Melanie Griffith
Melanie Richards Griffith (born August 9, 1957) is an American actress. She began her career in the 1970s, appearing in several independent thriller films before achieving mainstream success in the mid-1980s.
Born in New York City to actress Tippi Hedren and advertising executive Peter Griffith, she was raised mainly in Los Angeles, where she graduated from the Hollywood Professional School at age 16. In 1975, a then 17-year-old Griffith appeared opposite Gene Hackman in Arthur Penn's film noir Night Moves. She later rose to prominence for her role portraying a pornographic actress in Brian De Palma's thriller Body Double (1984), which earned her a National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Supporting Actress. Griffith's subsequent performance in the comedy Something Wild (1986) garnered critical acclaim before she was cast in 1988's Working Girl, which earned her a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress and won her a Golden Globe.
The 1990s had Griffith in a series of roles that received varying critical reception; she received Golden Globe nominations for her performances in Buffalo Girls (1995), and as Marion Davies in RKO 281 (1999), while also earning a Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Actress for her performances in Shining Through (1992), as well as receiving nominations for Crazy in Alabama (1999) and John Waters' cult film Cecil B. Demented (2000). Other credits include John Schlesinger's Pacific Heights (1990), Milk Money (1994), the neo-noir film Mulholland Falls (1996), as Charlotte Haze in Adrian Lyne's Lolita (1997), and Another Day in Paradise (1998).
She later starred as Barbara Marx in The Night We Called It a Day (2003), and spent the majority of the 2000s appearing on such television series as Nip/Tuck, Raising Hope, and Hawaii Five-0. After acting on stage in London, in 2003, she made her Broadway debut in a revival of the musical Chicago, receiving celebratory reviews. In the 2010s, Griffith returned to film, starring opposite then-husband Antonio Banderas in the science-fiction film Autómata (2014) and as an acting coach in James Franco's The Disaster Artist (2017).
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Born in New York City to actress Tippi Hedren and advertising executive Peter Griffith, she was raised mainly in Los Angeles, where she graduated from the Hollywood Professional School at age 16. In 1975, a then 17-year-old Griffith appeared opposite Gene Hackman in Arthur Penn's film noir Night Moves. She later rose to prominence for her role portraying a pornographic actress in Brian De Palma's thriller Body Double (1984), which earned her a National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Supporting Actress. Griffith's subsequent performance in the comedy Something Wild (1986) garnered critical acclaim before she was cast in 1988's Working Girl, which earned her a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress and won her a Golden Globe.
The 1990s had Griffith in a series of roles that received varying critical reception; she received Golden Globe nominations for her performances in Buffalo Girls (1995), and as Marion Davies in RKO 281 (1999), while also earning a Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Actress for her performances in Shining Through (1992), as well as receiving nominations for Crazy in Alabama (1999) and John Waters' cult film Cecil B. Demented (2000). Other credits include John Schlesinger's Pacific Heights (1990), Milk Money (1994), the neo-noir film Mulholland Falls (1996), as Charlotte Haze in Adrian Lyne's Lolita (1997), and Another Day in Paradise (1998).
She later starred as Barbara Marx in The Night We Called It a Day (2003), and spent the majority of the 2000s appearing on such television series as Nip/Tuck, Raising Hope, and Hawaii Five-0. After acting on stage in London, in 2003, she made her Broadway debut in a revival of the musical Chicago, receiving celebratory reviews. In the 2010s, Griffith returned to film, starring opposite then-husband Antonio Banderas in the science-fiction film Autómata (2014) and as an acting coach in James Franco's The Disaster Artist (2017).
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Known for
The Kardashians
The High Note
Howard
The Pirates of Somalia
Roar : The Most Dangerous Movie Ever Made
The Disaster Artist
JL Family Ranch
Day Out of Days
Automata
The Grief Tourist
Call Me Crazy: A Five Film
Dino Time
DTLA
Yellow
Hawaii Five-0
A Turtle's Tale: Sammy's Adventures
Hot in Cleveland
Viva Laughlin
Keeping Up with the Kardashians
Twins
Lethal Seduction
Happy to Be Nappy and Other Stories of Me
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
The Night We Called It a Day
Nip/Tuck
Tempo
Celebrities Uncensored
Shade
Stuart Little 2
Searching for Debra Winger
Tart
Light Keeps Me Company
Cecil B. Demented
Forever Lulu
RKO 281
Crazy in Alabama
Another Day in Paradise
Hollywood Squares
Celebrity
Shadow of Doubt
Lolita
The View
E! True Hollywood Story
Mulholland Falls
Two Much
Now and Then
A Night to Die For
Buffalo Girls
Lo + plus
Nobody's Fool
Milk Money
Inside the Actors Studio
Born Yesterday
A Stranger Among Us
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
Shining Through
Paradise
The Bonfire of the Vanities
Pacific Heights
In the Spirit
Women and Men: Stories of Seduction
The Simpsons
Working Girl
Stormy Monday
The Milagro Beanfield War
Cherry 2000
Something Wild
The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Body Double
Miami Vice
Fear City
Roar
Golden Gate
The Star Maker
Underground Aces
The Cheryl Ladd Special
Steel Cowboy
Vega$
Daddy, I Don't Like It Like This
Carter Country
Joyride
One on One
The Hardy Boys / Nancy Drew Mysteries
The Garden
Once an Eagle
Saturday Night Live
Starsky & Hutch
The Drowning Pool
Smile
Night Moves
The Harrad Experiment
Smith!
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
Tony Awards