Jaye Griffiths

Jaye Griffiths (born 24 September 1963) is a British actress. After playing Ros Henderson in the BBC series Bugs and D.I. Sally Johnson in the ITV procedural drama The Bill, she landed the role of Elizabeth Croft in the BBC soap opera Doctors. She has since portrayed roles including Janet Mander in Silent Witness, Elle Gardner in Casualty and its spin-off series Holby City, and Yavalla in The Outpost. In 2025, she joined the cast of Emmerdale.

Life and career Griffiths trained at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. Since her graduation, she has appeared in many television dramas, including a starring role as Ros Henderson in the BBC series Bugs, which ran for four series. She can often be found in police or hospital dramas, where she has appeared in The Bill, Doctors, Always and Everyone, Instinct, and Silent Witness. Her other credits include Between the Lines, Drop the Dead Donkey, Kingdom and Skins. She has also presented two BBC Schools television series, Watch and Storytime. She later returned to Doctor Who through Big Finish Productions as the Eighth Doctor's companion Lady Audacity Montague. Griffiths played consultant Elle Gardner in Casualty from 2016 to 2019. Griffiths has also starred in theatre productions of William Shakespeare's Macbeth, where she played the role of Lady Macbeth. In 2025, it was announced that Griffiths had joined the cast of the ITV soap opera Emmerdale. She made her first appearance as Celia Daniels later that year.

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