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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.Michelle
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