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Michelle Pfeiffer Profile |
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Birth Date: April 29, 1958
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Birth Place: Santa Ana, California, USA
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Birth Name: Michelle Marie Pfeiffer
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Height: 5'8"
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Biography |
Michelle Pfeiffer was born April 29, 1958, in Santa Ana,
California. Parents Dick and Donna, relocated the Pfeiffer
family to Midway City, and finally to Fountain Valley.
With an older brother Rick and 2 younger sisters, Dedee and
Lori, Michelle was considered the tough kid and even the
school bully, rather than the fragile beauty we would
picture her to be.
Although Michelle was always a stubborn drama queen when she
was young, she did not realize until later that she wanted
to be an actress. While attending Fountain Valley High
School, she entered the world of the employed by working as
a salesgirl at a local clothing store. After her 1976 high
school graduation, Michelle went off to study court
reporting at Golden West College, while working as a
checkout clerk at a local grocery store.
Not satisfied with her studies or her ambition, Michelle
decided she wanted a change and decided to go for an acting
career. She knew that beauty contests would be a good place
to start since that would give her recognition and the
chance to meet an agent, so she entered and won the 1978
Miss Orange County beauty pageant.
Michelle ditched her court reporting classes for acting
classes, and made her onscreen debut with one line on the
series Fantasy Island. After an appearance on Delta House
and the film Falling In Love Again, Michelle was cast as the
lead in the disappointing sequel to Grease. Although the
film was a flop, those who did see it really took to the new
actress. She then got her big break when she was cast as Al
Pacino's wife in Scarface. Actually, director Brian De Palma
originally didn't want to give her the part, until he saw
her personally during casting
While her career was getting a jumpstart, her personal life
experienced some confusion when she allegedly became
involved with a cult in the early '80s. Director Peter
Horton, who was a classmate of Michelle's during acting
classes, began to date the California bombshell, and
eventually rescued her from the clutches of the cult. Horton
and Michelle were married in 1981.
After bit parts in small movies, Michelle co-starred with
Cher, Susan Sarandon and Jack Nicholson in the wacky The
Witches of Eastwick. She was gradually beginning to get
noticed, especially after the title role in the made-for-TV
movie, Natica Jackson. But just as the '80s were drawing to
a close, Michelle started to work nonstop, starring in
1988's Married to the Mob, Tequila Sunrise and most notably
Dangerous Liaisons, for which she was nominated for a Best
Supporting Actress Oscar. In 1989, Michelle made heads turn
and critics take notice in her role as lounge singer Susie
Diamond in The Fabulous Baker Boys.
Her fabulous role garnered her a Best Actress Oscar
nomination, as well as the New York Film Critics Award,
Chicago Film Festival Award, and Golden Globe Award (to name
a few), all for Best Actress in 1990. After her 1990 divorce
from Horton, Michelle probably didn't even have the time to
think about being single -- especially because she hardly
ever was, what with dating Fisher Stevens, John Malkovich
and Michael Keaton.
Her title as one of the most versatile actresses of today
can be proven by the variety of films she has done: a
Russian woman in 1990's The Russia House; a jaded waitress
in 1991's Frankie & Johnny; Catwoman in 1992's Batman
Returns; a Jacqueline Kennedy-obsessed housewife in Love
Field (for which she earned her second Best Actress Oscar
nomination); an inner-city teacher in 1995's Dangerous
Minds; an ambitious single mother in One Fine Day (which she
also produced); a fairy queen in 1999's A Midsummer Night's
Dream with Calista Flockhart; and a haunted wife in 2000's
What Lies Beneath, opposite Harrison Ford.
Michelle practically has a reserved spot on People
magazine's 50 Most Beautiful People list, having appeared on
the list at least 4 times, and lucky television producer
David E. Kelley gets to see the classic beauty on a daily
basis. Michelle married the Ally McBeal and The Practice
producer in 1993. The couple has an adopted daughter,
Claudia Rose, and a son, John Henry.
One thing that Michelle has proved in her 2 decades of
acting is that she's still as beautiful and talented as she
was when donning that latex catsuit in Batman Returns, and
she still knows how to purr better than ever before. |
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Other
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Graduated from high school in 3 years.
Used to work in a clothing store.
