Melanie Griffith

Melanie Griffith (New York, August 9, 1957) is an American film actress, winner of the Golden Globe. She is the daughter of actress and model Tippi Hedren and publicist Peter Griffith. ^{[citation required]}

Career

Throughout a career spanning nearly four decades, he has worked with several of Hollywood's greatest actors, including Paul Newman, Tom Hanks, Harrison Ford, Tommy Lee Jones, Michael Douglas, Jeremy Irons, Ed Harris, Nick Nolte, Antonio Banderas, Bruce Willis, Michael Keaton among others.

After working as a model and after playing a number of roles as a supporting actress (as in Arthur Penn's Night Moves, 1975), she had her first success with Double body (Brian De Palma, 1985). His later titles include Something Wild (Jonathan Demme, 1988), Stormy Monday (Mike Figgis, 1988), Women's Guns (Mike Nichols, 1988), Suddenly, a Stranger (John Schlesinger, 1990), The Bonfire of the Vanities (Brian De Palma, 1990), A Stranger Among nosotros (Sidney Lumet, 1992), Nobody's Fool (Robert Benton, 1994), Two Much (Fernando Trueba, 1995), Lolita (Adrian Lyne, 1997), Celebrity (Woody Allen, 1998), Crazy in Alabama (Antonio Banderas, 1999) and Cecil B.Demented (John Waters, 2000).

In the theater field, her Broadway debut stands out in 2003 with the musical Chicago, where she played the role of Roxie Hart. Her work received rave reviews and the play was a box office success.

Personal life

At age 14, Griffith began dating 22-year-old Don Johnson, her mother's co-star in The Harrad Experiment; the relationship culminated in a marriage that only lasted six months, from January to July 1976.

On September 8, 1981, Griffith married Steven Bauer, her co-star in the television movie She's in the Army Now. They had a son, Alexander Bauer, born August 22, 1985. The couple divorced in 1989 after a long separation. During her separation from Bauer, Griffith had problems with cocaine and drinking.

In 1988, after completing his rehabilitation, he reconnected with Johnson. They remarried on June 26, 1989. Their daughter, Dakota Johnson, was born on October 4, 1989. They separated in March 1994, reconciled later that year, but separated again in May 1995.

Griffith later began a relationship with Antonio Banderas, her Two Much co-star. After their respective divorces, Griffith and Banderas got married on May 14, 1996 in London, UK. Her daughter, Stella del Carmen Banderas, was born on September 24, 1996 in Marbella, Spain.

In 2000, Griffith returned to rehab for treatment of an addiction to painkillers. In August 2009, Griffith returned to rehab for what her publicist called "part of a routine plan." In December of that year, she had surgery for skin cancer.

In June 2014, Griffith and Banderas announced their intention to divorce "in an amicable manner. In December 2015, the divorce was finalized.

Speaking at a Women's Brain Heat Initiative mental health roundtable in Los Angeles in October 2017, Griffith revealed that she suffers from epilepsy, diagnosed in 2011, and has been seizure-free in recent years thanks to stress control. Her divorce from Banderas, she explained, helped combat it.

Filmography

Melanie Griffith with Sônia Braga and Robert Redford at the 1988 Cannes Film Festival.

• The night moves (1975)
• With water around the neck (1975)
• Smile (1975)
• Ha-Gan ("The Garden") (1977)An angel fell into the garden in Argentina
• From man to man (1977)
• Rebel youth: fate to escape (1977)
• Daddy, I Don’t Like It Like This (1978)
• Underground Aces (1981)
• Star manufacturer (1981)
• The great roar (1981)
• City of Crime (1984)
• Body Double (1984)
• Something wild (1986)
• Cherry 2000 (1987)
• The Miracle Beanfield War (1988) (The Secret of Miracle in Argentina and Chile, A place called Miracle in Spain)
• Stormous Monday (1988)
• Women ' s weapons (1988) (Executive Secretary)
• A spirit persecutes us (1990)
• Pacific Heights (1990)
• The bonfire of vanities (1990)
• A place called Paradise (1991)
• Shining in the dark (1992)
• A stranger among us (1992)
• Born yesterday (1993)
• A gift for Dad (1994)
• Nobody's Fool (1994)
• Now and Then (1995)
• Two Much (1995)
• Mulholland Falls (1996)
• Lolita (1997)
• Shadows of suspicion (1998)
• Celebrity (1998)
• At the end of the Eden (1998)
• Junket Whore (1998) (documentary)
• Crazy in Alabama (1999)
• The Book That Wrote Itself (1999) (cameo)
• The lights keep me company. (2000) (documentary)
• Cecil B. Demented (2000)
• Lulu Forever (2000)
• Tart (2001)
• Looking for Debra Winger (2002) (documentary)
• Stuart Little 2 (2002) (voz)
• The Night We Called It a Day (2003)
• Shade: Game of assassins (2003)
• Early (2003)
• Dangerous seduction (2005)
• Automata (2014)
• Thirst ("Sed") (2014)
• Day Out of days (2015)
• The Disaster Artist (2017)
• The Pirates of Somalia (2017)

Awards and nominations

Oscar

Golden Globes