Andi Osho

Andi Osho

Born: January 27, 1973
in Plaistow, London, England, UK
Andi was born in Stratford, East London and attended Sarah Bonnell Comprehensive School. She studied drama at Barking College of Technology where peers included Razaaq Adoti (Amistad (1997), Black Hawk Down (2001)), Sarah Webb, lead singer of acid jazz group D Influence and Idris Elba (Pacific Rim (2013), The Wire (2002)).

She later went on to study TV production at Ravensbourne College of Design after which she took several roles at TV post production companies. Andi also worked in TV broadcasting at Walt Disney Television International and was the technical ops manager at new media start up, Where-It's-At. After working as a post production supervisor on ITV soap Night & Day (2001) Andi retrained as an actor at The Academy Drama School in London. She made her stage debut in 2003 and went on to appear at several renowned fringe and off-West End venues including The Arts Theatre, Riverside Studios, Kings Head and Liverpool Everyman.

2005 saw her "powerful" (Time Out) performance in Medea and as jazz singer, Dolly Rathebe in Who Killed Mr Drum? Andi ended the year with a No. 1 tour of Dael Orlandersmith's Pulitzer nominated play, Yellowman which received critical praise.

Andi's TV debut was in long-running BBC soap EastEnders (1985).

In 2007 Andi began performing stand up comedy and in July of that year won the coveted Funny Women award at London's Comedy Store. She went on to be runner up at Hackney Empire New Act of The Year and Leicester Mercury Comedian of The Year. This launched a successful television career which saw Andi make regular appearances on popular panel shows including Mock the Week (2005) and Never Mind the Buzzcocks (1996). She has also made two appearances on Jack Dee Live at the Apollo (2004) as well as three sell out tours of her solo stand up shows, All The Single Ladies and Afroblighty.

She performed live, in front of a 15,000 strong audience at London's O2 arena for the Channel 4 Great Ormond Street Comedy Gala.

She made her feature debut in Swinging with the Finkels (2011) opposite Sherlock (2010) and The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (2012) star Martin Freeman.

Andi is an accomplished writer (The One Lenny (2011) and Stand Up for the Week (2010) (in which she also appeared). Andi is also developing her own film and television projects.

She has written for Fox US and BBC TV and Radio and for several newspapers including The Times and The I and is a regular blogger.

In 2014 Andi wrote and produced Brit.i.am (2014), a crowd-sourced short film about Britishness which went on to win three awards and was officially selected for ten festivals. She recently completed her second short, The Grid (2015), a sci thriller starring newcomer Stony Blyden and Eastenders alumni Troy Titus-Adams.

Movies for Andi Osho...

