Jeillo Edwards

Jeillo Edwards

Known for: Acting
Biography: 1942-09-23
Deathday: 2004-07-02 (61 years old)

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Jeillo Edwards (23 September 1942 – 2 July 2004) was a Sierra Leonean actress, who is notable in the history of black actors in Britain. She was the first woman of African descent to study drama at London's Guildhall School of Music and Drama. She went on to be one of the first black actresses to be cast in a mainstream UK television drama series – Dixon of Dock Green, and for more than four decades performed on British television, radio, stage and films. 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 The Bill, radio and on stage.Edwards appeared in cameo roles in many British television comedy programmes, including The Professionals, 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.

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Known For
Acting

Gender
Female

Birthday
1942-09-23

Deathday
2004-07-02 (61 years old)

Birth Name
Jeillo Angela Doris Edwards

Birth Place
Freetown, Sierra Leone


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