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Melanie Griffith
Melanie at Cannes Film Festival in 2000
Born	August 9, 1957 (1957-08-09) (age 51) New York City, New York
Spouse(s)	Don Johnson (1976; 1989 - 1996) Steven Bauer (1981-1987) Antonio Banderas (1996-present)
Awards won Golden Globe Awards Miss Golden Globe (1975) Best Actress - Motion Picture Musical/Comedy 1988 Working Girl Golden Raspberry Awards Worst Supporting Actress 1997 Mulholland Falls Razzie Award for Worst Actress 1993 Shining Through; A Stranger Among Us

Melanie Griffith (born August 9, 1957) is a Golden Globe award-winning and Oscar-nominated American film actress.

Early life

Griffith was born in New York City, the daughter of actress Tippi Hedren and producer and former actor/advertising executive Peter Griffith.^[1][2][3] Her parents divorced when she was four years old, after which her father remarried to model/actress Nanita Greene and had two more children, actress Tracy Griffith and set designer Clay A. Griffith.

Griffith began work at just nine months old in a commercial and later became an extra on Smith! (1969) and The Harrad Experiment (1973). Her first major role was in Arthur Penn's Night Moves (1975), which drew attention to her and typecast her as a sexy nymphet in films such as Smile, The Drowning Pool (both also 1975), and One on One (1977). Griffith appeared nude in the October 1976 issue of Playboy with her then-husband Don Johnson. In 1984 she starred in the Brian De Palma thriller Body Double (1984). The film won her the National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Supporting Actress, and also led to her starring role in Jonathan Demme's Something Wild (1986), which became a cult favorite. She achieved mainstream success when she played the character of Tess McGill in Mike Nichols' 1988 film Working Girl, which won Griffith the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress - Motion Picture Musical or Comedy, and an Academy Award nomination for "Best Actress". Other films include Brian De Palma's The Bonfire of the Vanities and John Schlesinger's Pacific Heights (both 1990); Milk Money (1994); Fernando Trueba's Two Much (1995) - in which she met her husband Antonio Banderas - and John Waters' Cecil B. DeMented (2000).

Television

Griffith's television work includes playing actress Marion Davies in the HBO television movie RKO 281 (1999), for which she received an Emmy nomination as "Best Supporting Actress". She was also seen on The WB sitcom Twins (2005-2006), in which she played Lee, the mother of the show's main characters, played by Sara Gilbert and Molly Stanton.

Later career

Later in her career, Griffith made her stage debut at the Old Vic in London, England, where she acted with Cate Blanchett in the Vagina Monologues in February 1999.^[4] Four years later, she made her Broadway debut playing Roxie in the musical "Chicago". An untrained performer in song and dance, Griffith still managed to get a rave review from "The New York Times" theatre critic Ben Brantley, who wrote: "Ms. Griffith is a sensational Roxie, possibly the most convincing I have seen" and "[the] vultures who were expecting to see Ms. Griffith stumble...will have to look elsewhere".^[5] Griffith's celebratory reviews made it a box office success.^[6][7] At the same time Griffith was performing in "Chicago", her husband Antonio Banderas was appearing across the street in another musical, "Nine".

Personal life

Griffith has been married four times. She was wed to the actor Don Johnson briefly in 1976. She later wed actor Steven Bauer in September 1981, but divorced in 1987. In 1989 Griffith married Johnson again, but the pair split several years later and the divorce was finalized just before Griffith married Antonio Banderas in May 1996. (On their 4th wedding anniversary, she had "Antonio" tattooed on her arm.) The couple was never officially married in the state of California however due to problems with Banderas immigration papers, and they have since split and decided it was best to "forget it ever happened".^{citation needed}

Griffith has three children, one with each of her three husbands: Alexander Griffith Bauer (born in 1985), Dakota Mayi Johnson (born in 1989), and Stella del Carmen Griffith Banderas (born in 1996). Dakota followed in her mother's footsteps and served as Miss Golden Globe at the 2006 Golden Globes awards ceremony. Griffith herself was Miss Golden Globe in 1975, a title given as a launching pad to celebrities' off-spring breaking into show business.

