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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.
Most Popular Jeillo Edwards Trailers
Total trailers found: 17
19 November 1999
Nine short stories based on the true experiences of London Underground passengers: "Mr. Cool" (Amy Jenkins, dir.
01 January 1997
Amanda is a student obsessed with all things French. Holed up with the flu in her Brixton flat, she is awoken in the dead of night by a burglar who's broken into the wrong house.
23 September 1978
A moody drama concerning the lonely but luxurious imprisonment of Napoleon Bonaparte on St Helena.
08 October 1987
Elphida is 30. She has been married for 13 years and has 3 children. She plans to restart her education when her youngest child goes to nursery.
06 November 1977
An innocent and unsophisticated Guyanese immigrant is exposed to the hustlin' way of life in the Brixton ghetto.
05 September 2002
An undocumented immigrant finds a human heart in one of the toilets of the west London hotel where he works with other undocumented immigrants.
21 June 1996
During a long, hot summer on the Thamesmead Estate in Southeast London, three teenagers edge towards adulthood.
11 September 1994
Unexpected events occur when Pat, a glamorous British-born star of American soaps, returns home to plug her auto-biography on television and meets, for the first time since they were teenagers, Margaret her plain and frumpy younger sister.
01 October 2000
DC Lenny Milton (Winstone) is not as ambitious as his best friend and popular boss DCI Michael Love (Dunbar), but the pair are drinking partners and their wives and children are close.
27 September 1992
When a local black politician is murdered an undercover police officer unveils a web of police corruption which puts lives at risk and threatens the whole community.
29 October 1984
Luke Lorenz is a artist whose paintings don't sell. His imaginative wife Sandra reasons that sales of his works would increase tenfold if he were to die, so they fake his death.
02 December 1975
The play tells the story of Christine Potts, who undergoes an unexpected mastectomy, and struggles to cope with the aftermath and the deficiencies of her post-operative care.
16 December 1980
Clive decides he will go mad. Stark raving mad. His wife doesn't take him seriously, until Clive does something that makes her realise he means it.
23 January 2003
The story of an adventurous odyssey experienced by a group of West Africans to build a new life in Germany.
01 September 1981
Based on the acclaimed novel by Doris Lessing, this dystopian science fiction tale concerns a woman struggling to make her way in a post-apocalyptic society.
29 May 1976
"By local custom, a man may turn from a wife who cannot give him more than one son. But Charles assures Maria that he is a 'modern educated man'.
28 June 1977
Two parents get to know each other on a neonatal unit. One has a baby with Down's syndrome.
