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Jeillo Edwards

Known for ActingBorn 1942-09-23Died 2004-07-02Malta Street, Freetown, Sierra Leone
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.Read more

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Tough Love
10.0
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Tough Love

2000 · Movie

Black and Blue
9.0
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Black and Blue

1992 · Movie

Paint Me a Murder8.5
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Paint Me a Murder

1984 · Movie

Murder in Mind8.3
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Murder in Mind

2001 · Series

Black Books8.0
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Black Books

2000 · Series

Red Dwarf8.1
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Red Dwarf

1988 · Series

Spaced7.9
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Spaced

1999 · Series

Betzi
8.0
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Betzi

1978 · Movie

Pat and Margaret7.7
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Pat and Margaret

1994 · Movie

Absolutely Fabulous7.5
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Absolutely Fabulous

1992 · Series

The Professionals7.6
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The Professionals

1977 · Series

Beautiful Thing7.2
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Beautiful Thing

1996 · Movie

Anansi7.0
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Anansi

2003 · Movie

Murder Investigation Team7.0
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Murder Investigation Team

2003 · Series

Dirty Pretty Things6.9
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Dirty Pretty Things

2002 · Movie

Name for the Day7.0
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Name for the Day

1980 · Movie

Rumpole of the Bailey7.0
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Rumpole of the Bailey

1975 · Series

Centre Play7.0
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Centre Play

1973 · Series

The Bill6.8
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The Bill

1984 · Series

Black Joy6.8
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Black Joy

1977 · Movie

Hammer House of Mystery and Suspense6.5
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Hammer House of Mystery and Suspense

1984 · Series

Casualty6.2
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Casualty

1986 · Series

Tripper's Day5.5
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Tripper's Day

1984 · Series

Tube Tales5.3
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Tube Tales

1999 · Movie

Memoirs of a Survivor4.2
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Memoirs of a Survivor

1981 · Movie

Paris, Brixton
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Paris, Brixton

1997 · Movie

Elphida
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Elphida

1987 · Movie

Room Service
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Room Service

1979 · Series

The Sniffler and the Pug
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The Sniffler and the Pug

1977 · Movie

A Kind of Marriage
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A Kind of Marriage

1976 · Movie

Through the Night
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Through the Night

1975 · Movie