Melanie Griffith
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| Melanie Griffith | |
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Griffith at the 2012 Munich Film Festival
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| Born | August 9, 1957 New York City, New York, U.S. |
| Occupation | Actress |
| Years active | 1969–present |
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| Children | 3 |
| Parents | Peter Griffith (deceased) Tippi Hedren |
| Relatives | Tracy Griffith (half-sister) |
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Early life
Griffith was born in New York City, to actress Tippi Hedren and producer, former actor, and advertising executive Peter Griffith.[1][2] Her mother's ancestry is Swedish, German, and Norwegian. Griffith's parents divorced when she was four years old, after which her father married model/actress Nanita Greene and had two more children: actress Tracy Griffith and set designer Clay A. Griffith. Her mother married agent and producer Noel Marshall, and Griffith grew up with three stepbrothers. During her childhood and adolescent years, she divided her time between living in New York with her father and in Antelope Valley, California, where her mother formed the animal preserve Shambala. She also skipped a grade and graduated from Hollywood Professional School when she was 16 years old.[3]Career
Griffith's next starring role was in the urban thriller Pacific Heights (1990) with Matthew Modine. She worked continuously in mainstream films throughout the 1990s, starring in features such as The Bonfire of the Vanities (1990), A Stranger Among Us and Shining Through (1992), Born Yesterday (1993), Milk Money (1994), Now and Then (1995), and Two Much (1996), where she co-starred with future husband Antonio Banderas.
Griffith received a Golden Globe nomination for her performance in the successful TV movie Buffalo Girls (1995), alongside Anjelica Huston. In 1998 she appeared in Woody Allen's Celebrity with Kenneth Branagh and Leonardo DiCaprio. Later that year, she starred as a free-spirited heroin user in Another Day in Paradise (1998), a performance that some critics wrote was the best of her career.[6]
In 1999, Griffith starred in Crazy in Alabama, a film that was directed by Banderas and produced by Greenmoon Productions, the company that she and Banderas formed together. In the film, Griffith played an eccentric woman who kills her husband and heads to Hollywood to become a movie star. Also in 1999, Griffith made her stage debut at the Old Vic in London, England, where she acted with Cate Blanchett in The Vagina Monologues.[7] In the HBO film RKO 281, she played actress Marion Davies, and received an Emmy nomination for her portrayal.[8]
In 2003, Griffith made her Broadway debut playing Roxie Hart in the musical Chicago. Untrained in song and dance, she still impressed New York Times theatre critic Ben Brantley, who wrote: "Ms. Griffith is a sensational Roxie, possibly the most convincing I have seen" and "[the] vultures who were expecting to see Ms. Griffith stumble...will have to look elsewhere".[9] Griffith's celebratory reviews made it a box office success.[10][11][12] She returned to the stage in 2012 in a play that Scott Caan wrote titled "No Way Around but Through," where she played his mother[13] She would play Caan's mother again in a recurring role on his television show "Hawaii Five-0" in 2014.
Prior to "Hawaii Five-0", Griffith's television work included the short-lived WB sitcom Twins (2005–06), and the 2007 series Viva Laughlin, which was canceled after two episodes,.[14][15] Her 2012 television pilot This American Housewife (produced by Banderas) was not picked up by Lifetime.[13] In the interim, Griffith guest-starred on Nip/Tuck and Hot in Cleveland.
Griffith has several forthcoming films, such as Day Out of Days directed by Zoe Cassavates, and Automata co-starring her husband and directed by Gabe Ibanez. She has also signed on to appear in another film Facing the Wind.[16]
Philanthropy
Griffith supports the efforts of Children's Hospital Los Angeles helping to lead Walk for Kids, a community 5k, to raise funds as part of the hospital's community awareness efforts in support of the opening of a new state-of-the-art pediatric inpatient facility. Griffith also participated in the hospital's 2012 Noche de Niños gala as a presenter of a Courage to Care Award.Personal life
In 1988, after completing rehabilitation[19] Griffith returned to Johnson, whom she remarried in June 1989. Their daughter, Dakota Johnson, was born on October 4, 1989. They separated in March 1994,[17] reconciled later that year, but separated again[20] In May 1995, after Griffith fell in love with Antonio Banderas, her married co-star from Two Much.[21][22] After their respective divorces were finalized, Griffith and Banderas married on May 14, 1996.[23] They have a daughter, Stella del Carmen Banderas, born on September 24, 1996. Her father, Peter Griffith, died at age 67 on May 14, 2001.[24]
In 2000, Griffith returned to rehab for a painkiller addiction.[25] In August 2009, she returned to rehab again for what her publicist called "part of a routine plan."[26] She emerged after a three-month stay and underwent surgery for skin cancer in December of that year.[27]
In June 2014, Griffith and Banderas released a statement announcing their intention to divorce "in a loving and friendly manner".[28] According to the petition filed in the Los Angeles Superior Court, the couple had "irreconcilable differences" that led to the divorce.[29]
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