Melanie Griffith Net Worth

Melanie Griffith's Quotes

• [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 is the best. He is compassionate and humble.

Interesting Facts about Melanie Griffith

1. 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.
2. Older half-sister of Tracy Griffith and Clay A. Griffith.
3. Daughter of Peter Griffith and Tippi Hedren.
4. 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. [November 2000]
5. In 1980, she went to a movie and dinner with Ricci Martin (son of Dean Martin; not to be confused with Ricky Martin, who's a friend). 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.
6. 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.
7. Claims that it was love at first sight when she met her husband Antonio Banderas on the set of Two Much (1995). 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 nearly 20 years. In 2018 (4 years after their divorce), Banderas publicly declared, "I will love her until the day I die," to which Griffith also publicly responded, "I will always love him and he will always love me. We had a great 20 years together.".
8. 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.
9. She has three homes: Los Angeles, Aspen and Marbella, Spain.
10. Coincidentally, she bears the same first name as her mother Tippi Hedren's character, Melanie Daniels, in The Birds (1963).
11. 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 spring of 1972 when she was 14.
12. 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).
13. Replaced Madonna for the part of Marion Davies in RKO 281 (1999) after Madonna left the project because it had been scaled down from a feature to a made-for-cable film.
14. Her son, Alexander Bauer (born in 1985), is the godson of Warren Beatty. She first met Beatty over a decade earlier when she auditioned for his film The Parallax View (1974). She didn't get the role but their friendship lasted, even though their brief 1970s romance ended. She is also friends with Beatty's wife Annette Bening and his sister Shirley MacLaine.
15. Her father had English, as well as Irish, Scottish, Welsh, and Scots-Irish/Northern Irish ancestry. Her mother is of one half Swedish, one quarter German, and one quarter Norwegian, descent.
16. 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.
17. First "Miss Golden Globe" to win a Golden Globe Award herself.
18. 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.
19. She and her daughter Dakota Johnson are the only mother-daughter couple to be "Miss Golden Globe".
20. 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.