| Biography | Michelle Marie Pfeiffer (born 29 April 1958) is an American actress, singer, and producer. She began her acting career in 1978 and had her first leading role in the musical film Grease 2 (1982), before receiving mainstream attention in 1983 for her breakout performance in the crime film Scarface. Between 1987 and 1989 she starred in The Witches of Eastwick, Tequila Sunrise, Married to the Mob, and Dangerous Liaisons, for which she received an Academy Award nomination as Best Supporting Actress, The Russia House, and The Fabulous Baker Boys, for which she received a nomination as Best Actress, a nomination repeated in her 1992 starring role in Love Field. In 1992, Pfeiffer also co-starred in Batman Returns as Catwoman; later, Pfeiffer portrayed a number of leading roles in films such as Dangerous Minds (1995), What Lies Beneath (2000), Hairspray (2007), and Dark Shadows (2012).
Pfeiffer was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress and won the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role for Dangerous Liaisons (1988), and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress and won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress Motion Picture Drama for The Fabulous Baker Boys (1989). She received a third Oscar nomination for Love Field (1992). Her other notable film roles include The Witches of Eastwick (1987), Married to the Mob (1988), Frankie and Johnny (1991), The Age of Innocence (1993), Wolf (1994), White Oleander (2002), Mother! (2017) and Murder on the Orient Express (2017). She received her first Emmy Award nomination for portraying Ruth Madoff in the HBO television film The Wizard of Lies (2017). |