1. Adjoa Aiboom Helen Andoh HonFRSL was born on 14 January 1963 and is a British actress.
28 Facts About Adjoa Andoh
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In July 2022, Adjoa Andoh became an honorary fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.
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Adjoa Aiboom Helen Andoh was born on 14 January 1963 in Clifton, Bristol.
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Adjoa Andoh's mother, a teacher, was English, and her father was a journalist and musician from Ghana.
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Adjoa Andoh grew up in Wickwar in Gloucestershire, where her family moved after her father got a job with British Aerospace.
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Adjoa Andoh attended Katharine Lady Berkeley's School and then started studying law at Bristol Polytechnic, but left after two years to pursue an acting career.
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In film, Adjoa Andoh appeared in Noel Clarke's 2008 film Adulthood and its 2016 sequel Brotherhood as the mother of Clarke's character, Sam Peel.
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Adjoa Andoh played Chief of Staff Brenda Mazibuko opposite Morgan Freeman's Nelson Mandela in Clint Eastwood's 2009 drama film Invictus.
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Adjoa Andoh has appeared in Doctor Who a number of times: in 2006 as Sister Jatt in series 2 episode "New Earth" and as Nurse Albertine in the audio drama Year of the Pig.
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Adjoa Andoh reprised her role in the finale of series 4.
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Adjoa Andoh played the guest role of Mother Nenneke in the second season of the Polish - American fantasy drama streaming television series The Witcher.
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Adjoa Andoh has narrated 'Chateaux DIY' on Channel 4 since 2021.
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In 2024, Adjoa Andoh starred in a Christmas advertising campaign for Boots, as 'Mrs Claus'.
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Adjoa Andoh was a member of the BBC's Radio Drama Company.
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Adjoa Andoh narrated one audio book version of Alexander McCall Smith's The No 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series of detective novels and Ann Leckie's Imperial Radch Series trilogy, as well as Julia Jarman's children's books, The Jessame Stories and More Jessame Stories.
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Adjoa Andoh narrated the audio book version of Nnedi Okorafor's novel Lagoon with Ben Onwukwe, and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Americanah.
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Adjoa Andoh narrated The Power by Naomi Alderman, former President Barack Obama's favorite book of 2017.
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Adjoa Andoh was the only Black actress in the cast as a comment on the title character's Otherness.
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Adjoa Andoh is Associate Artist for the Royal Shakespeare Company and Senior Associate Artist at the Bush Theatre.
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Adjoa Andoh has served on numerous awards committees, including the Women's Prize for Playwriting, a judge for the inaugural BAME science fiction writer's award for Gollancz, the Literature Matters Awards for the Royal Society of Literature, the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize, and she was a jury member for the Booker Prize.
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Adjoa Andoh has served as a judge for the Carleton Hobbs Award and the Norman Beaton Fellowship.
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Adjoa Andoh is a co-founder of the Future Worlds Prize for science fiction writers of color.
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Adjoa Andoh is a teacher at the Royal Academy of Arts and Rose Bruford College.
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In 2021, Adjoa Andoh was named an Honorary Fellow of the British Shakespeare Association.
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Adjoa Andoh met her husband, Howard Cunnell, in 1994 when he took over the bookshop at Battersea Arts Centre, where Adjoa Andoh's theatre company Wild Iris had an office.
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In October 2009, Adjoa Andoh was licensed as a reader in the Church of England for the parish of Herne Hill.
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In 2014, Adjoa Andoh gave a TED talk at TEDxBermuda about her experience as a parent of a trans child.
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In May 2023, following the coronation of King Charles III, Adjoa Andoh stated that the day's proceedings had "gone from the rich diversity of the Abbey to a terribly white balcony".