Adjoa Andoh

Adjoa Aiboom Helen Andoh (born 14 January 1963) is a British actress. She is best known for her role as Lady Danbury in the Netflix Regency romance series Bridgerton, since 2020. Other roles on television include appearances in two series of Doctor Who as Francine Jones, 90 episodes of the BBC's long-running medical drama Casualty and EastEnders. On stage, she has played lead roles with the Royal Shakespeare Company, the National Theatre, the Royal Court Theatre, and the Almeida Theatre. Andoh made her Hollywood debut in autumn 2009, starring as Nelson Mandela's chief of staff Brenda Mazibuko alongside Morgan Freeman as Mandela in Invictus, and has appeared in other feature films. In July 2022, Andoh became an honorary fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, and in June 2025 was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE).

Adjoa Aiboom Helen Andoh was born on 14 January 1963 in Clifton, Bristol, England. Her mother, a teacher, was English, and her father was a journalist and musician from Ghana. She has a brother. Andoh grew up in Wickwar in Gloucestershire, where her family moved after her father got a job with British Aerospace. She attended Katharine Lady Berkeley's School and then started studying law at Bristol Polytechnic, but left after two years to pursue an acting career.

In 2021, Andoh was made an honorary fellow of the Rose Bruford College in London. The college described her as "a national treasure of the performing arts". In July 2022, she was made an honorary fellow of the Royal Society of Literature (HonFRSL). Andoh was made Member of the British Empire (MBE) in the King's Birthday Honours in June 2025. Andoh has also won and been nominated for numerous acting awards, including a nomination for the NAACP Award for Outstanding Support Actress in 2021.

Born 1963-01-14 in Bristol, England, UK.

On ThumbScore, Adjoa Andoh appears in 3 films with an average audience score of 68.7%, most frequently in the Drama genre.

Sources: Wikipedia, TMDB