Occupation: Actress
Date of Birth: April 29, 1957
Place of Birth: Santa Ana, Calif., USA
"Just standing around looking beautiful is so boring, really boring, so boring."

- Michelle Pfeiffer

 

MICHELLE PFEIFFERis one of today’s most respected and sought-after leading ladies. A three-time Academy Award nominee, Pfeiffer gained her first nomination for her work in Dangerous Liaisons, for which she also won a BAFTA Award. She then earned both Oscar and BAFTA Award nominations and won a Golden Globe Award for her performance opposite Jeff and Beau Bridges in The Fabulous Baker Boys in which her sultry torch song scene atop a piano became an instant cinema classic. Pfeiffer again garnered Oscar and Golden Globe nominations for her work in Love Field. She has received additional Golden Globe nominations for Married To The Mob, The Russia House, Frankie and Johnny and The Age of Innocence.

Pfeiffer made her feature film debut with a starring role in Hollywood Knights. She went on to gain attention for her leading role performance in Grease 2 and then starred with Al Pacino in Brian DePalma’s Scarface. She later joined Cher and Susan Sarandon as The Witches of Eastwick, opposite Jack Nicholson.

Through her production company Via Rosa, Pfeiffer has developed her own projects, including the film adaptation of Jane Smiley’s Pulitzer Prize winning novel A Thousand Acres.  She also produced and starred in the dramatic story of a mother’s journey to recapture her relationship with her missing son in The Deep End of the Ocean.

Her additional acting credits include such diverse films as Ladyhawke, Tequila Sunrise with Mel Gibson, the blockbuster Batman Returns, Wolf, which reunited her with Jack Nicholson, Dangerous Minds, Up Close & Personal, opposite Robert Redford, “To Gillian on Her 37th Birthday, One Fine Day opposite George Clooney; DreamWorks’ animated epic The Prince of Egypt, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Story of Us, with Bruce Willis, and last summer’s smash What Lies Beneath, opposite Harrison Ford. She is also starring in I am Sam along side Sean Penn.