United Kingdom, June 5 -- Michelle Pfeiffer's entire perspective shifted when her father died.

The actress stars alongside Kurt Russell in The Madison, a TV series which tells the story of a family navigating their grief after a tragedy.

In an interview with IndieWire, Michelle said that to play Stacy Clyburn in the programme, she used her own losses for inspiration - such as her dad Richard's passing in 1998 at the age of 65.

She said: "You don't have to search real long and real hard to tap into that. Especially when it's a sudden and a tragic death, the shock of it suddenly shifts everyone's perspective.

"It's like you all of a sudden don't have time for the b******* that you've been putting up with, and there's a truth in the way ...