Claim: Melanie Griffith is a person who acts.

Melanie Richards Griffith -LRB- born August 9 , 1957 -RRB- is an American actress . Griffith began her career as an adolescent in nonspeaking film roles before making her credited debut opposite Gene Hackman in Arthur Penn 's Night Moves -LRB- 1975 -RRB- . She rose to prominence for her role in Brian De Palma 's Body Double -LRB- 1984 -RRB- , which earned her a National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Supporting Actress . Griffith 's subsequent performance in Something Wild -LRB- 1986 -RRB- garnered critical acclaim before she was cast in 1988 's Working Girl , which earned her a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress and won her a Golden Globe .   The 1990s saw Griffith in a series of roles which received varying critical reception : she received Golden Globe nominations for her performances in Buffalo Girls -LRB- 1995 -RRB- , and as Marion Davies in RKO 281 -LRB- 1999 -RRB- , while also earning a Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Actress for her performances in Shining Through -LRB- 1992 -RRB- , as well as receiving nominations for Crazy in Alabama -LRB- 1999 -RRB- and John Waters ' cult film Cecil B. Demented -LRB- 2000 -RRB- . Other roles include in John Schlesinger 's Pacific Heights -LRB- 1990 -RRB- , Milk Money -LRB- 1994 -RRB- , the neo-noir film Mulholland Falls -LRB- 1996 -RRB- , as Charlotte Haze in Adrian Lyne 's Lolita -LRB- 1997 -RRB- , and Another Day in Paradise -LRB- 1998 -RRB- .   She later starred as Barbara Marx in The Night We Called It a Day -LRB- 2003 -RRB- , and has appeared on the television series Nip/Tuck , Raising Hope , and Hawaii Five-0 . After acting on stage in London , in 2003 she made her Broadway debut in a revival of the musical Chicago , receiving celebratory reviews that made it a box office success .