Jeillo Edwards
Birthday
1942/09/23
Day of death
2004/07/02 (61 years old)
Gender
Female
Place of Birth
Malta Street, Freetown, Sierra Leone
Also know as
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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 ...Read more
Acting
(1996) Beautiful Thing
as Rose
(2002) Dirty Pretty Things
as Hospital Cleaning Lady
(1999) Tube Tales
as Middle Aged Woman (segment "Steal Away")
(2003) Anansi
as Aunt Vera
(1997) Paris, Brixton
as ---
(1977) The Sniffler and the Pug
as Nurse
(1978) Betzi
as Sarah
(1984) Paint Me a Murder
as Landlady
(1981) Memoirs of a Survivor
as Woman at Newstand
(2000) Tough Love
as Irate Woman
(1976) A Kind of Marriage
as Aggie
(1987) Elphida
as Somali Woman
(1977) Black Joy
as Auntie
(1980) Name for the Day
as Nurse
(1994) Pat and Margaret
as Tea Bar Lady
(1975) Through the Night
as Lucy
(1992) Black and Blue
as Mrs Jessop
(1999) Spaced
as Tim's Benefit Clerk
(1984) The Bill
as ---
(1999) The League of Gentlemen
as ---
(2003) Murder Investigation Team
as Agnes Welsh
(1975) Rumpole of the Bailey
as ---
(1992) Absolutely Fabulous
as Jeillo
(1988) Red Dwarf
as Second Ground Controller
(1986) Casualty
as Jean MacKenzie
(2000) Black Books
as Midwife
(1997) Holding On
as Aunt Gaynor
(1984) Hammer House of Mystery and Suspense
as Landlady
(1977) The Professionals
as West Indian Woman
(1979) Room Service
as Mrs. McGregor
(2001) Murder in Mind
as Phyllis