![]() Avg.User Rating: Rate this person: Actor Born: August 9, 1957 in New York City, NY Biography:The daughter of onetime fashion model "Tippi Hedren" (Marnie) and actor Peter Griffith, "Melanie Griffith" witnessed her parents' divorce as a toddler. She relocated from Manhattan to Los Angeles in the custody of her mom at the age of four, when "Alfred Hitchcock" discovered Hedren and offered her a bid for movie stardom. Hedren soon married her second husband, film producer Noel Marshall, and relocated the entire family (including Griffith) to an Acton, California ranch, but at age 15 (c. 1972), Griffith broke out on her own. She started modeling professionally and struck up a live-in relationship with then-22-year-old "Don Johnson". Thus commenced a notoriously rocky, complex romance of four years. It temporarily ended when Griffith and Johnson wed and divorced several months later. In the mean time, Griffith kick-started her acting career with promising films including the Arthur Penn-directed... Full Biography
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