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Jeillo Edwards

Jeillo Edwards
  • Name: Jeillo Edwards
  • Birthday: 1942-09-23
  • Place of birth: Malta Street, Freetown, Sierra Leone
  • Popularity: 0.019
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

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Title Release date
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