Biography
Michelle Marie Pfeiffer (/ˈfaɪfər/ FY-fər; born April 29, 1958) is an American actress. One of Hollywood's most bankable stars during the 1980s and 1990s, her performances have earned her numerous accolades including a Golden Globe Award and a British Academy Film Award, as well as nominations for three Academy Awards and a Primetime Emmy Award. Pfeiffer began her acting career with minor television and film appearances and secured her first lead role in Grease 2 (1982). Her breakthrough role a...
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Complete Filmography

Oh. What. Fun.
2025
as Claire Clauster
Claire Clauster organizes a special Christmas outing when her family forgets her in the shuffle. By the time they realize their mistake, she’s gone mi...

Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania
2023
as Self - Janet van Dyne
Join cast and crew as they delve deep into the creation of "Ant-Man and The Wasp: Quantumania." Combining immersive behind-the-scenes footage with can...

Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania
2023
as Janet Van Dyne
Super-Hero partners Scott Lang and Hope van Dyne, along with with Hope's parents Janet van Dyne and Hank Pym, and Scott's daughter Cassie Lang, find t...

Catwoman: The Feline Femme Fatale
2021
as Self
A documentary about the history of Catwoman from DC.

French Exit
2021
as Frances Price
“My plan was to die before the money ran out,” says 60-year-old penniless Manhattan socialite Frances Price, but things didn’t go as planned. Her husb...

Maleficent: Mistress of Evil
2019
as Queen Ingrith
Maleficent and her goddaughter Aurora begin to question the complex family ties that bind them as they are pulled in different directions by impending...

Avengers: Endgame
2019
as Janet Van Dyne
After the devastating events of Avengers: Infinity War, the universe is in ruins due to the efforts of the Mad Titan, Thanos. With the help of remaini...

Ant-Man and the Wasp
2018
as Janet Van Dyne / Wasp
Just when his time under house arrest is about to end, Scott Lang once again puts his freedom at risk to help Hope van Dyne and Dr. Hank Pym dive into...

Where Is Kyra?
2018
as Kyra
Pushed to the brink after losing her job, a woman struggles to survive. As the months pass and her troubles deepen, she embarks on a perilous and myst...

Murder on the Orient Express
2017
as Caroline Hubbard
Genius Belgian detective Hercule Poirot investigates the murder of an American tycoon aboard the Orient Express train.

mother!
2017
as Woman
A couple's relationship is tested when uninvited guests arrive at their home, disrupting their tranquil existence.

The Wizard of Lies
2017
as Ruth Madoff
A look behind the scenes at Bernie Madoff's massive Ponzi scheme, how it was perpetrated on the public and the trail of destruction it left in its wak...

The Family
2013
as Maggie Blake
After ratting out his Mafia cohorts, Giovanni Manzoni and his family enter the Witness Protection Program and relocate to a sleepy town in France. Des...

Don't Say No Until I Finish Talking: The Story of Richard D. Zanuck
2013
as Self
A look at the life and work of legendary film producer Richard D. Zanuck.

Dark Shadows: The Collinses - Every Family Has Its Demons
2012
as Self
A Look at the Cast of Dark Shadows (2012)

People Like Us
2012
as Lillian Harper
After flying home to L.A. for the funeral of his estranged record-producer father, a struggling man discovers that the will stipulates that he must de...

Dark Shadows
2012
as Elizabeth Collins Stoddard
Vampire Barnabas Collins is inadvertently freed from his tomb and emerges into the very changed world of 1972. He returns to Collinwood Manor to find ...

Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen
2012
as (archive footage)
A film where anything can happen - the hero and the heroine changes their faces, age, look, names, and so on. The only same thing: The love between ma...

New Year's Eve
2011
as Ingrid Withers
The lives of several couples and singles in New York intertwine over the course of New Year's Eve.

Lady Gaga Presents: The Monster Ball Tour at Madison Square Garden
2011
as Self (uncredited)
Lady Gaga Presents: The Monster Ball Tour at Madison Square Garden is a 2011 concert special documenting the February 21 and 22, 2011 shows of Lady Ga...

Chéri
2009
as Lea
The son of a courtesan retreats into a fantasy world after being forced to end his relationship with the older woman who educated him in the ways of l...

Personal Effects
2009
as Linda
Walter is a rising star in the NCAA wrestling world until his life is ripped apart by the brutal murder of his sister. Returning home to console his m...

Shadows of the Bat: The Cinematic Saga of the Dark Knight
2008
as Self
A 6 part documentary of making of Batman franchise.

Stardust
2007
as Lamia
In a countryside town bordering on a magical land, a young man makes a promise to his beloved that he'll retrieve a fallen star by venturing into the ...

Hairspray
2007
as Velma Von Tussle
Pleasantly plump teenager Tracy Turnblad auditions to be on Baltimore's most popular dance show - The Corny Collins Show - and lands a prime spot. Thr...

