Melanie Griffith is an American actress. She was born in New York in 1957, to actress Tippi Hedren and producer, former actor, and advertising executive Peter Griffith. Griffith began work at just nine months of age in a commercial and made her film debut as an extra...Read more in Smith! (1969). Her first credited roles were in Smile, The Drowning Pool, and Night Moves, all of which were produced in 1975. In Night Moves, she was cast by director Arthur Penn, who was personally interested in her talent, and made her do racy nude scenes at the age of 17. Griffith's first major role was as a porn actress in the Brian De Palma thriller Body Double (1984), for which she won the National Society of Film Critics Award for best Supporting Actress, and led to her first leading role in Jonathan Demme's Something Wild (1986), and Working Girl (1988), for which she was nominated for a Best Actress Academy Award and won a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Musical or Comedy. Griffith's career was heavily influenced by drug abuse in the late 1980s, and she was admitted to rehab more than once. Her career cooled down in the early 2000s after her last major role to date in the independent film Cecil B. Demented (2000). Since then her appearances in films have been very infrequent and low-profile. Melanie Griffith's television roles include appearances in Hawaii Five-0, This American Housewife, Nip/Tuck and Hot in Cleveland, and the short-lived sitcom Twins (2005-06). In 2006. Griffith married actor Antonio Banderas in 1996, and they have a daughter, Stella del Carmen Banderas, born on September 24, 1996. In 2002, the couple received the Stella Adler Angel Award for their extensive charity work. In June 2014, Griffith and Banderas released a statement announcing their intention to divorce "in a loving and friendly manner".
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Melanie Griffith is an American actress. She was born in New York in 1957, to actress Tippi Hedren and producer, former actor, and advertising executive Peter Griffith. Griffith...Read more began work at just nine months of age in a commercial and made her film debut as an extra in Smith! (1969). Her first credited roles were in Smile, The Drowning Pool, and Night Moves, all of which were produced in 1975. In Night Moves, she was cast by director Arthur Penn, who was personally interested in her talent, and made her do racy nude scenes at the age of 17. Griffith's first major role was as a porn actress in the Brian De Palma thriller Body Double (1984), for which she won the National Society of Film Critics Award for best Supporting Actress, and led to her first leading role in Jonathan Demme's Something Wild (1986), and Working Girl (1988), for which she was nominated for a Best Actress Academy Award and won a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Musical or Comedy. Griffith's career was heavily influenced by drug abuse in the late 1980s, and she was admitted to rehab more than once. Her career cooled down in the early 2000s after her last major role to date in the independent film Cecil B. Demented (2000). Since then her appearances in films have been very infrequent and low-profile. Melanie Griffith's television roles include appearances in Hawaii Five-0, This American Housewife, Nip/Tuck and Hot in Cleveland, and the short-lived sitcom Twins (2005-06). In 2006. Griffith married actor Antonio Banderas in 1996, and they have a daughter, Stella del Carmen Banderas, born on September 24, 1996. In 2002, the couple received the Stella Adler Angel Award for their extensive charity work. In June 2014, Griffith and Banderas released a statement announcing their intention to divorce "in a loving and friendly manner".