Melanie Griffith
Known for Acting · 108 credits
- Born
- 1957-08-09 (age 68)
- Place of birth
- Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA
- Also known as
- Melanie Richards Griffith
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).
Known For
TV Shows (31)
The Simpsons
1989
as Melanie Griffith (voice)
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
1962
as Self
Hawaii Five-0
2010
as Clara Williams
Saturday Night Live
1975
as Self - Host / Self - Cameo (uncredited)
The View
1997
as Self
Golden Globe Awards
1944
as Self - Nominee / Self - Audience Member
Miami Vice
1984
as Christine von Marburg
Hollywood Squares
1998
as Self - Panelist
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
2003
as Self
Tony Awards
1956
as Self - Presenter
Nip/Tuck
2003
as Brandie Henry
Hot in Cleveland
2010
as Melanie Griffith
Keeping Up with the Kardashians
2007
as Self
Starsky & Hutch
1975
as Julie
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
1992
Raising Hope
2010
as Tamara Collins
Vega$
1978
The Hardy Boys / Nancy Drew Mysteries
1977
The Kardashians
2022
as Self
Goldene Kamera
1984
as Self
Lo + plus
1995
as Self - Audience Member
Twins
2005
as Lee Arnold
Viva Laughlin
2007
as Bunny
Once an Eagle
1976
as Jinny Massengale
DTLA
2012
as Kimberly
Carter Country
1977
E! True Hollywood Story
1996
Clive Anderson All Talk
1996
as Self
Inside the Actors Studio
1994
as Self
Celebrities Uncensored
2003
as Self
American Housewife
Movies (77)
Lolita
1997
as Charlotte Haze
Automata
2014
as Dr. Susan Dupré / Cleo (voice)
A Turtle's Tale: Sammy's Adventures
2010
as Snow (voice)
Body Double
1984
as Holly Body
Working Girl
1988
as Tess McGill
Shade
2003
as Eve
Now and Then
1995
as Teeny
Stuart Little 2
2002
as Margalo (voice)
Milk Money
1994
as V
Mulholland Falls
1996
as Katherine Hoover
Yellow
2012
as Patsy
RKO 281
1999
as Marion Davies
Pacific Heights
1990
as Patty Palmer
J.L. Family Ranch
2016
as Laura Lee
Celebrity
1998
as Nicole Oliver
Dino Time
2012
as Tyra (voice)
Fear City
1984
as Loretta
Nobody's Fool
1994
as Toby Roebuck
The Disaster Artist
2017
as Jean Shelton
The High Note
2020
as Tess
Forever Lulu
2000
as Lulu Mcafee
The Harrad Experiment
1973
as Student (uncredited)
The Bonfire of the Vanities
1990
as Maria Ruskin
Roar
1981
as Melanie
Something Wild
1986
as Audrey Hankel
Tart
2001
as Diane Milford
Nerd Herd
2015
as Celeste
Shining Through
1992
as Linda Voss
Cherry 2000
1987
as Edith 'E.' Johnson
Night Moves
1975
as Delilah "Delly" Grastner
Lethal Seduction
2005
as Miranda Wells
Paradise
1991
as Lily Reed
Crazy in Alabama
1999
as Lucille Vinson
Smile
1975
as Karen
Light Keeps Me Company
2000
as Self
By Design
2026
as Narrator (voice)
The Pirates of Somalia
2017
as Maria Bahadur
Tempo
2003
as Sarah
The Grief Tourist
2013
as Betsy
Two Much
1995
as Betty
Howard
2018
as Karen (archive footage)
Call Me Crazy: A Five Film
2013
as Kristin
Born Yesterday
1993
as Billie Dawn
The Milagro Beanfield War
1988
as Flossie Devine
Buffalo Girls
1995
as Dora DuFran
Cecil B. Demented
2000
as Honey Whitlock
Stormy Monday
1988
as Kate
The Drowning Pool
1975
as Schuyler
Steel Cowboy
1978
as Johnnie
Searching for Debra Winger
2002
as Self
Underground Aces
1981
as Lucy
Shadow of Doubt
1998
as Kitt Devereux
The Night We Called It a Day
2003
as Barbara Marx
A Stranger Among Us
1992
as Emily Eden
The Book That Wrote Itself
2000
as Melanie Griffith
In the Spirit
1990
as Lureen
Smith!
1969
as Extra (uncredited)
Joyride
1977
as Susie
Another Day in Paradise
1998
as Sid
One on One
1977
as The Hitchhiker
A Night to Die For
1995
as Self
The Garden
1977
as Young Girl
Women and Men: Stories of Seduction
1990
as Hadley
Commitment to Life
2023
as Self (archive footage)
The Little Pageant That Could
2024
as Self (archive footage)
The Star Maker
1981
as Dawn Barnett Youngblood
Melanie Griffith - Die Frau, die Hollywood überlebte
2026
as Self (archive footage)
Golden Gate
1981
as Karen
Daddy, I Don't Like It Like This
1978
as Girl in Hotel Room
Happy to Be Nappy and Other Stories of Me
2004
as Self (voice)
Roar: The Most Dangerous Movie Ever Made
2017
as Self (archive footage)
She's in the Army Now
1981
as Pvt. Sylvie Knoll
Back to the Jurassic
2015
as Tyra
The Grand Opening of Euro Disneyland
1992
as Self - Host (US)
Thirst
2014
as Sue
Day Out of Days
2015
as Kathy
The Cheryl Ladd Special
1979
as Ellie - Waitress
About 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… With 108 credits spanning from 1944 to 2026, Melanie Griffith has appeared in 77 films and 31 TV shows.
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Most Popular Melanie Griffith Movies
- Lolita (1997) — as Charlotte Haze
- Automata (2014) — as Dr. Susan Dupré / Cleo (voice)
- A Turtle's Tale: Sammy's Adventures (2010) — as Snow (voice)
- Body Double (1984) — as Holly Body
- Working Girl (1988) — as Tess McGill
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