Angela Griffin

Angela Griffin
Griffin in 2016
Born	Angela Mellissa Griffin (1976-07-19) 19 July 1976 Leeds, West Yorkshire, England
Nationality	English
Occupations	Actress television presenter
Years active	1991–present
Spouse	Jason Milligan ​ (m. 2006)​
Children	2

Angela Mellissa Griffin (born 19 July 1976) is an English actress and television presenter, who has been active on British television since the early 1990s. She is best known for portraying the roles of Fiona Middleton in the ITV soap opera Coronation Street (1992–1998, 2019), Jasmine Hopkins in the BBC medical drama series Holby City (1999–2001), and Kim Campbell in the BBC school-based drama series Waterloo Road (2006–2007, 2009–2010, 2023–present).

Career

Between 1992 and 1998, she appeared in the long-running ITV soap opera Coronation Street as hairdresser Fiona Middleton. She made a guest appearance in 2019. Subsequently, she joined the original cast of the BBC One 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.

Between 2006 and 2010, she appeared as Art teacher and head of pastoral care Kim Campbell, opposite former Cutting It co-star Jason Merrells and former Coronation Street co-star Denise Welch in the BBC One school-based drama series Waterloo Road. She took maternity leave for 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. In January 2022, it was announced that Griffin would be reprising her role as Kim for the shows eleventh series, which began airing in January 2023.

Early life

Born and raised in Leeds, Griffin was born to an English mother and Caribbean father from Saint Kitts and Nevis.

Other websites

• Angela Griffin on IMDb