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Melanie Griffith

1957-08-09

The 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). Description above from the Wikipedia article Melanie Griffith, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Melanie Griffith in

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Lolita

7.1 average rating
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Stuart Little 2

5.76 average rating
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Body Double

6.8 average rating
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Working Girl

6.596 average rating
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Automata

5.854 average rating
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Nobody's Fool

6.854 average rating
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Pacific Heights

6.2 average rating
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The Disaster Artist

7.1 average rating
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Now and Then

6.868 average rating
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Milk Money

6.36 average rating
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The Bonfire of the Vanities

5.569 average rating
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Cherry 2000

6 average rating
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The High Note

7 average rating
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Mulholland Falls

5.954 average rating
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Something Wild

6.5 average rating
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Cecil B. Demented

6.3 average rating
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A Turtle's Tale: Sammy's Adventures

6 average rating
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The Pirates of Somalia

6.9 average rating
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Shade

6.2 average rating
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Shining Through

6.5 average rating