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Michelle Pfeiffer

Michelle Pfeiffer

Birthday: 1958-04-29 | Place of Birth: Santa Ana, California, USA

Michelle Marie Pfeiffer (born April 29, 1958) is an American actress and producer. She has received many accolades, including a Golden Globe Award, and three nominations for Academy Award. Pfeiffer began to pursue an acting career in 1978 and had her first leading role in the musical film Grease 2 (1982). Frustrated with being typecast as the token pretty girl, she actively pursued more serious material and had her breakthrough role as gangster moll Elvira Hancock in the crime film Scarface (1983). Further success came with leading roles in the fantasy feature The Witches of Eastwick (1987) and the comedy Married to the Mob (1988). Her roles in Dangerous Liaisons (1988) and The Fabulous Baker Boys (1989) garnered her two consecutive Academy Award nominations, for Best Supporting Actress and Best Actress, respectively; her portrayal of lounge singer Susie Diamond in the latter is one of the most acclaimed of her career. Pfeiffer went on to star as Catwoman / Selina Kyle in Tim Burton's superhero film Batman Returns (1992), following which she won the Silver Bear for Best Actress and earned a third Academy Award nomination for playing a troubled housewife in Love Field (1992). She continued to gain praise for her performances in the dramas The Age of Innocence (1993) and White Oleander (2002), and the horror films Wolf (1994) and What Lies Beneath (2000). During this time, she also produced a series of films under her production company Via Rosa Productions. After a hiatus from acting in 2002, she returned with the musical Hairspray (2007). She received her first Emmy Award nomination for portraying Ruth Madoff in the HBO television film The Wizard of Lies (2017), she went on to feature in the ensemble films Murder on the Orient Express (2017) and debuted to the Marvel Cinematic Universe as Janet Van Dyne starting Ant-Man and the Wasp (2018). Description above from the Wikipedia article Michelle Pfeiffer, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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Known For

Acting

Year
Title

Role

2022
The First Lady

as    Betty Ford

2021
French Exit

as    Frances Price

2021
2019
Maleficent: Mistress of Evil

as    Queen Ingrith

2018
Where Is Kyra?

as    Kyra

2017
Murder on the Orient Express

as    Caroline Hubbard

2017
The Wizard of Lies

as    Ruth Madoff

2017
mother!

as    Woman

2013
The Family

as    Maggie Blake

2012
Dark Shadows

as    Elizabeth Collins Stoddard

2012
People Like Us

as    Lillian Harper

2011
New Year's Eve

as    Ingrid Withers

2009
Chéri

as    Lea

2009
Personal Effects

as    Linda

2007
Stardust

as    Lamia

2007
I Could Never Be Your Woman

as    Rosie

2007
Hairspray

as    Velma Von Tussle

2003
Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas

as    Eris (voice)

2002
White Oleander

as    Ingrid Magnussen

2001
I Am Sam

as    Rita Harrison Williams

2000
What Lies Beneath

as    Claire Spencer

1999
The Deep End of the Ocean

as    Beth Cappadora

1999
The Story of Us

as    Katie Jordan

1999
A Midsummer Night's Dream

as    Titania

1998
The Prince of Egypt

as    Tzipporah (voice)

1997
A Thousand Acres

as    Rose Cook Lewis

1996
One Fine Day

as    Melanie Parker