Melanie Griffith
Highest Rated: 100% Smile (1975)
Lowest Rated: 10% Milk Money (1994)
Birthday: Aug 9, 1957
Birthplace: New York City, NY, USA
The daughter of onetime fashion model Tippi Hedren (Marnie) and actor Peter Griffith, Melanie Griffith witnessed her parents' divorce as a toddler. She relocated from Manhattan to Los Angeles in the custody of her mom at the age of four, when Alfred Hitchcock discovered Hedren and offered her a bid for movie stardom. Hedren soon married her second husband, film producer Noel Marshall, and relocated the entire family (including Griffith) to an Acton, California ranch, but at age 15 (c. 1972), Griffith broke out on her own. She started modeling professionally and struck up a live-in relationship with then-22-year-old Don Johnson. Thus commenced a notoriously rocky, complex romance of four years. It temporarily ended when Griffith and Johnson wed and divorced several months later. In the mean time, Griffith kick-started her acting career with promising films including the Arthur Penn-directed detective saga Night Moves (1975) and the Paul Newman mystery The Drowning Pool (1975).Problems with drugs and drinking followed Griffith and Johnson's divorce. It all came crashing down for the rising star in 1980, when she was hit by a car on Sunset Boulevard and seriously injured, with amnesia that lasted for several days and a fractured arm. Ultimately, she did survive, and launched a comeback in the 1980s, studying acting with the preeminent Stella Adler. Griffith made a distinct impression as porn star Holly Body in Brian DePalma's thriller Body Double (1984), and two years later received a wealth of critical acclaim for her role in Something Wild, a Jonathan Demme comedy. It cast her as a reckless spirit opposite an uptight Jeff Daniels. In many ways, however, 1988 witnessed Griffith's breakthrough; that year, she appeared in Robert Redford's The Milagro Beanfield War and starred in the Mike Nichols comedy Working Girl. For her work in the latter film, as a young career woman trying to conquer the New York business world, Griffith earned an Oscar nomination and no small amount of critical respect. Unfortunately, she then endured a series of less well-received outings, including Brian DePalma's widely panned Tom Wolfe outing The Bonfire of the Vanities (1990), the John Schlesinger mystery Pacific Heights (1990) and director David Seltzer's period meller Shining Through (1992).While her acting career continued on its highs and lows, Griffith once again wed Johnson in 1989; their second union lasted until 1996. That same year, the actress married Spanish heartthrob Antonio Banderas following a much-publicized romance. She went on to do some of her best work in years in 1997 as the puffy, tragically misguided Mrs. Haze in Adrian Lyne's overlooked adaptation of Lolita. She then signed on to portray drug dealer James Woods's wife in the Larry Clark-directed addiction drama Another Day in Paradise (1998); unfortunately, the film failed to make a significant impact on critics. At about the same time, the actress portrayed a flippant movie star in Woody Allen's Celebrity (1998), and a nutty aspiring actress who totes her dead husband's head around in a hat box in the Antonio Banderas-directed Crazy in Alabama in 1999. Both films received negative-to-mediocre reviews. Griffith would continue to sign on for roles in the coming years, though subsequent projects were of somewhat lower profile, like the documentaries Light Keeps Me Company (2000) and Searching for Debra Winger (2002), as well as John Waters's outrageous black comedy Cecil B. Demented (2000), the romantic drama Tempo, and the crime thriller Shade.