Title: Payback
Character: DI Jean Royce
Released: October 4, 2023
Type: TV
Lexie Noble lives a great life on the outskirts of Edinburgh… until her husband is murdered. As she struggles to make sense of what happened, she learns he had been laundering money for notorious crime boss Cal Morris. As a partner in her late husband's accountancy firm, both Morris and the police will be interested in controlling her next moves.
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Title: Blue Lights
Character: Sandra Cliff
Released: March 27, 2023
Type: TV
Follows rookie police officers working in Belfast, a city in which being a frontline response cop comes with unique pressures and dangers.
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Title: You & Me
Character: Pam
Released: February 23, 2023
Type: TV
Three people experience tragedies they feel they will never overcome. They attempt to find hope and love again in the future, but worry that the past always hold them back.
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The Stranger in Our Bed
Title: The Stranger in Our Bed
Character: Paula
Released: August 26, 2022
Type: Movie
A newly married woman leaves her wealthy husband for a lover who mysteriously disappears. Things start to unravel and become life-threatening on a trip to the husband's family estate.
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Title: The Sandman
Character: Miranda Walker
Released: August 5, 2022
Type: TV
After years of imprisonment, Morpheus — the King of Dreams — embarks on a journey across worlds to find what was stolen from him and restore his power.
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A Castle for Christmas
Title: A Castle for Christmas
Character: Maisie
Released: November 26, 2021
Type: Movie
To escape a scandal, a bestselling author journeys to Scotland, where she falls in love with a castle -- and faces off with the grumpy duke who owns it.
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Michael McIntyre: In His Own Words
Title: Michael McIntyre: In His Own Words
Character: Herself
Released: January 1, 2021
Type: Movie
Documentary profiling stand-up comedian Michael McIntyre.
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Max Cloud
Title: Max Cloud
Character: Sofia
Released: December 18, 2020
Type: Movie
A space cruiser crashes on a planet that is home to an intergalactic prison.
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Title: Between the Covers
Character: Self
Released: October 9, 2020
Type: TV
Sara Cox hosts this new book club bringing the nation together through sharing the pleasure of reading. Each edition features a celebrity panel discussing their favourite book and two review sections.
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Title: I May Destroy You
Character: Carrie
Released: June 7, 2020
Type: TV
Set in London, where gratification is only an app away, the story centers on Arabella, a carefree, self-assured Londoner with a group of great friends, a boyfriend in Italy, and a burgeoning writing career. But when her drink is spiked, she must question and rebuild every element of her life.
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Jane
Title: Jane
Released: October 27, 2019
Type: Movie
A young woman suffering from heroin addiction and living in one of downtown Los Angeles' many Single Room Occupancy hotels, receives an invite to her estranged 4-year-old daughter's birthday party.
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Title: Pandora
Character: Rosa Ross
Released: July 16, 2019
Type: TV
In the year 2199, a young woman who has lost everything finds a new life at Earth's Space Training Academy where she learns to defend the galaxy from intergalactic threats.
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Title: Good Omens
Character: Sitis
Released: May 31, 2019
Type: TV
Aziraphale, an angel, and Crowley, a demon, join forces to find the Antichrist and stop Armageddon.
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Shazam!
Title: Shazam!
Character: Ms. E.B. Glover
Released: March 29, 2019
Type: Movie
A boy is given the ability to become an adult superhero in times of need with a single magic word.
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Title: Curfew
Character: Jenny Donahue
Released: February 22, 2019
Type: TV
When day becomes night, a strict curfew forces ordinary people to go pedal to the metal in a deadly race for freedom. During this contest, alliances and friendships are both made and lost.
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Title: On the Edge
Character: Bisi
Released: August 14, 2018
Type: TV
A drama anthology that serves up a raw slice of real life in Modern Britain.
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Title: Kiri
Character: Rochelle Akindele
Released: January 10, 2018
Type: TV
A drama dealing with the abduction and murder of a young black girl, soon to be adopted by her white foster family, and the trail of lies, blame, guilt and notoriety which follow.
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Title: Bill Nye Saves the World
Character: Bread
Released: April 21, 2017
Type: TV
Bill Nye explores science and its impact on politics, society and pop culture. Each episode tackles a topic from a scientific point of view, dispelling myths, and refuting anti-scientific claims that may be espoused by politicians, religious leaders or titans of industry.
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Lights Out
Title: Lights Out
Character: Emma
Released: July 21, 2016
Type: Movie
Rebecca must unlock the terror behind her little brother's experiences that once tested her sanity, bringing her face to face with a supernatural spirit attached to their mother.
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The Grid
Title: The Grid
Character: Anna Pascal
Released: January 1, 2015
Type: Movie
Shot documentary-style, The Grid, plots the rise and fall of fear-based game show, The Grid, where contestants enter a virtual reality world populated by their deepest, darkest fears.
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Title: @midnight with Chris Hardwick
Character: Self
Released: October 21, 2013
Type: TV
Chris Hardwick will lead three celebrity contestants down the ultimate internet wormhole. Culling from the darkest recesses of social media, they will compete to determine who has the funniest take on the day's pop culture.
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Title: Death in Paradise
Character: Precious Abellard
Released: October 25, 2011
Type: TV
A brilliant but idiosyncratic British detective and his resourceful local team solve baffling murder mysteries on the fictional Caribbean island of Saint-Marie.
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The Angina Monologues
Title: The Angina Monologues
Character: Herself
Released: December 10, 2010
Type: Movie
Victoria Wood takes to the stage with an all female bill for a night of comedy in support of The British Heart Foundation to help raise awareness of heart disease in women.
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Title: Comedy Central at the Comedy Store
Character: Self
Released: September 3, 2010
Type: TV
Join Comedy Central at The Comedy Store to see Britain's best comics perform at London's best comedy club.
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Title: Let's Dance for Comic Relief
Character: Self - Contestant
Released: February 21, 2009
Type: TV
Celebrities perform famous dance routines in front of a panel of judges to raise money for the Comic Relief appeal, with viewers voting for their favourites.
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Title: The Graham Norton Show
Character: Self
Released: February 22, 2007
Type: TV
Each week celebrity guests join Irish comedian Graham Norton to discuss what's being going on around the world that week. The guests poke fun and share their opinions on the main news stories. Graham is often joined by a band or artist to play the show out.
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Title: Waking the Dead
Character: Policewoman
Released: June 18, 2001
Type: TV
A detective team apply new techniques to old crimes as they solve cold cases.
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Title: Never Mind the Buzzcocks
Released: November 12, 1996
Type: TV
Never Mind the Buzzcocks is a comedy panel game show with a pop and rock music theme. The show is infamous for its dry, sarcastic humour and scathing, provocative attacks on the pop industry.
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Title: Room 101
Character: Self
Released: July 4, 1994
Type: TV
Fast-moving game show meets talk show, which sees Frank Skinner refereeing three celebrities each week as they compete to banish their top peeve or worst nightmare to the depths of Room 101.