安迪出生于东伦敦的斯特拉特福德，就读于莎拉·邦内尔综合学校。她在巴金理工学院学习戏剧，同龄人包括 Razaaq Adoti（Amistad （1997）、Black Hawk Down （2001））、Sarah Webb，酸性爵士乐队 D Influence 的主唱和 Idris Elba（Pacific Rim （2013）、The Wire （2002））。

后来，她继续在Ravensbourne设计学院学习电视制作，之后她在电视后期制作公司担任过多个角色。Andi 还曾在华特迪士尼国际电视公司从事电视广播工作，并曾担任新媒体初创公司 Where-It's-At 的技术运营经理。在担任ITV肥皂剧《夜与昼》（2001）的后期制作主管后，安迪在伦敦的学院戏剧学校接受了演员的再培训。她于 2003 年首次登台，随后在多个著名的边缘和非西区场所演出，包括艺术剧院、河滨工作室、Kings Head 和 Liverpool Everyman。

2005年，她在《美狄亚》中表演了“强大”（Time Out），并在《谁杀死了鼓先生？安迪以戴尔·奥兰德史密斯（Dael Orlandersmith）的普利策提名戏剧《黄人》（Yellowman）的第一次巡演结束了这一年，该剧获得了评论界的赞誉。

安迪的电视处女作是在长期播出的 BBC 肥皂剧《EastEnders》（1985 年）中。

2007年，安迪开始表演单口喜剧，并于同年7月在伦敦喜剧商店获得了梦寐以求的滑稽女性奖。她继续在哈克尼帝国年度新演员和莱斯特水星年度喜剧演员中获得亚军。这开启了成功的电视生涯，安迪经常出现在流行的小组节目中，包括 Mock the Week （2005） 和 Never Mind the Buzzcocks （1996）。她还两次出现在阿波罗的杰克迪现场（2004 年），以及她的个人脱口秀《All The Single Ladies》和《Afroblighty》的三场售罄巡演。

她在伦敦 O2 竞技场的 15,000 名观众面前现场表演，参加第 4 频道大奥蒙德街喜剧晚会。

她在《与芬克尔一家摇摆》（2011 年）中首次亮相，与《神探夏洛克》（2010 年）和《霍比特人：意外之旅》（2012 年）主演马丁·弗里曼 （Martin Freeman） 演对手戏。

安迪是一位多才多艺的作家（The One Lenny （2011） 和 Stand Up for the Week （2010） （她也出现在其中）。Andi也在开发自己的电影和电视项目。

她曾为福克斯美国电视台和英国广播公司电视台以及包括《泰晤士报》和《我报》在内的几家报纸撰稿，并且是一名定期博主。

2014年，安迪编剧并制作了《Brit.i.am》（2014），这是一部关于英国性的众包短片，获得了三个奖项，并被正式选入十个电影节。她最近完成了她的第二部短片《The Grid》（2015 年），这是一部由新人 Stony Blyden 和 Eastenders 校友 Troy Titus-Adams 主演的科幻惊悚片。

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.