Griffith began working within films at an early age as an additional in Smith! (1969) and The Harrad Experiment (1973). Her 1st major role was within Night Moves in 1975. More major roles include Body Double (1984), Something Wild (1986), Working Girl (1988), The Bonfire of the Vanities (1990), Milk Money (1994), Another Day in Paradise (1998) and Cecil B. DeMented (2000).

Griffith has married fourfold. She was briefly married to Don Johnson in 1976. She was married to Steven Bauer from 1980 to 1987. She remarried Johnson inside 1989. A few divorced once agawithin in 1996 and Griffith married her current hubby Antonio Banderas that same month. Griffith has ternion tykes: Dakota Johnson, Alexander Bauer, & Stella Banderas.

She is presently seen on The WB sitcom Twins, in which she plays Lee, a mother of the shows' independent characters played by Sara Gilbert and Molly Stanton.

Sex scandal allegations
Within her book A Paper Life, the Oscar-winning actress Tatum O'Neal alleges that at age 12, Melanie Griffith dragged her into an opium-fuelled orgy in Paris, along with another actress and the boyfriend of one of the actresses.

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