Tracy Griffith

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| name = Tracy Griffith

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| birth_name = Tracy Lee Griffith

| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1965|10|19}}

| birth_place = New York City, U.S.

| occupation = Actress, chef, artist

| yearsactive = 1984–present

| spouse = {{marriage|Mark Daley|2011}}

| relatives = Melanie Griffith
(half-sister)
Dakota Johnson
(half-niece)

}}

Tracy Lee Griffith{{cite news |last=Zinko |first=Carolyn |date=April 16, 2011 |title=The Buzz: The Week That Was |work=San Francisco Chronicle |url=http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/04/16/LVEV1IT7HV.DTL |url-status=live |accessdate=December 31, 2015 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160311015950/http://www.sfgate.com/style/article/The-Buzz-2374775.php |archivedate=March 11, 2016}} (born October 19, 1965){{cite web|url=http://www.fandango.com/people/tracy-griffith-277031|work=Fandango|title=Tracy Griffith|accessdate=August 19, 2016}}{{cite news| url=http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20124321,00.html | date=January 26, 1998 |volume= 49 |issue=3 | first= Tom |last=Gliatto | title=Working Girl: After Years in Limbo, Tracy Griffith, Melanie's Flame-Haired Half Sister, Sees Her Career Heat Up |work=People | accessdate= December 31, 2015| archivedate= September 12, 2015| archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20150912082351/http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20124321,00.html |url-status=live| quote= Tracy Griffith, 32...}} is an American actress, sushi chef and painter.

Early life

Griffith was raised in Bedford, New York, the daughter of actor and producer Peter Griffith and his second wife, model and actress Nanita Greene. Her younger brother is Clay Griffith, who became a production designer{{cite news|last1=Sciretta|first1=Peter|title=Cameron Crowe Will Direct We Bought A Zoo Next|url=https://www.slashfilm.com/cameron-crowe-will-direct-we-bought-a-zoo-next/|accessdate=14 November 2016|work=slashfilm.com|date=14 May 2010}} and set decorator. Her paternal half-sister is actress Melanie Griffith. In the early 1970s, she moved with her family to Saint John, U.S. Virgin Islands. Her parents separated in 1975. Griffith attended a boarding school in Maryland, graduating in 1979, and went on to spend three years at the University of Tennessee where she became interested in acting and dropped out in 1984.

Acting career

Tracy Griffith played supporting roles in some films in which her half-sister Melanie starred, such as Fear City (1985) and Crazy in Alabama (1999). After college, Griffith worked in Hollywood and New York for the next 12 years. Her acting credits include The Guiding Light, The Good Mother (1988); Fast Food (1989); The First Power (1990); The Finest Hour (1991); All Tied Up (1993); 21 Jump Street; and the miniseries Ruby Ridge: An American Tragedy. She was a regular on the ABC drama series The Monroes (1995).

Sushi chef

Griffith was the first female graduate of the California Sushi Academy and one of the world's first certified female sushi chefs.{{cite web |title=Tracy Griffith | Red |url=http://cdbaby.com/cd/tracygriffith |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070301065009/http://cdbaby.com/cd/tracygriffith |archive-date=2007-03-01 |accessdate=2015-08-22}} She worked as the featured sushi chef at Tsunami's in Beverly Hills. She also was a partner and chef at Rika's on Sunset, a sushi restaurant on the Sunset Strip in Los Angeles.{{cite web | url = http://www.tracygriffith.com/Sushi.html| title= Sushi| publisher=Tracy Griffith official site| accessdate= December 31, 2015}} Griffith developed a style of sushi without raw fish. This led to a publishing deal for her cookbook Sushi American Style, which was published by Clarkson Potter in August 2004 and released a second book in 2013 titled "Stealth Health: Lunches Kids Love", which features recipes that children can make themselves.{{Cite web|url=https://talktochef.com/tracy-griffith|title = Chef Tracy Griffith on TalkToChef}}

Griffith starred as the chef and host on the recurring Cooking with D.I.Y. series and Celebrity Hobbies on the D.I.Y. Network.{{cite web | url = http://www.tracygriffith.com/actress | title=Actress| publisher= Tracy Griffith official site| accessdate= December 31, 2015| archivedate= June 23, 2015| archiveurl= https://web.archive.org/web/20150623141811/http://www.tracygriffith.com/actress| url-status=live}}

Personal life

Griffith married fashion executive Mark Daley on September 17, 2011.{{Cite web|url=http://www.sfgate.com/style/unionsquared/article/Couple-bonds-over-a-plate-of-sushi-2328965.php|title = Couple bonds over a plate of sushi|date = 2 October 2011}}{{Cite web |title=New York native aims to showcase local, regional talent at Wylde Gallery |url=https://www.timesdaily.com/news/new-york-native-aims-to-showcase-local-regional-talent-at/article_519d1b8a-282a-5793-918e-062fe80ea764.html}}

In 2006, Griffith released a CD titled Red, on the Miura label.

A landscape painter of the Napa Valley area, she had her first gallery show in San Francisco in 2011. In January 2018 she had a solo exhibition at the Rebecca Hossack Gallery in London, titled Herd. {{cite web|work=Artsy|title=Tracy Lee Griffith:Herd|url=https://www.artsy.net/show/rebecca-hossack-art-gallery-tracy-lee-griffith-herd}} She moved to Florence, Alabama, where she opened her own art gallery in 2019.