- Born
- Birth nameThomas Griffin Dunne
- Height1.70 m
- Griffin Dunne was born on June 8, 1955 in New York City, the oldest child of Dominick Dunne, a producer, actor, and writer, and Ellen Beatriz (Griffin) Dunne, an activist. His sister was actress Dominique Dunne. He grew up mainly in Los Angeles, California and attended school in Colorado before moving back to New York in the late 1970s. As an actor, Dunne has the distinction of having starred in two 1980s cult favorites. First came the John Landis monster movie Le Loup-garou de Londres (1981), then the Martin Scorsese black comedy After Hours: Quelle nuit de galère (1985). After Hours is also among the movies that Dunne has produced with partner Amy Robinson through their company Double Play Productions. Other Double Play productions include À bout de course (1988), La fièvre d'aimer (1990) and Ce cher intrus (1991). Dunne has continued to appear on both sides of the camera, taking supporting roles as an actor in films like My Girl (1991) and I Like It Like That (1994). He made his directorial debut with a short film, Duke of Groove (1995), which was nominated for an Oscar.
Dunne then made the leap to feature films with Addicted to Love (1997), Les ensorceleuses (1998), Lisa Picard Is Famous (2000) and Fierce People (2005). Dunne produced and starred in the film Game 6 (2005), which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 2005.
Griffin's ancestry is Irish (from his father) and Irish, English, German, Mexican, and Swedish (from his mother).- IMDb mini biography by: Azure_Girl
- SpousesAnna Bingeman(July 4, 2009 - present)Carey Lowell(December 9, 1989 - December 10, 1995) (divorced, 1 child)Kate Forte(1973 - 1974) (annulled)
- Children
- Parents
- RelativesDominique Dunne(Sibling)John Gregory Dunne(Aunt or Uncle)Joan Didion(Aunt or Uncle)Alexander Dunne(Sibling)Quintana Roo Dunne(Cousin)
- Son of producer/writer Dominick Dunne and Ellen Beatriz Griffin Dunne.
- Best friends since childhood with Carrie Fisher. He reminisced with her on the documentary Bright Lights about taking her virginity (which she considered a burden) as an act of friendship in London in the early 1970s.
- He and Linda Hamilton were the first "Guest Callers" on Episode One ("The Good Son") of the popular television series "Frasier," which aired on September 16, 1993.
- Founded with Amy Robinson production company "Double Play Productions".
- Has a daughter, Hannah Dunne, born in January 1990, together with Carey Lowell.
- I've always been schizophrenic. I've never been interested in limiting myself. I came to New York to be an actor and I became a film producer first. I only got to be able to act, because I gave myself a job as a producer.
- You're more open-minded when you know you're not listening to ideas with a gun to your head.
- Acting is what I originally wanted to do. Unfortunately, the business of being an actor is a lot more disheartening than the business of being a producer. As an actor you're beholden to the material and taste of other people who are developing projects you may or may not get in. As a producer you come up with the idea.
- Histoires fantastiques (1985) - $2,500 (episode, "The Secret Cinema")
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