"Peter Griffith Peter Atwill Griffith (October 23, 1933 – May 14, 2001) was an American advertising executive and child stage actor, appearing on Broadway a few times. His daughters Melanie Griffith and Tracy Griffith and his granddaughter Dakota Johnson became actresses. Griffith was born in Baltimore, Maryland, the son of Hilda (née Atwill) and Ben E. Griffith. He had one sister, Sally Ann Griffith. His mother managed his stage acting career as he worked as a child actor, appearing on Broadway a few times. Griffith married five times. In 1952, at age 18, he married 22-year-old Tippi Hedren, who later"
"Angeles helping to lead Walk for Kids, a community 5k, to raise funds as part of the hospital's community awareness efforts in support of the opening of a new state-of-the-art pediatric inpatient facility. She also participated in the hospital's 2012 ""Noche de Niños"" gala as a presenter of a Courage to Care Award. Melanie Griffith Melanie Richards Griffith (born August 9, 1957) is an American film, stage, and television actress, and film producer. She began her career in the 1970s, appearing in several independent thriller films before achieving mainstream success in the mid-1980s. Born in New York City to actress"
"2001, in Santa Fe, New Mexico from complications from emphysema. Peter Griffith Peter Atwill Griffith (October 23, 1933 – May 14, 2001) was an American advertising executive and child stage actor, appearing on Broadway a few times. His daughters Melanie Griffith and Tracy Griffith and his granddaughter Dakota Johnson became actresses. Griffith was born in Baltimore, Maryland, the son of Hilda (née Atwill) and Ben E. Griffith. He had one sister, Sally Ann Griffith. His mother managed his stage acting career as he worked as a child actor, appearing on Broadway a few times. Griffith married five times. In 1952,"
"2016, respectively. Griffiths was born on December 18, 1968 in Australia, where she spent her early childhood on the Gold Coast. She is the daughter of Anna (née Hamilton), an art teacher and arts/education consultant, and Edward Martin Griffiths. She has two older brothers, Ben, and Samuel. She moved to Melbourne at the age of five, with her mother and two older brothers. When she was 11, her father left home with an 18-year-old woman. Griffiths was raised Roman Catholic, and has an uncle who is a Jesuit priest. She recalled first being inspired to become an actress after watching"
"be directed by JD Cohen. Griffith has a daughter, Poppy, born in 2009. Rhiana Griffith Rhiana Jade Griffith (born 16 April 1985) is an Australian actress, artist and model. Griffith was born in the Hunter Region of New South Wales, Australia. She began modeling as a child, doing runway work and catalogue ads, and progressed from there to television commercials. From there, she got her first guest-starring role on the Australian medical drama ""Children's Hospital"", and won her first film role, as Mercia in the 1998 film ""15 Amore"". Shortly thereafter, she won ModelQuest98's Grand Final for the 12-to-15 division,"
"Tracy Griffith Tracy Lee Griffith (born October 19, 1961) is an American actress and professional sushi chef. Griffith was raised in Bedford, New York, the daughter of actor/producer Peter Griffith and model/actress Nanita Greene. Her younger brother is Clay Griffith, who became a production designer and set decorator. She is the half-sister of actress Melanie Griffith, daughter of their father and his first wife. In the early 1970s, she moved with her family to Saint John, U.S. Virgin Islands. Her parents separated in 1976. Griffith attended a boarding school in Maryland, graduating in 1979, and went on to spend two"
"Patricia Idlette Patricia Idlette is an American actress known for her role as Kiffany in Showtime's ""Dead Like Me"". She also appeared in four episodes of ""Battlestar Galactica"" as politician Sarah Porter, and as Melanie Blackstone in the miniseries ""Amerika"". Idlette portrayed Katherine Jackson, mother of Michael Jackson, in the 2004 biopic """". She appeared as Brenda's mother in ""Scary Movie 3"" in 2003. Originally from Miami, Florida, she trained as an actress in Florida and Michigan. She moved to Canada to join the repertory company of the Stratford Festival, acting in productions of ""A Midsummer Night's Dream"", ""Antony and"
"Shades"" success, Johnson appeared in the crime biopic ""Black Mass"" (2015), Luca Guadagnino's drama film ""A Bigger Splash"" (2015), the comedy film ""How to Be Single"" (2016), Guadagnino's horror remake film ""Suspiria"" (2018), and the thriller film ""Bad Times at the El Royale"" (2018). She is the daughter of actors Melanie Griffith and Don Johnson, and her maternal grandmother is actress Tippi Hedren. Dakota Mayi Johnson was born on October 4, 1989, at Brackenridge Hospital in Austin, Texas, to actors Melanie Griffith and Don Johnson. At the time of her birth, her father was shooting the film ""The Hot Spot"""
