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...
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
Beautiful Thing
as Rose
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")
Beautiful Thing
as Rose
Pat and Margaret
as Tea Bar Lady
Black and Blue
as Mrs Jessop
Elphida
as Somali Woman
Paint Me a Murder
as Landlady
Memoirs of a Survivor
as Woman at Newstand
Name for the Day
as Nurse
Betzi
as Sarah
Black Joy
as Auntie
The Sniffler and the Pug
as Nurse
A Kind of Marriage
as Aggie
Through the Night
as Lucy