Annie Griffin (born in 1960, New York) is an American writer and director.

Griffin relocated to the UK in 1981. In the early 1990s she worked creating animated idents for MTV. In 1993 she worked as an actress on the Oscar nominated short animated film The Village. Through the 90's she worked on a number of short works including the Seven Sins:Wrath which featured Paul Kaye and David Walliams.

In 1999 she directed her first TV series Coming Soon about the events leading up to a theatre troupe's opening night. This starred among others Julia Davis, David Walliams, Billy Boyd and herself and won a BAFTA Scotland award for best television production.

Her biggest success was the Channel 4 situation comedy The Book Group which ran for two series in 2002 and 2003, which detailed the events of a disparate group of Glaswegians who meet ostensibly to discuss books but is more to do with the trials and tribulations of relationships in modern urban life.

In 2005 she wrote and directed her first feature film, the BAFTA Award nominated Festival which starred Daniela Nardini and Chris O'Dowd. Set at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe this, like her previous works, explores the interrelationships between a group of characters who often have little in common.

Griffin has of late turned her attention eastwards, writing and directing the drama New Town, based in Edinburgh. It first aired on Saturday 14 February 2009 on BBC Four and was expected to run for six episodes. The BBC chose not to pick it up for a full run, but the first episode did win a BAFTA Scotland Award for Best TV Drama, while Daniela Nardini won Best Female TV Actor for her performance.

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