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Melanie Griffith (born August 9, 1957 in New York CityMelanie Griffith is an American film actress. She is the daughter of actress Tippi Hedren and Peter Griffith.

Griffith began working in films at an early age as an extra on (2000).

Griffith has been married four times. She was briefly married to Don Johnson in 1976. She was married to Steven Bauer from 1980 to 1987. She remarried Johnson in 1989. The couple divorced again in 1996 and Griffith married her current husband Antonio Banderas that same year. Griffith has three children by three husbands: Dakota Johnson, Alexander Bauer, and Stella Banderas.

She received a Emmy nomination as Best Supporting Actress in HBO television movie, , in which she plays Lee, the mother of the show's main characters played by Sara Gilbert and Molly Stanton.

table , the Oscar-winning actress Tatum O'Neal alleges that, at age 12, Griffith dragged her into an opium-fuelled orgy in Paris, along with another actress and the boyfriend of one of the actresses.