An actress was nicknamed Brainiac because she didn't know anything about the holocaust!
She is the daughter of actress Tippi Hedren, and the wife of actor Antonio Banderas.
She has apparead in commercials and she made her film debut as an extra in the movie “Smith!”. She has worked in many important movies, one of them being “Shining Through”.
Melanie Griffith was nicknamed Brainiac in 1992, because she didn't know Germans had "done bad things" to Jews during World War II until working on the set of Shining Through. She was 34 at that time and she found herself impressed with the history behind World War II.
