Biografía

Melanie said that fans sometimes confuse her with actress Meg Ryan, whom she admires. She would sign Meg Ryan's name so as not to disappoint the fans. Ryan said the same thing happened to her where fans thought she was Melanie.

$75,000 was taken out of her paycheck for Secretaria ejecutiva (1988) when she showed up to the set heavily intoxicated and unable to say her lines coherently. The money was used to fund the reshoot of that day's scenes.

Claims that it was love at first sight when she met her husband Antonio Banderas on the set of Dos Son Demasiado (1995). He had sprinted out of his trailer like a starstruck schoolboy to greet her on her first day on the set. Excited and nervous, the first thing he asked her was how old she was. She cursed, laughed, and then finally answered that she was 37. They stayed together for nearly 20 years. In 2018 (4 years after their divorce), Banderas publicly declared, "I will love her until the day I die," to which Griffith also publicly responded, "I will always love him and he will always love me. We had a great 20 years together.".

In 1980, she went to a movie and dinner with Ricci Martin (son of Dean Martin; not to be confused with Ricky Martin, who's a friend). Upon leaving La Dome, a restaurant on Sunset Boulevard, a car ran through the crosswalk and hit Melanie. The front of the car struck her hip in mid-stride, whiplashing her head back into the windshield. As the car screeched to a stop, Melanie catapulted more than a dozen feet forward to the curbside, hitting with great force. Melanie was rushed to a hospital. To this day, Melanie still experiences pain from that accident.

Her mother, Tippi Hedren, recently stated that the miniature doll of Hedren given to Melanie by Alfred Hitchcock was not intended to be a prank by the director. He merely wanted to give Melanie a beautiful doll with her mother's image, but it happened that the doll was in a wooden box. When Melanie received the gift, she freaked out and became upset thinking that it was indeed meant to be her mother in a coffin.

[about her work with James Woods] It's kind of like being pregnant. You know, you go through the initial joy of it. Then you go through wanting it to be over. And then you're finished with it and you forget how bad it was.

There's a bit of a stripper in every woman.

I don't walk around with fear. I walk around with strength. I believe in cause and effect.

I don't think I'm beautiful. When I look in the mirror, I just see me - and, I'm pretty used to me.

Antonio is the best. He is compassionate and humble.