Jeillo Edwards — Movies & TV Free

Acting · Born 1942-09-23 · Malta Street, Freetown, Sierra Leone

Biography

Jeillo Angela Doris Edwards was born in Freetown, Sierra Leone, one of six children, and she attended the Annie Walsh Memorial School. Edwards moved to England in the late 1950s and studied at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. She began performing at the age of four, reading from the Bible at her church. She was well known for her distinctive voice and imperious enunciation. She featured on the BBC World Service for Africa, which was broadcast in the UK. She became popular in the United Kingdom, appearing on television, where she was the first black woman to appear on British television as well as being the first African to appear on Dixon of Dock Green in 1972. She also appeared on television dramas such as The Professionals, The Bill and Casualty. She performed on British television, radio, stage and films for more than four decades. Edwards appeared in cameo roles in many British television comedy programmes, including The League of Gentlemen, Absolutely Fabulous, Red Dwarf, Black Books, Spaced and Little Britain, in which she had been planned to appear in the second series before her death. As well as acting she was a school governor and owned a restaurant called Auntie J's in Brixton. In the early 1970s, she married a Ghanaian, Edmund Clottey, and they had a daughter and two sons. Jeillo Edwards died in London on 2 July 2004, at the age of 61. She had suffered chronic kidney problems.

Filmography

• Beautiful Thing (1996) as Rose — rated 7.3/10
• Dirty Pretty Things (2002) as Hospital Cleaning Lady — rated 6.9/10
• Tube Tales (1999) as Middle Aged Woman (segment "Steal Away") — rated 5.3/10
• Anansi (2003) as Aunt Vera — rated 7.0/10
• Paris, Brixton (1997)
• The Sniffler and the Pug (1977) as Nurse
• Betzi (1978) as Sarah — rated 8.0/10
• Paint Me a Murder (1984) as Landlady — rated 8.5/10
• Memoirs of a Survivor (1981) as Woman at Newstand — rated 4.2/10
• Tough Love (2000) as Irate Woman — rated 10.0/10
• A Kind of Marriage (1976) as Aggie
• Elphida (1987) as Somali Woman
• Black Joy (1977) as Auntie — rated 6.8/10
• Name for the Day (1980) as Nurse — rated 7.0/10
• Pat and Margaret (1994) as Tea Bar Lady — rated 7.7/10
• Through the Night (1975) as Lucy
• Black and Blue (1992) as Mrs Jessop — rated 9.0/10
• Spaced (1999) as Tim's Benefit Clerk — rated 7.9/10
• The Bill (1984) — rated 6.8/10
• Murder Investigation Team (2003) as Agnes Welsh — rated 6.4/10

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