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Dawn French (born October 11 1957) is a British comedian|comedienne and actress
best known as one half of the comic duo
French & Saunders.

French was born in Holyhead, Wales.   She first
came to public attention as a member of The Comic
Strip -- part of the alternative comedy scene in
the early 1980s.  Here she met her future husband
Lenny Henry, with whom she has an adopted
daughter.  A successful television series French
and Saunders followed in 1987.  Her first
post-Saunders project was Murder Most Horrid, a
dark comedy satire of murder mysteries.

Her biggest solo television role to date has been
as the title figure in the long running BBC comedy
The Vicar of Dibley, created by Richard Curtis. 
Since finishing The Vicar of Dibley, she starred
in the BBC sitcom Wild West, in which she plays a
woman living in Cornwall who is a lesbian more
through lack of choice than any specific natural
urge. This series was not met with as much success
as her earlier role.  She played the "Fat Lady" in
the film adaptation of Harry Potter and the
Prisoner of Azkaban, replacing the less well-known
actress Elizabeth Spriggs who played the character
in the first film of the series.

As a particularly large woman she is known for her
efforts to promote the notion that big can be
beautiful. As part of this she has her own line of
clothes, Sixteen 47 http://www.sixteen47.com/,
deriving its name from the statistic that 47% of
the British female population are at least a size
16. It aims to produce clothes that larger woman
can look beautiful in.  For her large size and
admitted chocoholism, she was chosen as the face
of the confection, Terry's Chocolate Orange using
the slogan "they're not Terry's, they're mine."

In 2001 she and Saunders declined an Order of the
British Empire.  In 2003, she was listed in The
Observer as one of the Observer's 50 funniest|50
funniest acts in British comedy.