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Trivia
Birth Name: Michelle Pfeiffer
Date of birth:
29 April 1958
Place of birth:
Santa Ana, California, USA
Height:
5' 7½" (1.71 m)
Spouse:
David E. Kelley (13 November 1993 - present) 2 children, Peter
Horton (1981 - 1989) (divorced)
Graduated from high school in 3 years.
Used to work in a clothing store.
Chosen by People magazine as one of the 50
Most Beautiful People in the world. [1999]
Ranked #39 in Empire (UK) magazine's
"The Top 100 Movie Stars of All Time" list. [October 1997]
Born at 8:11am-PDT
She thought about looking for a man to
father a child with "no strings attached", but decided to
adopt instead. She adopted a daughter, 'Claudia Rose'.
She is in the horn section of B.B. King's
"In The Midnight Hour" music video.
She was in Coolio's
"Gangsta's Paradise" music video.
Won the Miss Orange County beauty pageant.
Was voted Best Dressed Female Movie Star
[1997]
Chosen by People magazine as one of the 50
Most Beautiful People in the world (1990)
Studied acting at The Beverly Hills
Playhouse.
Michelle's name was misspelled as 'Michele'
in the credits of her film, Callie & Son (1981) (TV).
Dated Fisher Stevens
Chosen by Empire magazine as one of the 100
Sexiest Stars in film history (#3). [1995]
Replaced Annette Bening as Catwoman in
Batman Returns (1992).
Does her own singing in The Prince of Egypt
(1998).
Was offered the role of Clarice Starling in
The Silence of the Lambs (1991).
The character Catwoman/Selina Kyle, who she
played in Batman Returns (1992), was voted #3 in Empire's "69
Sexiest Movie Character of All Time". [2000]
Turned down the Sharon
Stone role in Basic Instinct (1992).
While a teenage clerk at Vons Grocery Store
in California, c. 1974, she learned to tie maraschino cherry stems in
knots with her tongue.
Has an adopted daughter named Claudia Rose
(born in 1993) and a son named Jack Henry (born in 1994) with husband,
'David E. Kelly' .
Accidentally cut Al
Pacino with broken glass while auditioning for Scarface (1983).
Studied acting under Geraldine Page at
workshop at LA's Ahmanson Theater.
Her son's name is John Henry Kelley, named
after husband David's father, who has the exact same name.
Her first job as a performer was playing
Alice from Alice in Wonderland at Disneyland in the Main Street
Electrical Parade in the mid 1970s.
Measurements: 33 1/2B-24-34 (Source:
Celebrity Sleuth magazine)
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 Michelle Pfeiffer.
Attended Fountain Valley High School in
Fountain Valley, California
Sister of Lori Pfeiffer, and Dedee Pfeiffer.
Shares her birthday with actor Daniel
Day-Lewis.
Shares a birthday with actress Uma
Thurman and tennis star Andre Agassi.
Actor Val
Kilmer wrote poetry for her.
Is of German, Dutch, Swedish, Swiss and
Irish descent.
During an A&E Biography, Pfeiffer said
that her Catwoman costume from Batman Returns (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.
Shares her birthday with comedian Jerry
Seinfeld.
Was chosen to be on the cover of the first
ever "People Magazine's 50 Most Beautiful People in the World"
issue in 1990.
Chosen as one of People Magazine's 50 most
beautiful people in the world in 1991.
Chosen as one of People Magazine's 50 Most
Beautiful People In the World in 1992.
Chosen as one of People Magazine's 50 Most
Beautiful People in the World in 1993.
Chosen as one of People Magazine's 50 Most
Beautiful People in the World in 1996.
The first person to appear on People
Magazine's list of the 50 Most Beautiful People in the World a record 6
times (1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1996, 1999) and the first person to
appear on the cover of the special issue twice (1990 and 1999).
Barbara Walters called her and Julia
Roberts the most beautiful people she has ever interviewed.
Voted by Biography Magazine readers as the
most beautiful woman of the 1990s.
Chosen by People Magazine as one of the most
intriguing people of 1989.
Chosen by People Magazine as one of the most
intriguing people of 1988.
Turned down the role of the White Witch in
The Chronicles of Narnia, she was the only major Hollywood actor offered
the role.
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