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Melanie Griffith
Melanie Griffith
	Melanie Griffith at München Film Festival in 2012
Born	Melanie Richards Griffith; August 9, 1957 (age 67); Manhattan, New York, U.S.
Occupation	Actress
Years active	1969–present
Height	5 ft 9 in (1.75 m)
Spouse(s)	Don Johnson; (m. 1976; div. 1976); (m. 1989; div. 1996); Steven Bauer; (m. 1981; div. 1989); Antonio Banderas; (m. 1996; div. 2015)
Children	3, including Dakota Johnson
Parent(s)	Peter Griffith (dead); Tippi Hedren
Relatives	Tracy Griffith (half-sister); Clay A. Griffith (half-brother)

Melanie Griffith (born August 9, 1957) is an American actress. She is the daughter of Tippi Hedren. She has been in many motion pictures. She is an Academy Award nominee and Golden Globe winner for her performance in the 1988 movie Working Girl.

Early life

She graduated from Hollywood Professional School when she was 16 years old.^[3]

Griffith began work at nine months old in a commercial.^[4] In Night Moves she did racy nude scenes at age 17.^[4]

Personal life

At age 14, Griffith began dating 22-year old actor Don Johnson. He co-starred with her mother in The Harrad Experiment. Griffith was an extra. They had a six-month marriage in 1976. Tatum O'Neal said in her 2004 autobiography that around that time, she (then 12) and Griffith (then 18) were in an opium-fueled orgy in a Paris hotel room.^[5]^[6]

In September 1981, Griffith married Steven Bauer. He was her co-star in the TV movie She's in the Army Now. They have a son, Alexander, born on August 22, 1985. The couple divorced in 1987. Griffith later said she had problems with cocaine and liquor after her divorce from Bauer. "What I did was drink myself to sleep at night," she said. "If I wasn't with someone, I was an unhappy girl."^[7]

She checked into rehab in 1988.^[7] During this time, she got back together with Johnson, became sober and pregnant. They remarried in June 1989. Their daughter, Dakota Johnson, was born on October 4, 1989. They separated in June 1994.^[8] They divorced in 1996.

Griffith and Antonio Banderas began a relationship in May 1995 when they began filming Two Much.^[9] The couple has been married since May 14, 1996. Their daughter, Stella del Carmen Banderas Griffith, was born on September 24, 1996. There are reports of trouble in the marriage due to Antonio's closeness to an Indian Actress Mallika Sherawat.^[10] In June 2014, Griffith and Banderas stated that they are to divorce. The divorce was finalized in 2015.

Her father, Peter Griffith, died at age 67 on May 14, 2001.^[11]

In 1988, Griffith sought treatment for addiction to painkillers and alcohol after the filming of Working Girl. She went into rehab in 2000 for a painkiller addiction.^[12] She returned to rehab in August 2009 for substance abuse problems.^[13] She left three months later and underwent surgery for skin cancer in December 2009.^[14]

Honors

Named "Star of Tomorrow" by the Motion Picture Booker's Club (1984)
Taormina International Film Festival — Diamond Award (2000)
Cannes Film Festival — Lifetime Achievement Award (2001)

Filmography

Year	Film	Role	Notes
1969	Smith!	Extra	Uncredited
1973	The Harrad Experiment	Extra	Uncredited
1975	Night Moves	Delly Grastner
	The Drowning Pool	Schuyler Devereaux
	Smile	Karen Love
1976	Once an Eagle	Jinny Massengale
1977	The Garden	Young Girl
	One on One	The Hitchhiker
	Joyride	Susie
1978	Daddy, I Don't Like it Like This	Girl in Hotel
1978	Steel Cowboy	Johnnie
1981	Roar	Melanie
	Underground Aces	Lucy
	The Star Maker	Dawn Barnett Youngblood
	She's in the Army Now	Pvt. Sylvie Knoll
	Golden Gate	Karen
1984	Fear City	Loretta
1984	Body Double	Holly Body	National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Supporting Actress Nominated — Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture
1985	Alfred Hitchcock Presents	Girl
1986	Something Wild	Audrey Hankel aka Lulu	Nominated — Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy
1987	Cherry 2000	Edith 'E' Johnson
1988	The Milagro Beanfield War	Flossie Devine
	Stormy Monday	Kate
	Working Girl	Tess McGill	Boston Society of Film Critics Award for Best Actress Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy Nominated — Academy Award for Best Actress Nominated — BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role
1990	Women and Men: Stories of Seduction	Hadley
	In the Spirit	Lureen
	Pacific Heights	Patty Palmer
	The Bonfire of the Vanities	Maria Ruskin
1991	Paradise	Lily Reed
1992	Shining Through	Linda Voss
1992	A Stranger Among Us	Emily Eden
1993	Born Yesterday	Billie Dawn
1994	Milk Money	V
1994	Nobody's Fool	Toby Roebuck
1995	Buffalo Girls	Dora DuFran	Nominated — Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress – Series, Miniseries or Television Film
	Now and Then	Tina 'Teeny' Tercell
	Two Much	Betty Kerner
1996	Mulholland Falls	Katherine Hoover
1997	Lolita	Charlotte Haze
1998	Another Day in Paradise	Sid	Sant Jordi Award for Best Foreign Actress also for Crazy in Alabama
	Shadow of Doubt	Kitt Devereux
	Celebrity	Nicole Oliver
1999	Crazy in Alabama	Lucille Vinson	Sant Jordi Award for Best Foreign Actress also for Another Day in Paradise
1999	RKO 281	Marion Davies	Nominated — Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress – Miniseries or a Movie Nominated — Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress – Series, Miniseries or Television Film
2000	Cecil B. Demented	Honey Whitlock
2000	Forever Lulu	Lulu McAfee	Released on DVD as Along for the Ride (2000)
2001	Tart	Diane Milford
2002	Searching for Debra Winger	Herself
2002	Stuart Little 2	Margalo the Bird	Voice
2003	The Night We Called It a Day	Barbara Marx	Nominated — Australian Film Institute Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role
	Shade	Eve
	Tempo	Sarah
2005	Heartless	Miranda Wells
2007	Viva Laughlin	Bunny Baxter	Supporting role, TV series
2010	Nip/Tuck	Brandie Henry	Recurring role, TV series
2010	Eli	Narrator	Lead role, Movie
2011	Hot in Cleveland	Herself	Episode: "Sisterhood of the Traveling SPANX"
2012	This American Housewife	Leila	Lifetime original series