Melanie Richards Griffith (born August 9, 1957) is an American film, stage, and television actress, and film producer. She began her career in the 1970s, appearing in several independent thriller films before achieving mainstream success in the mid-1980s.\n', '

Born in New York City to actress Tippi Hedren and advertising executive Peter Griffith, she was raised mainly in Los Angeles, where she graduated from the Hollywood Professional School at age sixteen. In 1975, a then seventeen-year-old Griffith appeared opposite Gene Hackman in Arthur Penn\'s film noir Night Moves. She later rose to prominence for her role portraying a pornographic actress in Brian De Palma\'s thriller Body Double (1984), which earned her a National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Supporting Actress. Griffith\'s subsequent performance in the comedy Something Wild (1986) garnered critical acclaim before she was cast in 1988\'s Working Girl, which earned her a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress and won her a Golden Globe.\n', '

The 1990s saw Griffith in a series of roles which 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).\n', '

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