Melanie Griffith began appearing in movies in the nineties.
Melanie Griffith . Griffith began her career as an adolescent in nonspeaking film roles before making her credited debut opposite Gene Hackman in Arthur Penn 's Night Moves ( 1975 ) . Griffith 's subsequent performance in Something Wild ( 1986 ) garnered critical acclaim before she was cast in 1988 's Working Girl , which earned her a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress and won her a Golden Globe .