Happy 40th Birthday Julia Sawalha

You know her as Saffron Monsoon, the level-headed, stick-in-the-mud daughter from Absolutely Fabulous. You may have also recognize her as the voice of Ginger, the rebellious hen from Chicken Run. Julia is more well known on UK TV in general. For me, she got the great opportunity to be Emma, The Doctor’s companion for Comic Relief when Rowan Atkinson portrayed the iconic character with Jonathan Price as The Master. I always thought she was younger but I guess I was wrong that the BBC casts actors and actresses to match the age of the characters, unless Saffron was a perpetual college student in the show. If you go to imdb.com, look her up. You probably will go “oh yeah, her! I’m used to seeing her with glasses.” Due to my former love of the show known as AbFab (the fourth and later seasons didn’t interest me, I always felt it was an early Nineties type of program), Julia joins the legion of others who turn 40 with me this year.