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 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).
108 acting credits
Acting · 108
The Simpsons
1989
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
1962
Hawaii Five-0
2010
Saturday Night Live
1975
Golden Globe Awards
1944
Miami Vice
1984
The View
1997
Hollywood Squares
1998
Nip/Tuck
2003
Tony Awards
1956
Keeping Up with the Kardashians
2007
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
2003
Hot in Cleveland
2010
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
1992
Starsky & Hutch
1975
Raising Hope
2010
Vega$
1978
The Kardashians
2022
The Hardy Boys / Nancy Drew Mysteries
1977
Goldene Kamera
1984
Lolita
1997
Automata
2014
Lo + plus
1995
Once an Eagle
1976
Twins
2005
A Turtle's Tale: Sammy's Adventures
2010
Working Girl
1988
Body Double
1984
Stuart Little 2
2002
Milk Money
1994
The Bonfire of the Vanities
1990
Viva Laughlin
2007
Carter Country
1977
Nobody's Fool
1994
Shade
2003
Pacific Heights
1990
Mulholland Falls
1996
DTLA
2012
Now and Then
1995
The Disaster Artist
2017
E! True Hollywood Story
1996
The High Note
2020
Roar
1981
The Harrad Experiment
1973
Celebrity
1998
Cherry 2000
1987
Lethal Seduction
2005
The Book That Wrote Itself
2000
By Design
2026
Clive Anderson All Talk
1996
Something Wild
1986
Night Moves
1975
Shining Through
1992
Howard
2018
Crazy in Alabama
1999
Tart
2001
Inside the Actors Studio
1994
Dino Time
2012
The Pirates of Somalia
2017
RKO 281
1999
Searching for Debra Winger
2002
Fear City
1984
Cecil B. Demented
2000
Shadow of Doubt
1998
The Garden
1977
The Milagro Beanfield War
1988
Two Much
1995
The Drowning Pool
1975
The Grief Tourist
2013
Light Keeps Me Company
2000
Born Yesterday
1993
Another Day in Paradise
1998
Buffalo Girls
1995
Tempo
2003
Paradise
1991
Call Me Crazy: A Five Film
2013
Smile
1975
Women and Men: Stories of Seduction
1990
The Night We Called It a Day
2003
Commitment to Life
2023
A Stranger Among Us
1992
J.L. Family Ranch
2016
Stormy Monday
1988
A Night to Die For
1995
Daddy, I Don't Like It Like This
1978
Forever Lulu
2000
Yellow
2012
Smith!
1969
One on One
1977
American Housewife
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Melanie Griffith - Die Frau, die Hollywood überlebte
2026
In the Spirit
1990
Golden Gate
1981
Joyride
1977
Back to the Jurassic
2015
The Grand Opening of Euro Disneyland
1992
Celebrities Uncensored
2003
The Little Pageant That Could
2024
The Star Maker
1981
Roar: The Most Dangerous Movie Ever Made
2017
Underground Aces
1981
Happy to Be Nappy and Other Stories of Me
2004
Steel Cowboy
1978
Day Out of Days
2015
She's in the Army Now
1981
Nerd Herd
2015
Thirst
2014
The Cheryl Ladd Special
1979