Melanie Griffith - Biography - IMDb Melanie Griffith Biography Showing all 74 items Jump to: Overview (3) | Mini Bio (1) | Spouse (4) | Trade Mark (4) | Trivia (47) | Personal Quotes (12) | Salary (3) Overview (3) 5' 9¼" (1.76 m) Mini Bio (1) Melanie Griffith was born on August 9, 1957 in New York City, to then model/future actress Tippi Hedren and former child actor turned advertising executive Peter Griffith . Her parents' marriage ended in 1961 and Tippi brought Melanie to Los Angeles to get a new start. Tippi caught the eye of the great director Alfred Hitchcock , who gave her starring roles in The Birds (1963) and Marnie (1964). She married her then-agent, Noel Marshall , in 1964 (they divorced in 1982), and Melanie grew up with three stepbrothers. Meanwhile, her father married Nanita Greene Samuels and had two more children: Tracy Griffith and Clay A. Griffith .

Melanie also grew up with tigers and lions, as Tippi and Noel were raising them for the movie Roar (1981), in which the family later starred. Melanie's acting career, however, began as a model at just nine months old in a commercial and she later appeared as an extra in Smith! (1969) and The Harrad Experiment (1973), where she fell in love with her mother's co-star, Don Johnson . She was only 14 years old, while he was a twice-divorced 22-year-old. Tippi took a very liberal approach and allowed Melanie to move in with Don at a tender age. Even though Melanie didn't like modeling, she continued to do it to pay the bills. One day she went to meet with director Arthur Penn for what she thought was a modeling assignment. It was actually an audition for his film Night Moves (1975), and Penn gave her the role of a runaway nymphet. She was hesitant, but Johnson encouraged her to take the role. She agreed but was terrified of performing in front of the camera.

Penn took a paternal interest in her, and she felt confident and gave a riveting performance, doing racy nude scenes. It immediately typecast her and led to more nymphet roles, with her beautiful nude body a permanent fixture in movies like Ha-Gan (1977) and Joyride (1977). She also married Johnson, in Las Vegas in 1976, but the union ended within six months, possibly because her early movie success outshone his. Unfortunately, as her career progressed, she became increasingly dependent on drugs and alcohol, a fact well-known to studio executives, who stopped considering her for feature film roles. She started doing television work, where she met her second husband, Steven Bauer , on the set of the TV movie She's in the Army Now (1981). He helped her to overcome her drug and alcohol problems and got her to take acting classes with Stella Adler in New York. The classes paid off, as director Brian De Palma cast her as a porno actress in his murder mystery Body Double (1984) and her sexy, funny performance won her rave reviews and the Best Supporting Actress Award by the National Society of Film Critics and a Golden Globe nomination.

Jonathan Demme was so impressed with her performance that he gave her the female lead in Something Wild (1986) without even auditioning her. The film became a cult favorite, with Melanie again getting critical plaudits and a Golden Globe nomination. The birth of her first child, Alexander, in 1985, didn't help to save her struggling marriage, and she and Bauer divorced shortly thereafter. She was given starring roles in Cherry 2000 (1987) and Stormy Monday (1988), but the films were barely released. Soon writers were asking when the public at large was going to take notice of this talented and unique actress. Melanie's career skyrocketed when Mike Nichols cast her as a spunky secretary named Tess McGill in Working Girl (1988), a box-office hit for which she received an Oscar nomination as Best Actress and won the Golden Globe Award as Best Actress in a Comedy. Behind the scenes, however, her ongoing substance abuse had become problematic, and Nichols pushed her into a rehabilitation clinic after production wrapped. En route to the clinic she called ex-husband Johnson for support, and they reconciled after her release from the clinic.

She got pregnant and remarried Johnson in 1989, and later that year their daughter Dakota Johnson was born. A sober Melanie now concentrated on her film career, but the two-year absence after Working Girl (1988) took a toll, since younger actresses ( Julia Roberts , Michelle Pfeiffer , Demi Moore , Meg Ryan , Jodie Foster (to whom Melanie lost the Oscar to)) became bankable stars, and there was stiff competition for the good roles. The films Melanie chose usually flopped badly, such as The Bonfire of the Vanities (1990), which reunited her with director Brian De Palma . Even though she gave heartfelt performances in all her films, she was often miscast, with her breathy little-girl voice not helping matters in her role as a spy in Shining Through (1992) and as a homicide detective going undercover in the Hassidic Jewish community in New York City in A Stranger Among Us (1992).

Melanie made a minor comeback with her supporting role as a desperate housewife in Nobody's Fool (1994), which reunited her with Bruce Willis , her co-star in The Bonfire of the Vanities (1990), and Paul Newman , her co-star from The Drowning Pool (1975). She also earned a Golden Globe nomination for her work in the well-received TV miniseries Buffalo Girls (1995), followed by another hit film, the ensemble Now and Then (1995). Her personal life was making headlines again, though, as she left Johnson because of his own substance-abuse problems, reconciled with him briefly when he became sober, only to leave him again, this time for Antonio Banderas , her married co-star from Two Much (1996). Both she and Banderas created a scandal in 1995 with their torrid romance, and the tabloids followed their every move, including her divorce from Johnson and his divorce from wife Ana Leza . Melanie became pregnant with her third child, and she and Banderas married in 1996.

Their daughter Stella Banderas was born the same year, and the notorious couple were forgiven by the public and the media. Melanie won strong reviews in independent films like Another Day in Paradise (1998), where she played a heroin-using criminal accomplice on the run, and the made-for-cable movie RKO 281 (1999), in which she portrayed actress Marion Davies , a part that garnered her Golden Globe and Emmy nominations as Best Supporting Actress. Melanie became dependent to pain killers, however, returning to rehab in 2000. She wrote about her struggle and recovery in her journal on her official website. Greenmoon Productions, the production company that she formed with Banderas, produced several flops, such as her starring vehicle Crazy in Alabama (1999), directed by Banderas. Her career took another blow when her TV series, Me & George (1998), never even aired. After making Cecil B.

