Date of birth: 9 August 1957
Place of birth: New York City, NY, USA
Occupation: actress, model
Education: Hollywood Professional
School in Los Angeles, California
Facts about Melanie Griffith:
She has been seen repeatedly with Shade
co-star Gabriel Byrne while Spanish hunk Banderas is away filming in Argentina.
The couple have been spotted having an intimate lunch at Le Dome restaurant
in Los Angeles and on a trip to the beach in Malibu.
Antonio Banderas has threatened his actress wife
Melanie Griffith with death and divorce if she strays during a forthcoming filming
assignment in Paris, France.
It took Melanie Griffith and Antonio Banderas
a while to get used to their new Hollywood villa - because it's so big they
kept getting lost in it.
Troubled actress Melanie Griffith has checked
herself back into rehab after a furious row with her husband Antonio Banderas.
Literally laughed off reports that she was jealous
about the steamy scenes her husband Antonio Banderas shared with Angelina Jolie
in his latest film.
Had to fight for years to be taken seriously
as an actress.
Wishes her parents had banned her from living
with Don Johnson when she was just 14 years old.
Is publicly declaring her love for husband ANTONIO
BANDERAS by having a large heart with Antonio inscribed in it tattooed onto
her arm.
Has splashed out $24,000 to make sure husband
Antonio Banderas has a racy 40th birthday.
During the filming of THE BIRDS (1963) Hedren's
daughter (Griffith) was given a present by Hitchcock: a doll that looked exactly
like Hedren, eerily so. The creepiness was compounded by the ornate wooden box
it came in, which the young girl took to be a coffin.
During filming ROAR in 1977, she was mauled by
a lion and needed plastic surgery.
The home of newlyweds Griffith and Matthew Modine
in PACIFIC HEIGHTS (1990) is not in Pacific Heights at all, but right across
town in San Francisco's Potrero Hill district at the corner of Texas & 19th
Street.
Was nominated for Best Actress at Academy Awards
in 1989 for WORKING GIRL
Personal quotes:
"I don't care if people think I'm a dumb
blonde or stupid or an overage actress or over the hill. I'm gonna have a very
successful Internet company, and I'm gonna have 100 million in the bank and
I don't give a sh-- what anybody thinks."
- Melanie Griffith
"Angelina Jolie may get him in bed for eight hours on a movie set,
but I get him in bed everyday."
- Melanie Griffith on husband Antonio Banderas
"[In Spain] there's the king --- and then
there's Antonio." [on her husband Antonio Banderas's popularity in Spain].
- Melanie Griffith - US Magazine. Issue 295.
