Melanie Griffith

Also known as Melanie Richards Griffith, Melanie Banderas

American actress

OverviewAI-generated

Melanie Griffith is an American actor, film actor, television actor, and blogger. Born on August 9, 1957, in Manhattan, New York City, she is the daughter of Tippi Hedren and the mother of Dakota Johnson. Griffith began her work period in 1969 and was educated at the Stella Adler Studio of Acting. She has been married to Don Johnson, Steven Bauer, and Antonio Banderas.

Her career includes roles in works such as *Crazy in Alabama* and *Pacific Heights*. Griffith has received the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy and the National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Supporting Actress. She has also been nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress and received the Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Actress.

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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

Official site Discogs Stream

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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 9,947x
Pembrolizumab versus Chemotherapy for PD-L1–Positive Non–Small-Cell Lung Cancer
· 2016 · cited 8,650x
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 8,000x
Genome-wide association study of 14,000 cases of seven common diseases and 3,000 shared controls
· 2007 · cited 7,930x
VI. The phenomena of rupture and flow in solids
· 1921 · cited 7,671x

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Encyclopedic overview

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).

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