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2012 Top 10 Most Beautiful Women in the World Above 40
 Michelle Pfeiffer, Age 54 Years:
Michelle Marie Pfeiffer was born on April 29, 1958. She is an American actress.
She made her film debut in 1980 in The Hollywood Knights, but first garnered
mainstream attention with her performance in Scarface . Pfeiffer received
Academy Award nominations as Best Supporting Actress for Dangerous Liaisons and
Best Actress in The Fabulous Baker Boys and Love Field . She has had her
greatest commercial successes with Batman Returns , What Lies Beneath , and
Hairspray . Her other films include Ladyhawke , The Witches of Eastwick ,
Married to the Mob , The Age of Innocence , Wolf , Dangerous Minds , I Am Sam.
Pfeiffer was born in Santa Ana, California, the second of four children of
Richard Pfeiffer, a heating and air-conditioning contractor and Donna , a
housewife. She has one elder brother, Rick and two younger sisters, Dedee
Pfeiffer, a television and film actress and Lori Pfeiffer . Her father was of
German, Dutch, and Irish descent, and her mother was of Swiss and Swedish
ancestry. The family moved to Midway City, where Pfeiffer spent her childhood.
She attended Fountain Valley High School, graduating in 1975. She worked as a
check-out girl at Vons supermarket, and attended Golden West College. After a
short stint training to be a court stenographer, she decided upon an acting
career. She won the Miss Orange County beauty pageant in 1978, and participated
in Miss California the same year, finishing in sixth position. Following her
participation in these pageants, she acquired an acting agent and began to
audition for television and films.
During the 1990s, Pfeiffer attracted comment in the media for her beauty. In
1990, she appeared on the cover of People magazine's first 50 Most Beautiful
People In The World issue. She was again featured on the cover of the annual
issue in 1999, having made the "Most Beautiful" list a record six times during
the decade (1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1996, 1999). Pfeiffer is the first celebrity
to have appeared on the cover of the annual issue twice, and the only person to
be featured on the cover twice during the 1990s.
The Hitchcockian thriller What Lies Beneath with Harrison Ford, was a commercial
success, opening number one at the box office in July 2000. She then accepted
the role of highly strung lawyer Rita Harrison in I Am Sam opposite Sean Penn.
The movie received unfavorable reviews, The Seattle Post-Intelligencer wrote:
"Pfeiffer, apparently stymied by the bland clich�s that prop up her screechy
role, delivers her flattest, phoniest performance ever".
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her performance as murderous artist Ingrid Magnussen in White Oleander ,
alongside Alison Lohman in her film d�but, Ren�e Zellweger and Robin Wright
Penn, Pfeiffer garnered a substantial amount of critical praise. Stephen Holden
of the New York Times wrote that "Ms. Pfeiffer, giving the most complex screen
performance of her career, makes her Olympian seductress at once irresistible
and diabolical." Kenneth Turan of the Los Angeles Times described her as
"incandescent," bringing "power and unshakable will to her role as mother-master
manipulator" in a "riveting, impeccable performance." She earned Best Supporting
Actress Awards from the San Diego Film Critics Society and the Kansas City Film
Critics Circle, as well as a Screen Actors Guild Award nomination.
Pfeiffer also did voice work in two animated films during this period, voicing
Tzipporah in The Prince of Egypt , in which she introduced the Academy
Award�winning song, 'When You Believe', and Eris in Sinbad: Legend of the Seven
Seas Pfeiffer appeared in Garry Marshall's 2011 romantic comedy New Year's Eve,
and appeared opposite Chris Pine in People Like Us in 2012. She starred in an
adaptation of former television series Dark Shadows, directed by Tim Burton ,
alongside Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham Carter, and Chlo� Grace Moretz. In the
film, she plays the family Matriarch, Elizabeth Collins Stoddard. Pfeiffer is
set to play the "tough mother" and wife of actor Robert De Niro's character in
Luc Besson's mob-comedy Malavita which started production in August 2012. The
film is slated for an October 18, 2013 North America release. On November, 7,
2012, The Hollywood Reporter announced that Pfeiffer will star alongside Tim
Robbins and Chlo� Grace Moretz in the dark comedy, Man Down. "The movie is
described as being in the vein of American Beauty and The Royal Tenenbaums. It
is about a dysfunctional Yonkers, New York family whose lives are changed after
a photo of them ends up in the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, turning
them into celebrities.
In January 1993, Pfeiffer was set up on a blind date with television writer and
producer David E. Kelley, who took her to the movies to see Bram Stoker's
Dracula the following week, and they began dating seriously. They married on
November 13, 1993. Since then, she has made an uncredited cameo appearance in
one episode of Kelley's television series Picket Fences and played the title
character in To Gillian On Her 37th Birthday, for which Kelley wrote the
screenplay. Pfeiffer and Kelley have two children, Claudia and John. Pfeiffer
had entered into private adoption proceedings before she met Kelley. In March
1993, she adopted a newborn daughter, Claudia Rose, who was christened on
Pfeiffer and Kelley's wedding day. In August 1994, Pfeiffer gave birth to a son,
John Henry.
Having been a smoker for ten years and having a niece who suffered from leukemia
for ten years, she decided to support the American Cancer Society. Her charity
work also includes her support for the Humane Society. Pfeiffer is vegan.
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Dated 15 December 2012
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