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Highest Rated Movies
Filmography
Movies
| Credit | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 67% | The Pirates of Somalia | Maria Bahadur | — | 2017 |
| No Score Yet | J.L. Family Ranch | Laura Lee | — | 2017 |
| No Score Yet | Day Out of Days | Kathy | — | 2015 |
| 30% | Autómata | Dupre | — | 2014 |
| 33% | Dark Tourist | Betsy | — | 2013 |
| No Score Yet | Call Me Crazy: A Five Film | Kristin | — | 2013 |
| No Score Yet | Dino Time | Tyra | — | 2012 |
| 20% | Sammy's Adventures 2 (Sammy's avonturen 2) | Snow | $0.6M | 2012 |
| No Score Yet | Dino Mom | Tyra | — | 2010 |
| No Score Yet | The Night We Called It A Day | Actor | — | 2005 |
| No Score Yet | All the Way | Barbara Marx | — | 2004 |
| No Score Yet | Happy to Be Nappy and Other Stories of Me | Actor | — | 2004 |
| 67% | Shade | Eve | — | 2003 |
| No Score Yet | Tempo | Sarah | — | 2003 |
| No Score Yet | All the Way: The Kidnapping of a Music Legend | Actor | — | 2003 |
| No Score Yet | Night We Called It a Day | Actor | — | 2003 |
| 81% | Stuart Little 2 | Margalo the Bird | $64.8M | 2002 |
| 80% | Searching for Debra Winger | Actor | — | 2002 |
| No Score Yet | Tart | Diane Milford | — | 2002 |
| 83% | Light Keeps Me Company | Actor | — | 2001 |
| 53% | Cecil B. Demented | Honey Whitlock | — | 2000 |
| No Score Yet | Forever Lulu | Lulu | — | 2000 |
| 93% | RKO 281 | Marion Davies | — | 1999 |
| 30% | Crazy in Alabama | Lucille | — | 1999 |
| 41% | Celebrity | Nicole | — | 1998 |
| No Score Yet | Shadow of Doubt | Kitt Devereux | — | 1998 |
| 58% | Another Day in Paradise | Sidney | — | 1997 |
| 68% | Lolita | Charlotte Haze | — | 1997 |
| 30% | Mulholland Falls | Katherine Hoover | — | 1996 |
| 14% | Two Much | Betty Kerner | — | 1996 |
| 28% | Now and Then | Tina Tercell | — | 1995 |
| No Score Yet | Buffalo Girls | Dora DuFran | — | 1995 |
| No Score Yet | Lions: Kings of the Serengeti | Narrator | — | 1995 |
| 91% | Nobody's Fool | Toby Roebuck | — | 1994 |
| 10% | Milk Money | V | — | 1994 |
| 25% | Born Yesterday | Billie Dawn | — | 1993 |
| 44% | Shining Through | Linda Voss | — | 1992 |
| 23% | A Stranger Among Us | Emily Eden | — | 1992 |
| 36% | Paradise | Lily Reed | — | 1991 |
| 16% | The Bonfire of the Vanities | Maria Ruskin | — | 1990 |
| 46% | Pacific Heights | Patty Palmer | — | 1990 |
| No Score Yet | In The Spirit | Lureen | — | 1990 |
| No Score Yet | Women & Men: Stories of Seduction | Hadley | — | 1990 |
| 83% | Working Girl | Tess McGill | — | 1988 |
| 73% | Stormy Monday | Kate | — | 1988 |
| 55% | The Milagro Beanfield War | Flossie Devine | — | 1988 |
| 40% | Cherry 2000 | E. Johnson | — | 1988 |
| 89% | Something Wild | Lulu / Audrey Hankel | — | 1986 |
| 67% | Fear City | Loretta | — | 1984 |
| 78% | Body Double | Holly Body | — | 1984 |
| 74% | Roar | Melanie | $0.2M | 1981 |
| No Score Yet | The Star Maker | Dawn Bennett | — | 1981 |
| No Score Yet | She's in the Army Now | Sylvie Knoll | — | 1981 |
| No Score Yet | Underground Aces | Actor | — | 1980 |
| No Score Yet | The Steel Cowboy | Actor | — | 1978 |
| 88% | One on One | Hitchhiker | — | 1977 |
| No Score Yet | Joyride | Susie | — | 1977 |
| No Score Yet | Once an Eagle | Jinny Massengale | — | 1976 |
| 50% | The Drowning Pool | Schuyler Devereaux | — | 1975 |
| 100% | Smile | Karen Love/'Miss Simi Valley' | — | 1975 |
| 83% | Night Moves | Delly Grastner | — | 1975 |
| No Score Yet | The Harrad Experiment | Extra (uncredited) | — | 1973 |
TV
| Credit | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| 91% |
SMILF 2017 |
2019 |
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| No Score Yet |
Hawaii Five-0 2010 |
Clara Williams Danny's Mom |
2016 2014 |
| No Score Yet |
Jimmy Kimmel Live 2003 |
Guest |
2013 2012 |
| 96% |
Raising Hope 2010-2014 |
Tamara Collins |
2012 |
| No Score Yet |
Hot in Cleveland 2010-2015 |
Herself |
2011 2010 |
| 75% |
Nip/Tuck 2003-2009 |
Brandy Henry |
2010 |
| 25% |
Viva Laughlin 2007 |
Bunny |
2007 |
| 85% |
The Simpsons 1989 |
Voice |
2006 |
| 27% |
Twins 2005-2006 |
Lee Arnold |
2006 2005 |
| No Score Yet |
The Tonight Show With Jay Leno 1992-2014 |
Guest |
2002 2001 |
| No Score Yet |
Saturday Night Live 1975 |
Host Guest |
1988 |
| No Score Yet |
Miami Vice 1984-1990 |
Christine von Marburg |
1987 |
| No Score Yet |
Starsky & Hutch 1975-1979 |
Julie |
1978 |
QUOTES FROM Melanie Griffith CHARACTERS
Dietrich says: Do you have an education?
