Melanie Richards Griffith 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 earned her a National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Supporting Actress. Griffith's subsequent performance in the comedy Something Wild (1986) garnered critical acclaim before she was cast in 1988's Working Girl, which earned her a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress and won her a Golden Globe.
The 1990s had Griffith in a series of roles that received varying critical reception; she received Golden Globe nominations for her performances in Buffalo Girls (1995), and as Marion Davies in RKO 281 (1999), while also earning a Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Actress for her performances in Shining Through (1992), as well as receiving nominations for Crazy in Alabama (1999) and John Waters' cult film Cecil B. Demented (2000). Other credits include John Schlesinger's Pacific Heights (1990), Milk Money (1994), the neo-noir film Mulholland Falls (1996), as Charlotte Haze in Adrian Lyne's Lolita (1997), and Another Day in Paradise (1998).
She later starred as Barbara Marx in The Night We Called It a Day (2003), and spent the majority of the 2000s appearing on such television series as Nip/Tuck, Raising Hope, and Hawaii Five-0. After acting on stage in London, in 2003, she made her Broadway debut in a revival of the musical Chicago, receiving celebratory reviews. In the 2010s, Griffith returned to film, starring opposite then-husband Antonio Banderas in the science-fiction film Autómata (2014) and as an acting coach in James Franco's The Disaster Artist (2017).
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| # | Name | Character | Rating | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The High Note (2020) | Tess | 6 | |
| 2 | Howard (2018) | Karen (archive footage) | 7.5 | |
| 3 | The Disaster Artist (2017) | Jean Shelton | 7.5 | |
| 4 | Roar: The Most Dangerous Movie Ever Made (2017) | Self (archive footage) | - | - |
| 5 | The Pirates of Somalia (2017) | Maria Bahadur | 8.4 | |
| 6 | J.L. Family Ranch (2016) | Laura Lee | 2 | |
| 7 | Day Out of Days (2015) | Kathy | - | - |
| 8 | Automata (2014) | Dr. Susan Dupré / Cleo (voice) | 6.1 | |
| 9 | The Grief Tourist (2013) | Betsy | - | - |
| 10 | Call Me Crazy: A Five Film (2013) | Kristin | 5.5 | |
| 11 | Yellow (2012) | Patsy | - | - |
| 12 | Dino Time (2012) | Tyra (voice) | 1 | |
| 13 | A Turtle's Tale: Sammy's Adventures (2010) | Snow (voice) | 7 | |
| 14 | Lethal Seduction (2005) | Miranda Wells | - | - |
| 15 | Shade (2003) | Eve | 7 | |
| 16 | The Night We Called It a Day (2003) | Barbara Marx | - | - |
| 17 | Tempo (2003) | Sarah | - | - |
| 18 | Stuart Little 2 (2002) | Margalo (voice) | 5.8 | |
| 19 | Tart (2001) | Diane Milford | - | - |
| 20 | Forever Lulu (2000) | Lulu Mcafee | - | - |
| 21 | RKO 281 (2000) | Marion Davies | 6.5 | |
| 22 | Cecil B. Demented (2000) | Honey Whitlock | - | - |
| 23 | Crazy in Alabama (1999) | Lucille Vinson | - | - |
| 24 | Another Day in Paradise (1998) | Sid | - | - |
| 25 | Celebrity (1998) | Nicole Oliver | 5 | |
| 26 | Lolita (1997) | Charlotte Haze | 6.5 | |
| 27 | Mulholland Falls (1996) | Katherine Hoover | 7.2 | |
| 28 | Two Much (1995) | Betty | 8 | |
| 29 | Now and Then (1995) | Teeny | 5.6 | |
| 30 | Nobody's Fool (1994) | Toby Roebuck | 7.5 | |
| 31 | Milk Money (1994) | V | 7 | |
| 32 | Born Yesterday (1993) | Billie Dawn | 5 | |
| 33 | Shining Through (1992) | Linda Voss | 7.5 | |
| 34 | Paradise (1991) | Lily Reed | - | - |
| 35 | The Bonfire of the Vanities (1990) | Maria Ruskin | 6.8 | |
| 36 | Pacific Heights (1990) | Patty Palmer | 8 | |
| 37 | Working Girl (1988) | Tess McGill | 6.6 | |
| 38 | Stormy Monday (1988) | Kate | 5 | |
| 39 | The Milagro Beanfield War (1988) | Flossie Devine | 5 | |
| 40 | Cherry 2000 (1987) | Edith 'E.' Johnson | 4.7 | |
| 41 | Something Wild (1986) | Audrey Hankel | 8 | |
| 42 | Fear City (1984) | Loretta | 8 | |
| 43 | Body Double (1984) | Holly Body | 6.1 | |
| 44 | Roar (1981) | Melanie | 10 | |
| 45 | Underground Aces (1981) | Lucy | - | - |
| 46 | The Drowning Pool (1975) | Schuyler | 5.5 | |
| 47 | Night Moves (1975) | Delilah "Delly" Grastner | 8 | |
| 48 | Smile (1975) | Karen | 6 | |
| 49 | The Harrad Experiment (1973) | Student (uncredited) | - | - |
