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Melanie Griffith
Actress
Female
Born
Aug 9, 1957
Age
55
Hometown
New York City
Other Names
Melanie Richards ...
Melanie Richards Griffith is an American actress. She is an Academy Award nominee and Golden Globe winner for her performance in the 1988 film Working Girl. She is the daughter of actress Tippi Hedren, and the wife of actor Antonio Banderas.
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Melanie Griffith
Age 55
parents
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children
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Alexander BauerSon, Age 27 -
Stella BanderasDaughter, Age 16
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CHILDHOOD
1957
Birth
Born on August 9, 1957.
TEENAGE
1976
18 Years Old
The relationship culminated in a six-month marriage in 1976.
TWENTIES
1982
24 Years Old
In May 1982, Griffith married Steven Bauer, her co-star from the TV film She's in the Army Now. They have a son, Alexander, born on August 22, 1985. The couple divorced in 1987.
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1984
26 Years Old
Griffith's career gained momentum in 1984 when she played a porn actress in the Brian De Palma thriller Body Double.
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THIRTIES
She achieved mainstream success when Mike Nichols cast her as spunky secretary Tess McGill in the hit 1988 film Working Girl.
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1989
31 Years Old
After becoming sober, she reunited with Johnson and remarried him in June 1989 when she was already five months pregnant.
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1995
37 Years Old
Griffith and Antonio Banderas began a relationship in May 1995 when they started filming Two Much. At that time, Banderas was married to Ana Leza. After their respective divorces were finalized, the couple married on May 14, 1996.
FORTIES
1999
41 Years Old
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Also in 1999, Griffith made her stage debut at the Old Vic in London, England, where she acted with Cate Blanchett in The Vagina Monologues.
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In 2000, Griffith had her husband's first name "Antonio" encircled in a heart tattooed on her right shoulder.
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2001
43 Years Old
Her father, Peter Griffith, died at age 67 on May 14, 2001.
2003
45 Years Old
In 2003, Griffith made her Broadway debut playing Roxie Hart in the musical Chicago.
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2004
46 Years Old
Tatum O'Neal has alleged in her 2004 autobiography that around that time, she (then 12) and Griffith (then 18) had a sexual encounter in a Paris hotel room while high on opium and hashish.
FIFTIES
2009
51 Years Old
In August 2009, she returned to rehab again for what her publicist called "part of a routine plan."
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2010
52 Years Old
Discussing Griffith’s treatment in rehab, Banderas said in April 2010, “The whole family took part, Stella included.
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She returned to the stage in 2012 in a play that Scott Caan wrote titled "No Way Around but Through."
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