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- Known For
- Acting
- Born
- September 23, 1942
- Place of Birth
- Malta Street, Freetown, Sierra Leone
- Died
- July 2, 2004
Jeillo Edwards
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 Bri…
Filmography
tvMurder Investigation Team
2003 · Agnes Welsh
movieAnansi
2003 · Aunt Vera
movieDirty Pretty Things
2002 · Hospital Cleaning Lady
tvMurder in Mind
2001 · Phyllis
Tough Love
movieTough Love
2000 · Irate Woman
tvBlack Books
2000 · Midwife
movieTube Tales
1999 · Middle Aged Woman (segment "Steal Away")
tvSpaced
1999 · Tim's Benefit Clerk
Paris, Brixton
movieParis, Brixton
1997
movieBeautiful Thing
1996 · Rose
moviePat and Margaret
1994 · Tea Bar Lady
tvAbsolutely Fabulous
1992 · Jeillo
Black and Blue
movieBlack and Blue
1992 · Mrs Jessop
tvRed Dwarf
1988 · Second Ground Controller
Elphida
movieElphida
1987 · Somali Woman
tvCasualty
1986 · Jean MacKenzie
moviePaint Me a Murder
1984 · Landlady
tvThe Bill
1984
tvTripper's Day
1984 · Dottie's Mother
tvHammer House of Mystery and Suspense
1984 · Landlady
movieMemoirs of a Survivor
1981 · Woman at Newstand
movieName for the Day
1980 · Nurse
tvRoom Service
1979 · Mrs. McGregor
Betzi
movieBetzi
1978 · Sarah
tvThe Professionals
1977 · West Indian Woman
movieBlack Joy
1977 · Auntie
movieThe Sniffler and the Pug
1977 · Nurse
movieA Kind of Marriage
1976 · Aggie
tvRumpole of the Bailey
1975 · Lady Cashier
movieThrough the Night
1975 · Lucy
tvCentre Play
1973 · Aggie Arinze, Nurse