Adjoa Andoh
Birthday: Born in 1963-01-14 in Bristol, England, UK
Deathday: Alive
Adjoa Andoh is a British film, television, stage and radio actress. On stage, she has played lead roles with the Royal Shakespeare Company, the National Theatre, the Royal Court Theatre and the Almeida Theatre.
TV Credits
The Netflix Afterparty
Character: Self
Hosts David Spade, Fortune Feimster and London Hughes welcome guests from the newest and biggest Netflix titles for fun conversations, skits and more....
Between the Covers
Character: Self
Sara Cox hosts this new book club bringing the nation together through sharing the pleasure of reading. Each edition features a celebrity panel discussing their favourite book and two review sections....
EastEnders
Character: Karen
The everyday lives of working-class residents of Albert Square, a traditional Victorian square of terrace houses surrounding a park in the East End of London's Walford borough....
Health and Efficiency
Character: Sister Beth Williams
Health and Efficiency is a British situation comedy that was originally broadcast from 30 December 1993 to 10 February 1995 on BBC1 for a total of 12 episodes over 2 series. It was written by Andrew Marshall, writer of the sitcom 2point4 children. The show starred Gary Olsen and Roger Lloyd Pack who both starred in 2point4 children, as well as Victor McGuire and Deborah Norton. The setting was a hospital and each episode was 30 minutes in length....
Doctor Who
Character: Sister Jatt
The Doctor is a Time Lord: a 900 year old alien with 2 hearts, part of a gifted civilization who mastered time travel. The Doctor saves planets for a living—more of a hobby actually, and the Doctor's very, very good at it....
The Brittas Empire
Character: Reporter
The Brittas Empire is a British sitcom created and originally written by Andrew Norriss and Richard Fegen. Chris Barrie plays Gordon Brittas, the well-meaning but incompetent manager of Whitbury New Town Leisure Centre. The show ran for seven series and 53 episodes — including two Christmas specials — from 1991 to 1997 on BBC1. Norriss and Fegen wrote the first five series, after which they left the show. The Brittas Empire enjoyed a long and successful run throughout the 1990s, and gained its...
Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg
Character:
The big names behind the big stories. Laura Kuenssberg talks to those making the news, inside and outside politics....
The Tomorrow People
Character: Amanda James
A group of young people discover they have special powers linking them to each other, aided by a mysterious wrecked spacecraft found on a Pacific island. Danger awaits them at every turn when unscrupulous people are intent on using their superior abilities for their own advantage....
Paul Merton in Galton & Simpson's
Character: Defence Counsel
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Casualty
Character: Colette Kierney
Drama series about the staff and patients at Holby City Hospital's emergency department, charting the ups and downs in their personal and professional lives....
Thief Takers
Character: Mrs. Higgins
Thief Takers was a police drama series made by Central Independent Television for the ITV network. The show depicted the work of a team in the Metropolitan Police Service's Flying Squad. Each case was a stand alone episode or sometimes spread over two episodes and continuing drama was provided by the depiction of the personal lives of the officers in the team and their families. Production comprised a pilot aired in 1995 followed by the commissioning of three series between 1996 and 1997....
The Bill
Character: Mrs. Hughes
The daily lives of the men and women at Sun Hill Police Station as they fight crime on the streets of London. From bomb threats to armed robbery and drug raids to the routine demands of policing this ground-breaking series focuses as much on crime as it does on the personal lives of its characters....
The Bill
Character: Diana Holt
The daily lives of the men and women at Sun Hill Police Station as they fight crime on the streets of London. From bomb threats to armed robbery and drug raids to the routine demands of policing this ground-breaking series focuses as much on crime as it does on the personal lives of its characters....
The Bill
Character: Mrs. Baptiste
The daily lives of the men and women at Sun Hill Police Station as they fight crime on the streets of London. From bomb threats to armed robbery and drug raids to the routine demands of policing this ground-breaking series focuses as much on crime as it does on the personal lives of its characters....
Dalziel & Pascoe
Character: Katie Bevins
British crime drama based on the "Dalziel and Pascoe" series of books by Reginald Hill, set in the fictional Yorkshire town of Wetherton. The unlikely duo of politically incorrect elephant-in-a-china-shop-copper Detective Superintendent Andrew Dalziel (pronounced Dee-ell) and his more sensitive and university educated sidekick Detective Sargent, later Detective Inspector, Peter Pascoe is always on hand to solve the classic murder mystery, while maintaining a down to earth wit and humour....
