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Entertainment July 12, 2017
If Michelle Pfeiffer hasn't stolen your heart, you're either lying or living under a rock.
Michelle Pfeiffer stole the spotlight when she played Stephanie in “Grease 2.” Everyone raved about her performance and she’s been a household name since then.
After attending Golden West College, she planned on becoming a court stenographer. But plans quickly changed and she decided to become an actress instead. Pfeiffer has been acting since 1979 and she’s hardly slowed down since.
She’s basically living is proof that a woman’s career in Hollywood doesn’t have to expire. To honor her legacy, ENTITY compiled a list of five facts you need to know about Michelle Pfeiffer.
Although she played the perfect Stephanie in “Grease 2,” she told Interview magazine that her role in “Grease 2” was a fluke. She never meant to audition for the role, and she didn’t consider herself a professional singer or dancer. But once she got the part, the excessive paparazzi brought her new problems.
“I am basically very private, and I’m really nervous about doing publicity,” Pfeiffer told Interview. “Every time I set up an interview, I say, ‘That’s it, this is my last one. I’ll do this because I committed to doing it, but I’m never doing another one.’ It was insane.”
But, “Grease 2” launched her career, making her role in the movie somehow fate. Since then, she’s grown to love and value her role as an actress.
“I can only speak for myself, but almost daily I say to myself, why are you doing this? There are movies that I have done, people that I’ve worked with, performances I’ve given that make me say, ‘That’s why I’m doing this,'” she added. “There are certain scenes you do in a movie that are like catching a wave, and you leave work feeling elated — almost as though you’ve purged something. That’s rare, but you do live for those moments.”
Since then, Pfeiffer has gone on to star in the 1983 film, “Scarface.” She’s also been in “Batman Returns,” “The Simpsons” and “Hairspray,” but those are only a few out of the long list of films she’s worked on.
Pfeiffer has a net worth of $80 million. She made around $10 million for “What Lies Beneath” and $12 million for “The Deep End of the Ocean,” so she brings in about $10 million a movie.
With about 60 TV shows and movies under her belt, this talented woman has established a well-respected profession for herself.
Pfeiffer has a daughter named Claudia Rose Pfeiffer and a son named John Henry Kelley. She adopted her daughter Claudia, and John is her first child with her first husband, David Kelly. Although she adopted Claudia before she met David, she told People that seeing David interact with Claudia helped her understand him better as a husband and father.
Both of her children are grown up now, but her break from acting to raise her children didn’t get in the way of her career. And it was even more helpful that Pfeiffer’s children were supportive of her decision to go back to work.
With a four year break between her movies – “The Family” in 2013 and “Where is Kyra?” in 2017 – Pfeiffer still made a strong comeback.
She told Interview magazine that she disappeared from Hollywood because she became too picky about her schedule. She wanted to focus on her kids and worried too much about where she would be shooting, how long she would be away and if it worked around her kids’ schedule. Ultimately, no one wanted to hire her.
But once she was ready to come back, it was perfect timing. “When the student is ready, the teacher appears,” Pfeiffer told Interview. “I’m more open now – my frame of mind – because I really want to work now, because I can. And these last few years I’ve had some really interesting opportunities.”
Aside from “Grease 2,” another one of Pfeiffer’s major roles was in the movie “Scarface” as Tony Montana’s trophy wife, Elvira Hancock.
Although everything may have looked perfect after the production, it wasn’t like that behind the scenes. As soon as she started working, she realized that the set was just a boy’s club. She told Interview magazine she used to go home crying every night because she was one of two women on the set and the treatment of her character in the movie made her uncomfortable.
But the fact that she toughed it shows how truly strong women can be. We’ve all been in a situation like that at some point, and we’re here for you, Michelle.
Regardless, she did a great job and she’s made a very big name for herself. With her many roles, she’s become the strong, independent actress any young woman can look up to.
