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Melanie Griffith

Acting
Known For

68 Years Old

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

Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA on 9th August 1957

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The Simpsons
Melanie Griffith (voice)
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Hawaii Five-0
Clara Williams
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The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
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Saturday Night Live
Self - Cameo (uncredited)
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Saturday Night Live
Self - Host
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Golden Globe Awards
Self - Audience Member
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Golden Globe Awards
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Golden Globe Awards
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Miami Vice
Christine von Marburg
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The View
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Tony Awards
Self - Presenter
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Hollywood Squares
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Hollywood Squares
Self - Panelist
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Nip/Tuck
Brandie Henry
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The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
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Keeping Up with the Kardashians
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Hot in Cleveland
Melanie Griffith
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The Ellen DeGeneres Show
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Starsky & Hutch
Julie
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Raising Hope
Tamara Collins
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The Kardashians
Self
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Lolita
Charlotte Haze
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Vega$
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The Hardy Boys / Nancy Drew Mysteries
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Goldene Kamera
Self
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Fear City
Loretta
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Shade
Eve
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Two Much
Betty
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Automata
Dr. Susan Dupré / Cleo (voice)
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Stormy Monday
Kate
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Nerd Herd
Celeste
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Pacific Heights
Patty Palmer
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Born Yesterday
Billie Dawn
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Forever Lulu
Lulu Mcafee
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Lethal Seduction
Miranda Wells
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In the Spirit
Lureen
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The Harrad Experiment
Student (uncredited)
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Tart
Diane Milford
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Body Double
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Now and Then
Teeny
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Working Girl
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Celebrity
Nicole Oliver
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Cecil B. Demented
Honey Whitlock
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Lo + plus
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The Disaster Artist
Jean Shelton
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Carter Country
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Twins
Lee Arnold
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Stuart Little 2
Margalo (voice)
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Yellow
Patsy
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DTLA
Kimberly
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Once an Eagle
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Roar
Melanie
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Viva Laughlin
Bunny
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The Drowning Pool
Schuyler
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Milk Money
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A Turtle's Tale: Sammy's Adventures
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RKO 281
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Smile
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Nobody's Fool
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The Cheryl Ladd Special
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Mulholland Falls
Katherine Hoover
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Night Moves
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Smith!
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The High Note
Tess
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Shining Through
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The Bonfire of the Vanities
Maria Ruskin
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The Garden
Young Girl
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Cherry 2000
Edith 'E.' Johnson
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Dino Time
Tyra (voice)
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E! True Hollywood Story
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The Milagro Beanfield War
Flossie Devine
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The Night We Called It a Day
Barbara Marx
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Something Wild
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Howard
Karen (archive footage)
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Crazy in Alabama
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The Pirates of Somalia
Maria Bahadur
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Roar: The Most Dangerous Movie Ever Made
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J.L. Family Ranch
Laura Lee
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Inside the Actors Studio
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Tempo
Sarah
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The Grief Tourist
Betsy
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A Stranger Among Us
Emily Eden
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Shadow of Doubt
Kitt Devereux
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Another Day in Paradise
Sid
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Paradise
Lily Reed
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A Night to Die For
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By Design
Narrator (voice)
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Buffalo Girls
Dora DuFran
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American Housewife
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Joyride
Susie
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Call Me Crazy: A Five Film
Kristin
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Searching for Debra Winger
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The Book That Wrote Itself
Melanie Griffith
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Steel Cowboy
Johnnie
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Underground Aces
Lucy
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Happy to Be Nappy and Other Stories of Me
Self (voice)
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Celebrities Uncensored
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Day Out of Days
Kathy
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The Grand Opening of Euro Disneyland
Self - Host (US)
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Women and Men: Stories of Seduction
Hadley
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One on One
The Hitchhiker
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The Star Maker
Dawn Barnett Youngblood
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The Little Pageant That Could
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Thirst
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Golden Gate
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Light Keeps Me Company
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Daddy, I Don't Like It Like This
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She's in the Army Now
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Back to the Jurassic
Tyra