DeMented (2000) and Forever Lulu (2000), Melanie did a voice-over role in Stuart Little 2 (2002) and played supporting roles in minor films Tempo (2003), as Sylvester Stallone 's girlfriend in Shade (2003), and as Barbara Marx in The Night We Called It a Day (2003) with Dennis Hopper playing Frank Sinatra , but none of these films made a ripple at the box office. As a result, film and television offers started to dry up. In 2003, a resourceful Melanie turned to the Broadway stage, and packed houses with her turn as the murderess "Roxie Hart" in the musical "Chicago," for which she received a rave review from the New York Times theater critic. It renewed her confidence, as she had never sang, danced or been on the Broadway stage before. In 2005 she surprised viewers by playing a mom to two grown women in the TV series Twins (2005), which was canceled after one season.

She tried to resurrect her career with another attempt at a TV series, Viva Laughlin (2007), but it was canceled after just two episodes. Melanie didn't act again for the remainder of the decade, because, by self-admission, she couldn't obtain any worthwhile roles. In 2009, she was back in rehab after yet another relapse, emerging after a three-month stay. Professionally, she was faced with more disappointment in 2012 when This American Housewife (2012), a Lifetime series that Banderas produced for her to star in, never aired. She went back to the stage in 2012 and played Scott Caan 's mother in a play that he wrote titled "No Way Around but Through." She impressed Caan enough to recommend her to producers of his television show Hawaii Five-0 (2010). Since 2014, she started playing a recurring role as his mother on the show. Also in 2014, Melanie filed for divorce from Banderas citing "irreconcilable differences" after nearly twenty years together.

She never publicly discussed her reasons for the divorce, and she didn't promote her feature film Automata (2014), the final time that she acted with Banderas. It took a year for the divorce to be finalized, during which time, she and Banderas made one important appearance together at their daughter Stella's high school graduation. She also made another public appearance with another ex-husband, Don Johnson, on Saturday Night Live (1975) to support their daughter Dakota, who was the host for that week. Dakota was promoting her star-making turn in Fifty Shades of Grey (2015), thus carrying on the family tradition of being a film actress. Melanie maintains close ties with her three children and her mother Tippi Hedren. She is involved in various charities, including raising funds for Tippi's Shambala preserve, a refuge for wild animals. Melanie also runs a non-profit organization for benefiting burned children. Melanie is single and her children are living on their own. So she has devoted most of her time seeking out acting roles.

- IMDb Mini Biography By: Ramstep Spouse (4) Voluptuous figure Trivia (47) Her mother, Tippi Hedren , recently stated that the miniature doll of Hedren given to Melanie by Alfred Hitchcock was not intended to be a prank by the director. He merely wanted to give Melanie a beautiful doll with her mother's image, but it happened that the doll was in a wooden box. When Melanie received the gift, she freaked out and became upset thinking that it was indeed meant to be her mother in a coffin. Born at 11:49pm-EDT Daughter of Peter Griffith and Tippi Hedren . 14 November 2000 - checked into a Marina Del Rey, California hospital to help her scale back on the use of painkillers she had been prescribed for a neck injury. In 1980, she went to a movie and dinner with Ricci Martin (son of Dean Martin ). Upon leaving La Dome, a restaurant on Sunset Boulevard, a car ran through the crosswalk and hit Melanie. The front of the car struck her hip in mid-stride, whiplashing her head back into the windshield.

As the car screeched to a stop, Melanie catapulted more than a dozen feet forward to the curbside, hitting with great force. Melanie was rushed to a hospital. To this day, Melanie still experiences pain from that accident. Real-life daughters Dakota Johnson and Stella Banderas appear as her character's daughters in the film Crazy in Alabama (1999) directed by her husband Antonio Banderas . Her half-sister Tracy Griffith also has a small role in the film. Claims that it was love at first sight when she met her husband Antonio Banderas on the set of Two Much (1996). He had sprinted out of his trailer like a starstruck schoolboy to greet her on her first day on the set. Excited and nervous, the first thing he asked her was how old she was. She cursed, laughed, and then finally answered that she was 37. They stayed together for 19 years. She was unable to star in the stage play "Eden Court" (1985), and in the films The Sheltering Sky (1990) and As Good as It Gets (1997) because of her three pregnancies.

The roles went to Ellen Barkin , Debra Winger , and Helen Hunt (who won an Academy Award), respectively. She has three homes: Los Angeles, Aspen and Marbella, Spain. Coincidentally, she bears the same first name as her mother Tippi Hedren 's character, Melanie Daniels, in The Birds (1963). Was eighteen when she married Don Johnson for the first time. He was eight years older than she, and they met on the set of her mother's film The Harrad Experiment (1973) in the first half of 1972 when she was 14. In 2002, she told Larry King that her best films are: Night Moves (1975), Something Wild (1986), Working Girl (1988), and Nobody's Fool (1994). Auditioned for the role of Susan in Desperately Seeking Susan (1985), but lost out to Madonna . Her son, Alexander Bauer (born in 1985), is the godson of Warren Beatty .

She first met Beatty a decade earlier when she auditioned for his film The Parallax View (1974). She didn't get the role but their friendship lasted. She is also friends with Beatty's wife Annette Bening and his sister Shirley MacLaine . Her father had English, as well as Irish, Scottish, Welsh, and Northern Irish (Scots-Irish) ancestry. Her mother is of half Swedish, one quarter German, and one quarter Norwegian descent. Goes through two boyfriends in Working Girl (1988). As the film begins, she is in a relationship with Alec Baldwin , but at the end, she is in a relationship with Harrison Ford . Both Baldwin and Ford have played Jack Ryan in adaptations of the Tom Clancy novels. First "Miss Golden Globe" to win a Golden Globe Award herself. Joanne Woodward told a 17-year-old Melanie on the set of The Drowning Pool (1975) that her goals were to marry a movie star ( Paul Newman ); have beautiful babies (she had three); and win an Oscar (which she did in 1958).