Ranked #39 in Empire (UK) magazine's "The Top 100 Movie
Stars of All Time" list. [October 1997]
Born at 8:11am-PDT
She thought about looking for a man to father a child with
"no strings attached", but decided to adopt instead. She
adopted a daughter, 'Claudia Rose'.
She is in the horn section of B.B. King's "In The Midnight
Hour" music video.
She was in Coolio's "Gangsta's Paradise" music video.
Won the Miss Orange County beauty pageant.
Was voted Best Dressed Female Movie Star [1997]
Chosen by People magazine as one of the 50 Most Beautiful
People in the world (1990)
Studied acting at The Beverly Hills Playhouse.
Michelle's name was misspelled as 'Michele' in the credits
of her film, Callie & Son (1981) (TV).
Dated Fisher Stevens
Chosen by Empire magazine as one of the 100 Sexiest Stars in
film history (#3). [1995]
Replaced Annette Bening as Catwoman in Batman Returns
(1992).
Does her own singing in The Prince of Egypt (1998).
Was offered the role of Clarice Starling in _Silence of the
Lambs, The (1991)_ .
The character Catwoman/Selina Kyle, who she played in Batman
Returns (1992), was voted #3 in Empire's "69 Sexiest Movie
Characters of All Time". [2000]
Turned down the Sharon Stone role in Basic Instinct (1992).
While a teenage clerk at Vons Grocery Store in California,
c. 1974, she learned to tie maraschino cherry stems in knots
with her tongue.
Has an adopted daughter named Claudia Rose (born in 1993)
and a son named Jack Henry (born in 1994) with husband,
David E. Kelley, named after David's father.
Accidentally cut Al Pacino with broken glass while
auditioning for Scarface (1983).
Studied acting under Geraldine Page at workshop at LA's
Ahmanson Theater.
Her son's name is John Henry Kelley, named after husband
David's father, who has the exact same name.
Her first job as a performer was playing Alice from Alice in
Wonderland at Disneyland in the Main Street Electrical
Parade in the mid 1970s.
Measurements: 33 1/2B-24-34 (Source: Celebrity Sleuth
magazine)
There was a study done of the faces of beautiful women,
quantifying the ratio of the width of the mouth to the width
of the nose, attempting to find the perfect proportions for
the perfect face of feminine beauty (the ratio turns out to
be something like 1.7). The movie star with the most perfect
proportions for feminine facial beauty, based on this
measure, turns out to be Michelle Pfeiffer.
Attended Fountain Valley High School in Fountain Valley,
California
Sister of Lori Pfeiffer, and Dedee Pfeiffer.
Shares her birthday with actor Daniel Day-Lewis.
Actor Val Kilmer wrote poetry for her.
Is of German, Dutch, Swedish, Swiss and Irish descent.
During an A&E Biography, she said that her Catwoman costume
from Batman Returns (1992) was vacuum-sealed once she was
fitted into it for scenes, so she actually had only a short
amount of time to perform before she would have to have it
opened or she could become light-headed and pass out.
Shares her birthday with comedian Jerry Seinfeld.
Was chosen to be on the cover of the first ever "People
Magazine's 50 Most Beautiful People in the World" issue in
1990.
Chosen as one of People Magazine's 50 most beautiful people
in the world in 1991.
Chosen as one of People Magazine's 50 Most Beautiful People
In the World in 1992.
Chosen as one of People Magazine's 50 Most Beautiful People
in the World in 1993.
Chosen as one of People Magazine's 50 Most Beautiful People
in the World in 1996.
Was chosen to be on the cover of the first ever "People
Magazine's 50 Most Beautiful People in the World" issue in
1990; appeared on the list a record 6 times (1990, 1991,
1992, 1993, 1996, 1999) and the first person to appear on
the cover of the special issue twice (1990 and 1999).
Barbara Walters called her and Julia Roberts the most
beautiful people she has ever interviewed.
Voted by Biography Magazine readers as the most beautiful
woman of the 1990s.
Chosen by People Magazine as one of the most intriguing
people of 1988 and 1989.
Chosen by People Magazine as one of the most intriguing
people of 1988.
Turned down the role of the White Witch in The Chronicles of
Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (2005); she was
the only major Hollywood star offered the role.
Sister-in-law of Jude Cole. |
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