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Adjoa Andoh (born 14 January 1963) is a British film, television, stage and radio actress of Ghanaian descent. She is known on the UK stage for lead roles at the RSC, the National Theatre, the Royal Court Theatre and the Almeida Theatre, and is a familiar face on British television (notably in two series of ''Doctor Who'' as companion Martha's mother Francine Jones, 90 episodes of the BBC's long-running medical drama ''Casualty'' as Staff Nurse (later Sister) Colette Griffiths and a year in the BBC's ''EastEnders''). Andoh is the voice of Alexander McCall Smith's ''No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency''; she won "Audio Book of the Year" for ''Tea Time for the Traditionally Built''. She made her Hollywood debut in Autumn 2009 starring as Nelson Mandela's Chief of Staff Brenda Mazibuko alongside Morgan Freeman as Mandela in Clint Eastwood's ''Invictus''. == Career == Andoh's television credits include ''Casualty'' (she played Colette Griffiths (née Kierney) from 2000 until 2003), ''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 series 2 episode "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 of the Time Lords") as Francine Jones, the mother of Martha Jones (Freema Agyeman). She reprised her role in the finale of series 4 ("The Stolen Earth" and "Journey's End"). Andoh's other television work includes playing the head of M.I.9 in Series 3 to Series 5 of ''M.I. High'' and D.C.I. Ford in ''Missing''. 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''. Her career in audio dramas has included the Voice of Planet B in ''Planet B'' on BBC Radio 7. In 2004, she was cast in the video game ''Fable''. Andoh also appeared in Noel Clarke's 2008 film ''Adulthood'' as the mother of Clarke's character, Sam Peel. She can be seen in cinemas as Chief of Staff Brenda Maziubo opposite Morgan Freeman's Nelson Mandela in Clint Eastwood's ''Invictus''. The film tells of how Mandela brought the Afrikaner population on side for Project Rainbow Nation through his support and inspiration for the 1995 World Cup-winning South African Springbok rugby union team, and his moving relationship with team captain Francois Pienaar, played by Matt Damon. Andoh describes the filming experience as extremely positive, saying that it was unlike any set she had ever filmed on.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Invictus: Interview - Adjoa Andoh )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Adjoa Andoh」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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