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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...

Known For

Dirty Pretty Things

as Hospital Cleaning Lady

Memoirs of a Survivor

as Woman at Newstand

Cast Credits

Anansi

as Aunt Vera

Dirty Pretty Things

as Hospital Cleaning Lady

Tough Love

as Irate Woman

Tube Tales

as Middle Aged Woman (segment "Steal Away")

Pat and Margaret

as Tea Bar Lady

Black and Blue

as Mrs Jessop

Elphida

as Somali Woman

Memoirs of a Survivor

as Woman at Newstand

Betzi

as Sarah

Black Joy

as Auntie