Wire in the Blood
Character: Celeste Davies
Clinical psychologist Dr Tony Hill's uncanny ability to see into the minds of murderers means he finds it difficult to distance himself from disturbing cases....
Missing
Character: DCI Lauren Ford
DS Mary Jane Croft runs the under-resourced Missing Persons Unit....
M.I. High
Character: Head of M.I.9
M.I. High is a BBC children's spy-fi adventure series. It was produced for the BBC by the independent production company Kudos, who also produced the hit BBC spy drama Spooks. It follows in the success of the Young Bond and the Alex Rider series of books and films. M.I. High is recorded in high definition and is shown on the CBBC Channel and CBBC Outputs on BBC One and BBC Two. M.I. High is also shown on the BBC HD Channel. Repeats also frequently air in Australia on ABC3. As of October 2012 the...
Scott & Bailey
Character: Janice Jadzowski
D.C. Rachel Bailey and D.C. Janet Scott have a robust and engaging friendship which enables them to draw upon each other’s strengths and investigate murders for the Manchester Metropolitan Police....
Law & Order: UK
Character: Lilly
Adapted from the hit US series, Law & Order: UK follows a team of police detectives and prosecutors representing the public interest in the criminal justice system....
Escape to the Chateau DIY
Character: Self - Narrator
Many Brits have moved to France to buy crumbling French chateaus to renovate into stunning homes. This series follows their progress and sees them try to use their homes as a business for events, etc. In 2021, the program was renamed as "Chateau DIY"....
Peak Practice
Character: Dr. Nixon
Peak Practice is a British drama series about a GP surgery in Cardale — a small fictional town in the Derbyshire Peak District — and the doctors who worked there. It ran on ITV from 10 May 1993 to 30 January 2002 and was one of their most successful series at the time. It originally starred Kevin Whately as Dr Jack Kerruish, Amanda Burton as Dr Beth Glover and Simon Shepherd as Dr Will Preston, though the roster of doctors would change many times over the course of the series. Cardale was based...
Chasing Shadows
Character: Angela Bale
Chasing Shadows follows a team of special operatives who are tracking down serial killers....
The Witcher
Character: Nenneke
Geralt of Rivia, a mutated monster-hunter for hire, journeys toward his destiny in a turbulent world where people often prove more wicked than beasts....
Jonathan Creek
Character: Anthea Spacey
Working from his home in a converted windmill, Jonathan Creek is a magician with a natural ability for solving puzzles. He soon puts this ability to the use of solving impossible crimes and mysterious murders....
Cucumber
Character: Marie Sullivan
Original drama series from Russell T Davies exploring the passions and pitfalls of 21st century gay life, beginning with the most disastrous date night in history....
Casualty
Character: Maggie
Drama series about the staff and patients at Holby City Hospital's emergency department, charting the ups and downs in their personal and professional lives....
Doctor Who
Character: Francine Jones
The Doctor is a Time Lord: a 900 year old alien with 2 hearts, part of a gifted civilization who mastered time travel. The Doctor saves planets for a living—more of a hobby actually, and the Doctor's very, very good at it....
Thunderbirds Are Go!
Character: Colonel Casey (voice)
Remake of the hit 1960s television show. In the 21st century, Jeff Tracy, a former astronaut, amasses a colossal fortune and decides that he must use it to benefit others. His answer to this desire is to create International Rescue, a unique private emergency response service equipped with customized designed vehicles and equipment that enable the organization to react to any crisis whether it be in sea, air, land, or space. Jeff's five sons volunteer to operate as the pilots and field agents, a...
Women Make Film: A New Road Movie Through Cinema
Character: Narrator (voice)
As told through clips from 183 female directors, this epic history of the cinema focuses on women’s integral role in the development of film art. Using almost a thousand film extracts from thirteen decades and five continents, Mark Cousins asks how films are made, shot and edited; how stories are shaped and how movies depict life, love, politics, humour and death, all through the compelling lens of some of the world’s greatest filmmakers – all of them women....
Bridgerton
Character: Lady Agatha Danbury
Wealth, lust, and betrayal set in the backdrop of Regency era England, seen through the eyes of the powerful Bridgerton family....
Casualty
Character: Colette Griffiths
Drama series about the staff and patients at Holby City Hospital's emergency department, charting the ups and downs in their personal and professional lives....
Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story
Character: Lady Agatha Danbury
The story of how the young Queen Charlotte’s marriage to King George sparked both a great love story and a societal shift, creating the world of the Ton inherited by the characters in Bridgerton....
Close Relations
Character: April
Drama series about the varied lives of a couple and their three grown-up daughters....
