Andi Osho

Andi Osho is a British actress and writer who also blogs, and she first worked in television production before taking up acting in 2003. Born in Plaistow, East London, she moved into stand-up comedy in 2006 and won the Nivea Funny Women award in 2007. Her stage credits include the title role in Medea and Alma in Yellowman at Liverpool's Everyman Theatre in 2006. On television she has appeared in Casualty, Doctors, Footballers' Wives: Extra Time, Sea of Souls and Death in Paradise in 2020, and in 2021 she played the journalist Gail Vella in Line of Duty. She was the social worker Emma Glover in Lights Out (2016) and Shazam!. She is a playwright too, and helped found Vowel Movement, a London writers' group. Her debut novel Asking for a Friend appeared in 2021.