FrameThrower · Actors · Melanie Griffith
Melanie Griffith
3 films · 242 frames · top-billed in 2 · 1986–2003
Born 9 August 1957 · Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA
Melanie Richards Griffith is an American actress. 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 Tippi Hedren and advertising executive Peter Griffith, she was raised mainly in Los Angeles, where she graduated from the Hollywood Professional School at age 16. In 1975, a then 17-year-old Griffith appeared opposite Gene Hackman in Arthur Penn's film noir Night Moves.…
Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 3 films · 242 frames · top-billed in 2 · 1986–2003
- Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy1988
- Golden Globe Ambassador1975
- Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Supporting Actress1996
- Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Actress1992
- National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Supporting Actress1984
How their films are shot
Measured across 242 frames from the 3 films we hold. This is the look of the work Melanie takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.
Across the 3 films we hold, 60% of their frames are night, 48% low key — the look of the work Melanie takes.
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Films in the library
Every poster opens that film — stills, cinematography notes and colour palette.
A reference database for filmmakers
FrameThrower is a fully machine-searchable film database and visual reference library — all 242 frames from Melanie Griffith's 3 films, and 5,000+ films besides, indexed frame by frame and readable by AI. Search it in plain language, from a reference image, or by colour; call it from an API, an MCP server or an SDK. It's the reference layer for making the next movie.