The Kelly Clarkson Show
Character:
Kelly Clarkson presents the biggest newsmakers and names in film, television and music; as well as emerging new talent and everyday people who are beacons of hope in their communities....
The Savoy
Character: Narrator
The Savoy hotel... Its very name synonymous with glamour and exclusivity. But what really goes on behind those famous revolving doors?...
Death in Paradise
Character: Celeste Jones
A brilliant but idiosyncratic British detective and his resourceful local team solve baffling murder mysteries on the fictional Caribbean island of Saint-Marie....
Waiting for God
Character: Dr Angela Avery
Refusing to succumb to old age, Tom Ballard and Diana Trent are a pair of seasoned delinquents that cause many headaches. Their uneasy alliance is destined to make life difficult at the Bayview Retirement Village....
The Red King
Character: Lady Heather Nancarrow
Smart, capable and by the book Grace Narayan was flying high as an inner-city police sergeant before being forced into a 'punishment posting' on the small, antiquated island of St. Jory. Confronted by the forgotten and unsolved case of missing teenage boy Cai, Grace quickly discovers that she must overcome scarce evidence, extraordinary local characters, and the island's strange cult history to uncover the truth...
Serengeti
Character: Narrator (voice)
Capturing the high drama of the Serengeti’s distinctive wildlife up close....
Broadchurch
Character: Julie
The murder of a young boy in a small coastal town brings a media frenzy, which threatens to tear the community apart....
Doctor Who Greatest Moments
Character: Self
Takes viewers on a journey through time and space to relive all the action from the sci-fi show, featuring exclusive interviews with key actors offering unique insights on the classic moments....
Liar
Character: Margaret Rust
A teacher and a surgeon are rocked by scandalous accusations after they enjoy a seemingly innocent date....
Testament: The Bible in Animation
Character: Ruth (voice)
A nine-part series of Old Testament stories for younger viewers using various animation techniques, including stop-motion, cel animation and computer animation....
Movie Credits
The Last Days
Character: Yimika
It is the near-future, and even the prediction of one's own death comes with its racialized privilege....
Invictus
Character: Brenda Mazibuko
Newly elected President Nelson Mandela knows his nation remains racially and economically divided in the wake of apartheid. Believing he can bring his people together through the universal language of sport, Mandela rallies South Africa's rugby union team as they make their historic run to the 1995 Rugby World Cup Championship match....
The Shadow in the North
Character: Jessie Saxon
Sally Lockhart crosses paths with the nefarious industrialist Axel Bellman, the richest and most powerful man in Europe. She's determined to prove him guilty of corruption and fraud, whilst Bellman will stop at nothing to destroy her case....
Mrs In-Betweeny
Character: Ellen
After the death of their parents, three children are put into the care of their aunt Brandon - unaware of the fact she is a transgender woman. Over time, as they get used to the idea, the kids use Mrs In-Betweeny to their advantage - with disastrous results and comical laughter....
Closed Circuit
Character: News Reporter 2
A high-profile terrorism case unexpectedly binds together two ex-lovers on the defense team - testing the limits of their loyalties and placing their lives in jeopardy....
Mog's Christmas
Character: Narrator (voice)
Mog feels a little ignored during the Thomas family's Christmas preparations. When she spots the huge Christmas tree, she freaks out and climbs to the roof, where she refuses to move no matter how hard the family tries....
House Finch
Character: Penny
A day in the life of a mother and her son....
How I See You
Character: The Woman
A chance encounter with a photographer sends a woman on a journey of self-identity....
Julius Caesar
Character: Portia
Film version of the Royal Shakespeare Company's 2012 production of Shakespeare's fast-moving thriller. A vivid story about a struggle for democracy, Julius Caesar is also a love story between two men united by an explosive act of political violence. The setting is a modern African state in which the tyrant Caesar is about to seize power. Cassius persuades Brutus to join the conspirators plotting an assassination. Featuring a distinguished cast of black actors, the film is shot on location and in...
The Queen's Platinum Jubilee Celebration
Character: Narrator
From the private grounds of Windsor Castle, an all-star cast put on a theatrical arena event featuring 1,300 performers, 500 horses and four acts, which gallop through history to celebrate Queen Elizabeth II's Platinum Jubilee....
Oxide Ghosts: The Brass Eye Tapes
Character:
Only shown at live events, Oxide Ghosts: The Brass Eye Tapes is made from unseen sketches and outtakes from seminal British TV series Brass Eye....
