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 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.

Known For: Acting

Born: Malta Street, Freetown, Sierra Leone, 1942-09-23

Died: 2004-07-02

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1975	Through the Night	Lucy	0
2	1976	A Kind of Marriage	Aggie	0
3	1977	The Sniffler and the Pug	Nurse	0
4	1977	Black Joy	Auntie	64
5	1978	Betzi	Sarah	0
6	1980	Name for the Day	Nurse	0
7	1981	Memoirs of a Survivor	Woman at Newstand	42
8	1984	Paint Me a Murder	Landlady	80
9	1987	Elphida	Somali Woman	0
10	1992	Black and Blue	Mrs Jessop	0
11	1994	Pat and Margaret	Tea Bar Lady	75
12	1996	Beautiful Thing	Rose	73
13	1997	Paris, Brixton		0
14	1999	Tube Tales	Middle Aged Woman (segment "Steal Away")	51
15	2000	Tough Love	Irate Woman	0
16	2002	Dirty Pretty Things	Hospital Cleaning Lady	69
17	2003	Anansi	Aunt Vera	0

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1975	Rumpole of the Bailey		71
2	1977	The Professionals	West Indian Woman	74
3	1979	Room Service	Mrs. McGregor	0
4	1984	Hammer House of Mystery and Suspense	Landlady	64
5	1984	The Bill		67
6	1986	Casualty	Jean MacKenzie	61
7	1988	Red Dwarf	Second Ground Controller	81
8	1992	Absolutely Fabulous	Jeillo	75
9	1997	Holding On	Aunt Gaynor	80
10	1999	The League of Gentlemen	Yvonne	77
11	1999	Spaced	Tim's Benefit Clerk	79
12	2000	Black Books	Midwife	81
13	2001	Murder in Mind	Phyllis	84
14	2003	Murder Investigation Team	Agnes Welsh	55

Jeillo Edwards

Film

Television