Claire Forlani

She has dated John Cusack. In her book A Paper Life, the Oscar-winning actress Tatum O'Neal alleges that at age 12, Melanie Griffith dragged her into an opium-fuelled orgy in Paris, along with another actress and the boyfriend of one of the actresses. Forlani is currently single. Griffith has three children; Dakota Johnson, Alexander Bauer, and Stella Banderas. With the picture Meet Joe Black, co-starring Brad Pitt, she became in 1998 widely known to the American and the international public. The couple divorced again in 1996 and Griffith married her current husband Antonio Banderas that same year. One year later her performance in The Last Time I Committed Suicide was finally acclaimed by the critic, and was for her the recognition of her work in previous, disappointing films. She remarried Johnson in 1989.

Some movies followed, and in 1996 Forlani played a part in the hit The Rock, starring Sean Connery and Nicolas Cage. She was married to Steven Bauer from 1980 to 1987. She was cast the same year for the TV mini-series J.F.K.: Reckless Youth, and thereafter for the cinema picture Police Academy: Mission to Moscow. She was briefly married to Don Johnson in 1976. Soon came the first offer of the American film market. Griffith has married four times. Forlani's parents wanted to help her daughter to have offers for movie roles, and in 1993 decided to move to San Francisco. DeMented (2000).

Having performed on stage, she was cast by the British Television for a TV series and a TV film. Other major roles include Body Double (1984), Something Wild (1986), Working Girl (1988), The Bonfire of the Vanities (1990), Milk Money (1994), Another Day in Paradise (1998) and Cecil B. During the six years she attended this school, she also studied dance besides acting, which opened her the doors for performances like The Nutcracker Ballet and Orpheus in the Underworld. Her first major role was in Night Moves in 1975. At the age of 11, Forlani entered the "Arts Educational School" in London, where she began preparing for her acting career. Griffith began working in films at an early age as an extra on Smith! (1969) and The Harrad Experiment (1973). She was born in Twickenham, Middlesex, England, as the daughter of an Italian father and a British mother. She is the daughter of actress Tippi Hedren and Peter Griffith.