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Julia Sawalha (born 9 September 1968)[1][2] is an English actress who played Saffron "Saffy" Monsoon in the BBC sitcom Absolutely Fabulous. She also portrayed 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 voiced Ginger in Chicken Run and Georgina and Kid in Sheeep. 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.

Julia Sawalha
Born	(1968-09-09) 9 September 1968 (age 54) Wandsworth, London, England
Education	Italia Conti Academy of Theatre Arts
Occupation	Actress
Years active	1981–present
Parent	Nadim Sawalha (father)
Relatives	Nabil Sawalha (uncle) Nadia Sawalha (sister)

Early life and education

Sawalha was born in Wandsworth, London on 9 September 1968, and is the daughter of Roberta Lane and actor Nadim Sawalha.[1][3] Her father was born in Madaba, Jordan.[4] She was named after her paternal grandmother, a businesswoman who had received an award from Queen Noor for enterprise. She is of Jordanian, English, and French Huguenot ancestry.[5]

Sawalha was educated at the Theatre Arts School, a fee-paying independent school which is part of the Italia Conti Academy of Theatre Arts,[6] based at the time in Clapham in south London, which she left at the age of fifteen.[6]

Career

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Sawalha made her debut in the 1982 BBC miniseries Fame Is the Spur,[7] and in 1988 played a small role in Inspector Morse on the episode "Last Seen Wearing". She first gained attention for her starring role in the Bafta award-winning ITV teenage comedy-drama Press Gang, which ran from 1989 to 1993.

In 1992 she appeared in episode "Parade" (S2 E4) of Bottom as Veronica Head, a beautiful young barmaid at the Lamb and Flag, whom Richie tries to woo by boasting of his false adventures in the Falklands.

From 1991 to 1994, she starred in the ITV family comedy Second Thoughts and continued with her character, Hannah (Lynda Bellingham's daughter), in the British Comedy Award-winning Faith in the Future (1995–1998). In 1994, she played Mercy (Merry) Pecksniff in the BBC production of Martin Chuzzlewit.

From 1992 to 2012, Sawalha played strait-laced daughter Saffron "Saffy" Monsoon in the BBC sitcom Absolutely Fabulous alongside Jennifer Saunders and Joanna Lumley.

She appeared in the 1995 BBC adaptation of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice as Lydia Bennet, with Jennifer Ehle and Colin Firth.

She voiced Ginger in DreamWorks/Aardman Animations' Chicken Run (2000).

From 2000 to 2001, she voiced Georgina and provided Kid's vocal effects in the obscure HIT Entertainment/Grand Slamm Children's Films TV series, Sheeep.

She also played "Dawn the Wise Man" in The Flint Street Nativity on Christmas Eve.

In 2000, she appeared as Janet, the Australian barmaid in the first series of the British sitcom Time Gentlemen Please. She also played the much put-upon PA to "Zak" in Argos TV adverts during 2002–2004, along with Richard E. Grant.[8]

She joined actor Ioan Gruffudd in the TV adaptations of C. S. Forester's Horatio Hornblower novels, as the captain's wife Maria. The following year, she became Alan Davies's co-star in Jonathan Creek after Caroline Quentin left, appearing in a Christmas Special ("Satan's Chimney"). She returned for a series between 2003 and 2004.

In 2006, she participated in the third series of the genealogy documentary series Who Do You Think You Are?[9] tracing her family's roots, which are Jordanian Bedouin on her father's side, and French Huguenot on her mother's. She also appeared in the pilot of BBC 1's A Taste of my Life presented by Nigel Slater.[10]

After a two-year break, she was back on screen in May 2007, competing in the BBC dog training celebrity reality show The Underdog Show.She then returned to acting in two successive BBC costume dramas: as Jessie Brown in 2007 series Cranford, followed by Lark Rise to Candleford from 2008 through 2011.

She provided the voice acting for Sister Hannah (a.k.a. "Hammer"), a main character in the 2008 Xbox 360 video game Fable II.[11]

In Autumn 2014, Julia played the part of Jan Ward in BBC One's thriller miniseries Remember Me, featuring Michael Palin.

On 9 May 2015 she read the account of a member of the Women's Land Army at VE Day 70: A Party to Remember in Horse Guards Parade, London, which was broadcast live on BBC1.^{[citation needed]}

In 2016, she appeared in an episode of Midsomer Murders and reprised her role as Saffron "Saffy" Monsoon in Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie.

In July 2020, she made a statement revealing Aardman Animations intended to recast her character in the upcoming sequel to Chicken Run, stating that she is now considered to sound too old, and commented "I have officially been plucked, stuffed & roasted". The decision was met with widespread criticism with some finding the decision ageist. She even released video clips online of her voicing the character again to prove her voice still sounded the same.[1][12][13][14]

Personal life

She had a relationship with Dexter Fletcher whom she met on the set of Press Gang.[15]

On 1 January 2004, tabloid newspapers reported that she had married Alan Davies, her co-star in the television series Jonathan Creek. Both she and Davies, who avoided discussing their private lives in public, denied this, and took legal action against the reports.[16][17]

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1991	Buddy's Song	Kelly	Supporting Role
1995	In The Bleak Midwinter	Nina Raymond (Ophelia)
1996	The Wind in the Willows	The Jailer's Daughter
2000	Chicken Run	Ginger (voice)	Animated film
2001	Venus and Mars	Marie	Supporting Role
	The Final Curtain	Karen Willet
2016	Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie	Saffron 'Saffy' Monsoon	Main Role

