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Michelle Marie Pfeiffer (/ˈf aɪ f ər / FY-fər; born April 29, 1958) is an American actress. One of Hollywood's most bankable stars during the 1980s and 1990s, her performances have earned her numerous awards, including a Golden Globe Award and a British Academy Film Award, as well as nominations for three Academy Awards and a Primetime Emmy Award.
Pfeiffer began her acting career with minor television and film roles, and received her first lead role in the critically and commercially unsuccessful Grease 2 (1982). Her breakout role as Elvira Hancock in Scarface (1983) brought her mainstream success, which was further enhanced with her performances in The Witches of Eastwick (1987) and Tequila Sunrise (1988). Pfeiffer received the first of six consecutive Golden Globe Award nominations for Married to the Mob (1988). Her performances in Dangerous Liaisons (1988) and The Fabulous Baker Boys (1989) earned her two consecutive Academy Award nominations for Best Supporting Actress and Best Actress, respectively, winning a Golden Globe Award for the latter.
Pfeiffer starred in The Russia House (1990) and Frankie and Johnny (1991). In 1992, she played Catwoman in Batman Returns and received her third Academy Award nomination for Love Field, followed by appearances in The Age of Innocence (1993) and Wolf (1994). She produced several of her own films with her company Via Rosa Productions, including Dangerous Minds (1995). Focusing on her family, Pfeiffer acted sporadically in the 2000s, appearing in What Lies Beneath (2000), White Oleander (2002), Hairspray and Stardust (both 2007).
After another hiatus, Pfeiffer rose to prominence in 2017 with performances in Where Is Kyra?, Mother!, and Murder on the Orient Express, and received her first Primetime Emmy Award nomination for playing Ruth Madoff in The Wizard of Lies. In 2020, she received her eighth Golden Globe Award nomination for French Exit. Pfeiffer has portrayed Janet van Dyne in the Marvel Cinematic Universe since 2018, beginning with Ant-Man and the Wasp.
Early life
Michelle Marie Pfeiffer was born on April 29, 1958, in Santa Ana, California, the second of four children of Donna Jean (née Taverna), a homemaker, and Richard Pfeiffer, an air-conditioning contractor.She has an older brother, Rick, and two younger sisters, Deedee and Lori.Both of her parents were originally from North Dakota.Her paternal grandfather was of German descent and her paternal grandmother was of English, Welsh, French, Irish, and Dutch ancestry, while her maternal grandfather was of Swiss-German-Italian ancestry and her maternal grandmother was of Swedish ancestry. The family moved to Midway City, another Orange County community about seven miles (11 km) away, where Pfeiffer spent her early years.
Pfeiffer attended Fountain Valley High School, from which she graduated in 1976. She worked as a check-out girl at Vons Supermarket, and attended Golden West College where she was a member of the Alpha Delta Pi sorority. After briefly training to be a court stenographer, she pursued an acting career. Pfeiffer won the Miss Orange County beauty pageant in 1978 and placed sixth in the Miss California contest that same year. Following her appearances in these pageants, Pfeiffer acquired an agent and began auditioning for television and film roles.।
Personal life
Pfeiffer with husband David E. Kelley at the 46th Primetime Emmy Awards in 1994
Soon after coming to Hollywood at age 20, Pfeiffer was taken in by a friendly couple who ran a metaphysical and vegetarian cult. They helped her stop drinking, smoking, and taking drugs. Over time, they took control of her entire life. Much of her money went to the group. "I was brainwashed," she said, "I gave them a lot of money.
At an acting class taught by Milton Katselas in Los Angeles, she met fellow budding actor Peter Horton and they began dating. They married in Santa Monica in 1981, and it was on their honeymoon that she learned she had gotten the lead role in Grease 2. Horton directed Pfeiffer in the 1985 ABC TV special, One Too Many, where she played the high school girlfriend of an alcoholic student (Val Kilmer); and in 1987, the real-life couple played an on-screen couple in the 'Hospital' segment of John Landis' comedy skit compilation Amazon Women on the Moon.
In 1988, Pfeiffer had an affair with John Malkovich, her co-star in Dangerous Liaisons, who was then married to Glenne Headly.
Pfeiffer and Horton decided to separate in 1988 and divorced two years later. Horton later cited her devotion to her work rather than her marriage as the reason for the separation. Pfeiffer had a three-year relationship with actor/producer Fisher Stevens, whom Pfeiffer met when she was starring as Olivia in the New York Shakespeare Festival production of Twelfth Night, where Stevens played Sir Andrew Aguecheek.
In 1993, Pfeiffer married television writer and producer David E. Kelley. She made a brief uncredited cameo appearance in an episode of Kelley's television series Picket Fences and played the title character in To Gillian on Her 37th Birthday, for which Kelley wrote the screenplay.She had entered private adoption proceedings before meeting Kelly, and in March 1993 adopted an infant daughter, Claudia Rose, who was christened on Pfeiffer and Kelly's wedding day.In 1994, Pfeiffer gave birth to a son, John Henry Kelly II, named after his grandfather and Pfeiffer's father-in-law, United States Hockey Hall of Fame coach John Henry "Jack" Kelly.
Pfeiffer experimented with a plant-based diet for a few years but later added meat to her diet and advocated a "Paleoish" diet
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