All All. Sign In. Top Most Beautiful Women of all time. List activity. Sophie Marceau. Actress Director Writer The Party She grew up far from the studio spotlights. When she was 14 she was living in the Paris suburb of Gentilly with her father. She learned from friends that director Claude Pinoteau was looking for new faces for a movie about teenagers called The Party She auditioned for the role, got it, and the film was a success.
She played in The Party 2 , then bought back her contract with Gaumont when she was 16 years old for one million French francs. She was elected Romantic actress for Chouans! Michelle Pfeiffer. She has an older brother and two younger sisters - Dedee Pfeiffer , and Lori Pfeiffer , who both dabbled in acting and modeling but decided against making it their lives' work.
She graduated from Fountain Valley High School in , and attended one year at the Golden West College, where she studied to become a court reporter. But it was while working as a supermarket checker at Vons, a large Southern California grocery chain, that she realized her true calling. They were later divorced, and she then had a three year relationship with actor Fisher Stevens. When that didn't work out, Pfeiffer decided she didn't want to wait any longer before having her own family, and in March of , she adopted a baby girl, Claudia Rose.
On August 5, their son, John Henry was born. Winona Ryder. Actress Producer Director Little Women She is the daughter of Cynthia Istas , an author and video producer, and Michael Horowitz, a publisher and bookseller. Her father's family is Ukrainian Jewish and Romanian Jewish. She grew up in a ranch commune in Northern California which had no electricity. She is the goddaughter of Timothy Leary. Her parents were friends of Beat poet Allen Ginsberg and once edited a book called "Shaman Woman Mainline Lady", an anthology of writings on the drug experience in literature, which included one piece by Louisa May Alcott.
Ryder would later play the lead role of Josephine March in the adaptation of this author's novel Little Women Ryder moved with her parents to Petaluma, California when she was ten and enrolled in acting classes at the American Conservatory Theater.
