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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Julia Sawalha, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Filmography

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

Appearances as themselves (7)

• 2024Absolutely Fabulous: Inside Out — Self / Saffron "Saffy" Monsoon
• The Alan Titchmarsh Show — Self
• The Graham Norton Show — Self
• Who Do You Think You Are? — Self
• Loose Women — Self
• French & Saunders — Herself
• Omnibus — Self