Michelle Pfeiffer

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Michelle Pfeiffer (2007)

Michelle Marie Pfeiffer (born April 29, 1958 in Santa Ana , California ) is an American actress .

youth

Michelle Pfeiffer was born as the second of four children to heating and air conditioning installer Richard Pfeiffer and his wife Donna (née Taverna). She has an older brother named Rick and two younger sisters, Dedee (also an actress) and Lori. Her ancestors on the paternal side come from Germany , Ireland and the Netherlands and on the maternal side from Switzerland and Sweden .

Pfeiffer spent most of her childhood in Midway City , where her family had settled and where she attended Fountain Valley High School. In 1976 she graduated from high school and then attended Golden West College in Huntington Beach , where she first studied shorthand . Increasingly dissatisfied with her choice of studies, she discovered her interest in acting . In 1978 she won the "Orange County Beauty Contest", took part in the "Miss California Contest" and came in 6th there. It was around this time that she began taking acting classes and auditioning for her first roles on television.

Career

Pfeiffer got her first role in an episode of the television series Fantasy Island in 1978. In 1979 she appeared several times in the sitcom Delta House , after which she made her film debut with the films Falling in Love Again (1980) and The Hollywood Knights (1980). In 1981 she played a supporting role in Charlie Chan and the Curse of the Dragon Queen, opposite Peter Ustinov , Lee Grant and Angie Dickinson . However, none of these films were a commercial success. Pfeiffer, meanwhile, continued to take acting classes at the Beverly Hills Playhouse drama school and starred in several television films before she got her first leading role in Grease 2 (1982). Although this sequel (in contrast to its predecessor Grease ) was a commercial failure, Pfeiffer received positive reviews for its representation. Brian De Palma initially refused to cast Pfeiffer for the role of Elvira Hancock, Tony Montana's wife in Scarface (1983), but was eventually retuned by leading actor Al Pacino , who had campaigned for Pfeiffer. The film was a commercial success and was able to increase Pfeiffer's profile significantly.

Pfeiffer (1985)

After the gangster drama, Pfeiffer took on the lead role alongside Jeff Goldblum in the comedy Upside Down in the Night in 1985 . In the same year she was seen in the fantasy film The Day of the Falcon , in which she played a young woman who fell victim to a curse alongside Rutger Hauer and Matthew Broderick . In 1986 she starred in Sweet Liberty on the side of Michael Caine . None of these films was particularly successful, but they were able to further increase Pfeiffer's level of awareness. In 1987 she starred in the commercially successful fantasy comedy The Witches of Eastwick at the side of Jack Nicholson , Cher and Susan Sarandon .

In 1988 she took on the title role in the film The Mafiosi Bride , which earned her a Golden Globe nomination. In the same year she also played major roles in Tequila Sunrise (alongside Mel Gibson and Kurt Russell ) and Dangerous Liaisons (alongside Glenn Close and John Malkovich ). For her performance in the latter film, she won a BAFTA award and received her first Oscar nomination. The following year, Pfeiffer took on the lead role alongside Jeff Bridges in The Fabulous Baker Boys , for which she received good reviews and won a Golden Globe. In addition, she received her second Oscar nomination for this role.

Pfeiffer at the 1990 Academy Awards

In 1990 she played the female lead in the agent thriller Das Russland-Haus alongside Sean Connery and in 1991 in the romance film Frankie & Johnny again alongside Al Pacino. Pfeiffer received a Golden Globe nomination for both roles. Pfeiffer's career has suffered not insignificantly from a very careful choice of roles since the 1990s. For example, she turned down the main role in The Silence of the Lambs , for which Jodie Foster ultimately received an Oscar, as well as a role in the later global success Basic Instinct , in which Sharon Stone finally played the female lead. In 1992, Pfeiffer took on the role of the cartoon character Catwoman in Tim Burton 's Return of Batman . The comic book adaptation was a commercial success and Pfeiffer's portrayal also earned praise from the critics. In the same year, the actress also played the lead role in the film drama Love Field , which, unlike the Batman film, failed completely at the box office. Nevertheless, Pfeiffer was able to book her third Oscar nomination and her fifth Golden Globe nomination for her role.

