Michelle Marie Pfeiffer (born April 29, 1958) is an American actress, singer, and producer. She began her acting career in 1978 and had her first leading role in the musical film Grease 2 (1982), before receiving mainstream attention in 1983 for her breakout performance in the crime film Scarface. Between 1987 and 1989 she starred in The Witches of Eastwick, Tequila Sunrise, Married to the Mob, and Dangerous Liaisons, for which she received an Academy Award nomination as Best Supporting Actress, The Russia House, and The Fabulous Baker Boys, for which she received a nomination as Best Actress, a nomination repeated in her 1992 starring role in Love Field. In 1992, Pfeiffer also co-starred in Batman Returns as Catwoman; later, Pfeiffer portrayed a number of leading roles in films such as Dangerous Minds (1995), What Lies Beneath (2000), Hairspray (2007), and Dark Shadows (2012).
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