Melanie said that she adopted the goals for herself by marrying a movie star ( Antonio Banderas ); have beautiful babies (she also had three); but has expressed frustration that she has not won an Oscar even though she was nominated in 1989. She and her daughter Dakota Johnson are the only mother-daughter couple to be "Miss Golden Globe". While in Washington, D.C. addressing the senate on Arts funding, she fell asleep twice during a speech by her host Michigan Senator Spencer Abraham. She apologized citing jet-lag as her reason for snoozing. Her French dubbing voice Dorothée Jemma is also the French dubbing voice of Sheryl Lee and Jennifer Aniston . Melanie said that fans sometimes confuse her with actress Meg Ryan , whom she admires. She would sign Meg Ryan's name so as not to disappoint the fans. Ryan said the same thing happened to her where fans thought she was Melanie. Checked into the Cirque Lodge in Utah for rehab treatments [August 24, 2009]. Same place where Kirsten Dunst and Lindsay Lohan spent time in recent years. Ex-stepdaughter of Nanita Greene Samuels and Noel Marshall .

In August 2000, she held a live "ChitChat" on her website with Dr. Judith Reichman to discuss her personal efforts to become pregnant. When Reichman told Melanie that smoking is toxic to a woman's ovaries and causes earlier menopause by an average of two years, she replied "I honestly didn't know any of that". Underwent surgery for the early stages of skin cancer in December 2009. Her mother was 22 while her father was only 19 when they married in 1952. In her 2016 memoir, Tippi wrote, that upon reflection, that they were too young to get married. Ex-mother-in-law Ana Banderas was disapproving of Melanie at first, but eventually warmed up to her. In a 2002 interview with More magazine, Melanie admitted giving marijuana to her 16-year-old son Alexander Bauer, because she thought it would be better for him to smoke it at home than to go out on the street and get something that would kill him. Her rationale backfired and she had to put Alexander in a 12-step program. She vowed not to let the same happen to her other children.

Her daughter Dakota Johnson saw a therapist as a teenager, because of emotional issues with her parents, who have battled substance abuse. Has smoked since she was 12 years old. Friends with Anjelica Huston , Daryl Hannah , Demi Moore , Eva Longoria , Jane Fonda , Goldie Hawn , Alana Stewart , Kris Jenner , Sandra Bernhard , Jamie Lee Curtis , Sharon Stone , Rosie O'Donnell , Diane Lane and Salma Hayek . One of her mentors was Bob Fosse . He considered casting her in his film Star 80 (1983) but instead chose Mariel Hemingway to play the slain actress Dorothy Stratten . Directed by eight Academy Award winners: Jonathan Demme , Robert Redford , Mike Nichols , Tony Richardson , John Schlesinger , Sidney Lumet , Robert Benton , and Woody Allen . Gave birth to her 1st child at age 28, a son Alexander Griffith Bauer on August 22, 1985. Child's father is her now ex-2nd husband, Steven Bauer .

Gave birth to her 2nd child at age 32, a daughter Dakota Mayi Johnson (aka Dakota Johnson ) on October 4, 1989. Child's father is now ex-3rd husband, Don Johnson . Gave birth to her 3rd child at age 39, a daughter Stella del Carmen Banderas Griffith (aka Stella Banderas ) on September 24, 1996. Child's father is her now estranged 4th husband, Antonio Banderas . (June 6, 2014) Filed for divorce from her 4th husband of 18 years Antonio Banderas . She stays on good terms with her ex-husbands ( Steven Bauer , Don Johnson , and Antonio Banderas ), since they share children together (Alexander Bauer, Dakota Johnson , Stella Banderas ). She attends events with them and posts pictures on her twitter and instagram accounts with flattering captions calling them "handsome". Some of the films that she considered acting in never came to fruition: projects with her then-husband Don Johnson ("The Friendly" (1991) and film adaptation of Dean R.

Koontz novel "The Bad Place" (1990)) ; "Jane" (1997) with Howard Stern ; film adaptation of the J.M. Barrie play 'Mary Rose'' in 2000, that Alfred Hitchcock also considered casting her mother Tippi Hedren in 1964; and "Mrs. California" (1993). In her divorce settlement with Antonio Banderas , she got the house in Aspen and they sold their L.A. mansion and split the profits. Melanie receives $65,000 monthly spousal support from Antonio. $75,000 was taken out of her paycheck for Working Girl (1988) when she showed up to the set intoxicated and unable to say her lines coherently. The money was used to fund the reshoot of that day's scenes. Ex-stepmother of Jesse Johnson . By her own admission, she drank alcohol when she was ten. Her father Peter Griffith was an alcoholic, as was his father. Her childhood friend is Patricia Nedd , known as Patsy.

Melanie backed out of her family's film Roar (1981) because she was afraid that one of the big cats might hurt her. So her real-life mother Tippi Hedren cast Patsy in Melanie's role and shot several scenes. Then, Melanie changed her mind and decided that she wanted her old role back. Tippi and her then-husband Noel Marshall replaced Patsy and re-shot her scenes with Melanie. Melanie did get hurt in the film and had to have reconstruction surgery. But she came back and finished the film. She recalled auditioning for director Adrian Lyne unsuccessfully twice. The first time was for Flashdance (1983) where she danced in a bikini to the Rolling Stones song "Start Me Up". She lost the role to Jennifer Beals . The second time was for Fatal Attraction (1987), but she lost the role to Glenn Close . Lyne finally selected her for Lolita (1997) for which she didn't even audition, beating out Dianne Wiest and Cybill Shepherd . Personal Quotes (12) [about her work with James Woods ] It's kind of like being pregnant. You know, you go through the initial joy of it.

Then you go through wanting it to be over. And then you're finished with it and you forget how bad it was. There's a bit of a stripper in every woman. I don't walk around with fear. I walk around with strength. I believe in cause and effect. I don't think I'm beautiful. When I look in the mirror, I just see me - and, I'm pretty used to me. Antonio [husband Antonio Banderas ] is the best. He is compassionate and humble. Angelina Jolie may get him [husband Antonio Banderas ] in bed for eight hours on a movie set, but I get him in bed every day. [on being typed as a sex symbol] I hope not! I don't want to be -- I've done enough parts like that. I can't say I won't do more, but I really want to do a variety of roles. I would just like to be able to give to people through acting. If I can entertain people by being somebody else and allow somebody to feel something, then that makes me feel good. I like smoking! I mean, God, I quit everything else, can't I smoke?

