The daughter of actress Tippi Hedren (The Birds), Melanie Griffith was born Aug. 9, 1957, in New York City. While barely a teenager, she appeared as an extra in The Harrad Experiment (1972) and married that film's star, Don Johnson (who, after an early divorce, would later become her third husband).Griffith's first major roles came in 1975, in Night Moves and The Drowning Pool. She then stirred critical attention as a porn star pursued by a killer in Brian De Palma's Body Double and made the A-list with the title role in 1988's Working Girl, for which she earned a Best Actress Oscar nomination.
Her subsequent films have included The Bonfire of the Vanities, Pacific Heights, Born Yesterday, Nobody's Fool, Lolita and Crazy in Alabama (directed by her fourth husband, Antonio Banderas). Griffith took a break from film in 2003 for a successful Broadway debut as Roxie Hart in "Chicago."
Cecil B. DementedOnly the twisted mind of writer-director John Waters could conceive a plot that chronicles a crew of guerrilla filmmakers who kidnap a movie goddess (Melanie Griffith) and force her to star in their underground movie. Cecil (Stephen Dorff) leads a group of auteurs called the Sprocket Holes, but they... Read More
TempoExpatriate American Sarah James (Melanie Griffith) -- who earns a good living as a black-market courier in France -- hatches a scheme to rob a high-priced jewelry store with help from her much younger beau, Jack Ganzer (Hugh Dancy). But when a seemingly artless young woman (Rachael Leigh Cook) who... Read More
A Stranger Among UsWhen New York cop Emily Eden (Melanie Griffith) goes undercover in a Hasidic Jewish community to solve the brutal murder of a jeweler, she falls for devout religious student Ariel (Eric Thal) in this romantic drama from Sidney Lumet. Though Ariel becomes involved in helping Emily track down clues to... Read More
Crazy in AlabamaYoung Peejoe sees his quiet life in rural Alabama turned upside-down one troubled summer in the 1960s. Peejoe's eccentric Aunt Lucille kills her abusive husband and heads for Hollywood just as their small town explodes in racial strife. Read More
Born YesterdayA real estate mogul expected to collide with a shrewd reporter on the Beltway's road of intrigue. But he didn't predict that his not-so-dumb girlfriend would become savvy to Washington's political ways ... or worse, fall in love with the journalist. Read More
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Twins: Season 1 (2005) | NR | |
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Shade (2003) | R | |
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Tempo (2003) | R | |
Stuart Little 2 (2002) | PG | |
Directors: Sidney Lumet (2002) | NR | |
Tart (2001) | R | |
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RKO 281 (1999) | R | |
Crazy in Alabama (1999) | PG-13 | |
Celebrity (1998) | R | |
Another Day in Paradise (1998) | R | |
Shadow of Doubt (1998) | R | |
Lolita (1997) | R | |
Mulholland Falls (1996) | R | |
Two Much (1996) | PG-13 | |
Buffalo Girls (1995) | NR | |
Now and Then (1995) | PG-13 | |
Milk Money (1994) | PG-13 | |
Born Yesterday (1993) | PG | |
Shining Through (1992) | R | |
A Stranger Among Us (1992) | PG-13 | |
Paradise (1991) | PG-13 | |
Pacific Heights (1990) | R | |
The Bonfire of the Vanities (1990) | R | |
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Cherry 2000 (1988) | PG-13 | |
Stormy Monday (1988) | R | |
Working Girl (1988) | R | |
The Milagro Beanfield War (1988) | R | |
Something Wild (1986) | R | |
Body Double (1984) | R | |
Fear City (1984) | R | |
Roar the Movie (1981) | PG | |
Joyride (1977) | R | |
Smile (1975) | PG | |
The Drowning Pool (1975) | PG | |
Night Moves (1975) | R | |
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The Harrad Experiment (1973) | R | |
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