- Born
- Birth nameMichelle Marie Pfeiffer
- Height1.71 m
- Michelle Pfeiffer was born in Santa Ana, California to Dick and Donna Pfeiffer. She has an older brother and two younger sisters - Dedee Pfeiffer, and Lori Pfeiffer, who both dabbled in acting and modeling but decided against making it their lives' work. She graduated from Fountain Valley High School in 1976, and attended one year at the Golden West College, where she studied to become a court reporter. But it was while working as a supermarket checker at Vons, a large Southern California grocery chain, that she realized her true calling. She was married to actor/director Peter Horton ("Gary" of Génération pub (1987)) in 1981. They were later divorced, and she then had a three year relationship with actor Fisher Stevens. When that didn't work out, Pfeiffer decided she didn't want to wait any longer before having her own family, and in March of 1993, she adopted a baby girl, Claudia Rose. On November 13th of the same year, she married lawyer-turned-writer/producer David E. Kelley, creator of Un drôle de shérif (1992), Chicago Hope, la vie à tout prix (1994), The practice: Bobby Donnell & associés (1997), and Boston Public (2000). On August 5, 1994 their son, John Henry was born.- IMDb mini biography by: Natica Jackson <natica@cris.com>
- SpousesDavid E. Kelley(November 13, 1993 - present) (2 children)Peter Horton(October 5, 1981 - October 1988) (divorced)
- ChildrenClaudia Rose KelleyJohn Henry Kelley
- ParentsDonna Jean Pfeiffer (Taverna)Richard Pfeiffer
- RelativesDedee Pfeiffer(Sibling)Lori Pfeiffer(Sibling)
- Does her own singing in Grease 2 (1982), Susie et les Baker Boys (1989), Le Prince d'Égypte (1998) and Hairspray (2007).
- Accidentally cut Al Pacino with broken glass while auditioning for Scarface (1983).
- During an A&E Biography (1987), she said that her Catwoman costume from Batman : Le Défi (1992) was vacuum-sealed once she was fitted into it for scenes, so she actually had only a short amount of time to perform before she would have to have it opened or she could become light-headed and pass out.
- Has been an an avid oil painter for most of her life.
- There was a study done of the faces of beautiful women, quantifying the ratio of the width of the mouth to the width of the nose, attempting to find the perfect proportions for the perfect face of feminine beauty (the ratio turns out to be something like 1.7). The movie star with the most perfect proportions for feminine facial beauty, based on this measure, turns out to be her.
- I still think people will find out that I'm really not very talented. I'm really not very good. It's all just been a big sham.
- [on playing her part of Claire Spencer in Apparences (2000)] "I thought about Drew Barrymore in the first Scream (1996) - I mean, ultimately that movie was more funny than scary, but the opening sequence was quite terrifying, and she portrayed terror in a way I'd never seen an actress do."
- [on wearing her costume in Batman : Le Défi (1992) for the first time]: "I thought to myself 'I can't move, I can't breathe, I can't think. I'm unhappy. I can't act'."
- [on cosmetic surgery] "If that nose or those jowls bother you, do it! But this epidemic of people losing sight of what looks good, the distortion that has been going on is creepy."
- I act for free, but I demand a huge salary as compensation for all the annoyance of being a public personality. In that sense, I earn every dime I make.
- Apparences (2000) - $10,500,000
- Aussi profond que l'océan (1999) - $12,000,000
- Esprits rebelles (1996) - $6,000,000
- Wolf (1994) - $6,000,000
- Batman : Le Défi (1992) - $3,000,000
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