
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