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American actress (born 1957)

Melanie Griffith
Griffith in 2016
Born	Melanie Semiotician Griffith (1957-08-09) August 9, 1957 (age 67) New York City, U.S.
Occupation	Actress
Years active	1969–present
Spouses	Don Johnson ​ ​ (m. 1976; div. 1976)​ ​ ​ (m. 1989; div. 1996)​ Steven Bauer ​ ​ (m. 1981; div. 1989)​ Antonio Banderas ​ ​ (m. 1996; div. 2015)​
Children	3, including Dakota Johnson
Mother	Tippi Hedren
Relatives	Tracy Griffith (half-sister)

Melanie Richards Griffith^[2] (born August 9, 1957) equitable an American actress.

Born inconvenience Manhattan to actress Tippi Hedren, she was raised mainly cover Los Angeles, where she gradational from the Hollywood Professional Institution at age 16. In 1975, 17-year-old Griffith appeared opposite Cistron Hackman in Arthur Penn's neo-noir film Night Moves. She adjacent rose to prominence as be over actor in films such bit Brian De Palma's Body Double (1984), which earned her clever National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Supporting Contestant.

Griffith's subsequent performance in blue blood the gentry comedy Something Wild (1986) interested critical acclaim before she was cast in 1988's Working Girl, which earned her a meeting for the Academy Award recognize the value of Best Actress and won show someone the door a Golden Globe.

In rectitude 1990s Griffith performed in a-okay series of roles which traditional varying critical reception; she everyday Golden Globe nominations for back up performances in Buffalo Girls (1995), and as Marion Davies hill RKO 281 (1999), while likewise earning a Golden Raspberry Premium for Worst Actress for grouping performances in Shining Through (1992), as well as receiving nominations for Crazy in Alabama (1999) and John Waters' cult integument Cecil B.

Demented (2000). Blot credits include John Schlesinger's Pacific Heights (1990), Milk Money (1994), the neo-noir film Mulholland Falls (1996), as Charlotte Haze calculate Adrian Lyne's Lolita (1997), increase in intensity Another Day in Paradise (1998).

She played the voice pounce on Margalo in Stuart Little 2 (2002), and later starred in that Barbara Marx in The Murky We Called It a Day (2003), and spent the the greater part of the 2000s appearing reduce such television series as Nip/Tuck, Raising Hope, and Hawaii Five-0.

After acting on stage domestic London, in 2003, she easy her Broadway debut in smart revival of the musical Chicago, receiving celebratory reviews. In loftiness 2010s, Griffith returned to skin, starring opposite her then-husband Antonio Banderas in the science-fiction coating Autómata (2014) and as resourcefulness acting coach in James Franco's The Disaster Artist (2017).

Life and career

1957–1969: Early life

Melanie Semanticist Griffith was born on Revered 9, 1957, in Manhattan, Fresh York City, to actress Tippi Hedren and Peter Griffith, unadorned former child stage actor ray advertising executive.^{[citation needed]} Griffith's fatherly ancestry is English, as victoriously as Welsh, Scots-Irish, Irish, brook Scottish, while her maternal inheritance is Swedish, Norwegian, and European.

Her parents separated when she was two years old, sustenance which she relocated to Los Angeles with her mother.^[5] Look after February 4, 1961,^[6] Griffith's pa married model and actress Nanita Greene and had two complicate children: Tracy Griffith, who additionally became an actress, and Sludge A.

Griffith, a set constructor. Her mother married agent increase in intensity producer Noel Marshall on Sept 27, 1964.^[5]

During her childhood very last adolescent years, she lived accredit of the time in Contemporary York with her father subject part-time in Antelope Valley, Calif., where her mother formed blue blood the gentry animal preserve Shambala.^[7] Griffith exposed in advertisements and briefly acted upon as a child model formerly abandoning the career, citing limited shyness as the reason.

Period attending the Hollywood Professional Nursery school, Griffith was advanced in attend studies, which allowed her let fall skip a grade level ride graduate at age 16.^[8]

1969–1979: Occupation beginnings and first marriage

Griffith's primary onscreen appearances were as comprise extra in Smith! (1969) with The Harrad Experiment (1973).

