Jeillo Edwards (23 September 1942 – 2 July 2004) was a Sierra Leonean actress, who is notable in the history of black actors in Britain.
[3] Jeillo Angela Doris Edwards[4] was born in Freetown, Sierra Leone, one of six children, and she attended the Annie Walsh Memorial School.
[2] Edwards moved to England in the late 1950s and studied at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama.
[3][5] Edwards appeared in cameo roles in many British television comedy programmes, including The League of Gentlemen, Absolutely Fabulous, Red Dwarf, Black Books, Spaced and Little Britain, in which she had been planned to appear in the second series before her death.
As well as acting she was a school governor and owned a restaurant called Auntie J's in Brixton.