Brit sitcom is usually good character observation and less gags. The Americans love the comedy to be high gag quota and slick.
Fawlty Towers was an enormous favourite. I once laughed so hard with my dad at this series that I actually wet my pants and then my dad wet his. We were in genuine physical pain with laughing. Lovely.
I am not, I repeat, NOT a lesbian - even though I'd like to be one when I grow up.
I don't think my family would put up with me being anything else. They are my strictist critics and wouldn't allow me to have any airs or graces.
I enjoyed teaching very much. I taught from 11 up to 18. I taught Drama and English. However, I have absolutely no training as an actress-as is blatantly obvious.
I have had the unfortunate experience of having someone write an unauthorised biography of me. Half of it is lies and the other half is badly written. My feeling is that if I'm going to write my life story, I ought to have my life first.
I keep my own personality in a cupboard under the stairs at home so that no one else can see it or nick it.
I never do any television without chocolate. That's my motto and I live by it. Quite often I write the scripts and I make sure there are chocolate scenes. Actually I'm a bit of a chocolate tart and will eat anything. It's amazing I'm so slim.
I personally wouldn't be seen dead or alive in a kagool. But it was very useful for filming since it rained every single day.
I preferred the clothes in Vicar, but I was responsible for the choice of red only in Wild West. I know somebody who has chosen to wear a lot of red-somebody who it doesn't suit at all, and I based that choice on her.
I want to do something where I play Judi Dench's younger sister or daughter.
I wanted to do a darker sort of script because everything I've done so far is a bit chirripy, and especially Vicar was a bit squeaky clean.
I was lucky enough to be in on the casting so I only chose funny or fanciable people.
I'd like to play a horse, many people think I already have. Either end of the horse would be fine.
If I had been around when Rubens was painting, I would have been revered as a fabulous model. Kate Moss? Well, she would have been the paintbrush.
In actual life I am a grumpy old bag.
It was fantastic to work in Cornwall partly because my family live there so I was able to do lots of visiting and eat lots of cake. They live all over Cornwall and all over Devon.
It was my father who taught me to value myself. He told me that I was uncommonly beautiful and that I was the most precious thing in his life.
St. Gweep is the product of Simon Nye's, the scriptwriter, imagination. We agonised over the name. There is a place called Gweek nearby where we filmed. We just liked the sound of it.
The person I have admired the most in comedy terms would be Eric Morecambe, who is my total hero.
Turn up your radio. Watch lots of telly and eat loads of choc. Feel guilty. Stay up all night. Learn everything in six hours that has taken you two years to compile. That's how I did it.
We have to do a film parody for Comic Relief. We can't decide which film to parody at the moment. Any ideas welcome, but not Spiderman owing to costume being too tight.
We shared a love of Big Brother-Series 3 while we were filming, and would argue about the contestants every day.
Dawn alongside Jennifer Saunders has appeared in a Dover to Calais advertisement for Radio and Television.
Other film roles under Dawn's belt include: "Love and Other Diasters" , "SuperGrass" , "Pinocchio" and "Milk".
Hair: Black
Dawn has starred in movies such as Maybe Baby and she played the "Fat Lady" in Harry Potter 3.
In 1991, Dawn & Jennifer Saunders won the Writers' Guild of Great Britain Award for Best TV- Light Entertainment for: French and Saunders (1987).
In 1998, Dawn was nominated for the National Television Award for Most Popular Comedy Performer for: The Vicar of Dibley (1994).
In 2002, Dawn was nominated for the National Television Award for Most Popular Comedy Performance for: Ted and Alice (2002).
In 1997, Dawn won the British Comedy Award for Best TV Comedy Actress for: The Vicar of Dibley (1994).
In 1989, Dawn was nominated for the BAFTA TV Award for Best Light Entertainment Performance for: French and Saunders (1987).
In 1998, Dawn was nominated for the BAFTA TV Award for Best Comedy Performance for: The Vicar of Dibley (1994).
In 2001, Dawn was nominated for the BAFTA TV Award for Best Comedy Performance for: The Vicar of Dibley (1994).
Dawn appeared in the music video for Alison Moyet's "Whispering Your Name."
Dawn appeared in the TV commercial for Terry's Segsations in 2003.
Dawn played a lab assistant in Kate Bush's science-fiction music video "Experiment IV" in 1986.
It was recently revealed that Dawn and partner Jennifer Saunders declined Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) honors "for services to comedy drama" in 2001.
Dawn is the comedy partner of Jennifer Saunders.
Another of Dawn's phrases is "It's me, your comedy partner!"
Dawn and her husband, comedian Lenny Henry, guest starred in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004).
Dawn frequently appeared on the Whose Line Is It Anyway? radio show but never appeared on the TV version of the show.
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