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Molly Ringwald
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American actress and writer (born 1968)
Film & TV
Roseville, California, USA
Molly Kathleen Ringwald (born February 18, 1968) is an American actress, singer, dancer, and author. She was cast in her first major role as Molly in the NBC sitcom The Facts of Life (1979–80) after a casting director saw her playing an orphan in a stage production of the musical Annie. She and several other members of the original Facts of Life cast were let go when the show was reworked by the…
Known for
- Run Amok — Aunt Val2026
- One Night Only — Linda2026
- Montauk — Wolcott2025
- Simple Minds: Everything Is Possible — Self2025
- The New Yorker at 100 — Self2025
- Everybody Wants to Be Gen X — Self2025
- BRATS — Self (archive footage) (uncredited)2024
- Pursued — Carol2023
- Bad Things — Miss Auerbach2023
- Judy Blume Forever — Self2023
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Key facts
- Born
- Molly Kathleen Ringwald , ( 1968-02-18 ) February 18, 1968 (age 58) , Roseville, California , U.S.
- Occupations
- Actress singer dancer writer model
- Years active
- 1977–present
- Spouses
- Valéry Lameignère ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1999 ; divorced</span>"}]]}'>div. 2002 ) Panio Gianopoulos ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 2007 )
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Molly
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Roseville
- Occupation
- translator
- Languages spoken
- French
- Native language
- English language
- Award
- Theatre World Award
- Hair colour
- red hair
- Genre
- jazz
- Instrument
- voice
- Official website
- www.iammollyringwald.com
- Image
- Molly Ringwald at Sundance Film Festival 2026-4 (cropped).jpg
- Number of children
- 3
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- Commons category
- Molly Ringwald
- date of birth
- 1968-02-18
- start of work period
- 1977-00-00
- social media followers
- 213019
- nominated for
- Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Actress
- birth name
- Molly Kathleen Ringwald
- writing language
- English language
- name in native language
- Molly Ringwald
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Encyclopedic overview
Molly Kathleen Ringwald (born February 18, 1968) is an American actress, writer, and translator. She began her career as a child actress on the sitcoms Diff'rent Strokes and The Facts of Life (both 1979–1980) before being nominated for a Golden Globe Award for her starring role in the drama film Tempest (1982). Ringwald became a teen idol following her lead roles in filmmaker John Hughes's teenage films Sixteen Candles (1984), The Breakfast Club (1985), and Pretty in Pink (1986). These films led to the media referring to her as a member of a group of actors known as the "Brat Pack."
Ringwald's final starring roles as a teenager were in The Pick-up Artist (1987), For Keeps (1988), and Fresh Horses (1988). In the 1990s, she starred in the films Betsy's Wedding (1990) and Teaching Mrs. Tingle (1999), as well as starring in multiple French films after a move to Paris. Ringwald also returned to television, with main roles as Frannie Goldsmith in the ABC miniseries The Stand (1994) and Carrie Donovan on the ABC sitcom Townies (1996). In the 2000s, she had a main role as Anne Juergens on the ABC Family series The Secret Life of the American Teenager (2008–2013).
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