I Could Never Be Your Woman
2007
as Rosie
Mother Nature loves to cause mischief, and she steps in to help two love-starved souls find happiness. She helps an aging professional woman and singl...

The Many Faces of Catwoman
2005
as Self
History of the character Catwoman

Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas
2003
as Eris (voice)
The sailor of legend is framed by the goddess Eris for the theft of the Book of Peace, and must travel to her realm at the end of the world to retriev...

White Oleander
2002
as Ingrid Magnussen
A teenager journeys through a series of foster homes after her mother goes to prison for committing a crime of passion.

I Am Sam
2001
as Rita Harrison Williams
Sam, a neurodivergent man, has a daughter with a homeless woman who abandons them when they leave the hospital, leaving Sam to raise Lucy on his own. ...

Once Upon a Time: The Super Heroes
2001
as Catwoman (archive footage)
The historical saga of American superheroes. Born in the period between the Great Depression and the World War II to combat the hobgoblins of the mode...

Original Sin
2001
Producer
A young man is plunged into a life of subterfuge, deceit and mistaken identity in pursuit of a femme fatale whose heart is never quite within his gras...

What Lies Beneath
2000
as Claire Spencer
When Claire Spencer starts hearing ghostly voices and seeing spooky images, she wonders if an otherworldly spirit is trying to contact her. All the wh...

The Story of Us
1999
as Katie Jordan
Ben and Katie Jordan are a married couple who go through hard times in fifteen years of marriage.

The Prince of Egypt: From Dream to Screen
1999
as Self (archive footage)
The making of The Prince of Egypt (1998).

A Midsummer Night's Dream
1999
as Titania
The lovely Hermia is to wed Demetrius, but she truly cares for Lysander. Hermia's friend, Helena, is in love with Demetrius, while other romantic enta...

The Deep End of the Ocean
1999
as Beth Cappadora
A three-year-old boy disappears during his mother's high school reunion. Nine years later, by chance, he turns up in the town in which the family has ...

The Prince of Egypt
1998
as Tzipporah (voice)
The strong bond between two brothers is challenged when their chosen responsibilities set them at odds, with extraordinary consequences.

A Thousand Acres
1997
as Rose Cook Lewis
The lives of an Iowa farmer's three daughters are shattered when he suddenly decides to bequeath them the family's fertile farm.

A Thousand Acres
1997
Producer
The lives of an Iowa farmer's three daughters are shattered when he suddenly decides to bequeath them the family's fertile farm.

One Fine Day
1996
as Melanie Parker
Melanie Parker, an architect and mother of Sammy, and Jack Taylor, a newspaper columnist and father of Maggie, are both divorced. They meet one mornin...

One Fine Day
1996
Executive Producer
Melanie Parker, an architect and mother of Sammy, and Jack Taylor, a newspaper columnist and father of Maggie, are both divorced. They meet one mornin...

To Gillian on Her 37th Birthday
1996
as Gillian Lewis
David loves his wife, Gillian. Unfortunately, she died two years ago. David deals with his grief by continuing his romance with Gillian during walks w...

Up Close & Personal
1996
as Tally Atwater
Tally Atwater has a dream: to be a prime-time network newscaster. She pursues this dream with nothing but ambition, raw talent and a homemade demo tap...

Dangerous Minds
1995
as Louanne Johnson
Former Marine Louanne Johnson lands a gig teaching in a pilot program for bright but underachieving teens at a notorious inner-city high school. After...

Dangerous Minds
1995
Producer
Former Marine Louanne Johnson lands a gig teaching in a pilot program for bright but underachieving teens at a notorious inner-city high school. After...

Wolf
1994
as Laura Alden
Aging publisher Will Randall is at the end of his rope when a younger co-worker snatches his job out from under his nose. But after being bitten by a ...

The Age of Innocence
1993
as Ellen Olenska
In 19th century New York high society, a young lawyer falls in love with a woman separated from her husband, while he is engaged to the woman's cousin...

Innocence and Experience: The Making of 'The Age of Innocence'
1993
as Self
A documentary about the making of director Martin Scorsese's 1993 film adaptation of Edith Wharton's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, The Age of Innocenc...

Love Field
1992
as Lurene Hallett
Dallas housewife Lurene Hallett's life revolves around the doings of Jacqueline Kennedy. She is devastated when President Kennedy is shot a few hours ...

Love Field
1992
Producer
Dallas housewife Lurene Hallett's life revolves around the doings of Jacqueline Kennedy. She is devastated when President Kennedy is shot a few hours ...

Batman Returns
1992
as Selina Kyle / Catwoman
Batman must face The Penguin, a sewer-dwelling gangleader intent on being accepted into Gotham society. Meanwhile, another Gotham resident finds hers...