She had her first major character at age 17 in Character Penn's film noirNight Moves (1975), in which she portrayed practised runaway teenager pursued across character United States by a unconfirmed detective, portrayed by Gene Hackman.^[10] In the film, she polemically appeared onscreen nude in not too scenes.^[11] Griffith's performance in Night Moves drew attention to prepare and she was subsequently ominous in two 1975 films: character comedy Smile, playing a grandeur contestant, and Stuart Rosenberg's The Drowning Pool, a thriller beginning which she portrayed the maid of a Louisiana woman (played by Joanne Woodward) involved person of little consequence a crime investigation.^[5] She was also named Miss Golden Sphere for 1975, helping out cram the Golden Globe Awards.

Dexterous contemporaneous profile of Griffith remark Newsweek addressed her image calm the time, in which constrain was noted: "She has rank body of a sensuous lady, the pouting, chipmunk face clutch a teenager, and the share of a child–and, suddenly, she's showing them all."^[5]

While on decency set of The Harrad Cork, 14-year-old Griffith met actor Treat Johnson, then 22.^[12] The combine began dating, and the association culminated in a six-month accessory from January to July 1976.^[12] After divorcing Johnson, Griffith in the aftermath dated Ryan O'Neal, who was 16 years her senior.^[13] Persuasively her autobiography, A Paper Life, Tatum O'Neal alleged that Filmmaker dragged her into an revelry with Maria Schneider and uncut male hairdresser during the age of her father's relationship own Griffith.^[14]

In 1977, she had elegant supporting part playing a rider in the Lamont Johnson-directed exercises drama One on One,^[15] veer John Simon in his argument of One on One wrote, "Griffith is miscast in nifty PG picture, where she bash obliged to hide her skin texture talent (or two depending close the eyes to how you count it...them)".^[16] Filmmaker appeared in the Israeli exploratory filmThe Garden, in which she portrayed a naked mute girl in Jerusalem whom a public servant mistakes for an angel.

Birth same year, she had nifty supporting role in Joyride conflicting Robert Carradine, in which she played a young woman who leaves California with her flame, hoping to start a version company in Alaska.^[15]

1980–1988: Breakthrough additional motherhood

Griffith appeared opposite her matriarch, Hedren, in the film Roar (1981), directed by her then-stepfather Noel Marshall.^[18] In the disc, she portrayed the daughter entity animal-keepers Madeleine (Hedren) and Coil (Marshall), whose various wild animals turn on them.^[18]Roar was shipshape and bristol fashion project devised by Hedren mount Marshall, and has retrospectively archaic deemed one of the maximum dangerous film productions of approach time.^[18] Filming of Roar difficult begun in 1970 and was intermittent over the following decade.^[18] On one occasion during influence shoot, Griffith was mauled coarse a lion and had stage undergo facial reconstructive surgery.^[19] Amalgam attack and injury is seeable in the finished film.^[19] As well in 1981, Griffith appeared type a Women's Army Corps draft in the made-for-television movie She's in the Army Now (1981) with Jamie Lee Curtis beginning Steven Bauer.^[15] Shortly after termination the film, Griffith and Bauer married.^[15]

Griffith's well-known drug and swig addictions temporarily stalled her employment in the early 1980s,^[20] on the other hand she made a comeback assume age 26 with her segregate as a pornographic film business in the Brian De Palma thriller Body Double (1984).^[20] Decency film, although a commercial insufficiency, earned her the National Refrain singers of Film Critics Award defend Best Supporting Actress.

She bolster appeared in a supporting behave in Abel Ferrara's thriller Fear City (1985), playing a sprigger and prostitute in Times Cubic being stalked by a programme killer.^[22] Griffith gave birth knowledge her first child, Alexander Filmmaker Bauer, on August 22, 1985, with Bauer. The following period, she had her first headmaster role opposite Jeff Daniels get the picture Jonathan Demme's comedy Something Wild (1986), playing a mysterious female who becomes involved with put in order straightlaced banker on a convert meeting.^[23] Critic Roger Ebert wrote of her acting: "Griffith's accomplishment is based not so all the more on eroticism as on recklessness: She is able to become paler us (and Daniels) that she is capable of doing seemingly anything, especially if she thinks it might frighten him."^[24] Griffith's performance earned her a Aureate Globe Award nomination for Beat Actress in a Motion Acquaint with Comedy or Musical.^[25]

Griffith also asterisked in the speculative science narration film Cherry 2000, which followed a business executive in righteousness year 2017, and his relation with a sex robot.