[on researching the Holocaust for her film, Shining Through (1992)] I didn't know that 6 million Jews were killed. That's a lot of people... until I started researching the movie I didn't know it was that many people. I thought it was like in the hundreds of thousands. I didn't realize it was 6 million people. What I was trying to say was I think a lot of people don't know it was that severe. I wasn't born during the war. I was born in '57... but I think a lot of people don't know. [on Bruce Willis ] I think he's pretty damn near perfect except for the Republican thing. [on being hit by a car at 23] God's way of telling me to slow down. Salary (3) Dakota Johnson - Biography - IMDb Dakota Johnson Jump to: Overview (3) | Mini Bio (1) | Trivia (47) | Personal Quotes (36) | Salary (1) Overview (3) 5' 7½" (1.71 m) Mini Bio (1) Dakota Mayi Johnson is an American actress and fashion model.

She was born in Austin, Texas, and is the daughter of actors Don Johnson and Melanie Griffith . Her maternal grandmother is actress Tippi Hedren . In 1999, she made her film debut in Crazy in Alabama (1999), where she and her half-sister, Stella Banderas , played the daughters to their real-life mother, Melanie Griffith . The film was directed by her stepfather, Antonio Banderas , but it wasn't a hit. Dakota resumed her schooling and waited several years before she decided to become a professional actress and model. In 2006, she was voted Miss Golden Globe, a launching pad bestowed on off-spring of famous parents. She served as the first second-generation Miss Golden Globe in the Globes' history, since her mother was Miss Golden Globe in 1975. She also signed with IMG Models. In 2009, she modeled for MANGO brand's jeans line. Dakota traveled to Sydney, Australia, where she shot the "Rising Star" campaign for fashion label, "Wish". Once she graduated from high school, she signed with the William Morris Agency and started her acting career.

She had her first box office hit in 2010 with David Fincher 's film, The Social Network (2010), in which she had a scene with Justin Timberlake . The film received eight Oscar nominations, including one for Best Picture. She also appeared in three additional films: Beastly (2011), alongside Vanessa Hudgens and Mary-Kate Olsen ; Ezna Sands ' film, Chloe and Theo (2015); and So Yong Kim 's film, For Ellen (2012); She had roles in several 2012 films: Christopher Neil 's film, Goats (2012), with David Duchovny ; Nicholas Stoller 's film, The Five-Year Engagement (2012), for producer Judd Apatow , and the hit feature film version of the 1987 television show, 21 Jump Street (1987) that made Johnny Depp a star. She also won the female lead in Chris Nelson 's, film Date and Switch (2014), written by Alan Yang .

Her first television show, Ben and Kate (2012), where she played "Kate", aired on Fox during the Fall 2012 season. It was canceled in 2013, and she quickly resumed her feature film career with three high-profile films: Need for Speed (2014), Cymbeline (2014), the modern-day adaptation of the William Shakespeare play, "Cymbeline", and the starring role of "Anastasia Steele" in Fifty Shades of Grey (2015), the adaptation of the best-selling erotic novel, "Fifty Shades of Grey". She beat out many young actresses for the coveted role of Anastasia, and the film became a worldwide hit, making her a star. She won the People's Choice Award for Favorite Dramatic Movie Actress for "Fifty Shades of Grey". She has continued to seek challenging roles, such as of a young mother who loses her son in Black Mass (2015) opposite her "21 Jump Street" castmate Johnny Depp , and of a temptress in A Bigger Splash (2015).

She has balanced her dramatic career by doing comedies as well, such as How to Be Single (2016). - IMDb Mini Biography By: Tariq I. Samy Trivia (47) Has two maternal half-siblings: Stella Banderas and Alexander Bauer, her mother's son with Steven Bauer . Has four paternal half-siblings: Jesse Johnson , Grace (b. 1999), Jasper (b. 2002), and Deacon Johnson (b. 2006). Ex-stepdaughter of Antonio Banderas . Born in Austin, Texas and Melanie's OB GYN was Noble Doss. Pictures of Melanie can be seen in Dr. Doss's photo album in his office. She is the third generation to be involved with the Golden Globes, as she was Miss Golden Globe in 2006, is the daughter of Don Johnson (Golden Globe winner for Miami Vice (1984)) and Melanie Griffith (Golden Globe winner for Working Girl (1988)), and granddaughter of Tippi Hedren (Golden Globe winner for Most Promising Newcomer, 1964).

She denied that she was in a 30-day rehab program at the Visions Teen Treatment Center in Malibu, CA, for drug and alcohol addiction in September 2007. She said that the press misinterpreted the fact that she was in therapy as a teenager because of some issues with her parents, who have both battled substance abuse. Granddaughter of Peter Griffith . She took down her Facebook profile, because she didn't like being on it, even though she acted in the hit film The Social Network (2010) which is about the origins of Facebook. Was considered one of the 55 faces of the future by Nylon Magazine's Young Hollywood Issue (May 2010). On the audio commentary for the DVD release of The Social Network (2010), director David Fincher said that Dakota was "wonderful" in a "pretty thankless role," since she has only one scene as Justin Timberlake 's one-night stand. Once lived with musician Noah Gersh and later with actor Jordan Masterson .

Landed the coveted role of Anastasia Steele in Fifty Shades of Grey (2015), the film adaptation of the best-selling erotic novel, by reading a long, sexually-explicit monologue from the Ingmar Bergman film Persona (1966). It was an unconventional choice for an audition piece, but Johnson felt that the filmmakers were looking for a leading lady who would address the sexy material in a mature, direct manner. When she advanced to screen testing she re-enacted the first and last chapters of the book with co-star Jamie Dornan . As a child, she acted with her mother Melanie Griffith and her half-sister Stella Banderas in Crazy in Alabama (1999), but her family wouldn't let her act again until several years later, after she graduated from high school. She appeared in 21 Jump Street (2012), the film version of the hit TV series 21 Jump Street (1987). Her aunt, Tracy Griffith , had appeared as a guest star, in 1988, on the series.

