Adjoa Andoh

Adjoa Andoh is a British film, television, stage and radio actress. She is known on the UK stage for lead roles at the RSC, the National Theatre, the Royal Court Theatre and the Almeida Theatre. She is also 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 Colette Griffiths ; and a year in the BBC's EastEnders. Andoh is the voice of the audio book versions of Alexander McCall Smith's series of No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency novels; she won "Audio Book of the Year" for the tenth novel in the series, Tea Time for the Traditionally Built.