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From the day she was born, Melanie Griffith seemed destined to live a wild life. The child of actor Tippi Hedren and advertising executive Peter Griffith, the future star shared her childhood home with lions, tigers, and elephants kept as pets by her parents, for a time. That stranger-than-fiction story eventually became the 1981 movie Brüllen, by which point the then 24-year-old Griffith had appeared in eight films and was already well-acquainted with what a dangerous jungle Hollywood could be. In the decades that followed, she would appear in dozens of films, be nominated for a Best Actress Oscar for 1988's Arbeitendes Mädchen, and go through three high-profile divorces. Keep reading to discover what has happened to her since her days as an in-demand leading lady.

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Griffith's status as the child of a star meant she got an early start in Hollywood. After her breakthrough performance in Brian De Palma's Körperdouble in 1984, she went on to star in a number of other films throughout the rest of the decade, including Something Wild, unter der Regie vonJonathan Demme (Das Schweigen der Lämmer); the sci-fi cult favoriteCherry 2000undMike Nichols' Arbeitendes Mädchen, for which she received an Oscar nomination.

In the 1990s, Griffith worked steadily, but appeared in several movies that were critically reviled and/or box office bombs, including The Bonfire of the Vanities,Born Yesterday,Mulholland Falls, undCrazy in Alabama. She also appeared in the coming-of-age favoriteJetzt und dann and as the mother of the title character in Adrian Lyne's Lolita.

The 2000s saw Griffith step back somewhat from acting on film. She appeared in only a handful of movies, most of which went straight to video; she also voiced animated characters in Stuart Little 2 und derFindet Nemo knockoff, A Turtle's Tale. However, she found success onstage, turning in an acclaimed performance inthe Broadway production of the musical Chicago in 2003.

In more recent years, the actor starred alongside her now-ex-husband Antonio Banderas in the 2014 sci-fi thriller Automata, appeared in 2017's The Disaster Artist, and had a small role in the 2020 comedy-drama Hohe Note, which stars her daughter, Dakota Johnson.

Griffith has been married four times, to three fellow actors. Her first marriage to Don Johnson in 1976 didn't last the year. Next, she was married to Steven Bauer from 1981 to 1989, giving birth to their son Alexander Bauer in 1985. She then married Don Johnson (right) again in 1989, and the couple welcomed daughter Dakota (center) later that year. After Griffith and Johnson divorced in 1996, she married Antonio Banderas that same year, their daughter Stella Banderasarriving soon after.

Despite their famous lineage, Griffith was apparently hesitant to allow her children to go into the business. Though Alexander and Stella have mostly stayed offscreen, Dakota rose to international stardom appearing in the fünfzig Schattierungen von Grau franchise—but, as she told The Hollywood Reporter in 2021, she had to wait for adulthood to get her career started, because her mom and dad insisted she finish school first.

Griffith has struggled with substance use, once being required to pay an $80,000 fine for showing up drunk to the Arbeitendes Mädchen einstellen. Two weeks after that 1988 incident, she entered rehab for the first time.

Der Schauspielerreturned to rehab in 2000 after a neck injury led to an addiction to pain pills, and once again in 2009 after a skiing accident and more pain pills led to a relapse. She is now clean and sober. "I am an alcoholic and an addict and all my life I have fought against this and I've done it well," Sie sagteHallo in 2010 (überTägliche Post).

Griffith has also admitted to a habit of plastic surgery that got out of hand. "No, I didn't [realize] until people started saying. 'Oh my god, what has she done?!'" Sie sagtePorter in 2017 (überMenschen). "I was so hurt I went to a different doctor and he started dissolving all of this [stuff] that this other woman doctor had put in. Hopefully, I look more normal now."

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Griffith war noch nicht 20, als sie 1976 heiratete (nach Don Johnson, acht Jahre lang acht Jahre lang). Und während sie in mehreren Beziehungen war, die in den öffentlichen Auge waren, ist der Schauspieler glücklich, dass der Schauspieler nicht belehrt bleibt . "Warum nicht die Person genießen und eine gute Zeit haben und was auch immer zusammenleben, nicht zusammen leben - aberDie Ehe scheint mir archaisch zu sein," Sie sagteUns wöchentlich 2015.AE0FCC31AE342FD3A1346EBB1F342FCB.

Das heißt, sie bleibtnah mit ihren EXES und betrachtet alle Freunde. "Ich liebe sie von ganzem Herzen", sagte sieMenschen Im Jahr 2020.

Inzwischen dient das einzelne Leben den Stern gut. "Ich habe diesmal genommen, um meine Zukunft herauszufinden", sagte Griffith zuMenschen. "Ich gehe zu vielen Online-Treffen für meine Genesung ... nachdem ich geschieden bin und mit meinen Kindern alle gewachsen ist, gibt es endlose Möglichkeiten!"

Eine dieser Möglichkeiten veröffentlicht ein Memoir, das sie gerade schreibt.

Sie widmet sich auch ihre Zeit ihrer Familie, kürzlich teilt Instagram-BeiträgeFeiern Sie den 92. Geburtstag ihrer Mutter undDakotas Rolle Im Oscar-nominierten 2021-FilmDie verlorene Tochter.

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