In Tim Burton's Batman Returns, Michelle Pfeiffer played Catwoman opposite Michael Keaton's Batman. Annette Bening was originally cast in the role, but she had to drop out of filming due to her pregnancy. A number of stars were reportedly up for the role, including Cher and Madonna, but it eventually went to Pfeiffer.
While most of the show's cast reprise their roles, Newmar was unavailable during the shooting window -- with conflicting accounts largely claiming it was a result of her prior commitment to another project.
Catwoman was first portrayed in the 1960s series by Julie Newmar in the first two seasons. Lee Meriwether and Eartha Kitt replaced when she was unavailable for the movie and season three. Marilyn Watson was Newmar's stunt double. Her real name Selina Kyle is never mentioned in the series.
Why Zoë Kravitz leaned into Catwoman's bisexual backstory in 'The Batman' Zoë Kravitz plays Selina Kyle/Catwoman in the Warner Bros. film “The Batman.”
Black Cat (Felicia Hardy) is a character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. Created by Marv Wolfman, Keith Pollard, and Dave Cockrum, the character first appeared in The Amazing Spider-Man #194 (July 1979).
22. Madonna also shared with Fallon that she missed out on playing Catwoman in Batman Returns and a leading role in Showgirls. "I saw them both and I regret that I turned down Catwoman, that was pretty fierce," said the singer of the role that ultimately went to Michelle Pfeiffer.
This led to her sharing an anecdote about attempting to land the role of Selina Kyle, aka Catwoman, in Christopher Nolan's “The Dark Knight Rises.” The role would end up going to Anne Hathaway. And when Kravitz was told she wasn't right for the role, she was told she was too “urban” for Catwoman.
Angelina Jolie will not play Catwoman for two reasons, she wouldn't want the role and Warner Brothers would not want her for the role. MTV news interviewed Angelina Jolie around the time that Christopher Nolan was casting the Catwoman role for "The Dark Knight Rises." Her response?
The series also told her tragic backstory, with Catwoman's parents having died when she was a child, with her mother dying by suicide and her father from alcohol poisoning; Carlton in the series's 81st issue added to it, depicting her mother as a dark-skinned Latina, making Catwoman a half-Latina.
Zoe Kravitz plays Catwoman in The Batman while Halle Berry played a version of the same character in the 2004 film Catwoman. The role will once again be taken up by a new actor as Zoe Kravitz dons the costume and mask in The Batman. In a recent interview, Halle had a few words of advice for her latest successor.
In a new interview with Another, the actress discussed how she believes she ended up getting the role of Selina Kyle, aka Catwoman, by being her authentic self. “I read the script,” Kravitz said. “Then [Reeves] talked with me again to hear my thoughts, to see if we were on the same page.
Though Julie Newmar had at this point played Catwoman in two episodes of season one in the TV series, she had other commitments at that time and was replaced by Lee Meriwether in the film.
Poison Ivy's real name is Dr. Pamela Lillian Isley, PhD, a Gotham City botanist. She grows up wealthy with emotionally distant parents and later studies advanced botanical biochemistry at a university with Alec Holland under Dr. Jason Woodrue.
with her iconic dressing imagined by the costume designers of the film Mary Vogt and Bob Ringwood. In 2004, director Pitof chose Halle Berry for the leading character in his feature film Catwoman, making for the second black actress to be given the role, 36 years after Eartha Kitt.
From Julia Newmar in the 1966 "Batman" TV show to Zoë Kravitz in the upcoming movie "The Batman," 30 actresses have played Selina Kyle in movies, TV shows, and video games. Some of these performances have drawn widespread praise from critics, while others have been less well-received.
In the post-Flashpoint Earth 2 continuity, Helena Wayne was the daughter of Batman and Catwoman (Bruce Wayne and Selina Kyle Wayne). She was also the only Robin to her father's Batman identity and a more ruthless character than previously seen.
Pfeiffer starred in The Russia House (1990) and Frankie and Johnny (1991). In 1992, she played Catwoman in Batman Returns and received her third Academy Award nomination for Love Field, which were succeeded by performances in The Age of Innocence (1993) and Wolf (1994).
Through her aggression, deceitfulness, theft, and serious violation of rules, Selina displays traits of conduct disorder, the childhood precursor to antisocial personality disorder. This could mean she's on a somewhat familiar trajectory.
Eartha Kitt was the second actress to portray the Catwoman in the Batman 1960s television series. The Catwoman was previously played by Julie Newmar on the show, and Lee Meriwether in the 1966 spinoff movie.
