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