It's hard to believe that Michelle Pfeiffer is fifty one years old and has enjoyed a career that has spanned two decades.
This week she returns to the big screen this week in Cheri, an adaptation of the novel by French author Colette, reuniting her with Dangerous Liaisons filmmaker Stephen Frears.
The actress made her first major film role in 1982 in Grease 2 and, although it was a critical and commercial failure, it launched Pfeiffer's career.
Off the back of Grease 2 came her major breakthrough role when Brian de Palma cast her alongside Al Pacino in his 1083 gangster thriller Scarface.
Her performance in the movie as cocaine addicted trophy wife Elvira Hancock brought her widespread praise and the roles came flooding in.
Pfeiffer joined the A-list of Hollywood in 1987 after The Witches of Eastwick, after she starred alongside Jack Nicholson and Susan Sarandon.
She worked with Stephen Frears for the first time in 1988 on Dangerous Liaisons in the role of Madame Marie de Tourvel. Critical acclaim came her way and she was nominated for a Best Supporting Actress Oscar for her performance.
More Oscar recognition came her way just a year later for The Fabulous Baker Boys, but this time she was nominated in the Best Actress category. Despite missing out on the Oscar she did pick up a Golden Globe.
Her third Oscar nomination came in 1992 for Love Field and she worked consistently throughout the nineties varying her role from Dangerous Minds, to comedy One Fine Day and an adaptation of A Midsummer Night's Dream.
But after 2003's Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas, in which she voiced the character Eris, she disappeared from the big screen for four years.
But in 2007 she made a triumphant return in fairytale Stardust as witch Lamia and musical Hairspray. Both movies were a big hit at the box office, and for part as Velma Von Tussle in Hairspray she was nominated for a Screen Actors Guild Award.
She returns this week with Cheri, in which she plays courtesan Léa de Lonval. Set in Paris in the years before World War I, Cheri paints a picture of the romance between young Chéri (Rupert Friend) and retired courtesan Léa (Michelle Pfeiffer).
Chéri’s mother (Kathy Bates), a rival of Léa, plots to separate the pair by arranging a marriage between her son and Edmée (Felicity Jones).
Cheri is released 8th May
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