Kathy Griffin American Actress Known for Dill Scallion

Kathy Griffin (4 November 1960, Oak Park) is an American actress and comedian. Her best-known titles on this site are Dill Scallion (1999) and Pulp Fiction (1994).

Early life

Schooling on record includes Triton College, Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute and Oak Park and River Forest High School.

Career

Her first listed screen credit dates to 1984, with Streets of Fire. Work from the 1990s includes The X-Files (1993) and The Cable Guy (1996). Beethoven's 5th (2003) and Love Wrecked (2005) are among her 2000s credits. In the 2010s, she appeared in The Muppets (2011) and Hall Pass (2011).

The list below counts 22 films and 6 TV series from 1984 to 2011. Comedy is the most frequent genre among her listed titles (6), followed by black comedy (2) and comedy thriller (2). Of her three titles with worldwide box-office figures on record, Pulp Fiction (1994) has the highest, at $214 million.

Bruce Willis appears in two of her listed titles, including Four Rooms (1995). Other co-stars who recur in her credits are Quentin Tarantino (two titles) and Jack Black (two titles). Quentin Tarantino directed two of her titles on record.

Music credits include 20 albums and one single, among them Look at My Butt Crack (2014). The YouTube account had 195K subscribers when last counted in August 2025.

Recognition

Kathy Griffin received the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Reality Program. Other wins include a GLAAD Vanguard Award (2009).