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