Julia Sawalha Net Worth

What is Julia Sawalha's Net Worth?

Julia Sawalha is an English actress who has a net worth of $10 million. Julia Sawalha is best known for her role as Saffy Monsoon on the television sitcom "Absolutely Fabulous," which she played between 1992 and 2012 and reprised for the 2016 film adaptation "Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie." She has also appeared on such television series as "Press Gang," "Second Thoughts," "Faith in the Future," and "Lark Rise to Candleford," and in such films as "Buddy's Song," "Venus and Mars," and "The Final Curtain."

Early Life and Education

Julia Sawalha was born on September 9, 1968 in south London, England to Roberta Lane and Jordanian-British actor Nadim Sawalha. Her older sister is Nadia, who became an actress and television personality. Like her sister, she trained at the Italia Conti Academy of Theatre Arts in Woking, England.

Television Career

Sawalha had her first substantial acting role in 1982, in an episode of the BBC miniseries "Fame is the Spur." Also that year, she appeared in some episodes of the children's show "Educating Marmalade." Sawalha landed her first main role at the end of the decade, playing headstrong newspaper editor Lynda Day on the ITV children's series "Press Gang." The show ran for five seasons through 1993. Meanwhile, from 1991 to 1994, Sawalha played the main role of Hannah Greyshott on the ITV series "Second Thoughts," and in 1992 she began her best-known role, as Saffy Monsoon on the BBC sitcom "Absolutely Fabulous." Saffy was the daughter of Jennifer Saunders's character Eddie. "Absolutely Fabulous" initially ran until 1996, and was later revived for two more seasons and a pair of one-hour specials airing between 2001 and 2004. The show briefly came back again from late 2011 to the summer of 2012, when three new episodes were aired to commemorate the 20th anniversary.

In 1994, Sawalha appeared in the BBC adaptation of Charles Dickens's novel "Martin Chuzzlewit." She was in another BBC literary adaptation the next year, "Pride and Prejudice." Additionally, Sawalha began starring on the ITV sitcom "Faith in the Future," a sequel to her sitcom "Second Thoughts" in which she reprised her role as Hannah Greyshott. The show ran until 1998. Closing out the decade, she was in the television film "The Flint Street Nativity" and the animated preschool children's show "Kipper." Sawalha had a prolific start to the new millennium with a number of appearances, including roles on the Sky One sitcom "Time Gentlemen Please" and the animated children's series "Sheeep." In 2001, she joined the cast of "Jonathan Creek," to which she would return in 2003. Also in 2003, Sawalha appeared in the final two installments of the ITV historical fiction film series "Hornblower."

In the spring of 2007, Sawalha competed on the celebrity dog-training competition show "The Underdog Show," and came in third place. Later in the year, she had a supporting role on the five-part BBC One series "Cranford." After that, in early 2008, Sawalha began starring as Dorcas Lane on "Lark Rise to Candleford," an adaptation of Flora Thompson's trilogy of novels. The show ran for four seasons until 2011. Sawalha went on to appear on "Agatha Christie's Marple" in 2013 and "Remember Me" in 2014. In 2016, she was in an episode of "Midsomer Murders." Sawalha didn't appear on television again for a while after that. She returned in 2020 with a voice role on the animated show "It's Pony," and in 2024 she had a guest role on the ITV series "Vera." Sawalha also competed on the fifth season of the reality singing competition show "The Masked Singer," playing the character Bubble Tea.

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Film Career

On the big screen, Sawalha made her debut in the 1991 film "Buddy's Song," an adaptation of the novel by Nigel Hinton. She next appeared in Kenneth Branagh's 1995 romantic comedy "In the Bleak Midwinter." The year after that, Sawalha was in Terry Jones's adventure comedy "The Wind in the Willows," based on Kenneth Grahame's novel. She didn't have another role on the big screen until 2000, when she voiced Ginger in the stop-motion animated film "Chicken Run." Sawalha was subsequently in the 2001 film "Venus and Mars" and the 2002 film "The Final Curtain." Following a very long break from film, she reprised her television role as Saffy Monsoon in the 2016 big-screen adaptation "Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie."

Other Media

Beyond television and film, Sawalha has acted on stage, including in productions of "Peter Pan," "The Illusion," and "The Memory of Water." Elsewhere, she voiced the character Sister Hannah in the 2008 Xbox 360 video game "Fable II."

Personal Life

On New Year's Day, 2004, tabloid papers reported that Sawalha had married comedian and actor Alan Davies. However, both parties denied this, and sued the tabloids. Sawalha is known for keeping her private life under wraps.

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