Bridgerton actor: Refugees are just you and me in different circumstances

Politicians using refugees as “political scapegoats or footballs” must be reminded they are people in need of empathy and compassion, Bridgerton actor Adjoa Andoh has said.

Famous for most recently starring as Lady Danbury in the Netflix hit series, the actor is lending her voice to a short film made to highlight the plight facing those displaced from their homes due to conflict or persecution.

Andoh, whose journalist father had to flee Ghana in the 1950s for a new life in the UK, spoke out as part of .