Audrey Hankel, Tess McGill, Billie Dawn, and Charlotte Haze are all film characters played by which actress?

The movie characters of Audrey Hankel, Tess McGill, Billie Dawn, and Charlotte Haze were played by Melanie Griffith (b. August 9, 1957, New York, New York), an American actress whose best-known characters were noted for their strength and sex appeal. Her most memorable role was in the film "Working Girl" (1988), for which she received an Oscar Award nomination, Best Actress. With the films "Something Wild", a 1986 action comedy film, "Working Girl", an American romantic comedy-drama, "Born Yesterday", a 1993 American comedy film, and "Lolita", a 1997 drama film, respectively Griffith has performed in the persona of each character previously noted as Hankel, McGill, Dawn, and Haze.

Griffith is the daughter of actress Tippi Hedren—who starred in director Alfred Hitchcock’s thrillers "The Birds" (1963) and "Marnie" (1964)—and Peter Griffith, a businessman. Her parents divorced when she was four years old; she moved to Los Angeles with her mother. As a child/teenager, she occasionally modeled and appeared in commercials. In 1969 she made her feature-film debut, appearing as an uncredited extra in "Smith!", a western.

As of 2023, Griffith has done at least 49 films which have grossed more than $840 million worldwide, making her a top grossing actress in the film business. Her fame has come from a few of her key acting roles: Tess McGill, Margalo ("Stuart Little 2"), Jean Shelton ("The Disaster Artist"), Toby Roebuck ("Nobody's Fool"), Tina ("Now and Then") and some others.