After making a stunning feature-film debut as the sultry schemer in Body Heat (1981), this sensual, throaty-voiced leading lady earned a reputation for willingness to try virtually anything on-screen. She confounded expectations by next appearing as a comic femme fatale in a goofy farce, The Man With Two Brains (1983). She followed it with a bravura turn as a Mafia hit lady, opposite Jack Nicholson, in Prizzi's Honor (1985), reteamed with Michael Douglas for a Stone sequel, The Jewel of the Nile (1985), then earned an Oscar nomination playing a time-traveling housewife in Peggy Sue Got Married (1986). She again reteamed with Mi chael Douglas as their Romancing the Stone costar Danny DeVito moved behind the camera for the very black divorce comedy The War of the Roses (1989), then came a cropper as the solo lead of the poorly made adaptation of Sara Paretsky's Chicago private eye story V.I. Warshawski (1991). Her return to films in 1993 was less salutary for her career: House of Cards and Undercover Blues were both seen as failures. Her most recent credits: Naked in New York and John Waters' Serial Mom (both 1994).