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Melanie Griffith (born August 9, 1957) is an Academy Award and Emmy-nominated, Golden Globe-award winning American actress. She is the daughter of actress Tippi Hedren and the wife of actor Antonio Banderas. Griffith was born in New York City, to Tippi Hedren and producer and former actor/advertising executive Peter Griffith. Her parents divorced when she was four years old, after which her father remarried to model/actress Nanita Greene and had two more children, actress Tracy Griffith and set designer Clay A. Griffith. Her mother married agent and producer Noel Marshall, and Griffith grew up with three stepbrothers. During her childhood and adolescent years, she divided her time between living in New York with her father and in Antelope Valley, California, where her mother formed the animal preservation Shambala. She also skipped a grade and graduated from Hollywood Professional School when she was just 16 years old.

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