 09 September 1968
Actress Filmography
| Title | Character | Year |
|---|
| Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget | Ginger / Flashback Scene | 2023 |
| What We Were Watching | Julia Sawalha | 2018 |
| Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie | Saffy / Saffron Monsoon | 2016 |
| Remember Me | Jan Ward | 2014 |
| Hit Favorites: Friends and Family | Mouse | 2011 |
| Vera | Helen Rushden | 2011 |
| The Many Faces of... | Jessie Brown | 2009 |
| Lark Rise to Candleford | Dorcas Lane | 2008 |
| Cranford | Jessie Brown | 2007 |
| A Bucket o' French & Saunders | (archive footage) | 2007 |
Actress Filmography
| Title | Character | Year |
|---|
| Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget | Ginger / Flashback Scene | 2023 |
| What We Were Watching | Julia Sawalha | 2018 |
| Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie | Saffy / Saffron Monsoon | 2016 |
| Remember Me | Jan Ward | 2014 |
| Hit Favorites: Friends and Family | Mouse | 2011 |
| Vera | Helen Rushden | 2011 |
| The Many Faces of... | Jessie Brown | 2009 |
| Lark Rise to Candleford | Dorcas Lane | 2008 |
| Cranford | Jessie Brown | 2007 |
| A Bucket o' French & Saunders | (archive footage) | 2007 |
| The Graham Norton Show | Self | 2007 |
| All the Best from Denis Norden | Saffron Monsoon / Hannah Grayshot | 2007 |
| Marple | Mrs. Cresswell | 2004 |
| Who Do You Think You Are? | Self | 2004 |
| Hell's Kitchen | Self | 2004 |
| Comedy Connections | Self - Narrator | 2003 |
| Hornblower: Duty | Maria Hornblower | 2003 |
| Hornblower: Loyalty | Maria Mason | 2003 |
| The Final Curtain | Karen Willet | 2002 |
| Venus and Mars | Marie | 2001 |
| Time Gentlemen Please | Janet Wilson | 2000 |
| Chicken Run | Ginger (voice) / Ginger | 2000 |
| Bob Martin | Julia Sawalha | 2000 |
| The Flint Street Nativity | Wise Man 1 / Dawn / Dawn/Wise Man 1 | 1999 |
| Loose Women | Herself | 1999 |
| Comic Relief: Doctor Who - The Curse of Fatal Death | Emma | 1999 |
| Hornblower | Maria Mason | 1998 |
| Kipper | Mouse | 1997 |
| Ain't Misbehavin' | Dolly Nightingale | 1997 |
| McLibel! | Helen Steel | 1997 |
| Jonathan Creek | Carla Borrego | 1997 |
| Light Lunch | Self | 1997 |
| Midsomer Murders | Penny Henderson | 1997 |
| Kipper: Puppy Love | Mouse | 1997 |
| Mr. Toad's Wild Ride | The Jailer's Daughter | 1996 |
| Faith in the Future | Hannah / Hannah Grayshot | 1995 |
| A Midwinter's Tale | Nina Raymond (Ophelia) / Nina | 1995 |
| Pride and Prejudice | Lydia Bennet | 1995 |
| How to Be Absolutely Fabulous | Saffron Monsoon | 1995 |
| Martin Chuzzlewit | Mercy Pecksniff | 1994 |
| Room 101 | Saffron | 1994 |
| Absolutely Fabulous | Saffron | 1992 |
| HBO First Look | Self | 1992 |
| Bottom | Veronica Head | 1991 |
| Second Thoughts | Hannah Grayshot / Hannah | 1991 |
| Buddy's Song | Kelly | 1991 |
| The Word | Self | 1990 |
| Masterchef | Self | 1990 |
| Spatz | Chloe Fairbanks | 1990 |
| El C.I.D. | Trudy | 1990 |
| Tales from the Crypt | Teresa | 1989 |
| Press Gang | Lynda Day / Young Katherine Hill | 1989 |
| Going Live! | Self | 1987 |
| French and Saunders | Self | 1987 |
| Inspector Morse | Rachel | 1987 |
| Casualty | Nikki Watson | 1986 |
| Lovejoy | Joanna | 1986 |
| The Young Ones | Narrator | 1982 |
| Keep It in the Family | Walk-On | 1980 |
| Blankety Blank | Herself | 1978 |
| This Is Your Life | Self | 1955 |
