Adjoa Andoh

At 61 years old, Adjoa Andoh has this physical status:

Adjoa Andoh (born 14 January 1963) is a British film, television, stage and radio actress.

She is known on the UK stage for lead roles at the RSC, the National Theatre, the Royal Court Theatre and the Almeida Theatre, and is a familiar face on British television, notably in two series of Doctor Who as companion Martha's mother Francine Jones, 90 episodes of the BBC's long-running medical drama Casualty as Staff Nurse (later Sister) Colette Griffiths (née Kierney) and a year in the BBC's EastEnders.

Andoh is the voice of Alexander McCall Smith's No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency; she won "Audio Book of the Year" for Tea Time for the Traditionally Built. She made her Hollywood debut in autumn 2009 starring as Nelson Mandela's Chief of Staff Brenda Mazibuko alongside Morgan Freeman as Mandela in Clint Eastwood's Invictus.

Early life and education

Andoh was born in Clifton, Bristol. Her mother, a teacher, was English, and her father was a journalist and musician from Ghana. Andoh grew up in Wickwar in Gloucestershire, and attended Katharine Lady Berkeley's School. She started studying law at Bristol Polytechnic, but left after two years to pursue an acting career.

Personal life

Andoh and her husband, Howard Cunnell, a lecturer, have three children. In October 2009, Andoh was licensed as a lay preacher in the Church of England.

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Career

Andoh was a member of the BBC's Radio Drama Company. Casualty (she played Colette Griffiths from 2000 to 2003), Jonathan Creek, EastEnders (where she appeared as Karen, the lodger of Rachel Kominski in 1991), and The Tomorrow People (where she appeared Amanda James in the story The Rameses Connection in 1995).

She has appeared in Doctor Who several times: in 2006, she appeared as Sister Jatt in series 2 episode "New Earth" and as Nurse Albertine in the audio drama Year of the Pig. Francine Jones, the mother of Martha Jones, appeared in several episodes of the third series ("Smith and Jones," "The Sound of Drums," and "Last of the Time Lords") as Francine Jones, the mother of Martha Jones. She reprised her role in the finale of series 4 ("The Stolen Earth") and "Journey's Conclusion"). Andoh's other television appearances include appearing as the head of M.I.9 in Series 3 of M.I. I. D.C.I. : High and D.C.I. In Missing, Ford is no longer available. Lady Danbury appears in the American streaming television drama series Bridgerton (2020). In the second season of the Polish - American fantasy drama streaming television series The Witcher (2021), she appeared as Mother Nenneke.

Alexander McCall Smith's The No. 2 narrated her audio book versions. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency's series of detective novels and Ann Leckie's Imperial Radch Series trilogy (although not all of the US versions), Julia Jarman's children's books, The Jessame Stories, and More Jessame Stories are among the Ladies' Detective Agency's children's books. She also narrated the audio book version of Nnedi Okorafor's book Lagoon with Ben Onwukwe and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Americanah. Ex President Barack Obama's most popular book of 2017 was Naomi Alderman's The Power of. On BBC Radio 7, she has worked with Voice of Planet B in the science fiction series Planet B. In 2004, she appeared in the video game Fable. In Horizon: Zero Dawn, she was the voice of war chief Sona.

Andoh appeared in Noel Clarke's 2008 film Adulthood and its 2016 sequel Brotherhood as the mother of Clarke's character, Sam Peel. In Clint Eastwood's 2009 drama film Invictus, she played Chief of Staff Brenda Mazibuko opposite Morgan Freeman's Nelson Mandela.

Andoh has spent his time in theatre. Her Dark Materials, Stuff Happens, and The Revenger's Tragedy are among her work. Richard II (Bristol, Young Vic), Child Vision (Lyric Hammersmith), Treasure Maps, and Time For The Black and Brown Water (Moody, Roma); The Fountain and Cressida (Bristol); A Streetcar Named Desire (Royal Court); A Streetcar Named Desire (Bristol Old Vic); Sons of The Golden Vic)

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