In Martin Scorsese's Time of Innocence , she played the leading female role alongside Daniel Day-Lewis in 1993 , for which she received her sixth Golden Globe nomination. The following year she starred again alongside Jack Nicholson in the fantasy thriller Wolf - Das Tier im Manne . The film received mixed reviews but became a modest box office success. In 1995 she played the lead role in the surprise hit Dangerous Minds, a former US Marine who took on a new job as a teacher.

In 1996 she took on the female lead in the films Up Close (alongside Robert Redford ) and Shadow of a Love . Both films, however, became commercial failures and also flunked criticism. From 1997 to 1999, Thousand Mornings (1997), Deep Like the Ocean (1998), A Midsummer Night's Dream (1999) and At Your Side (1999) were further failures. Pfeiffer's career was thus at a low point in the late 1990s.

In 2000, the actress was able to stabilize her career to some extent when she played the suspicious wife of Harrison Ford in the commercially successful horror thriller Shadow of Truth . Pfeiffer received a record fee of over ten million US dollars for this role. In 2001 and 2002 she took on one of the leading roles in the films Ich bin Sam and Weißer Oleander ; However, the successes of both productions were limited. In the latter film (a mother-daughter drama), Pfeiffer, who until then had always embodied sincere and good characters, played for the first time a bitter, mentally damaged individualist who gets into doing physical or mental harm to others.

In 2003 Pfeiffer lent her voice to the goddess Eris in the cartoon Sinbad - The Lord of the Seven Seas . She then withdrew from the film business for a few years in order to devote more time to her private life.

In 2007 Pfeiffer returned to acting and took on leading roles in Mainly In Love and Hairspray . While the former flopped at the box office, the latter became a decent success. In the same year she also played a supporting role in the fantasy film Der Sternwanderer, a wicked witch who is in search of eternal youth. This film was also a modest success, but Pfeiffer received good reviews for its portrayal.

In August 2007 Pfeiffer was honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame . Her next film projects, Stronger Together - Personal Effects and Chéri - A Comedy of Vanities , both completely failed financially in 2009 and also fell through with criticism. Her next film, Happy New Year , in which Pfeiffer starred alongside many other well-known film stars, also received negative reviews.

In 2012, about 20 years after Batman's return , Pfeiffer worked again with Tim Burton, who cast her (alongside Johnny Depp ) for the female lead in his new film project Dark Shadows . The film received mixed reviews, but it was granted only modest financial success. Her next two films, Zeit zu Leben (2012) and Malavita - The Family (2013), on the other hand, both suffered commercial failures.

In 2017 she took on a supporting role in Kenneth Branagh's crime film Murder on the Orient Express . In 2018, Pfeiffer played another supporting role in the Marvel film Ant-Man and the Wasp . Both films (especially the latter) became huge box office hits. In 2019, she repeated her role from Ant-Man and the Wasp with a cameo in Avengers: Endgame , which became the most financially successful film of all time. In 2019 she took on the role of the antagonist in the Disney film Maleficent: Forces of Darkness .

Private life

Pfeiffer with her husband, David E. Kelley, (1994)

From 1981 to 1988 Pfeiffer was married to the actor Peter Horton . After her marriage to Horton, she was in a relationship with actor and producer Fisher Stevens for three years . In 1993 she married David E. Kelley , creator of the television series Picket Fences , Chicago Hope , Ally McBeal and Boston Legal . With him she has a son, John Henry (* 1994). Between the two marriages, Pfeiffer adopted her daughter Claudia Rose (* 1993).