At 27 years old in 2016, and with just a handful of credits, she has already acted with many popular sexy men in her films, such as Channing Tatum , Johnny Depp , Benedict Cumberbatch , Justin Timberlake , Aaron Paul , Alex Pettyfer , Chris Pratt , Penn Badgley , David Duchovny , Paul Dano , Jason Segel , Ralph Fiennes , Ethan Hawke , Armie Hammer , Matthias Schoenaerts , Andrew Garfield , and the late Anton Yelchin . She affectionately calls her grandmother Tippi Hedren , "Mormor" (a Swedish word for grandmother). Tippi's father was of Swedish descent. Dakota's other ancestry is English, Welsh, German, Norwegian, Scots-Irish (Northern Irish), Irish, Scottish, and distant Dutch. Claims that she never casually dated men, and that she always had long-term relationships with her boyfriends. Like her grandmother Tippi Hedren , she is an animal rights activist; she saved 12 horses from being killed in 2014 by paying for them.

Her Fifty Shades of Grey (2015) director Sam Taylor-Johnson recommended her to director Luca Guadagnino , who cast her in A Bigger Splash (2015), his remake of La Piscine (1969) in the role originated by Jane Birkin . She was nervous replacing Margot Robbie , just days before filming, but co-star Academy Award winner Tilda Swinton calmed her down and affectionately nicknamed her "Cousin Duckie". Guadagnino once again cast both Dakota and Tilda in the remake of Suspiria (1977). Prior to landing the role of Anastasia Steele in Fifty Shades of Grey (2015), her most recognized roles included being Sean Parker's ( Justin Timberlake ) one-night stand in The Social Network (2010), a cop posing as a high school student in 21 Jump Street (2012) and a neurotic ex-girlfriend in The Five-Year Engagement (2012). All three roles are considered by many to be scene stealing, but they totaled less screen time than the average music video.

She did not tell anyone about being involved in the auditioning process for the role of Anastasia Steele in Fifty Shades of Grey (2015). She has said that if the project fell through or she wasn't selected, she didn't want to have to explain herself or the process repeatedly. After she was cast, she couldn't tell anyone for weeks as the studio prepared an official casting announcement. After being selected for the role of Anastasia Steele in Fifty Shades of Grey (2015), she screen-tested with over 20 actors before the studio decided on who to cast as Christian Grey. She replaced Abby Elliott as a young, single mother named Kate on the short-lived Fox sitcom, Ben and Kate (2012). The show lasted only 16 episodes before being canceled. The final three episodes were never aired in the US. She started an exercise routine to prepare for Fifty Shades of Grey (2015), but not just because she wanted to look good on screen. She wanted Anastasia to have the appearance of an average, active college student. She had to apply body make-up to cover her tattoos for Fifty Shades of Grey (2015).

Her tattoos are visible in every other project and photo shoot she has done. She auditioned in front of Judd Apatow for a role in HBO's Girls (2012) but was not selected. He later recommended her for a small role as a neurotic, sex-obsessed girlfriend named Audrey in The Five-Year Engagement (2012), which he produced. (Her performance as Audrey caught the attention of Jake Kasdan who cast her as a last-minute replacement in Ben and Kate (2012).) She became friends with Apatow's wife Leslie Mann when they worked together in the film How to Be Single (2016). In fact, it was Mann who presented Dakota with both the Calvin Klein Spotlight Award in 2015 and the People's Choice Award in 2016. She reportedly beat out Alicia Vikander , Elizabeth Olsen , Shailene Woodley , Lucy Hale , Chloe Bridges Felicity Jones , Kristen Stewart , and her Need for Speed (2014) co-star Imogen Poots to land the role of Anastasia in Fifty Shades of Grey (2015).

She did not use a body double for any scenes in Fifty Shades of Grey (2015) except for one BDSM scene. A double was used for a scene involving her character Anastasia being whipped with a belt. Johnson did not want to participate in the scene to avoid personal injury and to avoid her body being marked in any way. Whenever she is truly laughing she cries. She has stated that it has become a nuisance on film sets because she has to constantly have her make-up touched up in between takes. Announced during the Saturday Night Live (1975) 40th Anniversary special on February 15, 2015 that she was set to host "SNL" on February 28, 2015. Attended the New Roads School in Santa Monica, CA, for three years. Has said her biggest sacrifice was accepting the role of Anastasia Steele in Fifty Shades of Grey (2015) because the entire world can see her completely naked. Three things she always carries in her purse: keys, Chap-Stick and candy. Her favorite song, on the Fifty Shades of Grey (2015) soundtrack, is "Beast of Burden" by The Rolling Stones .

She took a flogger and several pairs of underwear from the set of Fifty Shades of Grey (2015). She said the underwear was too comfortable to leave behind. Her favorite book is the 1955 novel,"Lolita" by Vladimir Nabokov . Her real-life mother Melanie Griffith played Lolita's mother in the 1997 film adaptation Lolita (1997). Was a presenter at the 87th annual Academy Awards on February 22, 2015. Johnson attended the ceremony with her mother, Melanie Griffith . Has been in an off-and-on relationship with Welsh model Matthew Hitt since 2014. Has collaborated with Nicholas Braun thrice: they appeared together in Date and Switch (2014), in the short film In a Relationship (2015), and in How to Be Single (2016). They played a struggling young couple all three times. Despite the fact that there have been continuous rumors stating she did not get along with her Fifty Shades of Grey (2015) co-star Jamie Dornan and vice versa, the two are actually on good terms with one another.

She thanked him in her acceptance speech when she won the People's Choice Award for Favorite Dramatic Movie Actress by stating that she "couldn't have done it without you". In 2016, she said that she regretted getting most of her tattoos, because it takes a long time to cover them up for her movie roles. The only tattoo that she doesn't regret is a quote from Aldous Huxley's Island that reads "Lightly my darling" inked in white, which matches the one her half-sister Stella Banderas has, too.

Several people have chosen to work repeatedly with Dakota because of her beauty, talent, and professionalism: producers Michael De Luca and Dana Brunetti ( The Social Network (2010) and the Fifty Shades trilogy); actor Johnny Depp ( 21 Jump Street (2012) and Black Mass (2015)), actor Nicholas Braun ( Date and Switch (2014), In a Relationship (2015), How to Be Single (2016)), writer Dana Fox ( Ben and Kate (2012), How to Be Single (2016)), actor Max Minghella ( The Social Network (2010) and the short film "Just a Minute" (2015)). She dropped out of the film Under the Silver Lake (2017) because of scheduling conflicts, and her role went to her close friend Riley Keough . She had been a bridesmaid at Keough's wedding to Ben Smith-Petersen in 2015. Dakota deleted her private social media Instagram account and stopped posting pictures on her public account due to negative comments from internet trolls.

