Melanie Griffith

Name:
Melanie Griffith
Age:
66
Date of Birth:
Aug 9, 1957
Place of Birth:
New York City, New York, United States
Occupation:
Actress
Parents:
Peter Griffith,Tippi Hedren
Spouse:
Don Johnson, (m. 1976; Div. 1976), (m. 1989; Div. 1996), Steven Bauer, (m. 1981; Div. 1989), Antonio Banderas, (m. 1996; Div. 2015)
Children:
3, Including Dakota Johnson
Years active:
1969–present
Height:
5 Ft 9 In (1.75 M)

Melanie Griffith - Biography Summary


Melanie Richards Griffith (born August 9, 1957) is an American actress. Griffith began her career as an adolescent in nonspeaking film roles before making her credited debut opposite Gene Hackman in Arthur Penn's Night Moves (1975). She rose to prominence for her role in Brian De Palma's Body Double (1984), which earned her a National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Supporting Actress. Griffith's subsequent performance in 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 saw Griffith in a series of roles which 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 has appeared on the television series 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 that made it a box office success.



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