
Acting
Community Rating
5.7
TMDB estimate
Born
August 9, 1957 (age 68)
Born in
Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA
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).

Lolita
Charlotte Haze
1997

Automata
Dr. Susan Dupré / Cleo (voice)
2014

The Disaster Artist
Jean Shelton
2017

Body Double
Holly Body
1984

Working Girl
Tess McGill
1988

Milk Money
V
1994

The Pirates of Somalia
Maria Bahadur
2017

Shade
Eve
2003

Howard
Karen (archive footage)
2018

Celebrity
Nicole Oliver
1998

Tart
Diane Milford
2001

Buffalo Girls
Dora DuFran
1995

Now and Then
Teeny
1995

Stuart Little 2
Margalo (voice)
2002

By Design
Narrator (voice)
2026

Roar
Melanie
1981

The High Note
Tess
2020

Mulholland Falls
Katherine Hoover
1996

The Bonfire of the Vanities
Maria Ruskin
1990

Shining Through
Linda Voss
1992