Melanie Griffith
Born August 09, 1957 (Age: 68)
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Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA
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).
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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Filmography
Melanie Griffith - Die Frau, die Hollywood überlebte
2026
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as Self (archive footage)
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Age: 68
The Disaster Artist
2017
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as Jean Shelton
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Age: 59
Automata
2014
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as Dr. Susan Dupré / Cleo (voice)
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Age: 57
Thirst
2014
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as Sue
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Age: 56
Dino Time
2012
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as Tyra (voice)
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Age: 55
A Turtle's Tale: Sammy's Adventures
2010
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as Snow (voice)
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Age: 52
Stuart Little 2
2002
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as Margalo (voice)
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Age: 44
Light Keeps Me Company
2000
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as Self
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Age: 43
The Book That Wrote Itself
2000
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as Melanie Griffith
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Age: 42
Cecil B. Demented
2000
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as Honey Whitlock
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Age: 42
Celebrity
1998
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as Nicole Oliver
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Age: 41
Lolita
1997
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as Charlotte Haze
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Age: 40
Mulholland Falls
1996
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as Katherine Hoover
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Age: 38
Two Much
1995
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as Betty
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Age: 38
Now and Then
1995
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as Teeny
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Age: 38
Nobody's Fool
1994
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as Toby Roebuck
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Age: 37
Milk Money
1994
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as V
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Age: 37
Born Yesterday
1993
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as Billie Dawn
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Age: 35
A Stranger Among Us
1992
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as Emily Eden
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Age: 34
Shining Through
1992
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as Linda Voss
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Age: 34
Paradise
1991
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as Lily Reed
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Age: 34
The Bonfire of the Vanities
1990
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as Maria Ruskin
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Age: 33
Pacific Heights
1990
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as Patty Palmer
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Age: 33
Working Girl
1988
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as Tess McGill
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Age: 31
Stormy Monday
1988
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as Kate
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Age: 30
The Milagro Beanfield War
1988
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as Flossie Devine
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Age: 30
Cherry 2000
1987
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as Edith 'E.' Johnson
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Age: 30
Something Wild
1986
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as Audrey Hankel
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Age: 29
Body Double
1984
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as Holly Body
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Age: 27
Roar
1981
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as Melanie
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Age: 24
Daddy, I Don't Like It Like This
1978
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as Girl in Hotel Room
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Age: 20
The Drowning Pool
1975
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as Schuyler
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Age: 17