Melanie Griffith

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).

Known For

Karen

Smile

Tess McGill

Working Girl

Melanie

Roar

Patty Palmer

Pacific Heights

Student (uncredited)

The Harrad Experiment

Katherine Hoover

Mulholland Falls

Margalo (voice)

Stuart Little 2

Audrey Hankel

Something Wild

Toby Roebuck

Nobody's Fool

Holly Body

Body Double

Lucille Vinson

Crazy in Alabama

Linda Voss

Shining Through

Delilah "Delly" Grastner

Night Moves

Kate

Stormy Monday

V

Milk Money

Nicole Oliver

Celebrity

Schuyler

The Drowning Pool

Teeny

Now and Then

Charlotte Haze

Lolita

Maria Ruskin

The Bonfire of the Vanities

Flossie Devine

The Milagro Beanfield War

Sid

Another Day in Paradise

Honey Whitlock

Cecil B. Demented

Emily Eden

A Stranger Among Us

Eve

Shade

Barbara Marx

The Night We Called It a Day

Edith 'E.' Johnson

Cherry 2000

Billie Dawn

Born Yesterday

Betty

Two Much

Sarah

Tempo

Lulu Mcafee

Forever Lulu

Loretta

Fear City

Lily Reed

Paradise

Snow (voice)

A Turtle's Tale: Sammy's Adventures

Marion Davies

RKO 281

Self

Ljuset håller mig sällskap

Patsy

Yellow

Dora DuFran

Buffalo Girls

Kitt Devereux

Shadow of Doubt

Susie

Joyride

Tyra (voice)

Dino Time

Lureen

In the Spirit

Young Girl

הגן

Kristin

Call Me Crazy: A Five Film

Betsy

The Grief Tourist

Hadley

Women and Men: Stories of Seduction

Karen (archive footage)

Howard

Self (voice)

Happy to Be Nappy and Other Stories of Me

The Hitchhiker

One on One

Dr. Susan Dupré / Cleo (voice)

Autómata

Self

A Night to Die For

Lucy

Underground Aces

Girl in Hotel Room

Daddy, I Don't Like It Like This

Johnnie

Steel Cowboy

Kathy

Day Out of Days

Miranda Wells

Lethal Seduction

Extra (uncredited)

Smith!

Maria Bahadur

The Pirates of Somalia

Jean Shelton

The Disaster Artist

Laura Lee

J.L. Family Ranch

Melanie Griffith

The Book That Wrote Itself

Ellie - Waitress

The Cheryl Ladd Special

Diane Milford

Tart

Pvt. Sylvie Knoll

She's in the Army Now

Dawn Barnett Youngblood

The Star Maker

Celeste

Nerd Herd

Karen

Golden Gate

Self

Searching for Debra Winger

Self (archive footage)

Roar: The Most Dangerous Movie Ever Made

Tess

The High Note

Narrator (voice)

By Design

Tyra

Back to the Jurassic

Self - Host (US)

The Grand Opening of Euro Disneyland

Self (archive footage)

The Little Pageant That Could

Sue

Thirst

Self (archive footage)

Melanie Griffith - Die Frau, die Hollywood überlebte