Melanie Griffith

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Melanie Griffith

Melanie Griffith at Cannes, 2000
Birth name Melanie Richards Griffith
Born August 9, 1957 (age 49)
Flag of United States New York City, New York, United States
Spouse(s) Don Johnson, Steven Bauer, Don Johnson, Antonio Banderas
Academy Awards
Best Actress (nomination)
1988 Working Girl

Melanie Griffith (born August 9, 1957 in New York City) is an American Academy Award nominated film actress.

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She is the only child of actress Tippi Hedren who is of Swedish, German and Norwegian descent and eldest child of Peter Griffith of English descent. Her parents divorced when she was four years old, and her father would remarry and have two children: actress Tracy Griffith and set designer Clay Griffith.

Griffith began work at just 9 months old in a commercial and later became an extra on Smith! (1969) and The Harrad Experiment (1973). Her first major role was in Arthur Penn's Night Moves (1975), which got her attention and typecast her as a sexy nymphet. Substance abuse problems derailed her career for nearly a decade. Her comeback started with Brian De Palma's Body Double (1984). It also led to her starring role in Jonathan Demme's Something Wild (1986). That led to her playing the title role in Mike Nichols' Working Girl (1988) which became a hit. She earned an Academy Award nomination as Best Actress and won the Golden Globe award as Best Actress in a comedy or musical. The films that followed were Brian De Palma's The Bonfire of the Vanities (1990), Milk Money (1994), John Waters' Cecil B. DeMented (2000), and Two Much (1995), where she met her husband Antonio Banderas.

Griffith has been married four times. She was briefly married to Don Johnson in 1976. She was married to Steven Bauer from 1980 to 1987. She remarried Johnson in 1989. The couple divorced again in 1996 and Griffith married her current husband Antonio Banderas that same year. Griffith has three children by three husbands: Alexander Griffith Bauer (born in 1985); Dakota Mayi Johnson (born in 1989); and Stella del Carmen Banderas Griffith (born in 1996). Dakota followed in her mother's footsteps and served as Miss Golden Globe at the 2006 Golden Globes award ceremony. Griffith was Miss Golden Globe in 1975.

Griffith's television work includes playing actress Marion Davies in HBO television movie RKO 281 (1999) for which she received an Emmy nomination as Best Supporting Actress. She was also seen on The WB sitcom Twins (2005-2006), in which she played Lee, the mother of the show's main characters played by Sara Gilbert and Molly Stanton.

Griffith made her Broadway debut quite late in her career, playing Roxie in the musical "Chicago" in 2003. An untrained performer in song and dance, she still managed to get a rave review from "The New York Times" theatre critic[citation needed], and audiences packed the theatre to see her[citation needed]. Her husband Antonio Banderas was appearing across the street in another musical "Nine," at the same time.

Year Title Role Other notes
2005 Heartless Miranda Wells
2003 Tempo Sarah
Shade Eve
The Night We Called It a Day Barbara Marx
2002 Stuart Little 2 Margalo the Bird voice
2001 Tart Diane Milford
2000 Forever Lulu Lulu McAfee
Cecil B. Demented Honey Whitlock
1999 RKO 281 Marion Davies Emmy Nomination as Best Supporting Actress
Crazy in Alabama Lucille Vinson
1998 Celebrity Nicole Oliver
Shadow of Doubt Kitt Devereux
1997 Lolita Charlotte Haze
Another Day in Paradise Sid
1996 Mulholland Falls Katherine Hoover
1995 Two Much Betty Kerner
Now and Then Tina 'Teeny' Tercell
Buffalo Girls Dora DuFran
1994 Nobody's Fool Toby Roebuck
Milk Money V
1993 Born Yesterday Billie Dawn
1992 A Stranger Among Us Emily Eden
Shining Through Linda Voss
1991 Paradise Lily Reed
1990 The Bonfire of the Vanities Maria Ruskin
Pacific Heights Patty Palmer
In the Spirit Lureen
Women and Men: Stories of Seduction Hadley
1988 Working Girl Tess McGill Academy Award nomination - Best Actress
Stormy Monday Kate
The Milagro Beanfield War Flossie Devine
1987 Cherry 2000 Edith 'E' Johnson Tracker
1986 Something Wild Audrey Hankel aka Lulu
1985 Alfred Hitchcock Presents Girl
1984 Body Double Holly Body
Fear City Loretta
1981 Golden Gate Karen
She's in the Army Now Pvt. Sylvie Knoll
The Star Maker Dawn Barnett Youngblood
Underground Acres Lucy
Roar Melanie
1978 Steel Cowboy Johnnie
Daddy, I Don't Like it Like This Girl in Hotel
1977 Joyride Susie
One on One The Hitchhiker
The Garden Young Girl
1975 Smile Karen Love
The Drowning Pool Schuyler Devereaux
Night Moves Delly Grastner
1973 The Harrad Experiment Extra uncredited
1969 Smith! Extra uncredited

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