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Sunday, October 20, 2019 at 8:42AM 
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Michelle Pfeiffer pfotographed and profiled for The Sunday Times. Still the most beautiful movie star alive.
Sunday, October 20, 2019 at 8:42AM 
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OK, Nathaniel. And I thought we were friends.
Please everyone....people can look great / feel great / can work / are more dependable / can do “everything” wink wink in their 60’s. I’m 64. Born on the same exact date as Annie Lenox, December 25,1954. I make every effort to take care of myself every single day & look to the future. If I, by chance, I happen to say how old I am - I typically get, “are you kidding?” I don’t really like that! Christie Brinkley, Travolta, Oprah....lots more living to do. Don’t be shocked by vital people in their 60’s. PS - I love Pfeiffer.
This is seither a lot of Photoshop or a lot of Botox. This is not 61!
A Creamy Smooth Pop Icon Goddess.
Ha! This is very much NOT 61, at least by the standards of us mere mortals.
Love her! I'm glad to see she's working more, but I hope her choices become more interesting/adventurous. The two films she has lined up seem promising.
Queen 👸🏼
Gorgeous but someone give this woman a movie worthy of her talent
This is 61 if you have not only fab genes but also a LOT of money.
Most beautiful movie star alive? Isabelle Adjani,Fanny Ardant, Halle Berry, Jennifer Connelly, Rachel Weizs, Lupita.
thefilmjunkie: mother!, where is kyra? heck even wizard of lies to a lesser extent were all interesting/adventurous roles for her and she nailed them, loving this period of her career
1958 gave us some of the most beautiful stars alive. Sharon Stone, Angela Bassett, Pfeiffer, Madonna .... the list is truly amazing. All 61, All Amazing!
Her skincare routine is called "Unproblematic."
A Goddess and future Academy Award winner.
"most beautiful movie star alive"
Nah. She was for a long time but no longer. Still looks amazing fir her age tho.
The emphasis I on the word "alive"/. Even though there have been nips and tucks and photoshop she is really beautiful.
I do not see her doing a major role in a major movie/
She is the only reason I went to see Maleficent Mistress of Evil and I enjoyed it more than I expected (my expectations were very low, I admit). Of course Michelle is the best thing in it (we know that no one is better at playing evil as evil Michelle, right?), but the movie is frankly not that bad as (north-american) critics are saying.
1958 gave us Annette Bening too. Definitely a GREAT year.
rdf: "I do not see her doing a major role in a major movie"
She has another lead role coming in French Exit which Sony Classics just picked up before filming has started, so that's a major role...we'll see how it turns out, but let's not act like her career is dead. she's been doing great work the last 2 years.
Thanks for the info on her movie. Great work the last two years.. really???
I'm grateful that she's acting more frequently again. I'm not running to see everything she's doing--as much as I love her, I won't be seeing the Ant Man and Malificent sequels just because she's in them--but she's recently given us great performances in "Mother" and "Where is Kyra." It seems like she's mixing it up a bit more these days--good for her. And she is absolutely gorgeous, obviously.
Wow... now she looks great and probably better than ever. Madonna, not so much.
Since it's been brought up (again and again), 1958 really is the most incredible bumper crop of a year for future superstars in arts and entertainment, namely:
JANUARY
Anita Baker
Christiane Amanpour
Ellen DeGeneres
Grandmaster Flash
Julian Sands
FEBRUARY
Ice-T
Nancy Spungen
MARCH
Andy Gibb
Gary Oldman
Holly Hunter
Linda Fiorentino
Miranda Richardson
Patricia Heaton
Sharon Stone
APRIL
Alec Baldwin
Andie MacDowell
Giancarlo Esposito
Michelle Pfeiffer
MAY
Annette Bening
Drew Carey
Margaret Colin
Marie Fredriksson
JUNE
Bruce Campbell
Keenan Ivory Wayans
Prince
JULY
Bill Waterson
Fiona Shaw
Jennifer Saunders
Kate Bush
Kevin Bacon
Wong Kar-Wai
AUGUST
Angela Bassett
Belinda Carlisle
Colm Feore
Julie Brown
Lambert Wilson
Madeleine Stowe
Madonna
Michael Jackson
Steve Guttenberg
Tim Burton
SEPTEMBER
Andrea Bocelli
Chris Columbus
Jennifer Tilly
Joan Jett
Shaun Cassidy
Siobhan Fahey
OCTOBER
Alan Jackson
Simon Le Bon
Tanya Tucker
Tim Robbins
Viggo Mortensen
NOVEMBER
Jamie Lee Curtis
Marg Helgenberger
Mary Elizabeth Mastroantonio
Megan Mullally
Robert Patrick
Stacey Q.
DECEMBER
Alannah Myles
Bebe Neuwirth
Nikki Sixx
Tom Shadyac
Amazing.
🎵This hit, that ice cold...
Wow Mareko that list is amazing. I had no idea it was that extensive :)
rdf: YES she has done great work recently, Where is Kyra? (career best raves and a Gotham nomination), mother!, Wizard of Lies (great character work in a bad HBO movie)
Mareko: Holy shit man! Great work! That list is amazing!
So much photoshop and some botox as well. At first she looks like Cate Blanchett to me
Both Turn on mind and French Exit sounds interesting
She was the most beautiful actress in the 80s and 90s
She hasn't worked in a decade and her nanny took care of her kids. I would look amazing too.
I hate with all my heart this whole "Jane Fonda looks amazing at 80" like this should be the new normal. We're allowed to age. It is so superficial.
@TR: true. I just hope she keeps the momentum going. God, it already feels like all of those films came out so long ago!
TR. She was good in the movies you named buy NOT great. Great is when no one else could play that role.
Still waiting for her comeback.
Gorgeous! And a good actress too.
It seems like she could be on a track that might lead to couple of really good parts in the near future. 2017 demonstrated she clearly still has the talent and is capable of doing really solid work. She also seems more driven and out front than she's been in a while, even compared to her leading lady days. That being said, she needs to look outside Hollywood to find better projects that would showcase her more thoroughly. Even in her prime years I was always frustrated that she seemed so rooted in Hollywood even when the movies were usually subpar. I don't want her to keep popping up in sequals and franchises.
61 if you have all the money in the world, no responsibilities, and a good surgeon. I mean she basically spent most of the past decade doing literally nothing.
She can't even smile anymore. She can only play ice-queen bitch roles now
Looks a bit like Peggy Lipton here. Not like herself, exactly.
I think it's the lighting. If you're going to take pictures of Michelle Pfeiffer, why bother if her bone structure's not catching any shadows?
My beloved gays, don't turn us into Barbie dolls!
La Pfeiffer is not a mere mortal she is a movie star