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| Birth Name(s) : Melanie Richards Griffith |
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Don Johnson (1976-1976, 1989-1996) |
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Full Melanie Griffith Biography
Melanie Griffith (born August 9, 1957 in New York City) is an Academy Award-nominated American film actress. She is married to actor/director, Antonio Banderas.
She is the only child of actress Tippi Hedren and eldest child of Peter Griffith. Her parents divorced when she was four years old, and her father would remarry and have two children: actress, Tracy Griffith and set designer, Clay Griffith.
Griffith has been married four times. She was briefly married to Don Johnson in 1976. She was married to Steven Bauer from 1980 to 1987. She remarried Johnson in 1989. The couple divorced again in 1996 and Griffith married her current husband Antonio Banderas that same year. Griffith has three children by three husbands: Alexander Griffith Bauer (born in 1985); Dakota Mayi Johnson (born in 1989); and Stella del Carmen Banderas Griffith (born in 1996). Dakota followed in her mother's footsteps and served as Miss Golden Globe at the 2006 Golden Globes award ceremony. Griffith was Miss Golden Globe in 1975.
Griffith's television work includes playing actress Marion Davies in HBO television movie RKO 281 (1999) for which she received an Emmy nomination as Best Supporting Actress. She was also seen on The WB sitcom Twins (2005-2006), in which she played Lee, the mother of the show's main characters played by Sara Gilbert and Molly Stanton.
Late in her career, Griffith made her stage debut at the Old Vic in London, England, where she acted with Cate Blanchett in the Vagina Monologues in February, 1999. Four years later, she made her Broadway debut, playing Roxie in the musical "Chicago" in 2003. An untrained performer in song and dance, she still managed to get a rave review from "The 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".. Griffith's celebratory reviews made it a box office success. Her husband Antonio Banderas was appearing across the street in another musical "Nine," at the same time.
Emmy nomination - Best Supporting Actress, Golden Globe nomination - Best Supporting Actress - Miniseries
Academy Award nomination - Best Actress, BAFTA nomination - Best Actress, Golden Globe win - Best Actress - Motion Picture Musical/Comedy |
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