Melanie Griffith

Also known as Melanie Richards Griffith, Melanie Banderas

American actress

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Melanie Griffith is an American actress known for her work in film and television. She is notable for her roles in prominent movies and her career in the entertainment industry.

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Person · Open Library

Born: 1957
Works: 3

Top works

Rko 281 [dvd] [1999] [region 1] [us Import] [ntsc]
Crazy in Alabama
Pacific Heights

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Film & TV

Acting · 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…

Known for

By Design — Narrator (voice)2026
Melanie Griffith - Die Frau, die Hollywood überlebte — Self (archive footage)2026
The Little Pageant That Could — Self (archive footage)2024
Commitment to Life — Self (archive footage)2023
The Kardashians — Self2022
The High Note — Tess2020
Howard — Karen (archive footage)2018
The Pirates of Somalia — Maria Bahadur2017
The Disaster Artist — Jean Shelton2017
Roar: The Most Dangerous Movie Ever Made — Self (archive footage)2017

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type: Person
Gender: Female
Origin: United States
Active from: 1957

2008 universal fire victimamericanacontemporary folkcountrycountry folkfolk

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners: 190
Total plays: 978

Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

Efficacy and Safety of the mRNA-1273 SARS-CoV-2 Vaccine
· 2021 · cited 9,787x
Pembrolizumab versus Chemotherapy for PD-L1–Positive Non–Small-Cell Lung Cancer
· 2016 · cited 8,504x
Genome-wide association study of 14,000 cases of seven common diseases and 3,000 shared controls
· 2007 · cited 7,906x
Global burden of 87 risk factors in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019
· 2020 · cited 7,741x
VI. The phenomena of rupture and flow in solids
· 1921 · cited 7,571x

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Commons category: Melanie Griffith
date of birth: 1957-08-09
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name in native language: Melanie Griffith
start of work period: 1969-00-00
hashtag: MelanieGriffith
social media followers: 124105
birth name: Melanie Richards Griffith

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Melanie Richards Griffith (born August 9, 1957) is an American actress. Born in Manhattan to actress Tippi Hedren, she was raised mainly in Los Angeles, where she graduated from the Hollywood Professional School at age 16. In 1975, 17-year-old Griffith appeared opposite Gene Hackman in Arthur Penn's neo-noir film Night Moves. She later rose to prominence as an actor in films such as Brian De Palma's 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) attracted 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.

In the 1990s, Griffith performed in a series of roles which 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).