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1981	Keep It in the Family	Walk-On	Uncredited Episode: "A Game of No Chance"
1982	Fame Is the Spur	Amy	Episode: "1.2"
	Educating Marmalade	Good Girl	4 episodes
	The Pirates of Penzance	Daughter	Uncredited Television film
1988	Inspector Morse	Rachel	Episode: "Last Seen Wearing"
1989–1993	Press Gang	Lynda Day/Young Katherine Hill	43 episodes RTS Television Award – Best Actor
1990	Spatz	Chloe Fairbanks	Episode: "The Sound of Muzak"
1991	El C.I.D.	Trudy	Episode: "Thursday's Child"
	Casualty	Nikki Watson	Episode: "Living in Hope"
1991–1994	Second Thoughts	Hannah Greyshott	47 episodes
1992	Bottom	Veronica Head	Episode: "Parade"
1992–2012	Absolutely Fabulous	Saffron 'Saffy' Monsoon	40 episodes
1993	Parallel 9	Herself	Episode: "Episode 2.5"
1994	Lovejoy	Joanna Whymark	Episode: "Double-Edged Sword"
	Keeper	Alison	tv short
	Martin Chuzzlewit	Mercy Pecksniff	6 episodes
1995	Pride and Prejudice	Lydia Bennet	6 episodes TV mini-series
1995–1998	Faith in the Future	Hannah Greyshott	22 episodes
1996	French and Saunders	Herself	Episode: "Baywatch"
	Tales from the Crypt	Teresa	Episode: "The Kidnapper"
1997	McLibel!	Helen Steel	"Episode 1.1" TV mini-series
	Ain't Misbehavin'	Dolly Nightingale	3 episodes<be>TV mini-series
	An Audience with the Spice Girls	Herself	TV special
1998	Absolutely Fabulous: Absolutely Not!	Saffron 'Saffy' Monsoon	video
	Light Lunch	Herself	Episode: "The Future's Bright, the Future's Funny"
1999	Doctor Who: The Curse of Fatal Death	Emma	Charity spoof TV movie by Comic Relief
	The Flint Street Nativity	Wise Man	TV movie
	The Nearly Complete and Utter History of Everything	Catherine Parr	TV movie
	Late Lunch	Herself	Episode: "#2.14"
1999–2000	Kipper	Mouse (voice)	4 episodes
2000	Mirrorball	Freda Keill	TV short
	The Hatching of 'Chicken Run'	Herself	TV special
	Poultry in Motion: The Making of Chicken Run	Herself	TV special
	HBO First Look	Herself	Episode: "The Hatching of Chicken Run"
	Stars in Their Eyes	Herself	Episode: "Cerys Matthews"
	Bob Martin	Herself	Episode: "Through the Keyhole"
	Masterchef	Herself	Episode: "#10.14"
2000–2001	Time Gentlemen Please	Janet Wilson	21 episodes
	Sheeep	Georgina (voice), Kid (various noises), Paperboy Cat (voice), Jaunita Luftfita (voice), Ballet Cow (voice), Penny (voice), Bank Teller Pig (voice), Princess Grazelightly (voice)	26 episodes
2001–2004	Jonathan Creek	Carla Borrego	7 episodes
2003	Hornblower	Maria Mason/Hornblower	TV movie
2003–2004	Comedy Connections	Narrator (voice)	14 episodes
2004	The Story of Absolutely Fabulous	Herself	TV special
	White Box	Saffron	TV movie
2006	A Taste of My Life	Herself	TV special
	Who Do You Think You Are?	Herself	Episode: "Julia Sawalha"
2007	Cranford	Jessie Brown	5 episodes
	The Underdog Show	Herself	Unknown episodes
	The Graham Norton Show	Herself	Episode: "#1.7"
2008–2011	Lark Rise to Candleford	Dorcas Lane	40 episodes
2009	The Alan Titchmarsh Show	Herself	Episode: "9 March 2009"
2013	Agatha Christie's Marple	Mrs. Cresswell	Episode: "Greenshaw's Folly"
2014	Remember Me	Jan Ward	3 episodes
2016	Midsomer Murders	Penny Henderson	Episode: "Saints and Sinners"

Video games

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2008	Fable II	Hannah/Hammer	Xbox 360 game
2020	World of Warcraft: Shadowlands	Additional voices	Computer game

Theatre credits

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1985-1986	The Voyage of the Dawn Treader	Lucy	Newcastle Playhouse
1987-1988	Peter Pan	Wendy	Newcastle Opera House
1997	The Illusion	Isabelle	Royal Exchange Theatre
1997	Dearest Daddy...Darling Daughter	Daughter	Young Vic Theatre
1998-1999	The Memory of Water	Catherine	Churchill Theatre

References

External links

• Julia Sawalha at IMDb
• Julia Sawalha on Who Do You Think You Are?

На других языках

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[de] Julia Sawalha

Julia Sawalha (* 9. September 1968 in London, England) ist eine britische Schauspielerin.

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[ru] Савалия, Джулия

Джу́лия Сава́лия (англ. Julia Sawalha, род. 9 сентября 1968, Лондон, Англия) — английская актриса. Наиболее известна по роли Лидии Беннет в культовом телесериале 1995 года «Гордость и предубеждение». Также она снялась в телесериалах «Ещё по одной», «Джонатан Крик», «Крэнфорд» и «Чуть свет — в Кэндлфорд». Савалия озвучила Джинджер в мультфильме «Побег из курятника».

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