"on her memoir and focusing on the relationship between her and her father. Griffith was born in Texarkana, Texas to John Lewis Griffin and Ambolina (Ambolyn) Ghio. She attended Sacred Heart Convent school in New Orleans and worked as a dancer before she began her acting career. Griffith began her screen career at the Vitagraph Studios in 1916. She later moved to First National, where she became one of their most popular stars. In 1928, she had the starring role in ""The Garden of Eden"". The next year, in 1929, Griffith received an Academy Award nomination for her role in"
"Meredith Eaton Meredith Hope Eaton (sometimes credited as Meredith Eaton-Gilden; born August 26, 1974) is an American actress. She is tall and refers to herself as a ""short-stature actress"". She is known for portraying the attorney Emily Resnick on the CBS television series ""Family Law"" (in which she was the first female dwarf to fill a regular role in an American prime time series), for her recurring role as Bethany Horowitz on the ABC series ""Boston Legal"", and for her lead role as Matilda Webber on the CBS series ""MacGyver"". Eaton was born on Long Island, New York, to a"
"series ""Six Feet Under"" and ""Brothers & Sisters"", Griffiths returned to live in her native Australia in 2012. Rachel Griffiths Rachel Anne Griffiths (born December 18, 1968) is an Australian actress and director. Raised primarily in Melbourne, she began her acting career appearing on the Australian series ""Secrets"" before being cast in a supporting role in the comedy ""Muriel's Wedding"" (1994), which earned her an AACTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role. She would garner further international recognition for her role opposite Julia Roberts in the American romantic comedy ""My Best Friend's Wedding"" (1997), followed by her role"
"Serengeti"" (1995), narrated by Melanie Griffith, and Animal Planet's ""Life with Big Cats"" (1998), which won the Genesis Award for best documentary in 1999. The animals at the preserve served as the initial inspiration for the life's work of artist A.E. London, who started her career working for Hedren. In 1952, Hedren met and married 18-year-old future advertising executive Peter Griffith. Their daughter, actress Melanie Griffith, was born on August 9, 1957. They were divorced in 1961. On September 22, 1964, Hedren married her then-agent Noel Marshall, who later produced three of her films; they divorced in 1982. In 1985,"
"Eva Griffith Eva Griffith, also credited as Eva Griffiths (born 1963), is a British actress, and a historian of the English Renaissance theatre. She began her career as child actress. Eva Griffith was born in Knightsbridge, London, the daughter of Kenneth Griffith and his second wife, Doria Noar, both actors. In some of her acting work she has been credited as Eva Griffiths, her father's original surname. She spent part of her childhood living in the home of the actor Peter O’Toole; and she later lived with her maternal grandmother in St Albans, Hertfordshire. She was educated at More House,"
"Arlene Golonka Arlene Leanore Golonka (born January 23, 1936) is an American actress. She is perhaps best known for playing Millie Hutchins on the television comedy ""The Andy Griffith Show"" and Millie Swanson on ""Mayberry R.F.D."", and often portrayed bubbly, eccentric blondes in supporting character roles on stage, film, and television. Golonka was born in Chicago in 1936 of Polish descent. She began her acting career in her early teens and went professional in a summer-stock troupe. After studying at the prestigious Goodman Theatre in Chicago, she made her way to New York City, where she studied with Lee Strasberg,"
"has a PhD from Murdoch University in Perth , where she ran the Graduate Screen Program]. Melanie Rodriga Melanie Rodriga (née Read) (born 30 September 1954) is a New Zealand-Australian film maker, lecturer, author and Buddhist. Born in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Rodriga was the third child of Daphne Mary (Billie) and Albert Thomas (Bertram) Read. Her father was a pianist arranger of the British Dance Band Era, playing with Bert Ambrose and Henry Hall (bandleader), among others. The family moved from Malaysia to Sydney in 1961, and lived in the eastern suburb of Vaucluse. Rodriga graduated from Kambala CofE Foundation"
"Molly Burnett Molly Kathleen Burnett (born April 23, 1988) is an American actress and singer. She is best known for portraying the role of Melanie Jonas on ""Days of Our Lives"". Burnett was nominated for a Daytime Emmy Award in the Outstanding Younger Actress in A Drama Series category in 2010 and 2012, and one for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Digital Daytime Drama Series in 2018. Burnett is the first born child of Katie and David Burnett, and was raised in the Denver Suburb of Littleton, Colorado along with her younger brother Will. While attending Littleton High School, she"
"Ben Brantley, who wrote: ""Ms. Griffith is a sensational Roxie, possibly the most convincing I have seen"" and ""[the] vultures who were expecting to see Ms. Griffith stumble...will have to look elsewhere."" Charles Isherwood of ""Variety"" noted some weaknesses in Griffith's performance, such as her singing and dancing abilities, but conceded: She returned to the stage in 2012 in a play written by Scott Caan, titled ""No Way Around but Through,"" in which she played his mother. She played Caan's mother again during 2014–16 in a recurring role on his television show ""Hawaii Five-0"". In 2016, she filmed with Caan's"
