Attended London's School of Speech and Drama; met future collaborator Dawn French

Performed comedy routines in college cabarets with French

Auditioned for newly formed comedy troupe, The Comic Strip

Appeared in many episodes of "The Comic Strip Presents...", an English comedy anthology series with Dawn French, Adrian Edmonson, Robbie Coltrane and Peter Richardson

Feature acting debut, "Supergrass"; the first of "The Comic Strip Presents..." Movies

Appeared in several episodes of the cult English comedy series "The Young Ones", starring husband Adrian Edmonson

Co-created, starred and wrote, with Dawn French, the English sketch-comedy series "French and Saunders"

Conceived the original incarnation of "Absolutely Fabulous" as a sketch on "French and Saunders"

US TV debut, "Live from London", part of the "HBO Comedy Hour"

Wrote, created and starred in the English comedy series "Absolutely Fabulous"; aired in the US on Comedy Central in 1994-95

Created new episodes of "Absolutely Fabolous"; reprised the role of Edina

Voiced The Fairy Godmother in "Shrek 2"