Adjoa Andoh Biography, Career, Movies, Doctor Who, TV Shows, Husband, Daughter, Latest News, Age, And More

Adjoa Andoh is a British actress. In May 2023, after the coronation of King Charles III, Andoh criticized the ceremony, claiming that the events of the day had “gone from the rich diversity of the Abbey to a terribly white balcony”.

Adjoa Andoh Personal Life

Adjoa Andoh was born on 14 January 1963 in Clifton, Bristol, United Kingdom to a Ghanaian father and an English mother. Her mother was a teacher and her father was a journalist and musician. She has an elder brother named Yeofi.

Andoh grew up in Wickwar, Gloucestershire, where her family moved after her father got a job at British Aerospace. In October 2009, Andoh was licensed as a lay preacher in the Church of England.

In May 2023, after the coronation of King Charles III, Andoh criticized the ceremony, claiming that the events of the day had “gone from the rich diversity of the Abbey to a terribly white balcony”.

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Adjoa Andoh Career

Andoh was a member of the BBC Radio Drama Company. Her television series include Casualty (she played Colette Griffiths (as Kierney) from 2000 to 2003), Jonathan Creek, EastEnders (in which she played jazz singer Karen, Rachel Kominski in Rent in 1991), and The Tomorrow People (in which she played Amanda).

She appeared in Doctor Who several times: in 2006 as Nurse Jat in episode 2 of The New Earth and as Nurse Albertine in the audio drama Year of the Pig. In 2007, she appeared in several episodes of the third series (“Smith and Jones”, “The Lazarus Experiment”, “42”, “The Sound of Drums” and “The Last Time Lords Time Lords”) as mother Francine Jones. by Martha Jones (Freema Agyeman). She repeated her role in the series 4 finale (“The Stolen Earth” and “Journey’s End”).

Andoh’s other television credits include playing the lead role of M.I.9 in series 3-5. High and D.C.I. Ford gone. In the American web series Bridgerton (2020), she portrays Lady Danbury. She guest starred as Mother Nenneke in the second season of the Polish-American fantasy drama series The Witcher (2021). In April 2023, The Real Crown: Inside the House of Windsor, an ITV television documentary series about the British royal family, was broadcast. Andoh talks about the series.

She narrated the audiobook versions of The No by Alexander McCall Smith. 1 of the Women’s Detective Agency detective series and Ann Leckie’s Imperial Radch series trilogy (though not all US editions) and Julia Jarman’s The Jessame Stories children’s books. and more Jessame stories. She also narrated the audiobook version of the novel Lagoon by Nnedi Okorafor with Ben Onwukwe and Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie.

She narrated Naomi Alderman’s The Power, former President Barack Obama’s favorite book of 2017. Her career in voice drama includes the voice of Planet B in the BBC Radio 7 science fiction series Planet B. In 2004, she appeared in the video game Fable. In 2017, she starred as the voice of Warlord Sona in the video game Horizon Zero Dawn. In the film, Andoh appeared in Noel Clarke’s 2008 film Adult and its 2016 sequel Brotherhood as the mother of Clarke’s character Sam Peel. She played Chief of Staff Brenda Mazibuko in Clint Eastwood’s 2009 drama Invictus opposite Morgan Freeman’s Nelson Mandela.

Theater

Andoh worked a lot in the theater. Her credits include her “Dark Materials”, “The Events (The Events)” and “The Avenger’s Tragedy (The Tragedy of the Avenger)” at the National Theatre; A Streetcar Named Desire (National Theater Studio); Troilus and Cressida, Julius Caesar, Tamburlaine and The Odyssey (RSC); Sugar Mummies and Breath Boom (Royal Court); Richard II (Globe); Les Liaisons Dangereuses (The Donmar Warehouse); Great Expectations (Bristol Old Vic); Blood Wedding (Almeida); Nights at the Circus, Conflict and Pericles (Lyric Hammersmith); Julius Caesar (The Bridge); Purgatory (Arcola); Vaginal monologues (criterion); Starstruck (Tricycle) and In The Red and Brown Water (Young Vic).

Adjoa Andoh Relationship

Andoh met her husband Howard Cunnell in 1994 when she took over a bookshop in Battersea Arts Centre, where Andoh’s Wild Iris theater group was based. They have been together since late 1995 and got married in 2001. They have two children together (born in 1996 and 1997). Andoh also has a daughter from a previous relationship (b. 1985). Her children’s names are Jesse and Daisy and Liam (trans male).

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Adjoa Andoh Net Worth

Andoh has a net worth of $3 million. She earns by being an actress. She has worked on different projects which are critically acclaimed.

Adjoa Andoh Education

Andoh attended Katharine Lady Berkeley School and then went on to study law at Bristol Polytechnic, but left after two years to pursue an acting career.

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Adjoa Andoh Physical Stats

Height 5 feet 4 inch
Weight 53 kg
Hair Color Black
Eye Color Dark Brown

Adjoa Andoh Wiki/Bio

Name Adjoa Andoh
Full Name Adjoa Andoh HonFRSL
Date Of Birth 14 January 1963
Age 60 (as of 2023)
Birthplace Clifton, Bristol, United Kingdom
Profession Actress
Nationality British
Religion Christianity
Zodiac Sign Capricorn
Gender Female
Parents N/A
Siblings Yeofi
Partner N/A
Spouse Howard Cunnell (m. 2001)
Children Jesse and Daisy, and Liam

Adjoa Andoh Filmography

Year Title
1991 London South West
1995 What My Mother Told Me
2004 Every Time You Look at Me
2007 The Shadow in the North
2008 Adulthood
2009 Invictus
2016 Brotherhood
2019 Fractured
1990 EastEnders
1992 The Bill
1992 Waiting for God
1993 Casualty
1994 The Brittas Empire
1995 Health and Efficiency
1995 The Tomorrow People
1996 Paul Merton in Galton and Simpson’s…
1996 Testament: The Bible in Animation
1997 Peak Practice
1998 Close Relations
1998 A Rather English Marriage
1999 Jonathan Creek
2006 Doctor Who
2007 Wire in the Blood
2007 Doctor Who
2009 M.I. High
2009 Missing
2011 Scott & Bailey
2011 Law & Order: UK
2012 Julius Caesar
2014 Wizards vs. Aliens
2015 New Tricks
2015 Broadchurch
2015 Cucumber
2015 Thunderbirds Are Go
2016 Line of Duty
2018 Death in Paradise
2020 Silent Witness
2020 Bridgerton
2021 The Witcher
2022 The Smeds and The Smoos
2023 The Real Crown: Inside the House of Windsor
2023 Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story

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