Molly Ringwald

At 56 years old, Molly Ringwald has this physical status:

Molly Kathleen Ringwald (born February 18, 1968) is an American actress, singer, 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 network.

She subsequently made her motion picture debut in the independent film Tempest (1982), which earned her a Golden Globe nomination for New Star of the Year.

Ringwald is known for her collaborations with filmmaker John Hughes, having appeared in three of his films. After appearing in the successful Hughes films Sixteen Candles (1984), The Breakfast Club (1985), and Pretty in Pink (1986), Ringwald became a teen icon.

She later starred in The Pick-up Artist (1987), Fresh Horses (1988) and For Keeps (1988).

She starred in many films in the 1990s, most notably Something to Live for: The Alison Gertz Story (1992) and The Stand (1994).

"Some Folks Call It a Sling Blade" (1994 short film - precursor to "Sling Blade").

Ringwald is part of the "Brat Pack" and she was ranked number 1 on VH1's 100 Greatest Teen Stars.

Since 2017, Ringwald has portrayed Mary Andrews on The CW television series Riverdale.

Early life

Ringwald was born in Roseville, California, the daughter of Adele Edith (née Frembd), a chef, and Robert Scott "Bob" Ringwald, a blind jazz pianist of German descent. Ringwald has two siblings, Beth and Kelly, and an older brother, who died before she was born. She is partly of Swedish descent. She started her acting career at age five, appearing in a stage production of Alice in Wonderland as the Dormouse. The next year, she recorded "I Wanna Be Loved by You", a music album of Dixieland jazz with her father and his group, the Fulton Street Jazz Band. Ringwald graduated from the Lycée Français de Los Angeles.

Personal life

Ringwald married Valéry Lameignère, a French writer, in Bordeaux, France, on July 28, 1999; they divorced in 2002. She married Panio Gianopoulos, a Greek-American writer and book editor, in 2007. They have a daughter, born in 2003 and fraternal boy-girl twins, born in July 2009. Her pregnancy was written into the storyline of The Secret Life of the American Teenager. She was the subject of an episode in season 7 of the genealogy series Who Do You Think You Are?.

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Career

Ringwald was selected to perform Kate in Annie's West Coast production in Los Angeles at the age of ten. Ringwald appeared on the television show Diff'rent Strokes in 1979 and was chosen to be part of the main cast of that show's spin-off, The Facts of Life. Molly Parker, a vivacious feminist student at Eastland Girls School, was portrayed by the girl. The show underwent a major renovation at the start of the second season, and the majority of the cast, including Ringwald, was removed from the program. Nancy McKeon later announced that she had been given a new name, Jo, and she had a different name later.

Ringwald appeared as a lead singer on two Disney albums in 1980. Ringwald performed "This Is My Country," "The Star-Spangled Banner," and "God Bless America" on the patriotic album. "The First Noel" became her first song on a Disney Christmas album, "Disney's Christmas All-Time Favorites" later appeared on her album. She appeared in the 1982 film Tempest, directed by Paul Mazursky and top casting director Juliet Taylor, and was nominated for a Golden Globe award for the role.

Ringwald made a name for herself in Sixteen Candles (1984). Samantha Baker, a girl whose sixteenth birthday is largely forgotten by her family, was cast as Samantha Baker. Ringwald's appearance earned critical acclaim; many called her performance entertaining. When asked if there will be a sequel to Sixteen Candles, Ringwald would later say, "It is not a good idea to do remakes of great classic films." Ringwald was regarded as a member of the Brat Pack of 1980s teen actors, but she has denied being a member of the group. Ringwald's success began when she was cast in another John Hughes film, The Breakfast Club (1985), which was a commercial and critical success. Claire Standish was portrayed as Claire Standish, a spoilt, wealthy beauty who is in jail for skipping class to go to the mall. Ringwald's performance received raves.

Andie Walsh appeared in another hit Hughes film, Pretty In Pink (1986), the following year, she was still in high school. Ringwald was reluctant at first, but after learning how difficult it was for the producers to find a replacement for her, she decided to portray Andie in the film. Ringwald was given a role in Another John Hughes film, Some Kind of Wonderful (1987), but she turned down the role because it was too similar to Hughes' other films. She wanted to appear in more mature roles after Pretty In Pink. Ringwald was on the front page of the Time magazine on May 26, 1986.

