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Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthday
August 9, 1957
Place of Birth
Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA
Also Known As
- Melanie Richards Griffith
- Мелані Гріффіт
- ملانی گریفیت
- مِلانی گریفیت
Melanie Griffith
5.4 Popularity
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
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Narrator (voice)
By Design
2026
0.0
Self (archive footage)
The Little Pageant That Could
2024
8.5
Self
The Kardashians
2022
7.0
Tess
The High Note
2020
6.8
Karen (archive footage)
Howard
2018
6.9
Maria Bahadur
The Pirates of Somalia
2017
7.0
Self (archive footage)
Roar: The Most Dangerous Movie Ever Made
2017
7.1
Jean Shelton
The Disaster Artist
2017
5.9
Laura Lee
J.L. Family Ranch
2016
4.3
Kathy
Day Out of Days
2015
Credits
By Design
as Narrator (voice)
2026
0.0
The Little Pageant That Could
as Self (archive footage)
2024
0.0
The Kardashians
as Self
2022
8.5
The High Note
as Tess
2020
7.0
Howard
as Karen (archive footage)
2018
6.8
The Pirates of Somalia
as Maria Bahadur
2017
6.9
Roar: The Most Dangerous Movie Ever Made
as Self (archive footage)
2017
7.0
The Disaster Artist
as Jean Shelton
2017
7.1
J.L. Family Ranch
as Laura Lee
2016
5.9
Day Out of Days
as Kathy
2015
4.3
Back to the Jurassic
as Tyra
2015
6.0
🎬
Nerd Herd
as Celeste
2015
0.0
Automata
as Dr. Susan Dupré / Cleo (voice)
2014
5.9
Thirst
as Sue
2014
0.0
The Grief Tourist
as Betsy
2013
4.7
Call Me Crazy: A Five Film
as Kristin
2013
6.9
Dino Time
as Tyra (voice)
2012
5.7
DTLA
as Kimberly
2012
3.3
Yellow
as Patsy
2012
5.0
Raising Hope
as Tamara Collins
2010
7.4
Hawaii Five-0
as Clara Williams
2010
7.8
A Turtle's Tale: Sammy's Adventures
as Snow (voice)
2010
6.0
Hot in Cleveland
as Melanie Griffith
2010
7.3
Viva Laughlin
as Bunny
2007
2.5
Keeping Up with the Kardashians
as Self
2007
7.4
Twins
as Lee Arnold
2005
7.3
Lethal Seduction
as Miranda Wells
2005
2.8
Happy to Be Nappy and Other Stories of Me
as Self (voice)
2004
7.0
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
as Self
2003
5.6
The Night We Called It a Day
as Barbara Marx
2003
4.8
Nip/Tuck
as Brandie Henry
2003
7.2
Tempo
as Sarah
2003
4.0
Celebrities Uncensored
as Self
2003
4.0
Shade
as Eve
2003
6.2
Stuart Little 2
as Margalo (voice)
2002
5.8
Searching for Debra Winger
as Self
2002
6.3
Tart
as Diane Milford
2001
4.3
Light Keeps Me Company
as Self
2000
7.8
The Book That Wrote Itself
as Melanie Griffith
2000
4.0
Cecil B. Demented
as Honey Whitlock
2000
6.4
Forever Lulu
as Lulu Mcafee
2000
5.3
RKO 281
as Marion Davies
2000
6.4
Crazy in Alabama
as Lucille Vinson
1999
6.0
Another Day in Paradise
as Sid
1998
6.2
Hollywood Squares
as Self - Panelist
1998
7.3
Hollywood Squares
1998
7.3
Celebrity
as Nicole Oliver
1998
6.0
Shadow of Doubt
as Kitt Devereux
1998
4.7
Lolita
as Charlotte Haze
1997
7.1
The View
as Self
1997
4.3
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Clive Anderson All Talk
as Self
1996
0.0
E! True Hollywood Story
1996
8.1
Mulholland Falls
as Katherine Hoover
1996
6.0
Two Much
as Betty
1995
5.4
Now and Then
as Teeny
1995
6.9
A Night to Die For
as Self
1995
0.0
Buffalo Girls
as Dora DuFran
1995
6.4
Lo + plus
as Self - Audience Member
1995
0.0
Nobody's Fool
as Toby Roebuck
1994
6.8
Milk Money
as V
1994
6.4
Inside the Actors Studio
as Self
1994
7.5
Born Yesterday
as Billie Dawn
1993
5.3
A Stranger Among Us
as Emily Eden
1992
5.5
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
1992
5.4
The Grand Opening of Euro Disneyland
as Self - Host (US)
1992
7.5
Shining Through
as Linda Voss
1992
6.5
Paradise
as Lily Reed
1991
6.2
The Bonfire of the Vanities
as Maria Ruskin
1990
5.6
Pacific Heights
as Patty Palmer
1990
6.3
In the Spirit
as Lureen
1990
3.3
Women and Men: Stories of Seduction
as Hadley
1990
4.1
The Simpsons
as Melanie Griffith (voice)
1989
8.0
Working Girl
as Tess McGill
1988
6.6
Stormy Monday
as Kate
1988
5.7
The Milagro Beanfield War
as Flossie Devine
1988
6.5
Cherry 2000
as Edith 'E.' Johnson
1987
6.0
Something Wild
as Audrey Hankel
1986
6.6
Body Double
as Holly Body
1984
6.8
Miami Vice
as Christine von Marburg
1984
7.5
Fear City
as Loretta
1984
5.3
🎬
Goldene Kamera
as Self
1984
5.7
Roar
as Melanie
1981
5.9
Golden Gate
as Karen
1981
0.0
She's in the Army Now
as Pvt. Sylvie Knoll
1981
4.7
The Star Maker
as Dawn Barnett Youngblood
1981
4.0
Underground Aces
as Lucy
1981
4.4
The Cheryl Ladd Special
as Ellie - Waitress
1979
0.0
Steel Cowboy
as Johnnie
1978
0.0
Vega$
1978
7.0
Daddy, I Don't Like It Like This
as Girl in Hotel Room
1978
4.0
Carter Country
1977
5.2
One on One
as The Hitchhiker
1977
5.6
Joyride
as Susie
1977
5.0
The Hardy Boys / Nancy Drew Mysteries
1977
7.1
The Garden
as Young Girl
1977
4.4
Once an Eagle
as Jinny Massengale
1976
6.8
Saturday Night Live
as Self - Host
1975
7.0
Saturday Night Live
as Self - Cameo (uncredited)
1975
7.0
Starsky & Hutch
as Julie
1975
7.3
The Drowning Pool
as Schuyler
1975
6.3
Smile
as Karen
1975
5.8
Night Moves
as Delilah "Delly" Grastner
1975
6.7
The Harrad Experiment
as Student (uncredited)
1973
3.4
Smith!
as Extra (uncredited)
1969
5.5
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
as Self
1962
7.5
Tony Awards
as Self - Presenter
1956
5.9
Golden Globe Awards
as Self - Nominee
1944
7.2
Golden Globe Awards
as Self
1944
7.2
Golden Globe Awards
as Self - Audience Member
1944
7.2
🎬
American Housewife
N/A
10.0