Personal Info
Jeillo Edwards
Acting
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 televisio…
Known For
Filmography
Movies
Anansi
as Aunt Vera
Dirty Pretty Things
as Hospital Cleaning Lady
Tough Love
as Irate Woman
Tube Tales
as Middle Aged Woman (segment "Steal Away")
Paris, Brixton
Beautiful Thing
as Rose
Pat and Margaret
as Tea Bar Lady
Black and Blue
as Mrs Jessop
Elphida
as Somali Woman
Paint Me a Murder
as Landlady
TV Shows
Murder Investigation Team
as Agnes Welsh · 1 ep.
Murder in Mind
as Phyllis · 1 ep.
Black Books
as Midwife · 1 ep.
Spaced
as Tim's Benefit Clerk · 1 ep.
Absolutely Fabulous
as Jeillo · 1 ep.
Red Dwarf
as Second Ground Controller · 1 ep.
Casualty
as Jean MacKenzie · 1 ep.
The Bill
2 ep.
Hammer House of Mystery and Suspense
as Landlady · 1 ep.
Tripper's Day
as Dottie's Mother · 1 ep.