Melanie Griffith

Quick Facts

Full Name	Melanie Griffith
Occupation	Movie Actress
Date Of Birth	Aug 9, 1957(1957-08-09)
Age	67
Birthplace	New York
Country	United States
Horoscope	Leo

Melanie Griffith Biography

Melanie Griffith is one of the most popular and richest Movie Actress who was born on August 9, 1957 in New York, United States. Leading lady who starred in romantic comedies such as Working Girl. For her role as Holly in Body Double, she received three nominations.

She wed She married Don Johnson, divorced him, married him again, and divorced him again. and they divorced.

Melanie Richards Griffith (born August 9, 1957) is an American film, stage, and television actress, and film producer. She began her career in the 1970s, appearing in several independent thriller films before achieving mainstream success in the mid-1980s.

Griffith’s first onscreen appearances were as an extra in Smith! (1969) and The Harrad Experiment (1973). While on the set of the latter film, 14-year-old Griffith met actor Don Johnson, then 22. The two began dating, and the relationship culminated in a six-month marriage from January to July 1976. After divorcing Johnson, Griffith subsequently dated Ryan O’Neal. In her autobiography, A Paper Life, Tatum O’Neal alleged that Griffith dragged her into an orgy with Maria Schneider and a male hairdresser during the time of her father’s relationship with Griffith.

In May 1996, she married She married Antonio Banderas in May 1996, and the couple welcomed their daughter Stella later that year. The pair eventually split after 20 years of marriage. She also has a daughter named Dakota and a son named Alexander. and they welcomed their daughter Stella that same year. After 20 years of marriage, the couple split. She has a daughter, Dakota, and a son, Alexander.

Melanie Griffith Net Worth

Melanie Griffith is one of the richest Movie Actress from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Melanie Griffith 's net worth $40 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

When she was nine months old, she was in a commercial.

She is the daughter Tippi Henedren.

Melanie Richards Griffith was born on August 9, 1957 in Manhattan, New York City, to actress Tippi Hedren and Peter Griffith, a former child stage actor and advertising executive. Griffith’s maternal ancestry is Swedish, Norwegian, and German. Her parents separated when she was two years old, after which she relocated to Los Angeles with her mother; they divorced two years later, when Griffith was four. After divorcing Hedren, her father married model-actress Nanita Greene and had two more children: Tracy Griffith, who also became an actress, and Clay A. Griffith, a set designer. Her mother married agent and producer Noel Marshall when Griffith was seven years old.

Height, Weight & Body Measurements

Melanie Griffith height 5 ft 8 in Melanie weight Not Known & body measurements will update soon.

Who is Melanie Griffith Dating?

According to our records, Melanie Griffith married to Antonio Banderas. As of December 1, 2023, Melanie Griffith’s is not dating anyone.

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Griffith’s well-known drug and alcohol addictions temporarily stalled her career in the early 1980s, but she made a comeback at age 26 with her role as a pornographic actress in the Brian De Palma thriller Body Double (1984). The film, although a commercial failure, earned her the National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Supporting Actress. She then appeared in a supporting role in Abel Ferrara’s thriller Fear City (1985), playing a prostitute in Times Square being stalked by a serial killer. Griffith gave birth to her first child, Alexander Griffith Bauer, on August 22, 1985, with Bauer. The following year, she had her first starring role opposite Jeff Daniels in Jonathan Demme’s comedy Something Wild (1986), playing a mysterious woman who becomes involved with a straightlaced banker on a chance meeting. Critic Roger Ebert wrote of her acting: “Griffith’s performance is based not so much on eroticism as on recklessness: She is able to convince us (and Daniels) that she is capable of doing almost anything, especially if she thinks it might frighten him.” Griffith’s performance earned her a Golden Globe Award nomination for Best Actress in a Motion Picture Comedy or Musical. Griffith also starred in the speculative science fiction film Cherry 2000, which followed a business executive in the year 2017, and his relationship with a sex robot. The film was released directly-to-video in 1987.

Facts & Trivia

Melanie Ranked on the list of most popular Movie Actress. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Melanie Griffith celebrates birthday on August 9 of every year.

On October 4, 1989, Griffith gave birth to her second child, daughter Dakota Johnson, with Don Johnson. After her pregnancy, Griffith began filming the thriller Pacific Heights (1990), directed by John Schlesinger, in which she portrayed a woman, who along with her husband, becomes embroiled in a dispute with a criminal boarder in their San Francisco home. Critic Roger Ebert gave the film a middling review, and characterized it as “a horror film for yuppies.” The same year, she reunited with De Palma in The Bonfire of the Vanities, a black comedy in which she portrayed a Southern belle gold-digger. Peter Travers of Rolling Stone panned the film, noting that it “achieves a consistency of ineptitude rare even in this era of over-inflated cinematic air bags… Griffith has the curves and the Southern-belle voice of McCoy’s mistress, Maria Ruskin, but the script robs this magnolia of her steel.”

Why did Melanie Griffith stop acting?

Griffith’s well-known drug and alcohol addictions temporarily stalled her career in the early 1980s, but she made a comeback at age 26 with her role as a pornographic film actor in the Brian De Palma thriller Body Double (1984).

Did Melanie Griffith date Alec Baldwin?

“ We had an incredible romance ,” she revealed. “He was my love for a long time after that, too. We’re still friends. He lives in New York, is married and has four kids.

Are Melanie and Antonio still married?

Although the former couple divorced in 2015 , they have remained close and Antonio, 59, says Melanie, 62, will always be part of his life because they shared so many ‘wonderful years’ and have their ‘wonderful daughter’ Stella, 22, together.

Is Melanie Griffith related to Dakota Johnson?

Griffith shares Johnson with first husband Don Johnson. The “Working Girl” star also has son Alexander, 36, with second husband Steven Bauer and daughter Stella, 25, with third husband Antonio Banderas.

How did Antonio Banderas meet Melanie Griffith?

Antonio Banderas and Melanie Griffith made headlines in the mid-’90s for their whirlwind courtship. Both were married to other people when they met on set of the comedy Two Much —Griffith to actor Don Johnson and Banderas to actress Ana Leza—but soon divorced their respective partners in the throes of their new romance.