Career
Griffin appeared in the popular long-running British 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 British Broadcasting Corporation 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 British Broadcasting Corporation dramas Cutting lieutenant and Down to Earth.
In October 2001, Griffin presented a programme on the United Kingdom"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.
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.
From November 2009 to July 2010, Griffin hosted her own live daytime show on Sky1 called Angela and Friends, a mix of health, celebrity gossip.
In 1999, she presented The Midweek National Lottery and also took part in the British Broadcasting Corporation"s millennium programme on New Year"s Eve. Griffin also 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. Griffin also provides the voice of Amy, the vet in children"s television show Postman Pat.
On 27 March 2007, Griffin appeared on the daytime cooking show Daily Cooks Challenge, in which she revealed that some of her favourite dishes were banana fritters, and lobster noodles.
In March 2008, 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. Griffin appeared in the first two series of Sky television comedy drama Mount Pleasant and presented Emergency with Angela Griffin on Sky1.
In January 2012, she appeared in the British Broadcasting Corporation Two show The Great Sport Relief Bake Office and was one of three finalists. In 2013, Griffin played Dolly in One Manitoba, Two Guvnors.
Since 2014 to 2015, Griffin starred as Doctor of Science Lizzie Maddox in the Independent Television series Lewis.
From 5 to 9 January 2015, Griffin and Kian Egan co-hosted Fat Pets: Slimmer of the Year for Independent Television.