Jeillo Edwards

Nacimiento : 1942-09-23, Malta Street, Freetown, Sierra Leone

Muerte : 2004-07-02

Películas

Anansi
Aunt Vera
The story of an adventurous odyssey experienced by a group of West Africans to build a new life in Germany.
Tough Love
Irate Woman
DC Lenny Milton (Winstone) is not as ambitious as his best friend and popular boss DCI Michael Love (Dunbar), but the pair are drinking partners and their wives and children are close. However, this goes very wrong over the space of 7 days, when Milton is approached by the police complaints division asking him to go undercover and investigate allegations of corruption against his friend. Milton finds this difficult at first and tries to dismiss the evidence building up. But as his suspicions begin to take shape his position appears to be in danger.
Paris, Brixton
Amanda is a student obsessed with all things French. Holed up with the flu in her Brixton flat, she is awoken in the dead of night by a burglar who's broken into the wrong house. Amanda falls in love with the intruder but as their love blooms, her flat starts to fill up with stolen goods.
Beautiful Thing
Rose
Jamie Gangel mantiene una tensa relación con su madre, Sandra, debido a su absentismo escolar, Leah se refugia en la música tras ser expulsada del instituto y Ste convive con la violencia doméstica a diario. Las vidas de estos tres jóvenes se entrelazan cuando Ste, harto de su familia, se larga de casa. Durante la ausencia de su madre, que pasa más tiempo en el trabajo, o junto a su nuevo novio Tony, que en casa, Jamie invita a Ste a pasar la noche con él. Es entonces cuando la atracción entre ambos se desata, lo que les llevará a lidiar con sus sentimientos y el despertar de su homosexualidad.
Pat and Margaret
Tea Bar Lady
Unexpected events occur when Pat, a glamorous British-born star of American soaps, returns home to plug her auto-biography on television and meets, for the first time since they were teenagers, Margaret her plain and frumpy younger sister. The meeting is painful for both women highlighting the vast differences in their lives and resurrecting painful memories of their unhappy childhood with an uncaring, errant mother. The tabloid press smell a juicy story and a race ensues to trace the whereabouts of the long lost parent.
Black and Blue
Mrs Jessop
When a local black politician is murdered an undercover police officer unveils a web of police corruption which puts lives at risk and threatens the whole community.
Elphida
Somali Woman
Elphida is 30. She has been married for 13 years and has 3 children. She plans to restart her education when her youngest child goes to nursery. Then the nursery is closed. On top of this, her parents are contemplating divorce and want her to act as a go between.
Paint Me a Murder
Landlady
Luke Lorenz is an artist whose paintings don't sell. His imaginative wife Sandra reasons that sales of his works would increase tenfold if he were to die, so they fake his death.
Memorias de una Superviviente
Woman at Newstand
En un futuro próximo, la sociedad cede al peor de los caos a consecuencia de la bancarrota económica mundial. Los recursos básicos escasean, y se impone la ley del más fuerte. Salvo las fuerzas manipuladoras habituales y una administración agónica, no queda apenas ningún rastro del Estado. Reina la impunidad absoluta. En este contexto repleto de desechos, ratas y miseria, una mujer dada a la ensoñación escapista se hace cargo de una joven. Juntas deberán aprender a sobrevivir.
Name for the Day
Nurse
Clive decides he will go mad. Stark raving mad. His wife doesn't take him seriously, until Clive does something that makes her realise he means it.
Black Joy
Auntie
An innocent and unsophisticated Guyanese immigrant is exposed to the hustlin' way of life in the Brixton ghetto.
A Kind of Marriage
Aggie
"By local custom, a man may turn from a wife who cannot give him more than one son. But Charles assures Maria that he is a 'modern educated man'. When war drives them back to their village, events force Maria to re-think their marriage." - Radio Times, 1976
Through the Night
Lucy
The play tells the story of Christine Potts, who undergoes an unexpected mastectomy, and struggles to cope with the aftermath and the deficiencies of her post-operative care.