50 facts about actress Melanie Griffith

Working Girl, which earned her a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress and won her a Golden Globe. Learn 50 facts from life and career of actress Melanie Griffith.

1. Melanie Griffith is the daughter of actress Tippi Hedren.

2. Her father is former stage actor Peter Griffith.

3. She rose to prominence for her role in Brian De Palma's Body Double.

4. Her role in Brian De Palma's Body Double, earned her a National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Supporting Actress.

5. Griffith's subsequent performance in Something Wild 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.

6. 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, and as Marion Davies in RKO 281, while also earning a Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Actress for her performances in Shining Through, as well as receiving nominations for Crazy in Alabama and John Waters' cult film Cecil B. Demented.

7. She later starred as Barbara Marx in The Night We Called It a Day, and has appeared on the television series Nip/Tuck, Raising Hope, and Hawaii Five-0.

8. After acting on stage in London, in 2001 she made her Broadway debut in a revival of the musical Chicago, receiving celebratory reviews that made it a box office success.

9. Griffith was born in New York City.

10. Her mother is actress Tippi Hedren.

11. Her father is Peter Griffith, a former child stage actor and advertising executive.

12. Griffith's parents divorced when she was 4 years old.

13. Griffith skipped a grade, graduating from Hollywood Professional School when she was 16 years old.

14. Griffith began acting at nine months of age in a commercial.

15. She made her film debut as an extra at the age of 12 in Smith!.

16. Her first credited roles were in Smile, The Drowning Pool, and Night Moves.

17. She had a supporting role in the made-for-television movie Steel Cowboy.

18. Griffith was cast as 'Melanie', the daughter of her real life mother, Tippi Hedren, in the film Roar.

19. During the filming of Roar, she was attacked by a lion and had 50 stitches to her face.

20. Her first major role came in 1984 when she was cast as a porn actress in the Brian De Palma thriller Body Double. The film, although a commercial failure, earned her the National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Supporting Actress.

21. Griffith also starred in the science fiction film Cherry 2000, which went straight to video in 1988 and has become a cult favorite.

22. She achieved mainstream success when Mike Nichols cast her as spunky secretary Tess McGill in the hit 1988 film Working Girl.

23. Griffith's performance in Working Girl earned her an Academy Award for Best Actress and won her the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Musical or Comedy.

24. She worked continuously in mainstream films throughout the 1990s, starring in features such as The Bonfire of the Vanities, Shining Through and A Stranger Among Us, Born Yesterday, Milk Money, Nobody's Fool, Now and Then.

25. In film Two Much, she co-starred with Antonio Banderas, whom she married the year the film was released.

26. Griffith received a Golden Globe nomination for her performance in the successful TV movie Buffalo Girls, alongside Anjelica Huston.

27. In 1998 she appeared in Woody Allen's Celebrity with Kenneth Branagh and Leonardo DiCaprio. Later that year, she starred as a free-spirited heroin user in Another Day in Paradise, a performance that some critics described as the best of her career.

28. In 1999, Griffith starred in Crazy in Alabama, a film directed by Banderas and produced by Greenmoon Productions, the company that she and Banderas formed together.

29. In 1999, Griffith made her stage debut at the Old Vic in London, England, where she acted with Cate Blanchett in The Vagina Monologues.

30. In the HBO made-for-TV film RKO 281, she played 1920s and 1930s movie star Marion Davies, and received an Emmy nomination for her portrayal.

31. Griffith's career cooled down in the early 2000s following her last major roles to date in the independent films Cecil B. Demented and Forever Lulu (aka Along for the Ride).

32. In 2002, she voiced the character of Margalo the bird in Stuart Little 2.

33. In 2003, Griffith made her Broadway debut playing Roxie Hart in the musical Chicago.

34. Untrained in song and dance, she still impressed New York Times theater 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".

35. She returned to the stage in 2012 in a play written by Scott Caan, titled No Way Around but Through, in which she played his mother.

36. She played Caan's mother again during 2014-16 in a recurring role on his television show Hawaii Five-0.

37. In 2016, she is filming with Caan's father James Caan and Jon Voight in a TV-movie titled J.L. Ranch.

38. Prior to Hawaii Five-0, Griffith's television work included the short-lived WB sitcom Twins, and the 2007 series Viva Laughlin, which was canceled after two episodes.

39. Her 2012 television pilot, This American Housewife (produced by Banderas), was not picked up by Lifetime.

40. In the interim, Griffith guest-starred on Nip/Tuck and Hot in Cleveland.

41. Griffith has several other films, such as Day Out of Days directed by Zoe Cassavates, and Automata, co-starring her then-husband and directed by Gabe Ibanez.

42. Griffith supports the efforts of Children's Hospital Los Angeles helping to lead Walk for Kids, a community 5k, to raise funds as part of the hospital's community awareness efforts in support of the opening of a new state-of-the-art pediatric inpatient facility. She also participated in the hospital's 2012 Noche de Niños gala as a presenter of a Courage to Care Award.

43. At age 14, Griffith began dating Don Johnson, her mother's 22-year-old co-star in The Harrad Experiment.

44. Her relationship with Johnson culminated in a six-month marriage from January to July 1976 before they divorced.

45. In May 1982, Griffith married Steven Bauer, her co-star from the TV film She's in the Army Now.

46. She and Bauer have a son, Alexander Bauer. The couple divorced in 1987.

47. Griffith later admitted to having problems with cocaine and liquor after her divorce from Bauer. "What I did was drink myself to sleep at night," she said. "If I wasn't with someone, I was an unhappy girl."

48. In 1988, after completing rehabilitation Griffith renewed her relationship with Johnson. They remarried in June 1989.

49. Their daughter, Dakota Johnson, was born on October 4, 1989. They separated in March 1994, reconciled later that year, but separated again in May 1995.

50. Griffith had fallen in love with Antonio Banderas. After their respective divorces were finalized, Griffith and Banderas married on May 14, 1996. Griffith and Banderas have a daughter, Stella del Carmen Banderas.