When was michelle pfeiffer

She gained iconic status in this faintly underpar Batman film, at least partly because of her truly outrageous black-leatherette outfit plus mask, designed by Bob Ringwood and Mary Vogt, rivalled only at the time by the safety-pin dress Liz Hurley wore to the premiere of Four Weddings and a Funeral two years later. Al Pacino is the short-order cook, Johnny, who falls in love with the hardbitten waitress, Frankie, played by Pfeiffer. The two have a definite chemistry, although perhaps of the actorly sort.

Pfeiffer has a great scene when the besotted Johnny persuades her one evening to open her robe so that he can gaze at her naked body for 15 seconds; Frankie has to keep talking to ride out the embarrassment and finds herself nervously monologuing on the bizarrely unerotic subject of a pet parakeet that she had to throw in the rubbish bin when it died.

It is fair to say this film is an acquired taste that a proportion of its audience found themselves unable to acquire over its running time. Javier Bardem and Jennifer Lawrence play a creatively blocked writer and his young wife, who allow a strange couple into their house, played by Ed Harris and a superbly witty and confident Pfeiffer.

She is at first a gorgeous and haughty creature who boldly asks him to dance in a nightclub and mocks his Cuban background.

Then, when the truth of their lives together is revealed to her, she retreats into a torpor of cocaine addiction, depression and self-hate. In danger of being upstaged by Pacino and Mastrantonio, Pfeiffer maintains the frangible veneer that the character needs. Pfeiffer boldly tackles an emotional movie that comes close to Sirk-ian melodrama, earning her one of her three Academy Award nominations.

She plays an unhappily married 60s Dallas housewife called Lurene, who fan-worships Jackie Kennedy. When poor, lonely Lurene hears in that John and Jackie Kennedy are to make their fateful visit to Dallas, she makes sure she is going to see the mega-celebrity couple in the flesh. When she is caught up in the terrible calamity, she is overwhelmed by a sense of purpose and resolves to go to Washington for the state funeral and in doing so becomes involved in a strange situation with an African American man, played by Dennis Haysbert.

It is a strange film — overcomplicated, overwrought; the kind of movie that had not been popular for decades — but Pfeiffer gives an earnest, heartfelt performance. She is the beautiful, sensitive and virtuous Madame de Tourvel, to whom the dissolute, predatory Vicomte de Valmont, played by John Malkovich, starts making his sinuous advances.

But Madame de Tourvel has to change, gradually: she has to be credibly pure and scandalised by Valmont, but must also plausibly thaw and glow and be amused and finally overwhelmed by his candid overtures. She has to fall in love with the jaded Valmont, and he with her.

Pfeiffer is impeccably cast and gives a very well-judged performance, bringing an aristocratic mien to the film. Here is the one movie that proved Pfeiffer can play comedy and that her beautiful movie-star face can be animated by the thrill of delivering funny lines.

In this offbeat caper, Jonathan Demme dramatised the mob-wife scenario that Martin Scorsese was to address later in Goodfellas, although the ironised comic tone is closer to The Sopranos. But she is sick of hanging out with all the other mafia wives and dismayed at the bad habits that her little boy is getting into, such as rooking all the other kids in the neighbourhood with the three-card monte.

She is a widow, but she wants to divorce the mob. After briefly reprising the role in 's Avengers: Endgame , the actress was appeared in Maleficent: Mistress of Evil later that year. Kelley later that year. The couple added to their family in , with the birth of their son, John Henry.

Pfeiffer had previously been married to actor Peter Horton. We strive for accuracy and fairness. If you see something that doesn't look right, contact us! Subscribe to the Biography newsletter to receive stories about the people who shaped our world and the stories that shaped their lives.

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