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Michelle Pfeiffer’s Life and Career Through the Years: ‘Batman,’ ‘Dangerous Minds,’ More
Explore Michelle Pfeiffer’s iconic career milestones including 'Batman,' 'Dangerous Minds' and her journey to Oscar nominations
Producer Martin Bregman convinced de Palma to give Pfeiffer a chance, and she impressed the filmmaker so much that he cast her as drug-addicted gangster’s moll Elvira Hancock over frontrunners Glenn Close and Sigourney Weaver. Pfeiffer scored her second Oscar nomination — and first Golden Globe win — for playing lounge singer Susie Diamond in the 1989 romantic comedy The Fabulous Baker Boys, opposite real-life siblings Jeff and Beau Bridges. Her most iconic roles showed incredible range — from donning a slinky catsuit in box office smash Batman Returns to earning three Oscar nominations for a trio of period dramas.
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