Michelle Pfeiffer: Secrets Of A Hollywood Beauty
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A southern-California girl who passed on a stable career as a court stenographer, Michelle Pfeiffer became one of Hollywood's most consistently shimmering stars, a dazzling screen presence through 43 films! Eleven magic moments from her spectacular career follow....
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1979 Michelle makes her TV debut as a character known as “The Bombshell” in seven episodes of the sitcom “Delta House” opposite Peter Fox (left) based on the hit movie “Animal House.” She also auditions to be Kate Jackson’s replacement on “Charlie’s Angels,” a role that goes to Shelley Hack.
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1981 The actress walks down the aisle with “thirtysomething” star Peter Horton. They have no children and end up divorcing seven years later. Michelle appears in three made-for-TV films, guest-stars on “Fantasy Island” and is in “Charlie Chan and the Curse of the Dragon Queen.”
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1982 Pfeiffer finally gets her breakout role, playing Stephanie in “Grease 2” opposite Maxwell Caulfield after pop star Debbie Harry turned it down. Although the film is a bomb, it catapults Pfeiffer to stardom.
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1983 After top stars turn it down, Michelle lands the role of Elvira in “Scarface,” and accidentally cuts Al Pacino’s face during auditioning.
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1987 In her first legitimate box-office smash, Pfeiffer, Cher and Susan Sarandon play three single women mesmerized by a mysterious, devilish stranger played by Jack Nicholson in the comedy-fantasy flick “The Witches of Eastwick.”
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1988 Pfeiffer stars in three hot films — “Married to the Mob,” “Tequila Sunrise” and “Dangerous Liaisons” (opposite John Malkovich), earning an Oscar nod for Supporting Actress, but losing to Geena Davis in “The Accidental Tourist.”
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1989 Michelle doesn’t have to wait long for her second Oscar nomination, for her portrayal of escort-turned-singer Susie Diamond in “The Fabulous Baker Boys,” played by real-life brothers Jeff and Beau Bridges. This time she’s beaten out for the Best Actress award by Jessica Tandy in “Driving Miss Daisy.”
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1992 Michelle earns a third Oscar nomination, a Best Actress nod for “Love Field,” the first movie released by her production company, Via Rosa. She plays a woman obsessed with Jackie Kennedy, but loses the Best Actress Oscar to Emma Thompson in “Howards End.” Pfeiffer’s better-known role this year is Catwoman in “Batman Returns” — a portrayal still regarded as the pinnacle of on-screen Catwomen.
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1993 Michelle marries current hubby David E. Kelley, writer/producer of several hit TV series, including “Ally McBeal,” “Boston Legal,” “L.A. Law” and “Doogie Howser, M.D.” She also voices Mindy in “The Simpsons” episode titled “The Last Temptation of Homer.” They adopt daughter Claudia Rose (right), now 24, and have son John Henry, now 22.
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2012 In what is her most recent blockbuster movie appearance, Michelle plays matriarch Elizabeth Collins Stoddard in “Dark Shadows,” a horror comedy based on the TV soap opera, co-starring Johnny Depp as her relative, the vampire Barnabas Collins.
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TODAY At age 59, Michelle has four projects this year, including her new HBO film “The Wizard of Lies,” in which she plays Ruth Madoff to De Niro’s Ponzi scheme king Bernie Madoff, and the upcoming ensemble crime drama “Murder on the Orient Express,” due out in November.
A southern-California girl who passed on a stable career as a court stenographer, Michelle Pfeiffer became one of Hollywood's most consistently shimmering stars, a dazzling screen presence through 43 films! Eleven magic moments from her spectacular career follow....
Photo credit: Getty Images
1979 Michelle makes her TV debut as a character known as “The Bombshell” in seven episodes of the sitcom “Delta House” opposite Peter Fox (left) based on the hit movie “Animal House.” She also auditions to be Kate Jackson’s replacement on “Charlie’s Angels,” a role that goes to Shelley Hack.
Photo credit: Getty Images
1981 The actress walks down the aisle with “thirtysomething” star Peter Horton. They have no children and end up divorcing seven years later. Michelle appears in three made-for-TV films, guest-stars on “Fantasy Island” and is in “Charlie Chan and the Curse of the Dragon Queen.”
Photo credit: Getty Images
1982 Pfeiffer finally gets her breakout role, playing Stephanie in “Grease 2” opposite Maxwell Caulfield after pop star Debbie Harry turned it down. Although the film is a bomb, it catapults Pfeiffer to stardom.
Photo credit: Getty Images
1983 After top stars turn it down, Michelle lands the role of Elvira in “Scarface,” and accidentally cuts Al Pacino’s face during auditioning.
Photo credit: Getty Images
1987 In her first legitimate box-office smash, Pfeiffer, Cher and Susan Sarandon play three single women mesmerized by a mysterious, devilish stranger played by Jack Nicholson in the comedy-fantasy flick “The Witches of Eastwick.”
Photo credit: Getty Images
1988 Pfeiffer stars in three hot films — “Married to the Mob,” “Tequila Sunrise” and “Dangerous Liaisons” (opposite John Malkovich), earning an Oscar nod for Supporting Actress, but losing to Geena Davis in “The Accidental Tourist.”
Photo credit: Getty Images
1989 Michelle doesn’t have to wait long for her second Oscar nomination, for her portrayal of escort-turned-singer Susie Diamond in “The Fabulous Baker Boys,” played by real-life brothers Jeff and Beau Bridges. This time she’s beaten out for the Best Actress award by Jessica Tandy in “Driving Miss Daisy.”
Photo credit: Getty Images
1992 Michelle earns a third Oscar nomination, a Best Actress nod for “Love Field,” the first movie released by her production company, Via Rosa. She plays a woman obsessed with Jackie Kennedy, but loses the Best Actress Oscar to Emma Thompson in “Howards End.” Pfeiffer’s better-known role this year is Catwoman in “Batman Returns” — a portrayal still regarded as the pinnacle of on-screen Catwomen.
Photo credit: Files
1993 Michelle marries current hubby David E. Kelley, writer/producer of several hit TV series, including “Ally McBeal,” “Boston Legal,” “L.A. Law” and “Doogie Howser, M.D.” She also voices Mindy in “The Simpsons” episode titled “The Last Temptation of Homer.” They adopt daughter Claudia Rose (right), now 24, and have son John Henry, now 22.
Photo credit: Getty Images
2012 In what is her most recent blockbuster movie appearance, Michelle plays matriarch Elizabeth Collins Stoddard in “Dark Shadows,” a horror comedy based on the TV soap opera, co-starring Johnny Depp as her relative, the vampire Barnabas Collins.
Photo credit: Getty Images
TODAY At age 59, Michelle has four projects this year, including her new HBO film “The Wizard of Lies,” in which she plays Ruth Madoff to De Niro’s Ponzi scheme king Bernie Madoff, and the upcoming ensemble crime drama “Murder on the Orient Express,” due out in November.
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