Melanie Griffith
Acting
Born 1957-08-09
Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA
109 credits
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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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The Simpsons
Hawaii Five-0
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
Saturday Night Live
The View
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
Miami Vice
Hollywood Squares
Golden Globe Awards
Tony Awards
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
Nip/Tuck
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
Keeping Up with the Kardashians
Hot in Cleveland
Raising Hope
Starsky & Hutch
Lolita
Vega$
The Kardashians
The Hardy Boys / Nancy Drew Mysteries
Goldene Kamera
Body Double
Working Girl
Lo + plus
A Turtle's Tale: Sammy's Adventures
Automata
The High Note
Stuart Little 2
The Disaster Artist
Now and Then
Celebrity
Once an Eagle
Milk Money
Pacific Heights
The Bonfire of the Vanities
Carter Country
Twins
Clive Anderson All Talk
Shade
Roar
Night Moves
Dino Time
Mulholland Falls
Shining Through
Cherry 2000
DTLA
Nobody's Fool
Lethal Seduction
Viva Laughlin
Tart
Call Me Crazy: A Five Film
The Pirates of Somalia
Something Wild
E! True Hollywood Story
Two Much
Cecil B. Demented
The Milagro Beanfield War
The Drowning Pool
Crazy in Alabama
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