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Melanie Griffith
Melanie Richards Griffith is an American actress. Born in Manhattan to actress Tippi Hedren, she was raised mainly in Los Angeles, where she graduated from the Hollywood Professional School at age 16. In 1975, 17-year-old Griffith appeared opposite Gene Hackman in Arthur Penn's neo-noir film Night Moves. She later rose to prominence as an actor in films such as Brian De Palma's Body Double (1984),…
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Born 9 August 1957 · Q176455
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2026· 1 entry
2017· 1 entry
Griffith costarred opposite Al Pacino and Evan Peters in The Pirates of Somalia (originally titled Where the White Man Runs Away), a biopic about journalist Jay Bahadur; and played Jean Shelton in James Franco's The Disa
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2016· 2 entries
Signed to be a guest star on Hulu's The Path
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Filmed with Caan's father James Caan and Jon Voight in a TV movie titled J
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2012· 1 entry
In a play written by Scott Caan, titled No Way Around but Through, in which she played his mother
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2003· 1 entry
Made her Broadway debut in a revival of the musical Chicago, receiving celebratory reviews
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2002· 1 entry
Voiced Margalo the bird in the film Stuart Little 2
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2000· 1 entry
Griffith acted opposite Patrick Swayze in Forever Lulu, in which she portrayed a schizophrenic woman attempting to contact her son
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1999· 2 entries
Griffith made her stage debut at the Old Vic in London, England, where she acted with Cate Blanchett in The Vagina Monologues
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Griffith was cast as Honey Whitlock, an arrogant actress kidnapped by a gang of underground filmmakers, in John Waters's black comedy Cecil B
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1998· 1 entry
Griffith had a supporting part playing a famous actress in Woody Allen's Celebrity (1998), a performance characterized by critic Peter Travers as "playfully lusty"
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1996· 2 entries
Won Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Supporting Actress for Mulholland Falls (1996).
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Griffith co-starred with Antonio Banderas in the comedy Two Much
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1994· 1 entry
Griffith headlined the romantic comedy Milk Money, playing a prostitute
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1992· 2 entries
Won Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Actress for A Stranger Among Us (1992).
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Starred as Linda Voss, a German Jewish secretary in Berlin, opposite Michael Douglas in Shining Through, a World War II-set drama based on the 1988 novel of the same name
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1989· 1 entry
Griffith gave birth to her second child, daughter Dakota Johnson, with Don Johnson
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1988· 2 entries
Won Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy for Working Girl (1988).
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After completing rehabilitation, Griffith reconnected with Johnson, and the two remarried on June 26, 1989
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1984· 1 entry
Awarded National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Supporting Actress for Body Double (1984).
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1981· 1 entry
Griffith appeared as a Women's Army Corps recruit in the made-for-television film She's in the Army Now (1981) with Jamie Lee Curtis and Steven Bauer
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1977· 1 entry
Had a supporting part playing a hitchhiker in the Lamont Johnson-directed sports drama One on One
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1975· 2 entries
Won Golden Globe Ambassador (1975).
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17-year-old Griffith appeared opposite Gene Hackman in Arthur Penn's neo-noir film Night Moves
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1970· 1 entry
And was intermittent over the following decade
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1965· 1 entry
Alabama who allegedly kills her husband and attempts to hide the remains while traveling to Hollywood
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1961· 1 entry
Griffith's father married model and actress Nanita Greene and had two more children: Tracy Griffith, who also became an actress, and Clay A
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1957· 2 entries
Born 1957-08-09.
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In Manhattan, New York City, to actress Tippi Hedren and Peter Griffith, a former child stage actor and advertising executive
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