Melanie Griffith Biography

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Melanie Griffith is famous for movies such as Something Wild (1986) and Working Girl (1988, with Harrison Ford), and for her high-profile marriages to actors Don Johnson and Antonio Banderas. Griffith, the daughter of actress Tippi Hedren, started in the movies when she was a teenager, and for many years played supporting roles that exploited her sex appeal. Her Oscar nomination as best supporting actress for the 1988 film Working Girl helped secure more mature roles, but her professional career has sometimes taken a back seat to the turbulence of her romantic life. Her movies include Body Double (1984), Stormy Monday (1987, with Sting), The Bonfire of the Vanities (1990, with Bruce Willis), the re-make of Lolita (1997, starring Jeremy Irons), Crazy in Alabama (1999), Shade (2003) and Have Mercy (2006). She also was a regular on the TV series Twins in 2005-06.

Extra credit: She married Don Johnson in 1976, when she was 18 years old; they divorced later that year. They remarried in 1989 and were divorced again in 1996. She married Banderas later in 1996. Griffith was also married to actor Steven Bauer from 1985-87... She has a son, Alexander (b. 1985) from her relationship with Bauer; a daughter, Dakota (b. 1989) from her second marriage to Johnson; and a daughter, Stella (b. 1996) with Banderas... Griffith has a tattoo reading "Antonio" on her right bicep... She is no relation to actor Andy Griffith.

Melanie Griffith appears with her mother Tippi Hedren in the loop Mauled by Lions.