Melanie Griffith

Melanie Griffith

  • Birthday: 1957-08-09
  • Place of birth: Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA
  • Also know as: Melanie Richards 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). Description above from the Wikipedia article Melanie Griffith, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Filmography

Pacific Heights

1990

As Patty Palmer

Working Girl

1988

As Tess McGill

Crazy in Alabama

1999

As Lucille Vinson

Stormy Monday

1988

As Kate

Milk Money

1994

As V

Cecil B. Demented

2000

As Honey Whitlock

A Stranger Among Us

1992

As Emily Eden

Cherry 2000

1987

As Edith 'E.' Johnson

Born Yesterday

1993

As Billie Dawn

Forever Lulu

2000

As Lulu Mcafee

Tempo

2003

As Sarah James

Paradise

1991

As Lily Reed

Shadow of Doubt

1998

As Kitt Devereux

The Garden

1977

As Young Girl

The Grief Tourist

2013

As Betsy

Roar : The Most Dangerous Movie Ever Made

2017

As Self (archive footage)

Roar

1981

As Melanie

Mulholland Falls

1996

As Katherine Hoover

Stuart Little 2

2002

As Margalo (voice)

Something Wild

1986

As Audrey Hankel

Body Double

1984

As Holly Body

Shining Through

1992

As Linda Voss

Two Much

1995

As Betty

Buffalo Girls

1995

As Dora DuFran

Dino Time

2012

As Tyra

Automata

2014

As Dr. Susan Dupré / Cleo (voice)

Lethal Seduction

2005

As Miranda Wells

Nobody's Fool

1994

As Toby Roebuck

The Bonfire of the Vanities

1990

As Maria Ruskin

Lolita

1997

As Charlotte Haze

RKO 281

2000

As Marion Davies

Joyride

1977

As Susie

Day Out of Days

2015

As Kathy

The Pirates of Somalia

2017

As Maria Bahadur

The Star Maker

1981

As Dawn Barnett Youngblood

Nerd Herd

2015

As Celeste

Now and Then

1995

As Teeny

The Night We Called It a Day

2003

As Barbara Marx

Fear City

1984

As Loretta

In the Spirit

1990

As Lureen

Steel Cowboy

1978

As Johnnie

JL Family Ranch

2016

As Laura Lee

The Cheryl Ladd Special

1979

As Ellie - Waitress

She's in the Army Now

1981

As Pvt. Sylvie Knoll

Yellow

2012

As Patsy

One on One

1977

As The Hitchhiker

The Drowning Pool

1975

As Schuyler

The Milagro Beanfield War

1988

As Flossie Devine

Shade

2003

As Eve

Celebrity

1998

As Nicole Oliver

Golden Gate

1981

As Karen

Daddy, I Don't Like It Like This

1978

As Girl in Hotel Room

Smile

1975

As Karen

Night Moves

1975

As Delilah "Delly" Grastner

Underground Aces

1981

As Lucy

Tart

2001

As Diane Milford

The Harrad Experiment

1973

As Student

The Disaster Artist

2017

As Jean Shelton

A Night to Die For

1995

As Herself

The High Note

2020

As Tess

Howard

2018

As Karen (archive footage)

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