Melanie Griffith
Acting
Biography
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).
Born: August 9, 1957
Place of Birth: Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA
Known For
Filmography
as Narrator (voice)
as Self (archive footage)
as Self
as Tess
as Karen (archive footage)
as Maria Bahadur
as Self (archive footage)
as Jean Shelton
as Laura Lee
as Kathy
as Tyra
as Dr. Susan Dupré / Cleo (voice)
as Sue
as Betsy
as Kristin
as Tyra (voice)
as Kimberly
as Patsy
as Tamara Collins
as Clara Williams
as Snow (voice)
as Melanie Griffith
as Bunny
as Lee Arnold
as Miranda Wells
as Self (voice)
as Self
as Barbara Marx
as Brandie Henry
as Sarah
as Self
as Eve
as Margalo (voice)
as Self
as Diane Milford
as Self
as Melanie Griffith
as Honey Whitlock
as Lulu Mcafee
as Marion Davies
as Lucille Vinson
as Sid
as Self - Panelist
as Nicole Oliver
as Kitt Devereux
as Charlotte Haze
as Self
as Katherine Hoover
as Betty
as Teeny
as Self
as Dora DuFran
as Self - Audience Member
as Toby Roebuck
as V
as Self
as Billie Dawn
as Emily Eden
as Self - Host (US)
as Linda Voss
as Lily Reed
as Maria Ruskin
as Patty Palmer
as Lureen
as Hadley
as Melanie Griffith (voice)
as Tess McGill
as Kate
as Flossie Devine
as Edith 'E.' Johnson
as Audrey Hankel
as Holly Body
as Loretta
as Melanie
as Karen
as Pvt. Sylvie Knoll
as Dawn Barnett Youngblood
as Lucy
as Ellie - Waitress
as Johnnie
as Girl in Hotel Room
as The Hitchhiker
as Susie
as Young Girl
as Jinny Massengale
as Self - Host
as Self - Cameo (uncredited)
as Julie
as Schuyler
as Karen
as Delilah "Delly" Grastner
as Student (uncredited)
as Extra (uncredited)
as Self - Presenter
as Self - Nominee
as Self
as Self - Audience Member