Michelle Pfeiffer has recently stepped into a new role: grandmother. Pfeiffer, 67, announced the happy news on the Monday, September 29, episode of the "SmartLess" podcast. She was asked about her acting career by hosts Jason Bateman, Will Arnett, and Sean Hayes, and revealed that she isn't working very frequently these days due to a new life update. "I don't have time nor the desire to go that deep for that long and not be present," she explained. "I realize I have a finite amount of time left and - I might announce on this show - that I became a grandmother last year." She continued: "I've been very quiet about it and it is - it's heaven. It's ridiculous. And if I had known that I was going to be a grandmother, I wouldn't have taken on so much work, but I've enjoyed everything and I'm really grateful. I've loved - I love each of these projects. And so the weird thing is that giving up that angst about the process has freed me up and I feel in some ways has made me better." Celebrity Moms Who Stepped Away From Hollywood After Having Kids Pfeiffer shares daughter Claudia, 32, and son John, 31, with her husband, David E. Kelley. The What Lies Beneath star added that having so much going on personally and professionally has given her the gift of appreciating everything that goes into acting even more. "I'm so grateful. I'm so grateful because I love acting. I've never lost - in fact, I probably enjoy it more now than I ever have because I'm sort of more relaxed with it," she explained. "I don't really have time to be thinking about anything but the task at hand." "But when I had all these acting jobs coming up, I thought, 'Okay, okay, how are you going to manage this and have a life?'" she added. "Because that hasn't always been easy for me. I'm an all or nothing kind of girl. I always like taking on challenges and then I get into it and it sort of sink or swim." Michelle Pfeiffer Michael Buckner/Variety via Getty Images Pfeiffer previously took time off from acting after she adopted Claudia in March 1993 and welcomed John in 1994. "I was pretty careful about where I shot and how long I was away, whether or not it worked out with the kids' schedule," she explained of the work she did take. "And I got so picky that I was unhirable. And then ... I don't know, time just went on ... I disappeared, yeah." Pfeiffer and Kelley, 69, broke their 31-year pact to not work together in September 2024, when the pair announced the actress will star in the AppleTV+ series from A24 Margo's Got Money Troubles with Nicole Kidman and Elle Fanning - and that Kelley will be showrunner, writer and executive producer. "2025 is already off to a great start!" Pfeiffer wrote via Instagram that month alongside the announcement. "Excited to be in such fabulous company on this one." In her caption, she tagged Kelley, Kidman, 58, and Fanning, 27. Michelle Pfeiffer's Life and Career Through the Years: 'Batman,' 'Dangerous Minds,' More Pfeiffer explained why she and Kelley rarely worked together in a 2021 interview with The New Yorker. "I've seen a lot of couples where they seem to have a really great marriage, and then they work together and next year they're filing for divorce," she explained.