Dickens: Phantoms and Fiction
Character: Readings
Captivating documentary exploring the haunting world of Charles Dickens' supernatural tales through actor readings, archive footage and immersive visuals...
The Shadow in the North
Character:
Sally Lockhart crosses paths with the nefarious industrialist Axel Bellman, the richest and most powerful man in Europe. She's determined to prove him guilty of corruption and fraud, whilst Bellman will stop at nothing to destroy her case....
The Smeds and the Smoos
Character: Grandmother Smoo (voice)
In this animated intergalactic adventure, the red Smeds and the blue Smoos must learn to overcome their differences and work together to find young Janet and Bill – who eloped to escape their families’ long standing rivalries....
The Lennox Report
Character: Louise
When a global pandemic threatens to jeopardise an impending deal, and their manager goes off sick, work colleagues Kayla and Mark are tasked with completing the Lennox Report. Spending time together online, their friendship deepens and Kayla begins to question some of the other relationships in her life....
The Name of the Prime Minister
Character: Liz De Souza
A psychiatrist is taken to a secret government facility to interview a man convinced Tony Blair is still the Prime Minister....
Adulthood
Character: Mrs. Peel
After serving six years for killing his schoolmate, a young man learns that someone is out for revenge....
National Theatre Live: Les Liaisons Dangereuses
Character: Madame de Volanges
Marquise de Merteuil, former lover of Vicomte de Valmont, incites him to corrupt the innocent Cécile de Volanges before her wedding night, but Valmont has targeted the peerlessly virtuous and beautiful Madame de Tourvel....
A Rather English Marriage
Character: Mandy Hulme
A squadron leader and a retired milkman decide to bury their differences and move in together after they are both widowed on the very same night. They become a companionable if odd couple, until their unlikely friendship is threatened by the arrival of an alluring woman with a hidden agenda....
In the Dark Half
Character: Pathologist
A teenage girl comes to terms with the unexplained death of the boy next door....
Fractured
Character: Dr. Isaacs
Driving cross-country, Ray and his wife and daughter stop at a highway rest area where his daughter falls and breaks her arm. After a frantic rush to the hospital and a clash with the check-in nurse, Ray is finally able to get her to a doctor. While the wife and daughter go downstairs for an MRI, Ray, exhausted, passes out in a chair in the lobby. Upon waking up, they have no record or knowledge of Ray's family ever being checked in....
Brotherhood
Character: Agnes Peel
First there was Kidulthood then Adulthood now comes Noel Clarkes last installment brotherhood With Sam facing up to the new world he realizes it also comes with new problems and new challenges that he must face that he knows will require old friends to help him survive new dangers....
What My Mother Told Me
Character: Jesse
Exquisitely beautiful and profoundly moving, What My Mother Told Me is a dramatic journey towards self discovery. The story focuses on Jesse, a young woman from England, who goes to Trinidad to bury her father. Reluctantly she agrees to meet her mother, whom she thought had abandoned her when she was a child. Her mother tells her stories, revealing a troubled and violent marriage, and Jesse is forced to face the truth about her past....
Richard II
Character: Richard II
Beset by problems at home and abroad, a capricious king is forced to relinquish his ‘hollow crown’. As his supporters abandon him and his power trickles away, Richard reflects with startling eloquence on the disintegration of his status and identity. Adjoa Andoh and Lynette Linton direct the first ever company of women of colour in a Shakespeare play on a major UK stage, in a post-Empire reflection on what it means to be British in the light of the Windrush anniversary and as we leave the Europ...
Brighton
Character: Alice
A typical day in Brighton; two working-class couples are on a day trip to the beach. But Brighton is changing and the friends can’t keep up. A result is a vengeful act of violence that exposes the gaps and similarities between class, gender, and sexual orientations....
National Theatre Live: Julius Caesar
Character: Casca, Conspirator
Caesar returns in triumph to Rome and the people pour out of their homes to celebrate. Alarmed by the autocrat’s popularity, the educated élite conspire to bring him down. After his assassination, civil war erupts on the streets of the capital. Nicholas Hytner’s production will thrust the audience into the street party that greets Caesar’s return, the congress that witnesses his murder, the rally that assembles for his funeral and the chaos that explodes in its wake....
Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl
Character: Judge (voice)
Gromit’s concern that Wallace is becoming too dependent on his inventions proves justified, when Wallace invents a “smart” gnome that seems to develop a mind of its own. When it emerges that a vengeful figure from the past might be masterminding things, it falls to Gromit to battle sinister forces and save his master… or Wallace may never be able to invent again!...