Adjoa Andoh
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Adjoa Andoh (born 1969) is a British actress and audio book narrator. She studied law at Bristol Polytechnic.
Andoh's television credits include Casualty (played Colette Griffiths from 2000 until 2002), Jonathan Creek, EastEnders (where she played jazz singer Karen, the lodger of Rachel Kominski in 1991), and The Tomorrow People (where she played Amanda James in the story The Rameses Connection in 1995).
She has appeared in Doctor Who a number of times: in 2006 as Sister Jatt in the episode New Earth of the 2nd series and as Nurse Albertine in the audio drama Year of the Pig. In 2007, she appeared in several episodes of the 3rd series (Smith and Jones, The Lazarus Experiment, 42, The Sound of Drums, and The 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 End (Doctor Who)).
She played the the head of M.I.9 in one episode of M.I.High.
She is also known for narrating the audio book versions of Alexander McCall Smith's The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series of detective novels, as well as Julia Jarman's children's books, The Jessame Stories and More Jessame Stories. In 2004, she was cast in the popular video game Fable.
She also stared in Adulthood as Sam Peel's (Noel Clarke) mother.
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Andoh has worked extensively in the theatre. Her credits include His Dark Materials, Stuff Happens and The Revenger's Tragedy at the National Theatre; A Streetcar Named Desire (National Theatre Studio); Tamburlaine and The Odyssey (RSC); Sugar Mummies and Breath Boom (Royal Court); Blood Wedding (Almeida); Nights at the Circus, The Dispute and Pericles (Lyric Hammersmith); Purgatorio (Arcola); The Vagina Monologues (Criterion); Starstruck (Tricycle); etc.
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