French was natural within Holyhead, Wales. She number one come to public attention as a member of The Comic Strip -- part of the alternative comedy scene in the early 1980s. On this button she met her first hubby Lenny Henry, with whom she has an adoptive girl. The successful television series French and Saunders followed in 1987. Her 1st post-Saunders plan was Murder Most Horrid, a dark comedy irony of slaying mysteries.

Her large solo television role up to now hwhen been as a title figure in the long running off BBC comedy The Vicar of Dibley, created by Richard Curtis. Since finishing A Vicar of Dibley, she starred in the BBC sitcom Uncivilized West, where she plays the woman sleep in Cornwall who is a lesbian other across want of guide than any specific natural urge. This series wwhen non met by owning as much profits as her earliest role. She played a "Fat Lady" in the film adaptation of Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, replacing the less easily-known actress Elizabeth Spriggs who played the character in the number one film of the series.

As a particularly large woman, she is known for her efforts to promote a notion that big may be beautiful. When a share of this she has her have line of textile, Sixteen 47 [http://www.sixteen47.com/], deriving its title from either the statistic that 47% of the British female people come at least a size Sixteen. It aims to develop fabric that big woman potty look beautiful within. For her big size & admitted chocoholism, she wwhen chosen as a face of the confection, Terry's Chocolate Orange using the slogan "It's not Terry's, it's mine."

Within 2001, she and Saunders declined an OBE. Around 2003, she was listed in The Observer as one of the 50 funniest acts in British comedy.