Personal Quotes (36) [on why she chose to be an actress] I felt so much when I was fifteen, sixteen, seventeen, I felt everything. I didn't understand [myself], I was so happy yet so angry and sad. That was the point when I realized that I needed to tell stories and make characters come alive and I needed to make people cry, and make people angry, and make people happy, and make them laugh. When I did The Social Network (2010), David Fincher told me that I managed to make a thankless character pretty awesome. I thought that was really cool because I think he's really cool. I've only been in long-term relationships. I've never really dated myself. I'm so happy when I'm working. I'd watch my parents work and think, 'Yeah, I'm going to do that.' It wasn't even a thing. It's the only thing I know how to do. I love doing improv. I love comedy. I have always felt this way, even when I was really young. [on receiving the call she was cast as Anastasia Steele] They said 'You got the offer' and I couldn't speak. I was just so relieved.

I was crying and crying. Water was literally squirting out of my eyes because I had been so stressed out. And there's this giant Doberman Pincher laying on the bed next to me. And he just slowly fell asleep. It was so special and [this dog] didn't give a fuck about me and what I was going through. I didn't have any training in comedy or in improvisation. It was sort of scary at first, because it's a big thing to be working with those guys, because they are like the funniest people around right now. But once I got a handle on the way that they work, it was just so much fun. They improvised on 21 Jump Street as well. I went straight from The Five-Year Engagement to 21 Jump Street, so I had a bit of a handle on how to work with these guys. [on using improv techniques for The Five-Year Engagement (2012)] Nicholas Stoller and Jason Segel told me about what they wanted the base of this character to be, and then they gave me a lot of free range to do what I wanted.

Obviously they use improv a lot, so I was pretty much able to create this character and make her really weird, annoying, and abrasive. [on being asked about her family] It's not necessarily annoying. I've come to understand the allure of that to other people, how it seems so interesting and different. But for me it's just my family, it's the way I grew up and it's my mom and my dad. It doesn't really bother me because I get it, but sometimes it's kind of a drag to talk about. People ask me about my grandmother ( Tippi Hedren ) a lot, too. [on Fifty Shades of Grey (2015)] I just really understand it. I think it's an incredible love story and that's why it's affected so many people. Erica ( E.L. James ) did a really good job of explaining how that just can happen sometimes and you have this chemical pull to someone. Adding in the sex makes it perfect. Sometimes you feel a little bit naughty and that's okay. [reading Fifty Shades of Grey] Reading the book, I found myself more interested in the ways they were breaking each other down emotionally than the sex scenes.

I think there's a part of a woman that wants to be the thing that breaks a man down. [on preparing to be Anastasia Steele] It's a lot of getting into the character's head, Ana's headspace, kind of before she meets Christian. So it's a lot of reading, which I love, but she's an English major, so that's kind of boring. [on Ben and Kate (2012)] I think that we're trying to bring back the idea of family being really important, instead of just having a TV show about funny people doing funny things all the time. [on growing up with famous parents] I think people, especially the press, like to pick on children of famous people and I think that's fucking awful. Things get made up. It's so, so sad. And there's absolutely nothing you can do about it as a 16-year-old. You're like, Why? What did I do? [on her grandmother Tippi Hedren ] She is the most glamorous woman I've ever seen. She's so beautiful and smart and a real, true class act. She's just extraordinary.

[on her younger half-sister Stella Banderas ] She's the smartest person in our family. [on the Red Room of Pain] The scenes in that room were definitely the most vulnerable scenes in the movie, but it was a closed set. My mom told me that it's my right to ask for that during intimate scenes, so it seemed like Jamie [Dornan], Sam [Taylor-Johnson], and I were in this little world together. [on researching the role of Anastasia Steele] I wanted to keep myself distanced from it [BDSM] at first because I wanted Ana's reaction to certain things to be real, like new. To me, there's something really honest in wanting to completely give up control for just a second. I feel like women are so drawn to Christian [Grey] because he is very elegant and ambitious and smart and strong. I don't know if I would have the patience that Ana has for him, though. [on preparing to become Anastasia Steele] It was important to me that Ana's body look like that of an active college student. And I was going to be naked, so I wanted to look good.

I did a lot of working out and had more waxing than any woman should have! [on being naked with co-star Jamie Dornan ] Jamie would be the first one to throw a blanket over me. [on filming Fifty Shades of Grey (2015)] There were some painful moments. I got whiplash once from [ Jamie Dornan ] throwing me on the bed. So fucking painful. [on filming BDSM sex scenes] It's stressful enough to be tied to a bed naked in a scene. But then they call 'cut' and you're still tied to the bed, naked. It was disappointing when Charlie [ Charlie Hunnam ] left [ Fifty Shades of Grey (2015)], but everything happened the exact way it was supposed to, I think. [on filming Fifty Shades of Grey (2015)] Sometimes I did walk off the set feeling a bit shell-shocked. The drive home from work helped me snap out of it. And a big glass of wine. I think about my dwindling anonymity, and that's really scary because a very large part of me would be perfectly happy living on a ranch in Colorado and having babies and chickens and horses - which I will do anyway.

[Colorado] was like a dream world. I loved it more than anything. My dad (Don Johnson) taught me how to build a fire, ride a horse, ride a motorcycle, and shoot a gun - before I was nine. That's really all you need. [on post-Fifty Shades stardom] There is something very scary about thinking everyone in the world will know who I am. [on having doubts over accepting the role of Anastasia] Yes. Of course. Absolutely. The whole time. Even now there are moments when I think, what the fuck have I done? But most of the time I feel pretty solid about it. I absolutely have shame and I do have guilt. I am a human. It's true that I'm not ashamed of my body. I'm comfortable and I think more women should be more confident. I think nudity and sexual scenes are beautiful when they're tastefully done. When mom and dad were at the height of their careers and things were super-crazy and they couldn't leave their houses, there wasn't social media. It was all about autographs. Now everyone's the press. I feel fame is perforated; it can be glorious but it can completely destroy a human too.

