Following another hiatus during the early 2010s, Pfeiffer returned to prominence in 2017 with performances in Where is Kyra?, Mother!, and Murder on the Orient Express, and received her first Primetime Emmy Award nomination for playing Ruth Madoff in The Wizard of Lies. [223] However, Karney felt the declining quality of her films towards the end of the century was a sobering reminder that "the great female movie star of the Golden Age is no more". However, the film was only distributed on home video markets domestically. Suffolk County (2018) - Full Cast & Crew - IMDb [237], The actress has received significant media attention for her appearance, which Turner Classic Movies described as"as an example of exceptional Hollywood beauty". Queen [272], Having been a smoker for ten years, and having a niece who suffered from leukemia for ten years, Pfeiffer decided to support the American Cancer Society. Her reported salary was US$1 million, with an advance on 15 percent of the gross. Yeah, best stay out of her way. [107] Reviews for I Could Never Be Your Woman were moderately positive,[108] with critic James Berardinelli finding Pfeiffer and Rudd to "have adequate chemistry to pull off the romance," in what he described as an "enjoyable romantic comedy that has enough going for it to make it worth a recommendation. DROPKICK MURPHYS share video For Queen Of Suffolk County [152] She also recorded the original song "Never Forget" for the film's soundtrack. Audio of a news clip opens the track. [55], The first film her company produced was the independent drama Love Field, which was released in 1992. She is the only female character apart from Princess Catherine Willoughby, Duchess of Suffolk - The Tudors Wiki The Dropkick Murphys formed in 1996 out of Quincy, Massachusetts. [8] She worked as a check-out girl at Vons supermarket, and attended Golden West College[9] where she was a member of Alpha Delta Pi sorority. [160] In 2019, Pfeiffer briefly reprised the role in Avengers: Endgame,[161] and starred alongside Angelina Jolie and Elle Fanning in the dark fantasy sequel Maleficent: Mistress of Evil, playing the villainous Queen Ingrith. "[54] Batman Returns was a big box office success, grossing over US$267million worldwide. [179] She is set to reprise her role as Janet van Dyne in Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania (2023). The Dropkick Murphys proceed to imaginatively bring her story to life with energetic singing and folk instrumentation. [279][280][281][282][283][284], Pfeiffer and Horton decided to separate in 1988, and were divorced two years later. [19] In 2016, she attended the Healthy Child Healthy World's L.A. Gala for people who lead organizations for children's environmental health. In What Lies Beneath (2000), a Hitchcockian thriller directed by Robert Zemeckis, Pfeiffer and Harrison Ford starred as a well-to-do couple who experience a strange haunting that uncovers secrets about their past. Ahead of the release of my 4th studio album, Kings & Queens you can now pre-order my brand new single: Battlefield featuring Sir Brian May! Instead, she embodies it. [4] Her paternal grandfather was of German ancestry and her paternal grandmother was of English, Welsh, French, Irish, and Dutch descent, while her maternal grandfather was of Swiss-German-Italian descent and her maternal grandmother of Swedish ancestry. [257][258][259] Famous for being fiercely private like the characters she plays,[191][208][260][261] Matthew Jacobs of HuffPost crowned Pfeiffer Hollywood's prime example of "a movie star who doesn't walk around feeling like a movie star", which benefits her ability to play authentic characters without allowing her fame to affect her talent. After a final burst of upbeat instrumentation, the sounds slow down, leading to the song's end. She appeared in a television commercial for Lux soap,[14] and took acting lessons at the Beverly Hills Playhouse,[15] before appearing in three 1981 television movies Callie and Son, with Lindsay Wagner, The Children Nobody Wanted and Splendor in the Grass. [155] Pfeiffer is particularly renowned for her versatility,[187][205][206] having accumulated a diverse repertoire spanning period, romance, fantasy, musical, comedy, and drama films. In the film, co-starring Johnny Depp, Eva Green, Helena Bonham Carter and Chlo Grace Moretz, she played Elizabeth Collins Stoddard, the matriarch of the Collins family. "[123] Meanwhile, The Huffington Post felt that "De Niro, Pfieffer and Jones all brought 100% to their roles. [268], In 2005, Pfeiffer served as the face of Giorgio Armani's spring campaign; the designer has often dressed her for public appearances. [90][91][92][88] In the former, a film adaptation of the Broadway musical of the same name, she starred alongside John Travolta, Christopher Walken and Queen Latifah as Velma Von Tussle,[93] the racist manager of a television station. [101] The film received mostly positive reviews but performed moderately at the box office,[102][103] earning $135.5 million globally. While critical response towards the film was mixed, it opened atop at the box office,[78] and went on to gross US$291 million worldwide. [184] After being typecast in early roles largely based on her appearance,[236] Pfeiffer initially struggled to convince directors to take her seriously as an actor because they doubted she was more than simply attractive,[184] which she combated by actively seeking challenging roles in which physical beauty was not an essential characteristic. Beginning her career with minor television and film appearances, she attained her first leading role in the critically and commercially unsuccessful Grease 2 (1982). Web'Cause she's the queen of Suffolk County She had style, she had grace She had a knife and she had a mace Always causing trouble for the boys at Shawn's She'd bring ya to your And when she came around, they said. ", "Courtesans gone wild in 'Cheri' and 'The Girlfriend Experience', "Michelle Pfeiffer explains why she 'disappeared' from Hollywood", "The dazzling versatility of Michelle Pfeiffer", "Happy Birthday, Michelle Pfeiffer! [94] Although a fan of Pfeiffer's work in the musicals Grease 2 and The Fabulous Baker Boys, director Adam Shankman cast Pfeiffer largely based on her performance in Batman Returns,[95] claiming she was his first and only choice for Velma. [247] Men's Health ranked Pfeiffer 45th and 67th on their all-time hottest women and sex symbol rankings, respectively. Pfeiffer handed her producing partner Guinzburg one final film to produce under the Via Rosa Productions header.