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This year, the Icon Award will be presented to comedian and actor Jennifer Saunders<\/a>. The Icon Award is the most prestigious award issued at the event, with previous recipients including Stephen Fry<\/a>, Bill Nighy<\/a>, Lesley Manville<\/a>, Richard E. Grant<\/a> and Patrick Stewart<\/a>.<\/p>\n The BAFTA Award winning and BAFTA fellow Saunders\u2019 roles include sitcom \u201cAbsolutely Fabulous<\/a>\u201d and sketch comedy series \u201cFrench and Saunders<\/a>,\u201d with collaborator Dawn French<\/a>. In addition, Saunders has starred in global blockbusters such as \u201cShrek<\/a>,\u201d \u201cSing<\/a>\u201d and \u201cDeath on the Nile<\/a>,\u201d as well as Richard Eyre<\/a>\u2019s feature film \u201cAllelujah!\u201d and Harlan Coben<\/a>\u2019s Netflix<\/a> series \u201cThe Stranger<\/a>,\u201d amongst many other projects.<\/p>\n Saunders can next be seen in…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source m.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Newport Beach Film Festival has revealed the names to be honored in this year\u2019s Icon and Artists of Distinction categories ahead of next week\u2019s U.K. and Ireland Honors event, hosted by Nick Mohammed and Edith Bowman. This year, the Icon Award will be presented to comedian and actor Jennifer Saunders. The Icon Award is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2284147,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2284146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Newport-Beach-to-Honor-Jennifer-Saunders-at-UK-and-Ireland.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2284146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2284146"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2284146\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2284148,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2284146\/revisions\/2284148"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2284147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2284146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2284146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2284146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}