Melanie Griffith

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Female

Birthday

1957-08-09 (68 years old)

Place of Birth

Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA

Melanie Griffith

Biography

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 earne...

Acting

1975

Smile

as Karen

1988

Working Girl

as Tess McGill

1973

The Harrad Experiment

as Student (uncredited)

1981

Roar

as Melanie

1990

Pacific Heights

as Patty Palmer

1996

Mulholland Falls

as Katherine Hoover

2002

Stuart Little 2

as Margalo (voice)

1986

Something Wild

as Audrey Hankel

1994

Nobody's Fool

as Toby Roebuck

1984

Body Double

as Holly Body

1999

Crazy in Alabama

as Lucille Vinson

1992

Shining Through

as Linda Voss

1975

Night Moves

as Delilah "Delly" Grastner

1988

1994

1998

Celebrity

as Nicole Oliver

1975

1995

Now and Then

as Teeny

1997

Lolita

as Charlotte Haze

1990

1988

The Milagro Beanfield War

as Flossie Devine

2000

Cecil B. Demented

as Honey Whitlock

1992

A Stranger Among Us

as Emily Eden

2003

Shade

as Eve

2003

1987

Cherry 2000

as Edith 'E.' Johnson

1993

Born Yesterday

as Billie Dawn

1995

Two Much

as Betty

2003

Tempo

as Sarah

2000

Forever Lulu

as Lulu Mcafee

1984

Fear City

as Loretta

1991

Paradise

as Lily Reed

2000

RKO 281

as Marion Davies

2012

Yellow

as Patsy

1995

Buffalo Girls

as Dora DuFran

1998

Shadow of Doubt

as Kitt Devereux

1977

Joyride

as Susie

2012

Dino Time

as Tyra (voice)

1990

In the Spirit

as Lureen

1977

The Garden

as Young Girl

2013

2018

Howard

as Karen (archive footage)

1977

One on One

as The Hitchhiker

2014

Automata

as Dr. Susan Dupré / Cleo (voice)

1981

1978

1978

Steel Cowboy

as Johnnie

2015

2005

Lethal Seduction

as Miranda Wells

1969

Smith!

as Extra (uncredited)

2017

The Pirates of Somalia

as Maria Bahadur

2017

The Disaster Artist

as Jean Shelton

2016

J.L. Family Ranch

as Laura Lee

2000

The Book That Wrote Itself

as Melanie Griffith

1979

The Cheryl Ladd Special

as Ellie - Waitress

2001

Tart

as Diane Milford

1981

She's in the Army Now

as Pvt. Sylvie Knoll

1981

The Star Maker

as Dawn Barnett Youngblood

2015

Nerd Herd

as Celeste

1981

Golden Gate

as Karen

2017

2020

2025

By Design

as Narrator (voice)

2024

The Little Pageant That Could

as Self (archive footage)

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