Awards & nominations

• Golden Globe Nomination as Best Supporting Actress for Body Double (1984)
• National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Supporting Actress for Body Double (1984)
• Named "Star of Tomorrow" by the Motion Picture Booker's Club (1984)
• Golden Globe Nomination as Best Actress in a comedy or musical for Something Wild (1986)
• Golden Globe Award for Best Actress - Motion Picture Musical or Comedy for Working Girl (1988)
• Academy Award Nomination as Best Actress for Working Girl (1988)
• British Academy of Film and Television Arts Nomination as Best Actress for Working Girl (1988)
• Golden Globe Nomination as Best Supporting Actress in a TV Movie for Buffalo Girls (1995)
• Golden Globe Nomination as Best Supporting Actress in a TV Movie for RKO 281 (1999)
• Emmy Nomination as Best Supporting Actress in a TV Movie for RKO 281 (1999)
• Sant Jordi Award for Best Foreign Actress for Another Day in Paradise (1998) and Crazy in Alabama (1999)
• Taormina International Film Festival--Diamond Award (2000)
• Cannes Film Festival--Lifetime Achievement Award (2001)
• Stella Adler Angel Award (2002) - shared with her husband Antonio Banderas for their extensive charity work^[8]
• Australian Film Institute Nomination for Best Actress in a Supporting Role for The Night we called it a Day (2003)

Filmography

Year	Title	Role	Other notes
1969	Smith!	Extra	uncredited
1973	The Harrad Experiment	Extra	uncredited
1975	Night Moves	Delly Grastner
	The Drowning Pool	Schuyler Devereaux
	Smile	Karen Love
1977	The Garden	Young Girl
	One on One	The Hitchhiker
	Joyride	Susie
1978	Daddy, I Don't Like it Like This	Girl in Hotel
	Steel Cowboy	Johnnie
1981	Roar	Melanie
	Underground Acres	Lucy
	The Star Maker	Dawn Barnett Youngblood
	She's in the Army Now	Pvt. Sylvie Knoll
	Golden Gate	Karen
1984	Fear City	Loretta
	Body Double	Holly Body	Golden Globe nomination - Best Supporting Actress - Motion Picture
1985	Alfred Hitchcock Presents	Girl
1986	Something Wild	Audrey Hankel aka Lulu	Golden Globe nomination - Best Actress - Motion Picture Musical/Comedy
1987	Cherry 2000	Edith 'E' Johnson
1988	The Milagro Beanfield War	Flossie Devine
	Stormy Monday	Kate
	Working Girl	Tess McGill	Academy Award nomination - Best Actress, BAFTA nomination - Best Actress, Golden Globe win - Best Actress - Motion Picture Musical/Comedy
1990	Women and Men: Stories of Seduction	Hadley
	In the Spirit	Lureen
	Pacific Heights	Patty Palmer
	The Bonfire of the Vanities	Maria Ruskin
1991	Paradise	Lily Reed
1992	Shining Through	Linda Voss
	A Stranger Among Us	Emily Eden
1993	Born Yesterday	Billie Dawn
1994	Milk Money	V
	Nobody's Fool	Toby Roebuck
1995	Buffalo Girls	Dora DuFran	Golden Globe nomination - Best Supporting Actress - Miniseries
	Now and Then	Tina 'Teeny' Tercell
	Two Much	Betty Kerner
1996	Mulholland Falls	Katherine Hoover
1997	Another Day in Paradise	Sid
	Lolita	Charlotte Haze
1998	Shadow of Doubt	Kitt Devereux
	Celebrity	Nicole Oliver
1999	Crazy in Alabama	Lucille Vinson
	RKO 281	Marion Davies	Emmy nomination - Best Supporting Actress, Golden Globe nomination - Best Supporting Actress - Miniseries
2000	Cecil B. Demented	Honey Whitlock
	Forever Lulu	Lulu McAfee
2001	Tart	Diane Milford
2002	Searching for Debra Winger	Herself
	Stuart Little 2	Margalo the Bird	voice
2003	The Night We Called It a Day	Barbara Marx	AFI nomination - Best Supporting Actress
	Shade	Eve
	Tempo	Sarah
2005	Heartless	Miranda Wells

References

1. ^ Melanie Griffith Biography (1957-)
2. ^ Tracy Griffith Biography (1965-)
3. ^ Ancestry of Melanie Griffith
4. ^ TRANSCRIPT (Melanie's Romance Chat, February 10, 2000, 9PM EST)
5. ^ http://theater2.nytimes.com/mem/theater/treview.html?id=1077011419481&html_title=&tols_title=CHICAGO+(PLAY)&byline=%20By+BEN+BRANTLEY+&pdate=20030804
6. ^ B.O. rises; 'Chi' SRO Broadway Grosses
7. ^ Bubbly B.O. perf. (Analysis).(Melanie Griffith stars in "Chicago")(Brief Article)
8. ^ Antonio And Melanie Receive Hollywood Charity Award

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to:

Melanie Griffith

• Melanie Griffith at the Internet Movie Database
• Griffin's weblog
• Melanie Griffith cast bio on The WB

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NAME	Griffith, Melanie
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SHORT DESCRIPTION	Actress
DATE OF BIRTH	August 9, 1957
PLACE OF BIRTH	New York City, New York
DATE OF DEATH
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