Film actress, born in Santa Ana, California.
Before Hollywood discovered her, she was a check-out girl at a local supermarket,
and reigned as Miss Orange County. Though one of her first films was the
less-than-memorable Grease II (1982), Pfeiffer proved she had staying-power
in
1983's Scarface, opposite Al Pacino.
Throughout the 80s she demonstrated her range
, along with her considerable box-office draw, in The Witches of Eastwick
(1987), co-starring Jack Nicholson, Cher, and Susan Sarandon, Married to
the Mob (1988), Dangerous Liaisons (1988), with Glenn Close and John Malkovich,
and The Fabulous Baker Boys (1989). Her other notable works include The
Russia House (1990) with Sean Connery, Frankie and Johnny (1991), again
with Al Pacino, Batman
Returns (1992), as a dangerous, leather-clad Cat Woman, Wolf (1993),
Dangerous Minds (1995), and One Fine Day(1996)with George Clooney.
In 1997 Pfeiffer began to produce, as well
in star in, her projects, including adaptations of Jane Smiley's A Thousand
Acres and Jacquelyn Mitchard's The Deep End of the Ocean. She led an all-star
cast in the 1999 film, William Shakepeare's A Midsummer's Night Dream,
and co-starred
with Bruce Willis in Rob Reiner's The Story of Us (1999).
Pfeiffer adopted a daughter, Claudia Rose,
in 1993. Later that year, she met and married TV writer-producer David
Kelley (Chicago Hope, Picket Fences, Ally McBeal, The Practice). He also
adopted Claudia, and they had a son, John Henry, in 1994. |
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