[on Anastasia Steele criticism] This woman is incredibly smart. It's almost as if she's all-knowing and therefore she hasn't given herself up emotionally or physically before. She's waited for this person who she can spar with mentally and who can completely ignite something in her. I grew up around really not normal people. My family is general Hollywood. They're all artists; they're creative people who are advocates for expressing themselves. But I also have to say I'm not impressed with Hollywood. [Fifty Shades] was like watching someone who looked a lot like me doing really bizarre things. I was completely detached. I feel like I grew up in the circus. I know planes, trains and automobiles. And really talented, weird people. Salary (1) Superstars & Their Moms Melanie Griffith - YouTube Superstars & Their Moms Melanie Griffith Want to watch this again later? Sign in to add this video to a playlist. Need to report the video? Sign in to report inappropriate content. The interactive transcript could not be loaded. Loading... Rating is available when the video has been rented. This feature is not available right now. Please try again later.

Published on May 29, 2012 Actress Melanie Griffith and her mother actress and former model Nathalie Kay 'Tippi" Hedren guest stars on a episode of Superstars and Their Moms. Shown in the episode Tippi talks about her Nonprofit Organization the Roar Foundation. The episode also features a one on one with Melanie and Tippi where they discussed learning to cook, Meline and Don Johnson marriage, Tippi being present at the birth of Melaine first child and Melaine being pregnant again, Tippi rising Melanie, and Melanie getting nominated for an Oscar. License Superstars & Their Moms Clips Here: 1000+ images about Tippi Hedren on Pinterest | Glow, Melanie griffith and Mothers Pinterest • The world’s catalog of ideas Tippi Hedren Tippi Hedren is an American actress, former fashion model and an animal rights activist. She is known for her roles in the Alfred Hitchcock films The Birds and Marnie (in which she played the title role). She has been involved with animal rescue at Shambala Preserve, an 80-acre wildlife habitat which she founded in 1983.

59 Pins326 Followers Melanie Griffith News | Photos | Quotes | Wiki - UPI.com Melanie Griffith News Next Wiki Melanie Griffith (born August 9, 1957) is an American actress. She is an Academy Award nominee and Golden Globe winner for her performance in the 1988 film Working Girl. She is the daughter of actress Tippi Hedren, and the wife of actor Antonio Banderas. Griffith was born in New York City, to actress Tippi Hedren and producer, former actor, and advertising executive Peter Griffith. Her parents divorced when she was four years old, after which her father married model/actress Nanita Greene and had two more children, actress Tracy Griffith and set designer Clay A. Griffith. Her mother married agent and producer Noel Marshall, and Griffith grew up with three stepbrothers. During her childhood and adolescent years, she divided her time between living in New York with her father and in Antelope Valley, California, where her mother formed the animal preserve Shambala. She also skipped a grade and graduated from Hollywood Professional School when she was 16 years old. Griffith began work at just nine months old in a commercial and later became an extra on Smith!

(1969) and The Harrad Experiment (1973). In 1975, she played her first major roles in Smile, The Drowning Pool, and Night Moves, in which she did racy nude scenes at age 17, and she was typecast in sexy nymphet roles in later movies such as One on One. This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License . It uses material from the Wikipedia article " Melanie Griffith ." Quotes Melanie Griffith and Dakota Johnson | Celebrity Mothers and Daughters | XFINITY Celebrity Mothers and Daughters Send to Friend Melanie Griffith and Dakota Johnson Actress Dakota Johnsonâwho recently appeared in the film adaptation of "Fifty Shades of Grey"âis part of Hollywood royalty. Her mother is Oscar-nominated actress Melanie Griffith, who is the daughter of actress Tippi Hedren, the star of Alfred Hitchcock's classic film "The Birds." âXFINITY Entertainment Staff (Photo: Rob Kim/Getty) The opinions expressed are solely those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of Comcast. More from this Slideshow Mommy and Me: Fa... Mom knows best.

From Zoe Kravitz to Gwyneth Paltrow, check out this gallery of the famous women who followed their mothers into showbiz. Keep clicking to see 15 famous mother-daughter duos. âXFINITY Entertainment Staff (Photo: Jason Merritt/Anthony Harvey/Frederick M. Brown/Getty) The opinions expressed are solely those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of Comcast. Lisa Bonet and Z... Actress, singer and model ZoÃ« Kravitz, who appeared in the hit Showtime series "Californication" and in the "Divergent" film franchise, is the daughter of actress Lisa Bonet, of "The Cosby Show," and musician Lenny Kravitz. âXFINITY Entertainment Staff (Photo: Jason Merritt/Getty) The opinions expressed are solely those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of Comcast. Meryl Streep and...

Mary Willa "Mamie" Gummer made her acting debut at the age of 1 when she appeared in mom Meryl Streep's movie "Heartburn." Thirty-one years later, Gummer and Streep teamed up again (with Rick Springfield, pictured above) in the 2015 movie "Ricki and the Flash." Mamie's father, sculptor Don Gummer, has been married to Streep since 1978. âXFINITY Entertainment Staff (Photo: Jamie McCarthy/Getty) The opinions expressed are solely those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of Comcast. Goldie Hawn and ... Academy Award-winning actress Goldie Hawn is the mother of actress Kate Hudson. Hawn and her longtime partner, actor Kurt Russell, raised Hudson. âXFINITY Entertainment Staff (Photo: Anthony Harvey/Getty) The opinions expressed are solely those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of Comcast. Reese Witherspoo... Reese Witherspoon posted a photo of herself and her 16-year-old daughter Ava Phillippe posing with fashion designer Valentino during their vacation in Rome.

