What you do not know about the Hollywood star Melanie Griffith
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:About the actress Melanie Griffith
Melanie Richards Griffith was born on August 9, 1957 in Manhattan, New York City, to actress Tippi Hedren and Peter Griffith, a former childhood actor and advertising director. Griffith's paternal ancestry is from Wales, while her maternal ancestors are Swedish, .Norwegian, and German
Her parents divorced when she was two years old, and she later moved to Los Angeles with her mother;
They separated two years later, when Griffith was four years old
After Hedren's divorce, her father married model-actress Nanita Green and they had two more children: Tracy Griffith, who also became an actress, and Clay Griffith, a set designer. Her mother married agent and producer Noel Marshall when Griffith was seven years old.
During her childhood and adolescent years, she lived part of the time in New York with her father and part-time in Antelope Valley, California, where her mother formed the animal preserve Shambala, Griffith appeared in advertisements and briefly worked as a child model before abandoning the career, citing extreme shyness as the reason. She appeared in the film Hitchcock film Marnie "1964" in a flashback scene portraying her mother's character as a young child, While attending the Hollywood Professional School, Griffith was advanced in her studies, which allowed her to skip a grade level and graduate at age 16
:her cinematic life
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).
Some of the actress's work Melanie :Griffith
Fame
Milagro
working girl
Stewart Little 2
lolita
Hawaii Five O
Sami's adventures
Golden Gate Strait
mechanical chicken