Adjoa Andoh MBE

An actor, writer, and director with a career spanning 4 decades, Adjoa Andoh is best known for playing Lady Danbury in Bridgerton and in its prequel Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story, for which she is a 4-time nominee at the NAACP Awards. She starred alongside Morgan Freeman and Matt Damon in Clint Eastwood’s Nelson Mandela biographical film Invictus. Her many television roles also include Nenneke in the Netflix blockbuster fantasy drama, The Witcher. On the stage, Andoh 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 in the UK’s first all women-of-color production.

In 2023, Andoh directed, co-produced and played the lead in a new theatre production of William Shakespeare’s Richard lll for Liverpool Playhouse and The Rose Theatre Kingston, which was also made into a film. Andoh 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 and is an Emeritus Fellow of St Catherine’s College Oxford. Andoh was the Cameron Mackintosh visiting professor of Contemporary Theatre at Oxford University 2022-2023, and a joint Professor with Sir Greg Doran 2024-2025. She is an award-winning audiobook narrator with over 250 titles to her credit and has worked as an actor, writer, and mentor in BBC radio drama since the 1980s. Andoh is an associate artist at the Royal Shakespeare Company and an honorary fellow of the Shakespeare Association of America, the British Shakespeare Association and the Royal Society of Literature. She is co-director of production company SwingingTheLens.