Melanie Griffith Biography


Name : Melanie Griffith

Date of birth : 9 August 1957

Place of birth : New York, New York, USA



Occupation : Actress, model










Melanie Griffith Trivia
Her mother, Tippi Hedren, recently stated that the minature doll of Hedren given to her by Alfred Hitchcock was not intended to be a prank by the director. He merely wanted to give Melanie a beautiful doll with her mother's image, but it happened that the doll was in a wooden box. When Melanie received the gift, she freaked out and became upset thinking that it was indeed meant to be her mother in a coffin.
Born at 11:49pm-EDT
Daughter of Tippi Hedren
She has children from 3 different husbands - Alexander (b. 1985) with Steven Bauer, Dakota Johnson (b. 1989) with Don Johnson and Stella Banderas (b. 1996) with Antonio Banderas.
Half-sister of actress Tracy Griffith.
Daughter of Peter Griffith and Tippi Hedren.
14 November 2000 - checked into a Marina Del Rey, California hospital to help her scale back on the use of painkillers she had been prescribed for a neck injury.
Auditioned for the title role in Carrie (1976) that eventually went to Sissy Spacek.
In 1978, she went to a movie and dinner with Ricci Martin (son of Dean Martin). Upon leaving La Dome, a restaurant on Sunset Boulevard, a car ran through the crosswalk and hit Melanie. The front of the car struck her hip in mid-stride, whiplashing her head back into the windshield. As the car screeched to a stop, Melanie catapulted more than a dozen feet forward to the curbside, hitting with great force. Melanie was rushed to a hospital. To this day, Melanie still experiences pain from that accident.
Real-life daughters Dakota Johnson and Stella Banderas appear as her character's daughters in the 1999 film Crazy in Alabama (1999) directed by her husband Antonio Banderas.
Claims that it was love at first sight when she met her husband Antonio Banderas on the set of _Two Much (1996)_ in 1995.
She was unable to star in The Sheltering Sky (1990) and As Good as It Gets (1997) because of pregnancies.
She has three homes: Los Angeles, Aspen and Marbella, Spain.
Bears the same first name as her mother Tippi Hedren's most well-known role, Melanie Daniels, from the 1963 Hitchcock film, The Birds (1963).
Measurements: 34B-25-34 1/2 (filming Pacific Heights (1990)), 36C-25-35 (during The Bonfire of the Vanities (1990) after implants, (Source: Celebrity Sleuth magazine).
Was only fourteen when she married Don Johnson for the first time. He was eight years older than she, and they met on the set of her mother's film The Harrad Experiment (1973).
In 2003, Melanie told Larry King that her best films are: Night Moves (1975), Something Wild (1986), Working Girl (1988) and Nobody's Fool (1994).
She turned down femme fatale roles in hit films that went to Angelica Huston in The Grifters (1990), Geena Davis in Thelma & Louise (1991), and Sharon Stone in Basic Instinct (1992), because they were dark and edgy, and instead accepted the femme fatale role in the comedy-misfire The Bonfire of the Vanities (1990).
Her son, Alexander Bauer, is the godson of Warren Beatty.



Melanie Griffith Biography
The daughter of actress Tippi Hedren, Melanie Griffith experienced the stranger by-products of fame early in life. Named after her mother's character in Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds, Griffith was presented with a wax replica of her mother in a miniature coffin by the black-humored director when she was six years old. Eight years later, Griffith left the comfortable confines of Hedren's exotic animal ranch to live with her mother's co-star at the time, the twenty-two-year-old Don Johnson. Four years later Griffith and Johnson were married, only to divorce a year later. Problems with drugs and drinking almost inevitably followed, culminating when Griffith, then 23, was hit by a car on Sunset Boulevard: according to the hospital medics, she would have died if she hadn't been so drunk.

Griffith, who had gotten off to a promising start with films like Night Moves (1975), began to attempt a comeback in the 1980s. She studied acting with Stella Adler and made a distinct impression in Brian DePalma's Body Double in 1984. Two years later, she received further notice for her role in Something Wild, a comedy which cast her as a free spirit opposite an uptight Jeff Daniels. In 1988, Griffith had her greatest success to date, first appearing in Robert Redford's The Milagro Beanfield War and then starring in Mike Nichols' Working Girl. For her work in the latter film, in which she portrayed a young career woman trying to conquer the New York business world, Griffith earned an Oscar nomination and no small amount of critical respect. Unfortunately, many of her subsequent films proved to be less than successful, starting with Brian DePalma's widely panned adaptation of The Bonfire of the Vanities in 1990.

While her acting career continued on its highs and lows, Griffith once again wed Johnson in 1989; their second union lasted until 1996. That same year, the actress married Spanish heartthrob Antonio Banderas following a much-publicized romance. She went on to do some of her best work in years in 1997 as the puffy, tragically misguided Mrs. Haze in Adrian Lyne's adaptation of Lolita. She then took to the road playing drug dealer James Woods' old lady in Another Day in Paradise; although the film didn't make much of a ripple at the theatre, it did feature a particularly memorable scene wherein Griffith injected heroin into her crotch. Also in 1998, the actress could be seen portraying a flippant movie star in Woody Allen's Celebrity. She next stepped in front of the camera for her husband, starring as an eccentric wanna-be actress who totes her dead husband's head around in a hat box in Crazy in Alabama in 1999.