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Jeillo Edwards
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Jeillo Edwards
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1942-09-23,Malta Street, Freetown, Sierra Leone
Gender
Female
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

7.249

Beautiful Thing
1996-06-21

Dirty Pretty Things

6.879

Dirty Pretty Things
2002-09-05

5.1

Tube Tales
1999-11-19

0

Anansi
2003-01-23

0

Paris, Brixton
1997-01-01

The Sniffler and the Pug

0

The Sniffler and the Pug
1977-06-28

0

Betzi
1978-09-23

Paint Me a Murder

8

Paint Me a Murder
1984-10-29

Memoirs of a Survivor

4

Memoirs of a Survivor
1981-09-01

0

Tough Love
2000-10-01

A Kind of Marriage

0

A Kind of Marriage
1976-05-29

0

Elphida
1987-10-08

6.4

Black Joy
1977-11-06

Name for the Day

0

Name for the Day
1980-12-16

Pat and Margaret

7.5

Pat and Margaret
1994-09-11

Through the Night

0

Through the Night
1975-12-02

0

Black and Blue
1992-09-27

7.917

Spaced
1999-09-24

6.7

The Bill
1984-10-16

Murder Investigation Team

6.3

Murder Investigation Team
2003-05-03

Rumpole of the Bailey

6.9

Rumpole of the Bailey
1975-12-17

8.08

Red Dwarf
1988-02-15

6.2

Casualty
1986-09-06

8.056

Black Books
2000-09-29

Hammer House of Mystery and Suspense

6.4

Hammer House of Mystery and Suspense
1984-09-05

The Professionals

7.5

The Professionals
1977-12-30

0

Room Service
1979-01-02

8.4

Murder in Mind
2001-04-22

4

Tripper's Day
1984-09-24

7

Centre Play
1973-07-19

7

Centre Play
1973-07-19

Absolutely Fabulous

7.536

Absolutely Fabulous
1992-11-12

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