Reese and her ex-husband, actor Ryan Phillippe, welcomed Ava to the world when the "Hot Pursuit" star was just 23 years old. âXFINITY Entertainment Staff (Photo: Reese Witherspoon's Instagram) The opinions expressed are solely those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of Comcast. Melanie Griffith... Actress Dakota Johnsonâwho recently appeared in the film adaptation of "Fifty Shades of Grey"âis part of Hollywood royalty. Her mother is Oscar-nominated actress Melanie Griffith, who is the daughter of actress Tippi Hedren, the star of Alfred Hitchcock's classic film "The Birds." âXFINITY Entertainment Staff (Photo: Rob Kim/Getty) The opinions expressed are solely those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of Comcast. Demi Moore and R... Actress, singer and recent "Dancing with the Stars" champion Rumer Willis is the eldest daughter of actress, model, producer and songwriter Demi Moore and actor Bruce Willis. Bruce and Demi were married between 1987 and 2000.

âXFINITY Entertainment Staff (Photo: Kevin Winter/Getty) The opinions expressed are solely those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of Comcast. Lisa Marie Presl... Actress Riley Keough is serious music royalty. Her mom, singer-songwriter Lisa Marie Presley, is the only child of "The King" Elvis Presley. That's not all, Riley is also the former step-daughter of the late "King of Pop" Michael Jackson, who was married to Lisa Marie between 1994 and 1996. âXFINITY Entertainment Staff (Photo: Alberto E. rodriguez/Getty) The opinions expressed are solely those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of Comcast. Sharon Osbourne ... TV personality and singer Kelly Osbourne is the daughter of TV host and music manager Sharon Osborne and heavy metal pioneer Ozzy Osbourne. âXFINITY Entertainment Staff (Photo: Dimitros Kambouris/Getty) The opinions expressed are solely those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of Comcast. Blythe Danner an... Actress Blythe Danner is the mother of Academy Award winner Gwyneth Paltrow.

Gwyneth's father is director Bruce Paltrow. âXFINITY Entertainment Staff (Photo: Frederick M. Brown/Getty) The opinions expressed are solely those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of Comcast. Susan Sarandon a... Actress Eva Amurri has appeared in hit sitcoms like "New Girl" and "How I Met Your Mother," but her true claim to fame is being the daughter of Oscar winner Susan Sarandon. âXFINITY Entertainment Staff (Photo: Kevork Djansezian /Getty) The opinions expressed are solely those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of Comcast. Peggy Lipton and... Golden Globe winner Peggy Lipton is the mother of actress, author and screenwriter Rashida Jones. Rashida was recently seen in the NBC comedy series "The Office" and "Parks and Recreation." âXFINITY Entertainment Staff (Photo : Michael Buckner/Getty Images) The opinions expressed are solely those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of Comcast. Jada Pinkett Smi... Singer and actress Willow Smith is the daughter of Hollywood A-listers Jada Pinkett Smith and Will Smith.

âXFINITY Entertainment Staff (Photo: Ethan Miller/Getty) The opinions expressed are solely those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of Comcast. Lea Thompson and... "Back to the Future" star Lea Thompson recently walked the red carpet with her 21-year-old look-alike daughter Zoey Deutch. Zoey, who is the daughter of Lea and director Howard Deutch, has appeared in the films "Beautiful Creatures" and "Vampire Academy," and has several more films in production. She's currently filming the dramedy "The Year of Spectacular Men," which is being directed by her mom. âXFINITY Entertainment Staff (Photo by Theo Wargo/Getty ) The opinions expressed are solely those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of Comcast. Jane Birkin and ... Critically acclaimed actress Charlotte Gainsbourg is the daughter of iconic English actress Jane Birkin, who famously had the highly-coveted designer handbag, the HermÃ¨s Birkin, named after her. Charlotte's father was the late French actor and singer Serge Gainsbourg.

âXFINITY Entertainment Staff (Photo: Pascal Le Segretain/Getty) The opinions expressed are solely those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of Comcast. Christie Brinkle... Model and entrepreneur Christie Brinkley is the mother of singer-songwriter Alexa Ray Joel. Alexa takes her surname from her legendary musician father, Billy "Piano Man" Joel. âXFINITY Entertainment Staff (Photo: Noam Galai/Getty) The opinions expressed are solely those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of Comcast. Melanie Griffith sizzles as she presents Tippi Hedren with lifetime achievement award | Daily Mail Online comments Melanie Griffith is a red carpet veteran. And on Tuesday, the 57-year-old vixen absolutely dazzled in red from head to toe at the 7th annual Bel-Air Film Festival opening night gala in Los Angeles to which she brought her mother Tippi Hedren, 84, as her date.

Melanie presented her mother with the festival’s Lifetime Achievement Award, where she was recognized for her for dedication and career in film They could be sisters!: Melanie Griffith attended the Bel-Air film festival with her equally glamorous mother Tippi Hedren whom she presented the lifetime achievement award The newly single actress boldly shows off her svelte figure following her split from heartthrob Antonio Banderas to whom she was married for 18 years. The couple announced their divorce in June and both have said the decision is consensual and amicable. Melanie's dress was modest and covered her arms, including the tattoo of a heart that once had Antonio's name etched inside. On Tuesday the actress went for a more feminine look and sported a bow on her left shoulder near her collar bone. She kept her blonde locks in an elegant up do that highlighted her long neck and enviable frame.

Scroll down for video Red carpet ready: Melanie Griffith showed off her enviable figure in a form fitting red dress detailed with a feminine bow and pumps to match Glamour girls: Actresses Melanie Griffith and Tippi Hedren defy age and wear equally glamorous red and black gowns fit for a movie star Loving daughter: Melanie Griffith presented her mother with a lifetime achievement award in film She paired the dress with femme fatale red pumps and a black clutch. Melanie's mother Tippi Hedren, who could pass for the star's sister, wore a long black elegant gown with a bold sheer and beaded mid-section. Heldren matched her dress with a beaded purse and pointed heels with silver detailing.. Hedren, known for her role as an American actress, fashion model and animal rights activist, stars in the Bel-Air Film Festival’s Los Angeles Premiere documentary of Happy Hands, directed by Honey Lauren. The film recounts how she helped to create and assist Vietnamese nail salons in the United States. She certainly looked every bit a movie star with manicured nails to match. Winning outfit: Even though Melanie herself did not accept an award, she wore a winning red ensemble to honor her mother's career in film

Question: Which actress and former model is the mother of Melanie Griffith?
Answer: TIPPI HEDREN