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 broa...
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Beautiful Thing
As Rose
Dirty Pretty Things
As Hospital Cleaning Lady
Tube Tales
As Middle Aged Woman (segment "Steal Away")
Anansi
As Aunt Vera
Paris, Brixton
The Sniffler and the Pug
As Nurse
Betzi
As Sarah
Paint Me a Murder
As Landlady
Memoirs of a Survivor
As Woman at Newstand
Tough Love
As Irate Woman
A Kind of Marriage
As Aggie
Elphida
As Somali Woman
Black Joy
As Auntie
Name for the Day
As Nurse
Pat and Margaret
As Tea Bar Lady
Through the Night
As Lucy
Black and Blue
As Mrs Jessop
Spaced
As Tim's Benefit Clerk
The Bill
The League of Gentlemen
Murder Investigation Team
As Agnes Welsh
Rumpole of the Bailey
Absolutely Fabulous
As Jeillo
Red Dwarf
As Second Ground Controller
Casualty
As Jean MacKenzie
Black Books
As Midwife
Holding On
As Aunt Gaynor
Hammer House of Mystery and Suspense
As Landlady
The Professionals
As West Indian Woman
Room Service
As Mrs. McGregor
Murder in Mind
As Phyllis