Michelle Pfeiffer and David E. Kelley Break 31-Year Pact for New Series

Michelle Pfeiffer and her husband, David E. Kelleyare working together for the first time in their more than 30 years of marriage.

Pfeiffer, 66, to star in new AppleTV+ series from A24 Margo has financial problems along Elle Fanning AND Nicole Kidman, Deadline on Monday, September 23. Fanning and Kidman are listed as executive producers, while Kelley will serve as showrunner, writer and executive producer.

Based on the novel Rufi Thorpe, Margo has financial problems is an eight-part series that will follow Margo Millet, a 20-year-old college student and single mother to Fanning, who joins OnlyFans to make ends meet. Pfeiffer will play Margo’s mother, Shyanne, a waitress at Hooter’s, and Kidman will reportedly play a mediator between Margo and her English professor, who is also the father of her child.

“2025 is already off to a great start!” Pfeiffer wrote on Instagram on Monday alongside the announcement. “I’m thrilled to be in such great company.” She tagged Kelley, Kidman and Fanning in the caption.

Margo has financial problems This will be the first time since Pfeiffer and her husband tied the knot in November 1993 that the couple have worked together on a film or television show. Pfeiffer said New Yorker in 2021 Kelley, creator of the popular HBO miniseries Big Little Lies“writes for women like no one else,” but explained why the pair rarely collaborate on professional projects.

“I’ve seen a lot of couples who at first glance seem like they have really good marriages, and then they work together and then the next year they file for divorce,” she told the website.

During the 2022 performance The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy FallonPfeiffer went on to speak about the couple’s decision to separate their personal and professional lives, stating that attempting to combine them would be “too risky” for their marriage.

“Nobody writes better for women, honestly,” Pfeiffer gushed at the time. “It’s unbelievable. And yet I value our relationship more than the good part, and I just think it’s too risky.”

She added: “We’re both pretty intense when we’re working, so if I come home and I’ve had a bad day and I’m upset about something, I want him to be on my side because he hasn’t heard the other side. There’s value in that.”

Pfeiffer and Kelley have two children: Claudia Rose, adopted in 1993, and a son, John Henry Kelley, whom they welcomed in August 1994.