Filmography (selection)

Awards

Oscar

Golden Globe Award

British Academy Film Award

Primetime Emmy Award

  • 2017 : Nomination for best supporting actress in a miniseries or a television film for The Wizard of Lies - Das Lügengenie

Screen Actors Guild Award

Critics' Choice Movie Awards

Young Artist Awards

  • 1982: Nomination as Best Young Motion Picture Actress for Grease 2

Saturn Awards

  • 1985: Nomination for Best Actress for The Day of the Falcon
  • 1994: Nomination for best leading actress for Wolf - Das Tier im Manne
  • 2000: Nomination for Best Actress for Shadow of Truth
  • 2007: Nomination for Best Supporting Actress for Der Sternwanderer

MTV Movie Awards

  • 1992: Most Desirable Actress nomination for Batman Returns
  • 1992: Nomination for Best Film Kiss in Batman's Return (with Michael Keaton )
  • 1995: Nomination for Best Actress for Dangerous Minds
  • 1995: Nomination for Most Desirable Actress for Dangerous Minds

Chicago Film Critics Association Awards

  • 1988: Nomination for Best Supporting Actress for Dangerous Liaisons
  • 1989: Best Actress (The Fabulous Baker Boys)

National Society of Film Critics Awards

  • 1988: Nomination for Best Supporting Actress for Dangerous Liaisons

Venice International Film Festival

  • 1993: Best Actress (Time of Innocence)

Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards

  • 1989: Best Actress (The Fabulous Baker Boys)

National Board Review Association Awards

  • 1989: Best Actress (The Fabulous Baker Boys)

National Society of Film Critics Awards

  • 1989: Best Actress (The Fabulous Baker Boys)

New York Film Critics Circle Awards

  • 1989: Best Actress (The Fabulous Baker Boys)
  • 1992: Best Actress (Love Field)

American Comedy Awards

  • 1989: Nomination for Funniest Female Actor in a Feature Film for The Fabulous Baker Boys

Silver bear

  • 1992: Best Actress (Love Field)

Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics Association Award

  • 1993: Nomination for Best Actress for Time of Innocence

David di Donatello

  • 1993: Nomination for Best Foreign Actress for Time of Innocence

Blockbuster Entertainment Awards

  • 1995: Nomination as Favorite Actress - Drama for Dangerous Minds
  • 1996: Favorite Actress - Comedy / Romance (days like this)
  • 2000: Favorite Actress - Suspense (Shadow of Truth)

Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards

  • 1996: Nomination as Favorite Actress for days like this

Kansas City Film Critics Circle Awards

  • 2002: Best Supporting Actress (White Oleander)

San Diego Film Critics Society Awards

  • 2002: Best Supporting Actress (White Oleander)

Washington DC Area Film Critics Association Awards

  • 2002: Nomination for Best Supporting Actress for White Oleander

Hollywood Film Festival

  • 2007: Ensemble of the Year (Hairspray)

Palm Springs International Film Festival

  • 2007: Ensemble Cast (Hairspray)

Trivia

  • Pfeiffer also appeared in the music clip for Coolio's Gangsta’s Paradise , which was part of the soundtrack of her film Dangerous Minds .
  • Her permanent dubbing voice from the late 1980s was Katja Nottke . Since 2007, Pfeiffer has been dubbed almost exclusively by Andrea Aust .

Web links

Commons : Michelle Pfeiffer  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Interviews

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Michelle Pfeiffer. In: IMDb. Retrieved November 21, 2019 .
  2. ↑ DeDee Pfeiffer - Movie and Film Biography and Filmography . In: AllRovi . Rovi Corporation. Archived from the original on July 18, 2012. Retrieved June 11, 2011.
  3. ↑ Michelle Pfeiffer - Pfeiffer: 'I'm A Multi-Cultural Mutt' . In: Contact Music , Contactmusic.com Ltd, February 1, 2008. Retrieved November 21, 2019.  
  4. ↑ Michelle Pfeiffer - Hollywood Walk of Fame . In: Hollywood Walk of Fame's Official Site . Hollywood Chamber of Commerce. Retrieved November 21, 2019.
  5. ↑ Tim Burton & Michelle Pfeiffer on Dark Shadows, Reteaming After 20 Years and the New Catwoman on dreadcentral.com, May 9, 2012, accessed November 21, 2019.
  6. ↑ Andrea Aust. In: synchronkartei.de. German synchronous file , accessed on November 21, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Pfeiffer, Michelle
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Pfeiffer, Michelle Marie (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION US-american actress
DATE OF BIRTH April 29, 1958
PLACE OF BIRTH Santa Ana , California, USA