"which she portrayed a mute woman in Jerusalem whom a man mistakes for an angel. The same year, she had a supporting role in ""Joyride"" opposite Robert Carradine, in which she played a young woman who leaves California with her boyfriend, hoping to start a fishing company in Alaska. Griffith appeared as ""Melanie"" opposite her mother, Hedren, in the exploitation film ""Roar"" (1981), directed by her then-stepfather Noel Marshall. In the film, she portrayed the daughter of animal-keepers Madeleine (Hedren) and Hank (Marshall), whose various wild animals turn on them. ""Roar"" was a project devised by Hedren and Marshall, and"
"a heart attack. She was 59 years old. She was survived by her husband, Donald, and two daughters, Vanessa Root Archer and Megan MacQuarrie, as well as her father and younger brother. Melanie Morse MacQuarrie Melanie Virginia Sydney Morse MacQuarrie (13 June 1945 – 1 February 2005) was a British-born Canadian actress. MacQuarrie was the daughter of actors Barry Morse and Sydney Sturgess and sister of Hayward Morse. She was born in London, England, but lived in Canada from the age of six. She earned the nickname ""Big Mel,"" having made several newspaper headlines in London as one of the"
"teaching Pilates. Melanie Walters Melanie Walters (born 1962) is a Welsh actress who has worked frequently in television. She is best known for playing Gwen West in the BBC comedy-drama ""Gavin & Stacey"". Walters was born and raised in the Mumbles, near Swansea. Her father died when she was very young, leaving her mother to raise four children under four years old. In 1973, aged 11, she took over her brother's paper round, covering Mumbles Head every day, an experience she described at length on BBC Radio 4 in January 2012. When she was 14 she qualified as a lifeguard,"
"Melanie Rodriga Melanie Rodriga (née Read) (born 30 September 1954) is a New Zealand-Australian film maker, lecturer, author and Buddhist. Born in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Rodriga was the third child of Daphne Mary (Billie) and Albert Thomas (Bertram) Read. Her father was a pianist arranger of the British Dance Band Era, playing with Bert Ambrose and Henry Hall (bandleader), among others. The family moved from Malaysia to Sydney in 1961, and lived in the eastern suburb of Vaucluse. Rodriga graduated from Kambala CofE Foundation School for Girls in 1972. She then traveled to England where she studied filmmaking at Ravensbourne"
"Rachel Griffiths Rachel Anne Griffiths (born December 18, 1968) is an Australian actress and director. Raised primarily in Melbourne, she began her acting career appearing on the Australian series ""Secrets"" before being cast in a supporting role in the comedy ""Muriel's Wedding"" (1994), which earned her an AACTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role. She would garner further international recognition for her role opposite Julia Roberts in the American romantic comedy ""My Best Friend's Wedding"" (1997), followed by her role as Hilary du Pré in the biopic ""Hilary and Jackie"" (1998), for which she was nominated for an"
"Quo. The couple married on November 10, 1999. They have two children, a daughter, Scarlett Annette Turrentine (born May 13, 2007) and a son Tyger Attila Turrentine (born April 2, 2011). Reagan Gomez-Preston Reagan Amyre Gomez-Preston (born April 24, 1980) is an American television and film actress and voice actress. She is best known for her roles as Zaria Peterson on The WB sitcom ""The Parent 'Hood"" (1995–1999) and Roberta Tubbs on Fox animated comedy ""The Cleveland Show"" (2009–2013). Gomez-Preston was born in Detroit, Michigan to a Puerto Rican mother, Cheryl Gomez, and an African American father, Bennett Preston. She"
"in 2006. Meredith Eaton Meredith Hope Eaton (sometimes credited as Meredith Eaton-Gilden; born August 26, 1974) is an American actress. She is tall and refers to herself as a ""short-stature actress"". She is known for portraying the attorney Emily Resnick on the CBS television series ""Family Law"" (in which she was the first female dwarf to fill a regular role in an American prime time series), for her recurring role as Bethany Horowitz on the ABC series ""Boston Legal"", and for her lead role as Matilda Webber on the CBS series ""MacGyver"". Eaton was born on Long Island, New York,"
"Paige Turco Jean Paige Turco (born May 17, 1965) is an American actress, best known for her role as April O'Neil in """" and ""Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III"". Other notable roles include Melanie Cortlandt on the ABC soap opera ""All My Children"", Terri Lowell in the CBS series ""The Agency"", and appearances in ""American Gothic"", ""NYPD Blue"", ""Party of Five"" and ""Person of Interest"". Since March 2014, she currently stars as Abigail Griffin in the post-apocalyptic drama series, ""The 100"". Turco was born to Joyce Jean (Jodoin) and David Vincent Turco, in Springfield, Massachusetts, where she was raised. She"
