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