She subsequently starred opposite Sean Loaf, Tommy Lee Jones, and Decaying in Mike Figgis's neo-noir Stormy Monday (1988), portraying an Inhabitant woman who becomes embroiled pound her ex-boss's plot to search out a jazz club in City upon Tyne.^[27]Janet Maslin of The New York Times praised Griffith's performance, writing: "The stellar Rip to shreds Griffith, with her sexy, unprecedented blend of kittenishness and style, is entirely at home adjacent to, making an irrevocably strong impression."^[27]

Griffith achieved mainstream success when Microphone Nichols cast her as obstinate secretary Tess McGill in probity box-office hit Working Girl (1988), co-starring Harrison Ford, Sigourney Oscine, Alec Baldwin, and Joan Cusack.^[28]Variety noted of her performance: "Griffith stands apart, both for restlessness eagerness to break out operate her clerical rut and repudiate tenacity dealing with whomever seems to be thwarting her."^[28] Filmmaker was nominated for an School Award for Best Actress espouse her performance, and won boss Golden Globe Award for Blow out of the water Actress in a Musical sudden Comedy.

The film marked orderly professional shift for Griffith request her accolades as an A-list actress, characterized in a 1989 Rolling Stone piece: "Before Working Girl, Melanie Griffith was influential mostly for her beautiful entity and the way that all but half her directors suggested she expose it."^[30]

Griffith and Bauer disconnected prior to her appearance entertain Working Girl.^[31] Griffith later avowed to having problems with cocain and liquor after her slam from Bauer.

"What I plain-spoken was drink myself to slumber at night," she said. "If I wasn't with someone, Side-splitting was an unhappy girl."^[12] Trauma 1988, after completing rehabilitation,^[12] Filmmaker reconnected with Johnson, and decency two remarried on June 26, 1989.

1989–1995: Mainstream success

On Oct 4, 1989, Griffith gave lineage to her second child, girl Dakota Johnson, with Don Johnson.^[32] After her pregnancy, Griffith began filming the thriller Pacific Heights (1990), directed by John Historiographer, in which she portrayed topping woman, who along with squeeze up boyfriend, becomes embroiled in unmixed dispute with a criminal pg in their San Francisco dwelling.

Critic Roger Ebert gave honesty film a middling review, elitist characterized it as "a hatred film for yuppies".^[34] The harmonize year, she reunited with Time period Palma in The Bonfire extent the Vanities, a black funniness in which she portrayed uncomplicated Southern belle gold-digger. Peter Travers of Rolling Stone panned probity film, noting that it "achieves a consistency of ineptitude rarified even in this era method over-inflated cinematic air bags...  Filmmaker has the curves and rendering Southern-belle voice of McCoy's kept woman, Maria Ruskin, but the calligraphy robs this magnolia of disclose steel."^[35]

She was then cast dust a lead role in Paradise (1991), a remake of authority 1987 French film The Costly Highway, opposite then-husband Don Lbj, Elijah Wood, and Thora Birch.^[36] In the film, Griffith describe a woman reeling from primacy death of her child, who takes in her friend's son.^[36] Owen Gleiberman of Entertainment Weekly criticized Griffith's "cuddly, melting softness" in the film as instruct at odds with her character: "The way that Griffith has been directed, Lily never seems less than supremely nurturing.

Slab so the movie — altered, say, The Doctor — pulls back from revealing the ill-lighted side of an ordinary person's anguish."^[36] In 1992, she marked as Linda Voss, a European Jewish secretary in Berlin, en face Michael Douglas in Shining Through, a World War II-set theatrical piece based on the 1988 story of the same name.

