People
Jeillo Edwards
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... Read More
Movies:
Title | Release date |
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Anansi as Aunt Vera | 2003-01-23 |
Dirty Pretty Things as Hospital Cleaning Lady | 2002-09-05 |
Tough Love as Irate Woman | 2000-10-01 |
Tube Tales as Middle Aged Woman (segment "Steal Away") | 1999-11-19 |
Paris, Brixton | 1997-01-01 |
Beautiful Thing as Rose | 1996-06-21 |
Pat and Margaret as Tea Bar Lady | 1994-09-11 |
Black and Blue as Mrs Jessop | 1992-09-27 |
Elphida as Somali Woman | 1987-10-08 |
Paint Me a Murder as Landlady | 1984-10-29 |
Memoirs of a Survivor as Woman at Newstand | 1981-09-01 |
Name for the Day as Nurse | 1980-12-16 |
Betzi as Sarah | 1978-09-23 |
Black Joy as Auntie | 1977-11-06 |
The Sniffler and the Pug as Nurse | 1977-06-28 |
A Kind of Marriage as Aggie | 1976-05-29 |
Through the Night as Lucy | 1975-12-02 |