Griffin Dunne

Griffin Dunne (2010)

Griffin Dunne (born June 8, 1955 in New York City ) is an American actor , director and film producer .

Life and accomplishments

Griffin Dunne's father, Dominick Dunne (1925-2009), was a film producer and journalist, his uncle was the author John Gregory Dunne . Griffin Dunne grew up in Los Angeles and Colorado , and returned to New York in the late 1970s. With a role in the cult film American Werewolf , which is quite unique in film history , he gained a fame in 1981 under heavy make-up that has not faded to this day. In the comedy Nothing like Away , he played one of the main roles. For the lead role in the thriller The Time After Midnight by Martin Scorsese , he won the Independent Spirit Award in 1986 and was nominated for the Golden Globe Award . In the comedy Who's That Girl he played one of the leading roles alongside Madonna , in the film A Charming Disgust he appeared alongside Richard Dreyfuss and Holly Hunter . He was nominated for an Emmy in 1996 for his role in one of the episodes of the television series Frasier .

As a director, Dunne has directed the films In Love with Meg Ryan and Matthew Broderick and The Magic Sisters (1998) with Sandra Bullock and Nicole Kidman, among others . He was nominated for an Oscar in 1996 for directing and writing the short film Duke of Groove with Tobey Maguire , Kiefer Sutherland and Uma Thurman . In 2015 he made the documentary We Tell Ourselves Stories In Order to Live about his aunt Joan Didion .

Dunne was married twice, from his marriage to Carey Lowell (1989-1995) he has a daughter.

His younger sister, Dominique Dunne , an aspiring actress, gained notoriety for being murdered shortly after her box office hit with the 1982 horror film Poltergeist .