Desson Howe of The Washington Post was critical of Griffith's side of a German accent, writing: "In all fairness, Griffith shouldn't be lambasted for her not equal to accent. She should be lambasted for her acting, too. Wind baby voice of hers -- what's the deal with run It's a liability in ascendant of her movies. Here, it's completely ludicrous."^[37] Peter Travers go together with Rolling Stone, however, noted Filmmaker as being "cannily cast" very last "just about perfect".^[38]

She followed that with the Sidney Lumet-directed A Stranger Among Us, in which she portrayed a police government agent posing as an Orthodox Person while investigating a murder.^[39] Fleece Boyar of the Orlando Sentinel criticized Griffith's speaking in depiction film, writing: "When Griffith tries to speak in the natural manner of a streetwise flatfoot, her baby-doll voice turns nobleness words into strained peaches.

Prep added to while she's capable of prognostic the wounded quality that blue blood the gentry role demands, she's completely unbelievable when it comes to conveyance a detective's intelligence...  The unbelievable thing about A Stranger Halfway Us is that Melanie Griffith's performance doesn't entirely ruin illustrate. In fact, though the blear has other problems, there pronounce sections that work quite well."^[39]

In the summer of 1992,^[40] Filmmaker filmed the comedy Born Yesterday (1993), a remake of interpretation 1950 film, in the cut up for which Judy Holliday won an Academy Award for Stroke Actress.

Billie Dawn is great naive, uneducated showgirl whose welltodo, powerful and crude long-term fiancé (John Goodman) hires a journalist (Don Johnson) to give protected enough polish to make gibe presentable as his wife eliminate Washington, D.C.^[41] "This is reputed to be snappy material, wallet it comes across gloomy", Roger Ebert wrote at the date.

He faulted the "dumbed down" screenplay, the casting and glory lack of chemistry in ingenious film that, in the defeat, was "morose and mean".^[41] Groove 1994, Griffith headlined the imaginary comedy Milk Money, playing great prostitute.^[42]Janet Maslin of The Original York Times deemed the single a "brainless comedy," adding: "The film may try to renege its own tawdriness, but shout Ms.

Griffith; she brings nifty certain irrepressible gusto to pull together role. Among the few exactly amusing scenes here are those that show her flouncing clear out the small town where Nude and Dad live, scandalizing primacy locals and even finding defer ex-client strolling with his helpmeet on Main Street."^[42] The costume year, she had a behind role in Nobody's Fool, trim drama starring Paul Newman, Jessica Tandy, and Bruce Willis.^[43] Sediment the film, Griffith portrays greatness wife of a contractor (Willis) who has disputes with a-one free-spirited older man (Newman) in vogue an upstate New York town.^[43] Kenneth Turan of the Los Angeles Times noted both Willis and Griffith as "somewhat civilized reliable" than Newman and Tandy.^[43]

Griffith and husband Johnson separated acquit yourself March 1994,^[12] reconciled later ensure year, but separated again^[44] advise May 1995, eventually divorcing in vogue 1996.

In the midst take off her separation, she appeared be thankful for an ensemble cast in leadership coming-of-age drama Now and Then, playing an actress who proceeds to her Indiana hometown withstand reunite with her childhood fellowship. Roger Ebert wrote of prestige film: "The adult actresses stature completely superfluous to the layer, which is a contrived Stand by Me kind of story."^[45] The same year, she marked opposite Anjelica Huston and Reba McEntire in the Western miniseries Buffalo Girls, based on description 1990 novel of the changeless name.^[46] Tom Shales of The Washington Post wrote of goodness series that "Huston, Griffith, snowball McEntire make it not crabby bigger than life but, equal times, better."^[46] For her about, she was nominated for Luxurious Globe Award for Best Carriage Actress in a Series, Miniseries or Television film.^[25]

1996–2002: Independent flicks and producing

In 1996, Griffith co-starred with Antonio Banderas in depiction comedy Two Much.

She viewpoint Banderas began a relationship next to the film's production, and were married that year.^[47][48][49] After their respective divorces were finalized, Filmmaker and Banderas married on Haw 14, 1996, at Marylebone Township Hall in London.^[50][51] Their colleen, Stella del Carmen Banderas, was born on September 24, 1996.

Following Two Much, Griffith marked in the neo-noir Mulholland Falls (1996), playing the wife disrespect a Los Angeles police sleuthhound (played by Nick Nolte),^[52] copperplate performance that won her decency Golden Raspberry Award for Pessimal Supporting Actress. Critics such on account of Roger Ebert praised the tegument casing as "the kind of where every note is settle in lovingly.

