Adjoa Andoh

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Adjoa Andoh (born 1969) is a British actress and audio book narrator.

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 and as Nurse Albertine in the audio drama Year of the Pig. In 2007, she appeared in several episodes (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 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.

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