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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 Rugido, 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 Chica trabajadora, 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 Body Double in 1984, she went on to star in a number of other films throughout the rest of the decade, including Something Wild, dirigido porJonathan Demme (El silencio de los corderos); the sci-fi cult favorite Cherry 2000; yMike Nichols' Chica trabajadora, 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 VanitiesDeBorn YesterdayDeMulholland Falls, yCrazy in Alabama. She also appeared in the coming-of-age favoriteDe vez en cuando 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 y elBuscando a Nemo knockoff, A Turtle's Tale. However, she found success onstage, turning in an acclaimed performance inthe Broadway production of the musical Chicago en 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 Nota alta, 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 Cincuenta sombras de Grey 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 Chica trabajadora colocar. Two weeks after that 1988 incident, she entered rehab for the first time.

El actorreturned 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," ella dijoHola en 2010 (a través deCorreo diario).

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?!'" ella dijoPortero in 2017 (a través deGente). "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 aún no tenía 20 años, la primera vez que se casó (a Don Johnson, ocho años, su senior) en 1976. Y aunque ella ha estado en varias relaciones que han estado en el ojo público, en estos días, el actor está feliz de permanecer sin asustar. . "¿Por qué no disfrutar de la persona y pasar un buen rato y hacer lo que viven juntos, no vivas juntos, sinoEl matrimonio me parece arcaico.," ella dijoNosotros semanalmente en 2015.AE0FCC31AE342FD3A1346EBB1F342FCB

Dicho esto, ella permanece.Cerrar con sus exes y considera a todos ellos amigos. "Los amo con todo mi corazón", le dijo ellaGente en 2020.

Mientras tanto, la vida soltera está sirviendo bien a la estrella. "He estado tomando este tiempo para averiguar mi futuro", le dijo GriffithGente. "Voy a muchas reuniones en línea para mi recuperación ... Después de divorciarse y con mis hijos, ¡hay todas las posibilidades sin fin!"

Una de esas posibilidades es publicar una memoria, que está escribiendo actualmente.

Ella también le dedica su tiempo a su familia, recientemente compartiendo publicaciones de InstagramCelebrando el 92 cumpleaños de su madre. yEl papel de Dakota En la película 2021 nominada al Oscar.La hija perdida.

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