Griffin Dunne Net Worth

Griffin Dunne's Quotes

• I've always been schizophrenic. I've never been interested in limiting myself. I came to New York to be an actor and I became a film producer first. I only got to be able to act, because I gave myself a job as a producer.
• You're more open-minded when you know you're not listening to ideas with a gun to your head.
• Acting is what I originally wanted to do. Unfortunately, the business of being an actor is a lot more disheartening than the business of being a producer. As an actor you're beholden to the material and taste of other people who are developing projects you may or may not get in. As a producer you come up with the idea.

Interesting Facts about Griffin Dunne

1. Son of producer/writer Dominick Dunne and Ellen Griffin Dunne.
2. Founded with Amy Robinson production company "Double Play Productions".
3. Older brother of Dominique Dunne and Alexander Dunne.
4. Has a daughter, Hannah Dunne, born in January 1990, together with Carey Lowell.
5. Frequently works with actress Rosanna Arquette.
6. Cousin-in-law of Gerry Michael.
7. Nephew of John Gregory Dunne and Joan Didion.
8. Good friends with Michael Keaton.
9. At age 18, Dunne skipped college and moved to New York to become an actor.
10. He studied drama at HB Studio in Greenwich Village in New York City.
11. Griffin's father was of Irish descent. His maternal grandmother, Beatriz Charlotte Sandoval, was born in Nogales, Mexico, to a Mexican father, Alfredo Sandoval, and a mother from Wyoming, Clara Mathilda Holler, who was of German and Swedish descent. Griffin's mother's other ancestry was Irish and English.
12. Best friends since childhood with Carrie Fisher. He reminisced with her on the documentary Bright Lights about taking her virginity (which she considered a burden) as an act of friendship in London in the early 70s.
13. Cousin of Quintana Roo Dunne.
14. Studied acting under Uta Hagen.