Angela Mellissa Griffin was born on 19 July 1976 and is an English actress, television presenter and director who has been active on British television since the early 1990s.
21 Facts About Angela Griffin
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Angela Griffin is best known for portraying the roles of Fiona Middleton in the ITV soap opera Coronation Street, Kim Campbell in the BBC One school-based drama series Waterloo Road, and DS Lizzie Maddox in the final two series of ITV's detective drama series Lewis.
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Angela Griffin attended Beeston Primary School, Hugh Gaitskell Middle School and Intake High School in Leeds.
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Angela Griffin grew up on Cottingley Estate, near Beeston, Leeds.
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Angela Griffin was born to an English mother and Caribbean father from Saint Kitts and Nevis.
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Between December 1992 and September 1998, Angela Griffin appeared in the popular long-running ITV soap opera Coronation Street as hairdresser Fiona Middleton.
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Angela Griffin appeared in the ITV soap opera Emmerdale in 1993, playing a minor character called Tina.
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Angela Griffin has appeared in the BBC dramas Cutting It and Down to Earth.
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In October 2001 Angela Griffin presented Brown Britain, a programme on the UK's Channel 4 about mixed race people in British society.
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Angela Griffin was joined by her best friends Lisa Faulkner and Nicola Stephenson.
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Angela Griffin filmed a pilot for the show Dishes on Channel 4, but decided against presenting it once it had been commissioned and was replaced by Kate Thornton.
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Angela Griffin provides the voice of Amy, the vet in children's television show Postman Pat.
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In March 2008, Angela Griffin appeared on the daytime reality show Murder Most Famous, where, with five other celebrities, she wrote a crime novel, coached by crime writer Minette Walters, the end prize being, having the winning celebrities' novel published.
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In 2013, Angela Griffin played Dolly in One Man, Two Guvnors.
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In 2014 and 2015, Angela Griffin starred as DS Lizzie Maddox in the ITV series Lewis.
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Angela Griffin had a recurring role as Elizabeth Harvey in the third series of Harlots.
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On 17 September 2018, Angela Griffin co-presented The One Show on BBC One alongside Matt Baker.
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In October 2018, Angela Griffin began playing detective Stevie Hall in the Canadian drama The Detail.
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Angela Griffin has hosted BBC Radio 2's Unwinds, since August 2021.
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From September 2021, Angela Griffin started sitting in for Steve Wright on Sunday Love Songs and continues to sit in for Michael Ball on various occasions on the station.
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In May 2022, Angela Griffin voiced the eponymous Medea in OpenLearn's animated video summary of Euripides' ancient Greek tragedy play.