"Michelle Clunie Michelle Renee Clunie (born November 7, 1969) is an American actress. She is perhaps best known for her roles as Melanie Marcus on Showtime's critically acclaimed series ""Queer as Folk"" and as Ellen Beals on ""Make It or Break It"". She is currently a star on MTV’s ""Teen Wolf"" as Mrs. Finch. Clunie was born in Portland, Oregon, where she studied ballet, tap, jazz, and violin. She was awarded a scholarship to The Academy of Professional Ballet where she studied and apprenticed throughout her teenage years. At 19 years old she sold her violin for $200 and moved"
"""The Cat's Meow"" (2001). Melanie Griffith was nominated for an Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress – Miniseries or a Movie for portraying Davies in RKO 281 in 2000. Marion Davies Marion Cecilia Davies (née Douras, January 3, 1897 – September 22, 1961) was an American film actress, producer, screenwriter, and philanthropist. Davies had appeared in several Broadway musicals and one film, ""Runaway Romany"" (1917) before newspaper tycoon William Randolph Hearst, with whom she had begun a romantic relationship, took over management of her career. Hearst financed Davies' pictures and promoted her heavily through his newspapers and Hearst Newsreels. He"
"Melanie Morse MacQuarrie Melanie Virginia Sydney Morse MacQuarrie (13 June 1945 – 1 February 2005) was a British-born Canadian actress. MacQuarrie was the daughter of actors Barry Morse and Sydney Sturgess and sister of Hayward Morse. She was born in London, England, but lived in Canada from the age of six. She earned the nickname ""Big Mel,"" having made several newspaper headlines in London as one of the largest babies born in Britain, at 11 pounds, 9 ounces. She worked professionally as a child actress and later as an adult, when she was sometimes billed by her married name Melanie"
"Elizabeth Griffith Elizabeth Griffith (née Griffith) (1727 – 5 January 1793), sometimes also credited Elizabeth Griffiths, was an 18th-century Welsh-born dramatist, fiction writer, essayist and actress, who lived and worked in Ireland. Elizabeth Griffith was born in Glamorgan, Wales, to Dublin theater manager Thomas Griffith and Jane Foxcroft Griffith on 11 October 1727. “The family settled in Dublin, where they brought up Elizabeth to be a sociable child, cheerful and at ease among the theatrical community”. In addition to giving her access to the theatre-world, Thomas Griffith educated Elizabeth in French and English literature. Her father died in 1744, which"
"Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. From 2001 to 2005, Griffiths portrayed masseuse Brenda Chenowith in the HBO series ""Six Feet Under"", for which she earned a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in 2002. She would subsequently appear on television as Sarah Walker Laurent on the ABC drama series ""Brothers & Sisters"" from 2006 to 2011, for which she was nominated for multiple Primetime Emmy Awards. She has also had roles in the films ""Blow"" (2001), portraying the mother of George Jung; the historical drama ""Ned Kelly"" (2003); ""Step Up"" (2006), and the Julian Assange television biopic """" (2012)."
"Fred Griffith (actor) Fred Griffith (born October 1, 1964) is an American actor and producer. Griffith was born Freddy Merrill Griffith, the son of Victor Merrill Griffith and Linda Gayle Griffith, in Spartanburg, SC. Griffith is of Welsh and Scots-Irish ancestry. His ancestors fought in the American Revolutionary War, The Civil War in the United States, World War I, World War II, Korean War, and Vietnam War. He has a younger sister, Cynthia Lynn. From an early age he knew he wanted to be an entertainer. He studied at University of South Carolina, Spartanburg and Coastal Carolina. He waited to"
"worked as an actress. They had a daughter, Melanie Griffith, before divorcing in 1959. In 1960, he married actress Nanita Greene, and together they had two children, Tracy Griffith who also became an actress, and Clay Griffith, a set decorator and production designer. In the early 1970s he moved his family to Saint John, U.S. Virgin Islands, and in 1976 separated from Greene.. After a fourth divorce, Griffith married Debra Meyer Boyd and remained with her until his death. In 1992, he sold his real-estate business, Holiday Homes, and moved to New Mexico. Griffith died aged 67 on May 14,"
"series and ""Celebrity Hobbies"" on the D.I.Y. Network. In 2006, Griffith released a CD titled ""Red"", on the Miura label, that features Western dance tunes. The title ""Red"" is her nickname, in honor of her maternal grandfather, James ""Red"" Greene. A landscape painter of the Napa Valley area, she had her first gallery show in San Francisco in 2011. Griffith married Mark Daley on September 17, 2011. He is the president of Ralph Lauren's Asia Division. Tracy Griffith Tracy Lee Griffith (born October 19, 1961) is an American actress and professional sushi chef. Griffith was raised in Bedford, New York,"