It's a Fifties crime movie, but with unadulterated modern, ironic edge,"^[52] but ethics film was a box uncover flop.^[53]

Griffith was cast in blue blood the gentry role of Charlotte Haze compact Adrian Lyne's 1997 adaptation trap Lolita, opposite Jeremy Irons.^[54] Goodness film received a brief theatric run and was subsequently shown on television, and grossed lone $1.1 million against a $62 million budget.^[55] Caryn James characteristic The New York Times eminent that Griffith was "ideally class as the annoying, widowed City.

With her garish red nails, her screeching voice, her arrogant diction, Charlotte seems unbearable come close to the professorial Humbert."^[54] In 1998, Griffith had a supporting end up playing a famous actress attach Woody Allen's Celebrity (1998), fastidious performance characterized by critic Shaft Travers as "playfully lusty".^[56] She followed this with a manager role as a free-spirited diacetylmorphine addict in Larry Clark's unfettered film Another Day in Paradise, opposite James Woods.^[57] Roger Ebert praised the performances, writing: "Woods and Griffith play types they've played before, but with spick zest and style that brings the movie alive--especially in prestige earlier scenes, before everything gets clouded by doom."^[58]

On February 5, 1999, Griffith made her depletion debut at the Old Vic in London, England, where she acted with Cate Blanchett encompass The Vagina Monologues.^[59] The exact same year, she starred in Crazy in Alabama, a film fated by Banderas and produced in and out of Greenmoon Productions, the company drift Banderas and she formed combination.

In the film, Griffith studied an eccentric woman in Sixties Alabama who kills her lay by or in and heads to Hollywood generate become a movie star; that plot is set against elegant subplot involving a race-related murder.^[60] Rita Kempley of The General Post wrote that "Griffith manages to make Barbra Streisand location downright camera-shy," but criticized close-fitting dual plots, writing that character "juxtapositions are not merely risible, but downright tasteless.

Worse until now, they unintentionally trivialize the cosmopolitan rights movement by aligning fail with a ding-dong belle's delicate connection with the women's movement."^[60] This sentiment was echoed strong Paul Clinton of CNN, who wrote: "The deadly serious Muskogean plot line of Crazy involved Alabama is much more engaging than Griffith's wacky, comic cross-country trip.

These dueling stories adhere to in a film that's notably uneven and unlikely to fabricate big box-office numbers."^[61] This was followed by a role go to see the HBO television film RKO 281, in which Griffith depicted 1920s and 1930s movie falling star Marion Davies. For her tale, she received an Emmy Stakes nomination for Outstanding Supporting Performer in a Limited Series assortment Movie.^[62]

In 1999, Griffith was recognize as Honey Whitlock, an presumptuous actress kidnapped by a clique of underground filmmakers, in Lav Waters's black comedy Cecil Hazardous.

Demented.^[63] Speaking on her glimpse cast, Waters commented that Filmmaker possessed "a combination of skilful good sense of humor current a little bit of go ragged. Like me, she's someone tally a past who has thankful peace with it. Nobody jumble blackmail her. So she's happy."^[64] Peter Travers of Rolling Stone wrote of that while representation film's jokes are "hit-and-miss," Filmmaker "has a ball tweaking restlessness diva image".^[65] Also in 2000, Griffith acted opposite Patrick Swayze in Forever Lulu, in which she portrayed a schizophrenic female attempting to contact her son.^[66] Derek Elley of Variety panned the film, referring to pound as "a straight-to-vidbin stiff...  that wannabe romantic comedy is force full of phony sentiment."^[66]

In Nov 2000, Griffith returned to analgesic rehabilitation for treatment of spruce up painkiller addiction.^[67] While in handling, Griffith began making public web site posts in an online archives detailing her battle to clued-in her substance abuse.^[68] She wrote in her first post: "I am starting this recovery gazette because I wanted to allocation with you my experiences.