Ringwald had intended to appear in a new Hughes film, Oil and Vinegar, but the project was delayed after Hughes refused to rewrite the script. The film will have featured a soon-to-be-married man and a hitchhiking woman discussing their lives during a car ride. Randy Jensen was on The Pick-Up Artist, opposite Robert Downey, Jr., in one of his first lead roles in 1987. It was a womanizer who meets his match when he fell for a woman in debt to the Mafia. Despite being a modest commercial success, the film received mixed feedback.

She appeared in For Keeps, a commercial success that received mixed critiques from critics but was well received by audiences. It's considered Ringwald's last teen film. Darcy Elliot, the editor of Ringwald's high school newspaper, becomes pregnant by her long-term boyfriend Stan, who is portrayed by Randall Batinkoff. Her results have received positive feedback. Some commentators lauded the film for displaying the challenges of teen pregnancy. She was later cast in Fresh Horses. The film received generally critical feedback and fell at the box office. Andrew McCarthy, who appeared in Pretty in Pink before, appeared in the film.

Ringwald is said to have turned down the female lead roles in Pretty Woman and Ghost in the early 1990s. Ringwald, who had been trained at the Lycée Français de Los Angeles and is fluent in French, travelled to Paris and appeared in numerous French films in the mid-1990s. She returned to the United States to appear in American films and television. Ringwald appeared in the James Scott-directed Strike It Rich in 1990 with Robert Lindsay and John Gield. Betsy Hopper appeared in Betsy's Wedding the same year as Betsy Hopper. Despite being a commercial success, this film received mostly critical feedback. Ringwald appeared in Something to Live For: The Alison Gertz Story (1992) later.

Frannie Goldsmith appeared in The Stand, a TV miniseries based on Stephen King's 1978 book of the same name. Ringwald's appearance was generally well received. Melissa Nelson, a traumatic woman who has an affair with a college baseball player, was the protagonist in the film Malicious (1995). She appeared in the ABC sitcom Townies later in life. On the critically acclaimed cable show Remember WENN, she appeared as a blind woman. Since You've Been Gone, she appeared in Lara Flynn Boyle and Teri Hatcher's 1998 made-for-television film Since You've Been Gone. At the Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles in 1999, she appeared in "Li'l Bit" in Paula Vogel's "How I Learned to Drive." In 2000, she appeared in "Judgment Day" on Showtime's The Outer Limits.

Ringwald made her debut in the ensemble restaurant-themed film In the Weeds in 2000, and she appeared in the commercially lucrative Not Another Teen Movie, earning her a MTV Movie Award nomination. In Jonathan Larson's Off-Broadway musical tick, tick... In Broadway's long-running revival of Cabaret from December 18, 2001, to April 28, 2002, BOOM! and headlined as Sally Bowles. Ringwald appeared in Enchanted April on Broadway beginning April 8, but she had to cancel after that performance on June 15 due to her mother's pregnancy.

In late 2004, she appeared in the play Modern Orthodox on Broadway, opposite Jason Biggs and Craig Bierko. She appeared in the television film The Wives He Forgot in 2006, and in the national tour of the musical Sweet Charity, she appeared as Charity Hope Valentine. Helen in Molly McIntire's mother Helen also played a supporting role in Molly McIntire's 'Mega Boy on the Home Front'. Ringwald appeared in the ABC Family network's series The Secret Life of the American Teenager, which premiered on July 1, 2008 and lasted for five seasons and 121 episodes before ending on June 3, 2013. Anne Juergens, the title teenager's mother, appeared on the stage.

Ringwald read the audiobook version of Jami Attenberg's 2012 book The Middlesteins. Ringwald released Except Sometimes, a jazz record, in early 2013. It came from her father's jazz traditions. "I grew up in a family filled with music and a young appreciation of jazz" began shortly after my dad was a jazz pianist. I began performing and writing at the age of three, and jazz music has remained one of my three passions as well as acting and writing. Jazz music is my musical equivalent of comfort food, according to me. Ringwald said in a tweet, "I go right where I go to get grounded."

In the 2014 Lifetime Christmas film Wishin' and Hopin, Ringwald played Madame Frechette. In Jem and the Holograms, Ringwald plays Aunt Bailey, raising Jerrica, her sister Kimber's, and her adopted children. Ringwald began writing an advice column for The Guardian in September 2014, answering questions regarding "love, family, or life in general." Amy was portrayed as Amy in King Cobra's crime-drama film in 2016. Ringwald is currently starring Mary Andrews, Archie Andrews' mother, on the CBS television show Riverdale. Ringwald has played a more prominent role in the film since being primarily seen as a visitor following the death of Luke Perry, who played Archie's father.

Ringwald made her début as a translator in 2019 by translating the French book Lie With Me by Philippe Besson.

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