Michelle Pfeiffer (Actor)

Reviews of Michelle Pfeiffer Movies

Looking for reviews of Michelle Pfeiffer movies? Cinafilm has a total of 21,756 reviews across 51 movies.

Movies starring Michelle Pfeiffer have generally received positive reviews and hold an average score of 62%.

Avengers: Endgame - released in 2019 - is Michelle Pfeiffer's highest rated movie, with a score of 86% based on 432 reviews.

The lowest rated film from Michelle Pfeiffer is Charlie Chan and the Curse of the Dragon Queen - released in 1981 - with a score of 42% based on 6 reviews.

Actor Biography

Michelle Marie Pfeiffer (born April 29, 1958) is an American actress and producer. She has received many accolades, including a Golden Globe Award, and three nominations for Academy Award.

Pfeiffer began to pursue in acting career in 1978 and had her first leading role in the musical film Grease 2 (1982). Frustrated with being typecast as the token pretty girl, she actively pursued more serious material and had her breakthrough role as a gangster moll Elvira Hancock in the crime film Scarface (1983). Further success came with leading roles in the fantasy feature The Witches of Eastwick (1987) and the comedy Married to the Mob (1988). Her roles in Dangerous Liaisons (1988) and The Fabulous Baker Boys (1989) garnered her two consecutive Academy Award nomination, for Best Supporting Actress and Best Actress, respectively; her portrayal of lounge singer Susie Diamond in the latter is one of the most acclaimed of her career.

Pfeiffer went on to star as Catwoman / Selina Kyle in Tim Burton's superhero film Batman Returns (1992), following which she won the Silver Bear for Best Actress and earned a third Academy Award nomination for playing a troubled housewife in Love Field (1992). She continued to gain praise for her performances in the drama The Age of Innocence (1993) and White Oleander (2002), and the horror film Wolf (1994) and What Lies Beneath (2000). During this time, she therefore produced a series of films under her production company Via Rosa Productions. After a hiatus from acting in 2002, she returned with the musical Hairspray (2007). She received her first Emmy Award nomination for portraying Ruth Madoff in the HBO television movie The Wizard of Lies (2017), she went on to feature in the ensemble film Murder on the Orient Express (2017) and debuted to the Marvel Cinematic Universe as Janet Van Dyne starting Ant-Man and the Wasp (2018).

Michelle Pfeiffer has acted in films with Robert De Niro, Paul Rudd, Michael Douglas and Evangeline Lilly.

Michelle Pfeiffer has worked with these film directors: Tim Burton, John Landis, Garry Marshall and Peyton Reed.