Performance in The Vicar of Dibley 2007 – Nominated – BAFTA TV Award for Best Comedy Performance in The Vicar of Dibley 2009 – Won – BAFTA Fellowship – awarded with Jennifer Saunders 2011 – Nominated – BAFTA TV Award for Best Female Comedy Performance in Roger and Val Have Just Got In British Comedy Awards 1997 – Won – British Comedy Award for Best TV Comedy Actress in The Vicar of Dibley 1998 – Nominated – British Comedy Award for Best TV Comedy Actress in The Vicar of Dibley 2011 – Nominated – British Comedy Awards for Best TV Comedy Actress in Psychoville National Television Awards 1998 – Nominated – National Television Award for Most Popular Comedy Performer in The Vicar of Dibley 2000 – Nominated – National Television Award for Most Popular Comedy Performer in The Vicar of Dibley 2002 – Nominated – National Television Award for Most Popular Comedy Performance in Ted and Alice 2003 – Nominated – National Television Award for Most Popular Comedy Performance in Wild West Other 1991 – Won – Writers' Guild of Great Britain Award for TV- Light Entertainment in French and Saunders 2001 – Along with Jennifer Saunders, declined an OBE 2002 – Won – Rose d'Or Light Entertainment Festival Award shared with Jennifer Saunders 2009 – Nominated – Annie Award for Voice Acting in a Feature Production for Coraline Acting credits Television Film Theatre Video games Bibliography Fiction A Tiny Bit Marvellous (Penguin, 2010) Oh Dear Silvia (Penguin, 2012) According to Yes (Penguin, 2015) Because of You (Michael Joseph, 2020) Autobiography Dear Fatty (Arrow, 2007) Me. You. A Diary (Penguin, 2017) Comedy Girls on Top (with Jennifer Saunders and Ruby Wax) (HarperCollins, 1986) A Feast of French and Saunders (with Jennifer Saunders) (Mandarin, 1992) Other Big Knits: Bold, Beautiful, Designer Knitwear (with Sylvie Soudan) (Ebury, 1990) Great Big Knits: Over Twenty Designer Patterns (with Sylvie Soudan) (Trafalgar Square, 1993) Frigid Women by Sue and Victoria Riches (with a foreword by Dawn French) (Eye Books Direct, 1996) Cruising by Beryl Cook (with a foreword by Dawn French) (Victor Gollancz, 2000) References External links Dawn French at the British Film Institute Dawn French (Aveleyman) Biography at the Museum of Broadcast Communications French and Saunders 1957 births Living people 20th-century British actresses 20th-century British comedians 21st-century British actresses 21st-century British comedians 21st-century British novelists 21st-century British women writers Alumni of the Royal Central