{"id":848007,"date":"2026-08-06T09:04:12","date_gmt":"2026-08-06T09:04:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/848007\/"},"modified":"2026-08-06T09:04:12","modified_gmt":"2026-08-06T09:04:12","slug":"michelle-pfeiffer-appears-to-announce-movie-retirement-because-of-margos-got-money-troubles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/848007\/","title":{"rendered":"Michelle Pfeiffer appears to announce movie retirement because of Margo\u2019s Got Money Troubles"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Michelle Pfeiffer<\/a>\u2019s 45-year movie career might have come to an end, with the Hollywood<\/a> star declaring: \u201cI never want to star in another movie.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Batman Returns actor has been a fixture on the film since her breakout roles in Grease 2 and Scarface in the early 1980s, but the star\u2019s heart now lies in TV, following appearances in Margo\u2019s Got Money Troubles<\/a> and The Madison<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Pfeiffer, who has two Oscar nominations to her name, attended a Women of Apple TV event ahead of the forthcoming Emmys<\/a>, and told her fellow nominees, as per The Hollywood Reporter<\/a>: \u201cI never want to star in another movie, I swear to God. I only want to do ensemble pieces. It\u2019s so much more fun, I love it so much.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"MichelleMichelle Pfeiffer might be calling time on movie career (Getty Images)<\/p>\n

Pfeiffer, 68, was one of the world\u2019s highest-paid stars of the Nineties, helped by two consecutive Oscar nominations for Dangerous Liaisons and The Fabulous Baker Boys at the tail-end of the 1980s. Following this, she was cast as Catwoman in Tim Burton\u2019s sequel Batman Returns (1992) <\/p>\n

Her other key credits include 1980s comedies The Witches of Eastwick (1987) and Married to the Mob (1988), Martin Scorsese\u2019s Edith Wharton adaptation The Age of Innocence (1993), and psychological thriller What Lies Beneath (2000), also starring Harrison Ford. <\/p>\n

In 2007, she appeared in Hairspray and Stardust, following which a 10-year acting hiatus followed before her return in Kenneth Branagh\u2019s The Murder on the Orient Express (2017) and Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) sequel Ant-Man and the Wasp (2018).<\/p>\n

In Margo\u2019s Got Money Troubles, created by Pfeiffer\u2019s real-life husband, David E Kelley, she plays the mother of Elle Fanning\u2019s college dropout, who signs up to OnlyFans to support herself and her new baby financially. Nicole Kidman also appears in the comedy show.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, in The Madison \u2013 from Yellowstone creator Taylor Sheridan \u2013\u00a0she plays the matriarch of a family who relocate from New York City to a valley in southwest Montana after a tragedy.<\/p>\n

\"MichelleMichelle Pfeiffer in ‘Margo’s Got Money Troubles’ (Apple TV)<\/p>\n

At the Emmys, which is due to take place on 15 September, Pfeiffer is Emmy-nominated in the Best Supporting Actress category for her role in Margo\u2019s Got Money Troubles alongside Widow\u2019s Bay stars Kate O\u2019Flynn and Dale Dickey, Hannah Einbinder and Megan Stalter (both for Hacks), Janelle James (Abbott Elementary) and Shrinking actor Jessica Williams.<\/p>\n

Medical drama The Pitt received the most Emmy nominations with a whopping 25, closely followed by Widow\u2019s Bay. The ceremony will be hosted by Law & Order: Special Victims Unit star Mariska Hargitay.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":848008,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[49,48,361,75],"class_list":["post-848007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/848007","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=848007"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/848007\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/848008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=848007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=848007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=848007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}