# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jeillo-edwards
# Generated: 2026-08-13T11:20:00.828Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/jeillo-edwards"
name: "Jeillo Edwards"
slug: "jeillo-edwards"
description: "Jeillo Edwards was a Sierra Leonean actress, who is notable in the history of black actors in Britain. She was the first woman of African descent to study drama at London's Guildhall School of Music and Drama. She went on to be one of the first black actresses to be cast in a mainstream UK television drama series – Dixon of Dock Green, and for more than four decades performed on British television, radio, stage and films."
tagline: "Was a Sierra Leonean actress (1942-2004)"
gender: "female"
category:
  name: "Actors"
  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "Actor"
  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1942-09-23"
deathDate: "2004-07-02"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           10.54168533333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0250087/"
    handle:    "nm0250087"
sources:
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    title: "Discogs"
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    title: "جيلو إدواردز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Jeillo Edwards"
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    title: "Jeillo Edwards"
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    title: "Jeillo Edwards"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ha.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeillo_Edwards"
    title: "Jeillo Edwards"
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  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%92'%D7%99%D7%99%D7%9C%D7%95_%D7%90%D7%93%D7%95%D7%95%D7%A8%D7%93%D7%A1"
    title: "ג'יילו אדוורדס"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Jeillo Edwards"
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    title: "Jeillo Edwards"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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    title: "Jeillo Edwards"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump