Adjoa Andoh

Adjoa is an actor, writer, director, with a career spanning 4 decades.

As an actor she is currently best known for playing Lady Danbury in Bridgerton and in its prequel Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton story, for which she is a 3-time nominee at the NAACP Awards.

Adjoa starred as Lady Heather Nancarrow in the new thriller 6 part TV drama The Red King, which aired in the spring (2024) for ALIBI/ITV. Other recent TV roles include, DI Nina Rosen in BBC1’s Silent Witness and Nenneke in the Netflix blockbuster fantasy drama, The Witcher. Her many other television appearances include series regulars in Dr Who, Casualty, Law & Order UK and Eastenders.

In a career of almost 40 years, Adjoa has had lead roles at the National Theatre, Royal Shakespeare Company, Royal Court Theatre, Young Vic, The Kiln, and in 2019, she conceived, co-directed and played the lead in Richard II at Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre in the UK’s first all women-of-colour production. 2023 saw Adjoa direct, co- produce and play the lead in a new theatre production of William Shakespeare’s Richard lll for Liverpool Playhouse and The Rose Theatre Kingston – also now a film.

Adjoa made her Hollywood debut in 2009, starring alongside Morgan Freeman and Matt Damon in Clint Eastwood’s Nelson Mandela biographical film Invictus. She played Dr Isaacs in the Netflix psychological thriller Fractured; and other films include Adulthood, Brotherhood, I Is A Long Memoried Woman, A Prayer Before Birth, What My Mother Told Me.

Adjoa has worked for RADA (The Royal Academy of Dramatic Art) as an audition panel member and director for over 20 years. She has also taught and directed at Rose Bruford Drama School.

She is an award winning audiobook narrator with over 250 titles to her credit and has worked as an actor/writer/mentor in BBC radio drama since the 1980’s.

Adjoa is an associate artist at the Royal Shakespeare Company and an honorary fellow of the Shakespeare Association of America and The British Shakespeare Association.

She was the Cameron Mackintosh visiting Professor of Contemporary Drama 22/23 at Oxford University, where she is currently Professor Emeritus at St Catherine’s College.

Adjoa has been a 2023 Booker Prize judge, Bafta and Venice Biennale jurist, is an honorary fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and holds honorary degrees from Rose Bruford College and Bournemouth and Brighton Universities.

She is co director of production company SwingingTheLens.

Adjoa is a proud ambassador for the International Rescue Committee, Patron for Tree Aid and for HACSA- The Heritage And Cultural Society of Africa.