Melanie Griffith
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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Known For | Acting |
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Most Rating | 22.07 |
Birthday | 1957-08-09 |
Place of Birth | Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA |
Also Known As | Melanie Richards Griffith, Мелані Гріффіт, |
1975
Smile
6.1/38
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1988
Working Girl
6.604/962
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1990
Pacific Heights
6.249/372
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1973
The Harrad Experiment
3.7/12
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1981
Roar
5.933/119
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1996
Mulholland Falls
6/285
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2002
Stuart Little 2
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1986
Something Wild
6.6/332
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1994
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6.9/304
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1984
Body Double
6.778/800
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1999
Crazy in Alabama
6/99
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Shining Through
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Night Moves
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Stormy Monday
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Milk Money
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1998
Celebrity
6/470
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The Drowning Pool
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The Bonfire of the Vanities
5.566/482
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The Milagro Beanfield War
6.4/82
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Another Day in Paradise
6.256/135
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2000
Cecil B. Demented
6.3/258
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A Stranger Among Us
5.5/96
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2003
Shade
6.167/236
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The Night We Called It a Day
5.1/14
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Cherry 2000
6/243
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1993
Born Yesterday
5.3/89
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1995
Two Much
5.3/153
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2003
Tempo
4.2/17
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2000
Forever Lulu
5.5/33
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1984
Fear City
5.4/89
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Paradise
6.2/56
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A Turtle's Tale: Sammy's Adventures
6.006/639
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2000
RKO 281
6.375/92
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Light Keeps Me Company
7.8/8
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2012
Yellow
5.5/8
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Buffalo Girls
6.6/21
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Shadow of Doubt
4.6/41
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Joyride
5.2/11
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2012
Dino Time
5.8/74
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In the Spirit
3.3/3
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1977
The Garden
4.8/6
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Call Me Crazy: A Five Film
6.9/41
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The Grief Tourist
4.8/27
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Women and Men: Stories of Seduction
4.5/8
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Howard
6.878/49
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Happy to Be Nappy and Other Stories of Me
7/1
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One on One
5.841/22
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2014
Automata
5.85/1658
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A Night to Die For
0/0
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1981
Underground Aces
4.9/7
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1978
Daddy, I Don't Like It Like This
4/1
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1978
Steel Cowboy
0/0
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2015
Day Out of Days
4.8/12
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2005
Lethal Seduction
2.8/7
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Smith!
5.6/11
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2017
The Pirates of Somalia
6.866/231
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2017
The Disaster Artist
7.11/3533
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2016
JL Family Ranch
5.9/26
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2000
The Book That Wrote Itself
4/1
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1979
The Cheryl Ladd Special
0/0
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2001
Tart
4.4/62
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1981
She's in the Army Now
4.722/9
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1981
The Star Maker
4/1
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2015
Nerd Herd
0/0
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1981
Golden Gate
0/0
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2002
Searching for Debra Winger
6.3/15
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2017
Roar : The Most Dangerous Movie Ever Made
7/1
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2020
The High Note
7/449
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1985
The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents
0/0
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2025
By Design
0/0
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