Career
Tracy played supporting roles in Melanie Griffith's starrers, such as Fear City (1985) and Crazy in Alabama (1999). In addition to acting, Griffith has also been a model, dive master, sailor, painter, guitar player, writer, world traveller and one of the world’s first certified female sushi chefs. She is also a Napa landscape painter.
Griffith was the first female graduate of the California Sushi Academy, and was 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.
In 2006, Griffith released a CD titled “Red” that features boot-scootin’ Western dance tunes to country pop and tender folk ballads. The title “Red” came from her nickname and in honor of her Grandfather, James “Red” Greene. He introduced Griffith to Buck Owens, Johnny Cash and Lefty Frizzell.
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