Dawn French as Vicky Pollards Mum - Vicar of Dibley Star Little Britain with Matt Lucas

"No, but, yeah, but, no, but... (and sometimes repeats this a few times)", "... or sumthin or nuffing", "I wasn't even supposed to be there so, SHUT up!", "Don't be giving me the evils!", "Oh my God! I sooo can't believe you just said that!", "Yeah well she aint got nuffin' to do with it anyway so just leave her out of it!" as well as coming up with gossip unrelated to her situation. Dawn Roma French (born 11 October 1957) is a British actress, writer and comedienne. Dawn is best known for starring in and writing for the comedy sketch show French and Saunders with comedy partner Jennifer Saunders and also for playing the lead role of Geraldine Granger in the sitcom The Vicar of Dibley. She has been nominated for seven BAFTA Awards and also won a Fellowship BAFTA along with Saunders. French has had an extensive career on television. In addition to French and Saunders, showcased Comic Strip performers Peter Richardson, Rik Mayall, and Robbie Coltrane and Adrian Edmondson. Some of French's first exposure to a wider audience occurred when comedy producer Martin Lewis recorded a Comic Strip record album in spring 1981, which featured sketches by French & Saunders. The album was released on Springtime!/Island Records in September 1981 and presented Dawn French and Jennifer Saunders to an audience outside London. In 1985, French starred with Saunders, Tracey Ullman and Ruby Wax in Girls on Top, which portrayed four eccentric women sharing a flat in London. French has co-written and starred in her own successful comedy series French & Saunders with Saunders, which debuted in 1987 and still airs sporadically to this day. On their show, the duo have spoofed many celebrities such as Madonna, Cher, Catherine Zeta-Jones and the Spice Girls. They have also parodied films in the series such as The Lord of the Rings, Star Wars, and Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets. After twenty years of them being on television together, their last sketch series, A Bucket o' French & Saunders, began airing on 8 September 2007. French and Saunders have also followed separate careers. During French's time starring in Murder Most Horrid from 1991 to 1999, she played a different character each week, whether it was the murderer, victim or even both. In 2002, French appeared in the comedy/drama mini-series Ted and Alice. In the series, which was set in the Lake District, French played a tourist-information officer who incidentally falls in love with an alien. She has also appeared in the BBC sitcom Wild West along with Catherine Tate, in which she played a woman living in Cornwall, who is also a lesbian, more through lack of choice than any specific natural urge. This series did not meet with as much success as her earlier roles had, and it ended in 2004 after two years.
French's biggest solo television role to date has been as the title figure in the long running and popular BBC comedy The Vicar of Dibley, which Richard Curtis created specifically for her. She starred as Geraldine Granger, a vicar of a small village called Dibley. An audience of 12.3 million watched the final full-length episode to see her character's marriage ceremony. Her last appearance on The Vicar of Dibley was with Sting and Trudie Styler in a special mini episode made for Comic Relief in 2007. She was nominated for a BAFTA for Best Comedy Performance in the last episode of The Vicar of Dibley. Repeats of the show on BBC One still attract millions of viewers, and it also retains a following amongst PBS viewers in the United States. More recently, French played a major role in Jam & Jerusalem as a woman called Rosie who has dissociative identity disorder and with it an alter ego called Margaret. She co-starred alongside Sue Johnston (as the lead character, Sal), Jennifer Saunders (regular bit-part as Caroline - also created and wrote the series) and Joanna Lumley (regular bit-part Delilah). She also made a guest appearance in Little Britain as Vicky Pollard's mother, Shelly Pollard, who was seen defending her daughter in the dock in Thailand as she was charged with drug smuggling, and who was sentenced to twenty years, ten more than her daughter. French also appeared in a special version of Little Britain Live which featured several celebrity guests and was shown by the BBC as part of Comic Relief. She played the part of a lesbian barmaid in a sketch with Daffyd Thomas. In 2006, French played a role in the television series Marple in the episode "Sleeping Murder." She also appeared as Caroline Arless in the BBC television drama Lark Rise to Candleford in 2008. Talking about her role, she has stated, "I'm quite a vibrant character. She's quite extreme, in that she drinks too much, laughs too much and sings too much. But she loves her family very much; it's just that she goes over the top sometimes. Dawn French as Vicky Pollards Mum in Little Britain (Christmas Special). NOTMUCHCRACK.

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[RavenandChoo Yay]

SHE'S GOT THE FACE OF A FUCKING ANGEL!!!!!!!

[iammontecristo]

I love Dawn French. She always cracks me up.

[TheBuhlemann]

Thanks, I was just wondering whether I got it right 'cause I'm not quite familiar with the term 'mixer' as a cuss.

[ppviking1]

Little Britain.

[ppviking1]

She says- 'Shut up slag! God! You're such a mixer!

[nicole francis]

i came here from that video!



[VirtualMark2]

Awful.

[DPDMaine]

This was so awesome, Dawn really was the only choice to play Mrs Pollard

[TheBuhlemann]

1:28 Does Vicky said: "She's such a mixer"?

[Master1906]

Most people look at the shallow funny side of this. But the last part where the judge gives the mother 20 years is the most evocative part - that societal problems stems from the core ie. the parents, not the surface ie. the children. That's why I love Little Britain.

[HairaSarah]

SLAG BAGS!!