Of all the morbid beauties in Tim Burton's work, the spooky goth girls and deathly pale boys, none wear their ghoulishness as lightly or winningly as Johnny Depp. And what a bewitching corpse he makes in ''Dark Shadows,'' Mr. Burton's most pleasurable film in years. As Barnabas Collins, the scion of a wealthy family turned unwilling vampire, Mr....

In ''Stardust,'' a sprawling, effects-laden fairy tale with the thundering stamina of a marathon horse race, Michelle Pfeiffer is Lamia, as deliciously evil a witch as the movies have ever invented. Shooting deadly green lightning from rings on her tapering long-nailed fingers, she suggests a seriously lethal beauty contestant of a certain age who...

That ''Hairspray'' is good-hearted is no surprise. Adam Shankman's film, lovingly adapted from the Broadway musical, preserves the inclusive, celebratory spirit of John Waters's 1988 movie, in which bigger-boned, darker-skinned and otherwise different folk take exuberant revenge on the bigots and the squares who conspire to keep them down. The...
Michelle Maria Pfeiffer (født 29. april 1958) er en amerikansk skuespiller, der er kendt fra film som De fabelagtige Baker Boys, Scarface, A Thousand Acres og Batman vender tilbage. Hun har været nomineret til Oscar og Golden Globe-priserne flere gange og vundet Golden Globe for bedste skuespillerinde - drama for sin rolle i De fabelagtige Baker Boys.
Michelle Pfeiffer voksede op i Californien lidt uden for Los Angeles. Hun er næstældst af fire søskende, hvoraf også lillesøsteren Dedee Pfeiffer er skuespiller. Efter sin studentereksamen tog hun hurtigt fat på at blive skuespiller. Hun vandt en lokal skønhedskonkurrence i 1978, og det gav hende adgang til en tilsvarende konkurrence for hele Californien, hvor hun dog ikke vandt. Hun fik imidlertid kontakt med en agent, der skaffede hende med i optagelser af tv-reklamer og snart efter i mindre film og tv-produktioner. Fold ud