Melanie Griffith
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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).
Known for
Credits
Lolita (1997)
as Charlotte Haze
Automata (2014)
as Dr. Susan Dupré / Cleo (voice)
The Disaster Artist (2017)
as Jean Shelton
Body Double (1984)
as Holly Body
The High Note (2020)
as Tess
Shade (2003)
as Eve
Working Girl (1988)
as Tess McGill
Stuart Little 2 (2002)
as Margalo (voice)
A Turtle's Tale: Sammy's Adventures (2010)
as Snow (voice)
The Bonfire of the Vanities (1990)
as Maria Ruskin
Pacific Heights (1990)
as Patty Palmer
Celebrity (1998)
as Nicole Oliver
Milk Money (1994)
as V
Now and Then (1995)
as Teeny
Mulholland Falls (1996)
as Katherine Hoover
Night Moves (1975)
as Delilah "Delly" Grastner
The Pirates of Somalia (2017)
as Maria Bahadur
Nobody's Fool (1994)
as Toby Roebuck
The Drowning Pool (1975)
as Schuyler
Something Wild (1986)
as Audrey Hankel
Cherry 2000 (1987)
as Edith 'E.' Johnson
Shining Through (1992)
as Linda Voss
Dino Time (2012)
as Tyra (voice)
Roar (1981)
as Melanie
Cecil B. Demented (2000)
as Honey Whitlock
Call Me Crazy: A Five Film (2013)
as Kristin
The Milagro Beanfield War (1988)
as Flossie Devine
Forever Lulu (2000)
as Lulu Mcafee
Commitment to Life (2023)
as Self (archive footage)
Tart (2001)
as Diane Milford
By Design (2026)
as Narrator (voice)
RKO 281 (1999)
as Marion Davies
Lethal Seduction (2005)
as Miranda Wells
Two Much (1995)
as Betty
Born Yesterday (1993)
as Billie Dawn
Shadow of Doubt (1998)
as Kitt Devereux
Smile (1975)
as Karen
Crazy in Alabama (1999)
as Lucille Vinson
Melanie Griffith - Die Frau, die Hollywood überlebte (2026)
as Self (archive footage)
Paradise (1991)
as Lily Reed
Fear City (1984)
as Loretta
The Grief Tourist (2013)
as Betsy
Another Day in Paradise (1998)
as Sid
Howard (2018)
as Karen (archive footage)
A Stranger Among Us (1992)
as Emily Eden
Stormy Monday (1988)
as Kate
Smith! (1969)
as Extra (uncredited)
The Harrad Experiment (1973)
as Student (uncredited)
Back to the Jurassic (2015)
as Tyra
Women and Men: Stories of Seduction (1990)
as Hadley (segment "Hills Like White Elephants")
Searching for Debra Winger (2002)
as Self
Buffalo Girls (1995)
as Dora DuFran
The Night We Called It a Day (2003)
as Barbara Marx
Underground Aces (1981)
as Lucy
One on One (1977)
as The Hitchhiker
Tempo (2003)
as Sarah
J.L. Family Ranch (2016)
as Laura Lee
Joyride (1977)
as Susie
Golden Gate (1981)
as Karen
The Star Maker (1981)
as Dawn Barnett Youngblood
The Little Pageant That Could (2024)
as Self (archive footage)
Steel Cowboy (1978)
as Johnnie
Roar: The Most Dangerous Movie Ever Made (2017)
as Self (archive footage)
She's in the Army Now (1981)
as Pvt. Sylvie Knoll
The Cheryl Ladd Special (1979)
as Ellie - Waitress
A Night to Die For (1995)
as Self
Happy to Be Nappy and Other Stories of Me (2004)
as Self (voice)
Nerd Herd (2015)
as Celeste
Day Out of Days (2015)
as Kathy
The Book That Wrote Itself (2000)
as Melanie Griffith
Yellow (2014)
as Patsy
In the Spirit (1990)
as Lureen
Light Keeps Me Company (2000)
as Self
The Grand Opening of Euro Disneyland (1992)
as Self - Host (US)
Daddy, I Don't Like It Like This (1978)
as Girl in Hotel Room
The Garden (1977)
as Young Girl
Thirst (2014)
as Sue
Monty and the Movies (—)
as Self (archive footage)