Julia Sawalha
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Julia Sawalha (born September 9, 1968) is a British actress, best known as Saffron in Absolutely Fabulous, the prim foil for the other outrageous characters.
Sawalha was born in London into an acting family: her father Nadimis also an actor who appeared in the James Bond movie The Spy Who Loved Me while her sister Nadia starred in the soap EastEnders and is now a chat show host.She first gained public attention for her starring role in the ITV teenage comedy/drama Press Gang, which ran from 1989 to 1993.
She also voiced "Ginger" in the movie Chicken Run, and starred in the BBC adaptation of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice, which also starred Colin Firth, as Lydia Bennett.
On January 1 2004 it was reported that she had married Alan Davies, her co-star in the television series Jonathan Creek. Both Davies and Sawalha deny this.
TV
- Absolutely Fabulous
- Bottom
- Casualty
- Doctor Who and the Curse of Fatal Death
- El CID
- Faith in the Future
- The Flint Street Nativity
- French and Saunders
- Inspector Morse
- Jonathan Creek
- Lovejoy
- Martin Chuzzlewit
- Press Gang
- Pride and Prejudice
- Second Thoughts
- Tales from the Crypt
- Time Gentlemen Please
Films
- Buddy's Song
- Chicken Run (2000)
- In the Bleak Midwinter (aka A Midwinter's Tale)
- The Wind in the Willows
External links
- Fan site (http://www.juliasawalha.net)
- Julia Sawalha Online (http://www.flip18.co.uk/Julia/index2.htm) Unofficial fan site
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