Melanie Griffith’s destiny was written before she was born: the daughter of Tippi Hedren (always remembered for ‘The Birds’ and ‘Marnie’ and who, by the way, is still very much alive at 94 years old) was destined to enter Hollywood greatness through the front door. At the age of twelve she set foot on a set and never left it again, but for some time now Antonio Banderas’ ex-partner It is becoming less widespread after being a perennial presence in the 90s. And the thing is… What happened to Melanie Griffith?
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Melanie Richards Griffith was born on August 9, 1957 (that is, she is 66 years old) from the marriage of Tippi Hedren and Peter Griffith, advertising executive and former theater child prodigy. AND Her childhood was spent filming advertisements, a truncated career as a child model and his parents’ divorce when he was only four years old. In 1969, at age twelve, she had his first role as an extra on a big screen, in ‘Murder Suspect’, followed by ‘The Harrad Experiment’, starring his mother.
Little did Hedren know that her daughter was going to fall in love on the set of Don Johnson, eight years older (she was 14 during filming and he was 22), whom she would end up marrying and divorcing six months later after having a daughter, Dakota. Yes, the protagonist of ‘Madame web’. Her love life was, from then on, a vital part of the media focus, delighted that she was later with Ryan O’Neal, 16 years older than her (apparently, while she was with him she had orgies with his daughter, according to what she herself claims. ). In this environment, Griffith landed his first leading role, in the film ‘The Night Moves’.
She was 17 years old, she appeared naked in several scenes and caused a scandal throughout the United States. It helped him, of course, to get more roles and notoriety in the industry, even if it was by force. She did ‘Smile’ and ‘Con el agua a la corazón’ before being chosen as the person who, at the Golden Globes, is in the background holding the awards and accompanying the winners to the exit. Little did I know that A decade later she would be the one winning that same statuette.
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By then, Griffith had become, very dangerously, synonymous with everything that is ___y around the world. So much so that when she wanted to turn and make films for all audiences like ‘From Man to Man’, the public complained because they only demanded one thing from her: sensuality. They were the harsh 70s. But everything was about to change with the decade, which she began sharing with her mother in ‘The Great Roar’. This was, by the way, one of the most dangerous and unparalleled filming in history, which lasted eleven years and even forced Griffith to have facial surgery. after a lion mutilated part of his face. Almost nothing.
In Hollywood, in the 80s, Melanie Griffith was also synonymous with drugs, partying and scandals. At least until 1984 when Brian DePalma gave him a second chance with the magnificent (but not very successful) ‘Body Double’, which earned him his first Golden Globe nomination, something he would repeat two years later with ‘Something Wild’. He had been in the deepest depths, but suddenly he came up to breathe again. In fact, in 1988 he got his only Oscar nomination and won the Globe with ‘Armas de mujer’. She had achieved it. She was no longer the girl in the background holding the awards. She was all his now.
During her speech she became so nervous that she forgot people’s names while she couldn’t stop laughing. She had just turned 30 and had the world waiting for her. However, the public was not willing to let him get away easily. As her cachet rose in the ’90s, so did her Razzie nominations. He had eight in total from 1990 to 2000, when they decided to spare his life: ‘Bonfire of the Vanities’, ‘Glow in the Dark’, ‘A Stranger Among Us’, ‘Born Yesterday’, ‘Two Much’, ‘Mulholland Falls’, ‘Crazy in Alabama’ and ‘Cecil B. Demente’. Throughout this decade, unfair rumors spread about what a bad actress she was. at the same time that he appeared in the tabloid press continuously at the hands of his great love: Antonio Banderas.
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They met on the set of ‘Two Much’, by Fernando Trueba, and sparks immediately flew. In 1996, he divorced Ana Leza (and the national tabloids gave a good account of it) and married the actress, with whom they would share 19 years of marriage. Griffith was the mother of Adrian Lyne’s ‘Lolita’, she was one of the co-stars of Woody Allen’s ‘Celebrity’, she was nominated for an Emmy for ‘RKO 281’ and even had time to give her voice to ‘Stuart Little 2’ ‘. Things were going well.
And suddenly, in 2003, after being the dart of the tabloids of the time for a few months when he entered a detoxification clinic once again, He discovered theater thanks to ‘Chicago’. The public and critics fell at her feet after learning to sing and dance and she made her past rely on Roxie to make her shine. Since then, she learned to love daily performances, doing more works (the last one, ‘The Graduate’, playing, of course, Mrs. Robinson) and taking advantage of the springboard to appear in such popular television series as ‘Hawaii Five-O ‘. In 2009, After returning to the detox clinic, he made his skin cancer public. In fact, even now he continues to fight against it.
In recent years it has been less lavish in cinema, but we have seen her in ‘The disaster artist’, ‘The pirates of Somalia’ or ‘Personal assistant’. Last year, the rumors that the skin cancer had returned grew bigger, and, at 66 years old, the actress, who has been preparing ‘Akil’ with Banderas himself for a decade, seems to have retired to see success. his daughter, Dakota Johnson, and his best friend, Jamie Lee Curtis. It’s not a bad life, after all. A Golden Globe, success in film and theater, a life in which everything has happened… A little break is worth it. If only to gain strength.