JULIA SAWALHA BIO

Julia Sawalha is an English actress best known for her role as Saffron Monsoon in the BBC sitcom Absolutely Fabulous. She was born on September 9, 1968 in London, United Kingdom.
She is also known for portraying Junior Gazette editor Lynda Day in Press Gang and Lydia Bennet in Jane Austen’s 1995 television miniseries Pride and Prejudice. Additionally, she played Dorcas Lane in the BBC costume drama Lark Rise to Candleford, Carla Borrego in Jonathan Creek and Jan Ward in the 2014 BBC One mystery Remember Me.

ACTRESS JULIA SAWALHA CAREER

She made her debut in the 1982 BBC miniseries Fame Is the Spur. In 1988, she also had a small role in Inspector Morse on the episode “Last Seen Wearing”. In 1992, she also guest-starred in the episode ‘Parade’ (S2 E4) of Bottom as Veronica Head, a beautiful young waitress at Lamb and Flag.

Similarly, she also starred in the ITV family comedy Second Thinkts and continued with her character, Hannah (Lynda Bellingham’s daughter), in British Comedy Award-winning Faith in the Future (1995-1998). In 1994 she also played Mercy (Merry) Pecksniff in Martin Chuzzlewit’s BBC production.

JULIA SAWALHA ABSOLUTELY FABULOUS

From 1992 to 2012, she also played her straight-laced daughter Saffron Monsoon on the BBC sitcom Absolutely Fabulous alongside Jennifer Saunders and Joanna Lumley. Similarly, she also appeared in the 1995 BBC adaptation of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice as Lydia Bennet, starring Jennifer Ehle and Colin Firth.

Similarly, she voiced Ginger in DreamWorks/Aardman’s Chicken Run. Likewise, she also performed “Dawn the Wise Man” in The Flint Street Nativity on Christmas Eve.

In 2000, she also played the role of Janet, the Australian bartender. Additionally, she also played the role of PA on “Zak” in the Argos TV commercials in 2002–2004, starring Richard E. Grant. Likewise, she also joined actor Ioan Gruffudd in the internationally successful television adaptations.

In 2006, she also participated in the third series of the genealogical documentary series Who Do You Think You Are. Similarly, she also appeared in the BBC 1 pilot A Taste of my Life presented by Nigel Slater. In 2014, she also starred as Jan Ward in the BBC One thriller miniseries Remember Me, starring Michael Palin.

JULIA SAWALHA PRESS GANG

Sawalha was featured in the UK TV series Press Gang as Lynda Day. The character, Lynda Day was the editor of the Junior Gazette.

JULIA SAWALHAHARRY POTTER

Sawalha attended the premiere of ‘Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban’ at the Odeon, Leicester Square in London.

Julia is Zack Sawalha’s aunt who was denied time off filming Harry Potter. Zack is the son of Dina Sawalha, Julia’s sister.

ALAN DAVIES JULIA SAWALHA MARRIED | ALAN DAVIES AND JULIA SAWALHA

Sawalha and Jonathan Creek co-star Alan Davies were reportedly married by the tabloids in January 2004. They both denied and sued the paper.

JULIA SAWALHA AGE

She turns 50 in 2019, having been born on September 9, 1968.

JULIA SAWALHA HEIGHT AND WEIGHT

She is about 5 feet 3 inches tall and weighs 143 pounds.

JULIA SAWALHA FAMILY | ROBERTA LANE SAWALHA | ROBERTA SAWALHA

Sawalha is the daughter of Roberta Lane and actor Nadim Sawalha. Her father was born in Madaba, Jordan. She was named after her paternal grandmother, a businesswoman who had received a Queen Noor Award for enterprise. She is of Jordanian, English and French Huguenot descent.

JULIA SAWALHA EDUCATION

Sawalha was educated at the Theater Arts School, a fee-paying independent school which is part of the Italia Conti Academy of Theater Arts, then based in Clapham in south London, which she left at the age of fifteen.

JULIA SAWALHA NET WORTH

There is no information regarding his salary. His net worth is $10 million.

JULIA SAWALHA MARRIED | BUSINESS

She lives such a happy single life that she focuses on her career. Also, even though she is dating someone, she hasn’t revealed anything about it. She does not share her personal life in public. Moreover, she has not yet been seen with anyone in public places.

FILMS BY JULIA SAWALHA

• keep it in the family
• The Pirates of Penzance
• my friend’s song
• In the dark middle of winter
• The wind in the willows
• Chicken coop
• Venus and Mars
• The last curtain
• Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie

JULIA SAWALHA TV SERIES

• A taste of my life
• absolutely fabulous
• Absolutely fabulous: absolutely not!
• Marple by Agatha Christie
• It’s not bad behavior
• An Audience with the Spice Girls
• Bob Martin
• Low
• Victim
• Comic connections
• Cranford
• Doctor Who: The Fatal Death Curse
• Educate marmalade
• The Cid
• faith in the future
• Fame is the spur
• French and Saunders
• First Look at HBO
• Hell’s Kitchen
• horn blower
• Inspector Morse
• Jonathan Creek
• Guardian
• Kipper the dog
• Lark Rise at Candleford
• Late lunch
• Light lunch
• loose women
• lovejoy
• Martin Chuzzlewit
• Chef
• McLibel!
• Midsomer Murders
• Mirrorball
• Parallel 9
• Poultry in Motion: The Creation of Chicken Run
• Gang press
• Pride and Prejudice
• Remember me
• Doubts
• Sheep
• sparrow
• Stars in their eyes
• Tales from the Crypt
• The Alan Titchmarsh Show
• The Flint Street Nativity
• The Graham Norton Show
• Hatching the “Chicken Run”
• The almost complete and complete history of everything
• The story of absolutely fabulous
• The Underdog Show
• Word
• Time gentlemen please
• Who do you think you are?

FACIAL SURGERY JULIA SAWALHA | HOT | 2018

She recently revealed that her body insecurities haunted her for years after decades of ‘unnecessary self-loathing’ and Nadia Sawalha admitted she was considering plastic surgery to get rid of her ‘muffins’ and of her jowls during Thursday’s Loose Women.

Speaking to Mel Geidroyc, the Loose Women panelist, 53, admitted she had changed her mind since saying she didn’t want surgical enhancements at 49. She explained: ‘My theory on this is that you don’t have them (muffin tops and jowls) yet, I said that when I was 49, and now I watch every procedure.

Mel has freely expressed that she feels confident in her body as she rapidly approaches her 50th birthday.

JULIA SAWALHA SISTER | NADIA AND JULIA SAWALHA | JULIA AND NADIA SAWALHA

Nadia Sawalha has opened up on the fight with her sister who left her ‘heartbroken’. The Loose Women panelist is one of three daughters and has an older sister, Dina, and a younger sister, actress Julia Sawalha – best known for her portrayal of Saffy in Absolutely Fabulous. In a new interview with Woman & Home magazine, Nadia and her sister revealed that the main catalyst for their arguments has always been men. Nadia also confessed that unlike her big sister, she was never very good at biting her tongue.