Julia Sawalha was born on 9 September 1968 and is an English actress.
17 Facts About Julia Sawalha
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Julia Sawalha is best known for playing Saffron "Saffy" Monsoon in the BBC sitcom Absolutely Fabulous.
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Julia Sawalha was named after her paternal grandmother, a businesswoman who had received an award from Queen Noor for enterprise.
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Julia Sawalha is of Jordanian, English and French Huguenot ancestry.
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Julia Sawalha was educated at the Theatre Arts School, a fee-paying independent school which is part of the Italia Conti Academy of Theatre Arts, based at the time in Clapham in south London, which she left at the age of fifteen.
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Julia Sawalha made her debut in the 1982 BBC miniseries Fame Is the Spur, and in 1988 played a small role in Inspector Morse, on the episode "Last Seen Wearing".
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Julia Sawalha first gained attention for her starring role in the Bafta award-winning ITV teenage comedy-drama Press Gang, which ran from 1989 to 1993.
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From 1992 to 2012, Julia Sawalha played strait-laced daughter Saffron "Saffy" Monsoon in the BBC sitcom Absolutely Fabulous, alongside Jennifer Saunders and Joanna Lumley.
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Julia Sawalha appeared in the 1995 BBC adaptation of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice as Lydia Bennet, with Jennifer Ehle and Colin Firth.
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Julia Sawalha played "Dawn the Wise Man" in The Flint Street Nativity on Christmas Eve.
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Julia Sawalha returned for a series between 2003 and 2004.
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Julia Sawalha appeared in the pilot of BBC 1's A Taste of My Life presented by Nigel Slater.
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Julia Sawalha then returned to acting in two successive BBC costume dramas: as Jessie Brown in 2007 series Cranford, followed by Lark Rise to Candleford from 2008 to 2011.
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Julia Sawalha provided the voice acting for Sister Hannah, a main character in the 2008 Xbox 360 video game Fable II.
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Julia Sawalha even released video clips online, dubbing over her original voice lines to prove her voice still sounded the same.
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In January 2024, Julia Sawalha participated in the fifth series of The Masked Singer as the character "Bubble Tea".
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Julia Sawalha was eliminated and unmasked in the fourth episode.