Linda Voss says: Apparently not enough to cook doves.
Aunt Lucille says: Honey, I'm wanted in seven states.
Aunt Lucille says: There are lot of ways you can kill a person. There are fast ways, and there are slow ways. Chester was killin' me the slow ways for thirteen years.
Aunt Lucille says: I'm the kinda girl that who can resist anything but temptation.
Aunt Lucille says: Can I leave my husband here?
E. Johnson says: We'd have more fun chewing on razor blades than dribbling around the zone in broad daylight.
Six Fingered Jake says: We'd have more fun chewing on razor blades than dribbling around the zone in broad daylight.
V says: Nobody's treated me the way you do.
Tom Wheeler says: How do I treat you?
V says: Like a person.
Tom Wheeler says: How does everybody else treat you?
V says: Like a hooker.
Tom Wheeler says: Why do they treat you like that?
V says: Because I am hooker!
V says: I need a hundred bucks or I'm gonna get slapped, you think you can do that?
Frank Wheeler says: Here, take it.
V says: Where'd you get all this money?
Frank Wheeler says: My friends and I wanna see a naked lady.
V says: How much of a naked lady?
Frank Wheeler says: As much as a hundred dollars will buy.
V says: How should we do this? On the bed, or something?
Brad says: I'll stand.
V says: I meant ME.
Frank Wheeler says: My mother died before I was born.
V says: I don't think that's possible.
Frank Wheeler says: Okay, she had me first and then she died right after.
V says: There is a place you can touch on a woman that will make her go crazy.
Frank Wheeler says: Where?
V says: Her heart.
V says: Don't worry. I've seen a Brady Bunch. Nothing bad ever happens to you people.
Margalo says: Get lost, you disgusting vulture! Eat my feathers, you vile buzzard!
Margalo says: [Teasing and cursing at Falcon] Eat my feathers, you vile buzzard!
Margalo says: [teasing and cursing at Falcon] Eat my feathers, you vile buzzard!
Tess McGill says: "You want to be taken seriously, you need serious hair."
Tess McGill says: You want to be taken seriously, you need serious hair.
Tess McGill says: I have a head for business and a body for sin
Tess McGill says: I have a head for business and a body for sin.
Jack Trainer says: We haven't been invited to this thing have we?
Tess McGill says: Not exactly, but that makes us...
Jack Trainer says: Total idiots!
Tess McGill says: At the right place at the right time
Tess McGill says: At the right place at the right time.
Oren Trask says: Ms Parker, if I were you I'd take a look at your office because it'll be your last. Now get your...what was it you called it?
Oren Trask says: Ms Parker, if I were you I'd take a look at your office because it'll be your last. Now get your... what was it you called it?
Tess McGill says: Bony ass
Tess McGill says: Bony ass.
Oren Trask says: Right! Bony ass out of my sight!
Mick Dugan says: Tess, would u marry me?
Mick Dugan says: Tess, will you marry me?
Tess McGill says: Maybe!
Tess McGill says: Maybe.
Mick Dugan says: That's an answer?
Mick Dugan says: Ya call that an answer?
Tess McGill says: You want another answer, ask another girl
Tess McGill says: You want another answer, ask another girl.
Tess McGill says: u know, maybe i"m just dont like you
Tess McGill says: You know, maybe I just don't like you.
Jack Trainer says: Me??? Nah!!
Jack Trainer says: Me? Naaah!
Jack Trainer says: This things r usually so boring
Jack Trainer says: These things are usually so boring.
Tess McGill says: (giggling)
Tess McGill says: [giggling]
Tess McGill says: I have a head for business and a bod for sin. Anything wrong with that?
Tess McGill says: I have a head for business and a bod for sin. Is there anything wrong with that?
Tess McGill says: I have a head for business and a bod for sin.