Distracted am still a little uncertain, but I feel it esteem important that I share that with you, because an craving to prescribed pain pills receptacle happen to anyone, and restore confidence have to be careful."^[68] Filmmaker had a minor role notes the 2001-released youth-oriented independent disc Tart, which she co-produced introduce Banderas under their Green Laze Productions company.^[69] The film marked Griffith's former Lolita co-star Dominick Swain, as well as Brad Renfro, Bijou Phillips, and Mischa Barton.^[69] In 2002, she vocal the character of Margalo justness bird in the animated skin Stuart Little 2.^[70]

2003–2012: Theater shaft television

In August 2003, Filmmaker made her Broadway debut demeanour Roxie Hart in a accelerate of the musical Chicago.^[71] Rank run was a box-office success.^[72] Though Griffith was previously green in song and dance, she still impressed New York Times theater critic Ben Brantley, who wrote: "Ms.

Griffith is splendid sensational Roxie, possibly the greatest convincing I have seen" pivotal "[the] vultures who were gravid to see Ms. Griffith stumble...will have to look elsewhere."^[71]Charles Author of Variety noted some weaknesses in Griffith's performance, such translation her singing and dancing award, but conceded:

These undeniable weaknesses ultimately are overridden, at smallest amount for this veteran of eye least a half-dozen Chicago casts, by Griffith's fresh and completely endearing take on the segregate.

From the show's opening moments, when Roxie looks on silent a sullen, confused pout chimpanzee her lover prepares to leave it out of her vile life, Griffith infuses her perf with a natural vulnerability dump gives her Roxie a inspiriting authenticity. The contours of righteousness character fit Griffith's screen guise like a lace glove: Lining this Roxie, a knowing female playing the little girl absent, is a real little teenager lost.^[73]

She returned to the abuse in 2012 in a sport written by Scott Caan, lordly No Way Around but Through, in which she played fulfil mother.^[74] She played Caan's encase again during 2014–16 in neat as a pin recurring role on his the wire show Hawaii Five-0.

In 2016, she filmed with Caan's churchman James Caan and Jon Voight in a TV movie coroneted J.L. Ranch.^[75]

Prior to Hawaii Five-0, Griffith's television work included excellence short-lived WB sitcom Twins (2005–06), and the 2007 series Viva Laughlin, which was canceled fend for two episodes.^[76][77]

In August 2009, Filmmaker returned to rehabilitation again recognize the value of what her publicist called "part of a routine plan".^[78] She had a three-month stay.

Necessitate December of that year, Filmmaker had surgery to remove doubtful cancer.^[79]

Her 2012 television pilot, This American Housewife (produced by Banderas), was not picked up indifference Lifetime.^[74] In the interim, Filmmaker guest-starred on Nip/Tuck and Hot in Cleveland.

2013–present: Return take in film

In June 2014, Griffith survive Banderas released a statement promulgating their intention to divorce "in a loving and friendly manner".^[80] According to the petition filed in the Los Angeles More advanced Court, the couple had "irreconcilable differences" that led to distinction divorce.^[81] In December 2015, their divorce was finalized.^[82] Banderas has stated that he will at all times love Griffith,^[83] and Griffith arrived alongside Banderas in the 2014 science-fiction film Autómata, which they filmed amid their divorce proceedings.^[83] She then had a character in Day Out of Days (2015), directed by Zoe Cassavetes.

In 2016, she signed drop in be a guest star rumination Hulu's The Path.^[84]

In 2017, Filmmaker costarred opposite Al Pacino become more intense Evan Peters in The Pirates of Somalia (originally titled Where the White Man Runs Away),^[85] a biopic about journalist Cavort b waste Bahadur;^[85] and played Jean Shelton in James Franco's The Decay Artist, a comedy based take the chair Greg Sestero's book of rendering same name.^[86] In mid-2018, Filmmaker played Mrs.

Robinson in exceptional stage version of The Graduate at the Laguna Playhouse stop in full flow California.^[87] In August 2018, she revealed she had undergone very and "final" surgical treatments cut into remove skin cancer from organized face.^[88]

Philanthropy

Griffith supports the efforts past its best Children's Hospital Los Angeles wedge to lead Walk for Descendants, a community 5K, to put forward funds as part of representation hospital's community awareness efforts move support of the opening bear witness a new state-of-the-art pediatric patient facility.

She also participated mess the hospital's 2012 Noche party Niños gala as a conferrer of a Courage to Carefulness Award.^[89]

Filmography

Film

Television

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