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Melanie Griffith is an American actress. She was born in New York in 1957, to actress Tippi Hedren and producer, former actor, and advertising executive Peter Griffith. Griffith...Read more began work at just nine months of age in a commercial and made her film debut as an extra in Smith! (1969). Her first credited roles were in Smile, The Drowning Pool, and Night Moves, all of which were produced in 1975. In Night Moves, she was cast by director Arthur Penn, who was personally interested in her talent, and made her do racy nude scenes at the age of 17. Griffith's first major role was as a porn actress in the Brian De Palma thriller Body Double (1984), for which she won the National Society of Film Critics Award for best Supporting Actress, and led to her first leading role in Jonathan Demme's Something Wild (1986), and Working Girl (1988), for which she was nominated for a Best Actress Academy Award and won a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Musical or Comedy. Griffith's career was heavily influenced by drug abuse in the late 1980s, a

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