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 mid1980s 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 17yearold Griffith appeared opposite Gene Hackman in Arthur Penns film noir Night Moves She later rose to prominence for her role portraying a pornographic actress in Brian De Palmas thriller Body Double 1984 which earned her a National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Supporting Actress Griffiths subsequent performance in the comedy Something Wild 1986 garnered critical acclaim before she was cast in 1988s 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 Schlesingers Pacific Heights 1990 Milk Money 1994 the neonoir film Mulholland Falls 1996 as Charlotte Haze in Adrian Lynes 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 NipTuck Raising Hope and Hawaii Five0 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 thenhusband Antonio Banderas in the sciencefiction film Autómata 2014 and as an acting coach in James Francos The Disaster Artist 2017 Description above from the Wikipedia article Melanie Griffith licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia