Michelle Pfeiffer

 “There was a woman; She looked like porcelain, with deep blue eyes like a bird’s and her voice like an angel’s.” This description in Lady Hawk is still perfectly valid for her at 45 years old. Whoever was Miss Orange County was always clear – even though she hates being lied to – that her physical attractiveness would be the first thing to attract attention as soon as she appeared on the big screen. jonathan demmeHe warned it some time ago in a bittersweet way: “Her face is so beautiful that directors tend to choose her for her beauty, forgetting about the actress inside her.” But it has rained a lot. With more than 30 titles on her resume and 3 Oscar nominations, few can question Michelle Pfeiffer (1958, Santa Ana, California), her indisputable talent. Making it shine was due in part to her desire to circumvent her easy typecasting, based on alternating drama and comedy with ease. Although in the most immediate beginnings of her (television included) she swallowed with films whose name is better not to remember, and that in the insufferable and tacky Grease 2 was the only salvageable. More stimulating is to evoke her once again under a spell that prevents her from consummating love in Lady Hawk, or as a gangster ‘s wife in The Price of Power , or as a fickle actress in the delicious Dulce libertad . In the mid-eighties, while she was hardening in secondary roles and refining her style – she is a perfectionist to the point of boredom – she dreamed of reaching the level of her admired Meryl Streep . After being one of The Witches of Eastwick , critics are at her feet for her work in Married Everyone . Her consecration comes when she gets into the shoes of the vulnerable Madame Tourvel in Dangerous Liaisons and as the sexy Susie Diamond in The Fabulous Baker Boys , to whom she gave her most velvety singing voice.

With a foreign accent and dragging the “r” he started the nineties. The Russia house , along with Sean Connery , came to mark the constant in his career pairing with weight actors: Al Pacino ( Frankie & Johnny ), Jack Nicholson ( Lobo ) , Robert Redford ( Intimate and personal ), George Clooney ( One day unforgettable ), Bruce Willis ( History of Ours ). If she played a secondary role again, it was because she wanted to play bad (“they have a better time than the modest ones”) and nothing better than stuffed into the feline Catwoman suit, inBatman returns . He “wanted to work on one of those movies that grosses more than 100 million dollars,” and the experience gave him some clues to carry out the successful production of Above Everything. Before, she had the outburst of banishing the cliché “too pretty for the role” and with a disheveled appearance she broke her mold in the kitchen of Frankie & Johnny . Always convincing, Pfeiffer has delivered lessons on how to cry and suffer. There is enormous sensitivity in impossible love in the aristocratic New York of the 19th century in The Age of Innocence . Simply unique.

Dangerous minds , You will inherit the earth and, above all, her role as a cold lawyer for a mentally handicapped man in I am Sam , demonstrate her good form in the drama. And in one of fear, What the truth hides , her hand does not tremble when removing the mask from Harrison Ford himself .

True to his idea of ​​making films that interest him, he lavishes less and less. She wishes to spend more time with her second husband, David E. Kelly, and her children, to the point that in her contracts she requires the clause to return home to feed them. Too bad for the legion of admirers of this beautiful wonder… Michelle, don’t make us suffer too much, we want to see you more.