The Bat, the Cat, and the Penguin
1992
as Self
Behind the scenes documentary about the making of Batman Returns.

Frankie and Johnny
1991
as Frankie
When Johnny is released from prison following a forgery charge, he quickly lands a job as a short-order cook at a New York diner. Following a brief fl...

Voices That Care
1991
as Self - Choir Member
Behind the scenes making of the charity single "Voices That Care".

The Russia House
1990
as Katya Orlova
Barley Scott Blair, a Lisbon-based editor of Russian literature who unexpectedly begins working for British intelligence, is commissioned to investiga...

The Fabulous Baker Boys
1989
as Susie Diamond
The lives of two struggling musicians, who happen to be brothers, inevitably change when they team up with a beautiful, up-and-coming singer.

Dangerous Liaisons
1988
as Madame Marie de Tourvel
In 18th century France, Marquise de Merteuil asks her ex-lover Vicomte de Valmont to seduce the future wife of another ex-lover of hers in return for ...

Tequila Sunrise
1988
as Jo Ann Vallenari
In a seaside California town, best friends Mac and Nick are on opposite sides of the law. Mac is a former drug dealer trying to clean up his act, whil...

Married to the Mob
1988
as Angela de Marco
Angela de Marco is fed up with her gangster husband's line of work and wants no part of the crime world. When her husband is killed for having an affa...

Tales from the Hollywood Hills: Natica Jackson
1987
as Natica Jackson
In the 1930's an aging film producer and his much younger wife live separate lives. Whenever a young starlet catches the husband's eye, he eventually ...

Amazon Women on the Moon
1987
as Brenda (segment "Hospital")
Centered around a television station which features a 1950s-style sci-fi movie interspersed with a series of wild commercials, wacky shorts and weird ...

The Witches of Eastwick
1987
as Sukie Ridgemont
Three single women in a picturesque Rhode Island village have their wishes granted - at a cost - when a mysterious and flamboyant man arrives in their...

Sweet Liberty
1986
as Faith Healy
Michael Burgess is an academic who has written a scholarly book on the American Revolution which Hollywood has bought the film rights to. The arrival ...

One Too Many
1985
as Annie
Four high school friends find their lives changed forever when one of the friends drives drunk with devastating results.

Ladyhawke
1985
as Isabeau d'Anjou
Captain Etienne Navarre is a man on whose shoulders lies a cruel curse. Punished for loving each other, Navarre must become a wolf by night whilst his...

Into the Night
1985
as Diana
Ed Okin used to have a boring life. He used to have trouble getting to sleep. Then one night, he met Diana. Now, Ed's having trouble staying alive.

B.B. King: Into the Night
1985
as Self
A short documentary about B.B. King and his time working on the score for the 1985 movie "Into the Night" starring Jeff Goldblum and Michelle Pfeiffer...

Scarface
1983
as Elvira
After getting a green card in exchange for assassinating a Cuban government official, Tony Montana stakes a claim on the drug trade in Miami. Viciousl...

Grease 2
1982
as Stephanie Zinone
It's 1961, two years after the original Grease gang graduated, and there's a new crop of seniors and new members of the coolest cliques on campus, the...

The Children Nobody Wanted
1981
as Jennifer Williams
True story of Tom Butterfield and his crusade to provide family life for homeless children, becoming not only the first bachelor caretaker, but the yo...

Splendor in the Grass
1981
as Ginny Stamper
Two teenagers, in love in pre-Depression Kansas, cope with parental pressure and the strict sexual mores of the day.

Callie & Son
1981
as Sue Lynn Bordeaux
A fictional drama, covering a 30-year period, about a poverty-stricken teenager forced to give up her illegitimate son at birth, and the climb to weal...

Charlie Chan and the Curse of the Dragon Queen
1981
as Cordelia Farenington III
Famous detective Charlie Chan is called out of retirement to help a San Francisco detective solve a mysterious series of murders. With his bumbling gr...

Falling in Love Again
1980
as Sue Wellington (1940's)
Harry and Sue Lewis met in the 40s as teenagers living in the Bronx. He was an aspiring architect, she was the most beautiful girl in school, and both...

The Hollywood Knights
1980
as Suzie Q
Led by their comedic and pranking leader, Newbomb Turk, the Hollywood Knights car gang raise hell throughout Beverly Hills on Halloween Night, 1965. E...

The Solitary Man
1979
as Tricia
A family man must make an adjustment after his wife of fifteen years one day blurts out that she wants a divorce and leaves him to construct a new lif...
Wild Four O'Clocks
N/A
It follows two young brothers who are placed into the care of their estranged grandmother after their father is sent to prison. She’s a vibrant and la...
Turn of Mind
N/A
as Amanda O'Toole
A retired surgeon suffering from Alzheimers becomes a suspect in her friend's murder.