Angela Griffin | |
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Born |
Angela Mellissa Griffin 19 July 1976 Leeds, England |
Years active | 1992–present |
Spouse(s) | Jason Milligan (2006–present) |
Children | 2 |
Angela Mellissa Griffin (born 19 July 1976 in Leeds) is an English actress and television presenter who has been active on British television since the early 1990s.
Griffin attended Intake High School in Leeds. She grew up on Cottingley Estate, near Beeston.
Griffin appeared in the popular long-running ITV soap opera Emmerdale in 1992, playing a minor character called Tina. Between 1993 and 1998, she appeared in Coronation Street as hairdresser Fiona Middleton. Subsequently, she joined the original cast of the BBC medical drama series Holby City as Staff Nurse Jasmine Hopkins, but left at the end of the third series in 2001 as the next series would be longer. Griffin has also appeared in the BBC dramas Cutting It and Down to Earth.
In October 2001 Griffin presented a programme on the UK's Channel 4 about mixed race people in British society. The show included interviews with a large number of well-known British mixed-race people such as Bruce Oldfield and Hanif Kureishi, as well as political figures such as Tony Benn.
From 2006 to 2010 Griffin appeared as teacher Kim Campbell opposite former Cutting It co-star Jason Merrells in the BBC drama series Waterloo Road. She took a break during the third series in late 2007/early 2008, but returned to the role for the fourth series in 2009. However, she left once again at the end of the fifth series to concentrate on her new daytime show on Sky1.