Melanie Griffith

Melanie Richards Griffith is an American actress. Born in Manhattan to future actress Tippi Hedren, she was raised mainly in Los Angeles, where she graduated from the Hollywood Professional School at age 16. In 1975, 17-year-old Griffith appeared opposite Gene Hackman in Arthur Penn's neo-noir film Night Moves. She later rose to prominence as an actor in films such as Brian De Palma's Body Double (1984), which earned her a National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Supporting Actress. Griffith's subsequent performance in the comedy Something Wild (1986) attracted 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.

9 August 1957

Born on the same birth day (9 August): André Bessette • Arlo Parks • Bill Campbell (baseball) • Brad Gilbert • Charles Robert Malden • Derek Fisher • Eli Apple • Jean Tirole • Joop den Uyl • Joseph Wenzel I, Prince of Liechtenstein • Kento Ono • Louis Lipps • Mário Zagallo • Sam Elliott

Born in the same month (August 1957): Brooks D. Simpson • Christine Soetewey • Colm O'Rourke • Grzegorz Ciechowski • Ian Stuart Donaldson • Jim Calder (rugby union) • John Wark • Laura Innes • Martin Donovan • Nikky Finney • Valdis Valters • Željko Ivanek