Melanie Griffith

Known for ActingBorn 1957-08-09 (age 68)Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA

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).Read more

Movies & web series

Golden Gate

Steel Cowboy

The Kardashians

Melanie Griffith - Die Frau, die Hollywood überlebte

E! True Hollywood Story

Happy to Be Nappy and Other Stories of Me

The Simpsons

Light Keeps Me Company

Hawaii Five-0

Twins

Inside the Actors Studio

Hollywood Squares

Raising Hope

Clive Anderson All Talk

Keeping Up with the Kardashians

Miami Vice

Hot in Cleveland

The Disaster Artist

The Grand Opening of Euro Disneyland

Nip/Tuck

The High Note

Roar: The Most Dangerous Movie Ever Made

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

Call Me Crazy: A Five Film

Lolita

The Pirates of Somalia

Starsky & Hutch

The Book That Wrote Itself

Howard

A Night to Die For

The Hardy Boys / Nancy Drew Mysteries

Nobody's Fool

Now and Then

The Cheryl Ladd Special

Vega$

Saturday Night Live

Golden Globe Awards

Body Double

Once an Eagle

Working Girl

Night Moves

Something Wild

The Milagro Beanfield War

Buffalo Girls

RKO 281

Shining Through

Cecil B. Demented

Searching for Debra Winger