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Molly Kathleen Ringwald (born February 18, 1968) is an American
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 actress, singer and dancer. She became popular with teenage audiences in the 1980s, as a result of her starring roles in the John Hughes movies Sixteen Candles
Sixteen Candles

Sixteen Candles is a 1984 in film coming-of-age film starring Molly Ringwald, Michael Schoeffling and Anthony Michael Hall. The film was written and directed by John Hughes , and is often associated with the beginning of the Brat Pack ....
, The Breakfast Club
The Breakfast Club

The Breakfast Club is a 1985 in film United States teen film written and directed by John Hughes . The storyline follows five teenagers as they spend a Saturday in Detention together and come to realize that they are all deeper than their respective stereotypes....
 and Pretty in Pink
Pretty in Pink

Pretty in Pink is an 1986 film about teenage love and social cliques in 1980s American high schools. It is one of a group of John Hughes movies starring Molly Ringwald, and is commonly identified as a "Brat Pack " movie....
. She returned to the public eye with her role in the ABC Family
ABC Family

ABC Family is an United States cable television television network currently owned by Disney-ABC Television Group, a division of The Walt Disney Company ....
 show The Secret Life of the American Teenager
The Secret Life of the American Teenager

The Secret Life of the American Teenager is a television series created by Brenda Hampton that debuted on ABC Family on July 1, 2008. The teen drama focuses on the relationships between families and friends dealing with the unexpected pregnancy of character Amy Juergens, portrayed by Shailene Woodley....
.

Biography
Early life
Molly Kathleen Ringwald was born in Roseville
Roseville, California

Roseville is a city in Placer County, California, California, United States, located in the Sacramento metropolitan area of Sacramento, California....
, California
California

California is a U.S. state on the West Coast of the United States of the United States, along the Pacific Ocean. It is bordered by Oregon to the north, Nevada to the east, Arizona to the southeast, and to the south the Mexico state of Baja California....
, just outside of Sacramento
Sacramento

Sacramento, an Italian language-, Spanish language- and Portuguese language-language word meaning sacrament, is a common Toponymy in parts of the world where those tongues were or are spoken....
, the daughter of Adele Edith (née
Married and maiden names

A married name is the family name adopted by a person upon marriage, and in speaking of the many cultures where the practice is traditional for women, the maiden name is the family name that the married name replaces....
 Frembd), a housewife and chef
Chef

A chef is a person who cooking professionally. In a professional kitchen setting, the term is used only for the one person in charge of everyone else in the kitchen, the executive chef....
, and Robert Scott "Bob" Ringwald, a blind
Blindness

Blindness is the condition of lacking visual perception due to physiological or neurological factors.Various scales have been developed to describe the extent of vision loss and define "blindness." Total blindness is the complete lack of form and visual light perception and is clinically recorded as "NLP," an abbreviation for "no ligh...
 jazz
Jazz

Jazz is a primarily American musical art form which originated at the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States from a confluence of African and European music traditions....
 pianist.






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Molly Kathleen Ringwald (born February 18, 1968) is an American
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 actress, singer and dancer. She became popular with teenage audiences in the 1980s, as a result of her starring roles in the John Hughes movies Sixteen Candles
Sixteen Candles

Sixteen Candles is a 1984 in film coming-of-age film starring Molly Ringwald, Michael Schoeffling and Anthony Michael Hall. The film was written and directed by John Hughes , and is often associated with the beginning of the Brat Pack ....
, The Breakfast Club
The Breakfast Club

The Breakfast Club is a 1985 in film United States teen film written and directed by John Hughes . The storyline follows five teenagers as they spend a Saturday in Detention together and come to realize that they are all deeper than their respective stereotypes....
 and Pretty in Pink
Pretty in Pink

Pretty in Pink is an 1986 film about teenage love and social cliques in 1980s American high schools. It is one of a group of John Hughes movies starring Molly Ringwald, and is commonly identified as a "Brat Pack " movie....
. She returned to the public eye with her role in the ABC Family
ABC Family

ABC Family is an United States cable television television network currently owned by Disney-ABC Television Group, a division of The Walt Disney Company ....
 show The Secret Life of the American Teenager
The Secret Life of the American Teenager

The Secret Life of the American Teenager is a television series created by Brenda Hampton that debuted on ABC Family on July 1, 2008. The teen drama focuses on the relationships between families and friends dealing with the unexpected pregnancy of character Amy Juergens, portrayed by Shailene Woodley....
.

Biography


Early life


Molly Kathleen Ringwald was born in Roseville
Roseville, California

Roseville is a city in Placer County, California, California, United States, located in the Sacramento metropolitan area of Sacramento, California....
, California
California

California is a U.S. state on the West Coast of the United States of the United States, along the Pacific Ocean. It is bordered by Oregon to the north, Nevada to the east, Arizona to the southeast, and to the south the Mexico state of Baja California....
, just outside of Sacramento
Sacramento

Sacramento, an Italian language-, Spanish language- and Portuguese language-language word meaning sacrament, is a common Toponymy in parts of the world where those tongues were or are spoken....
, the daughter of Adele Edith (née
Married and maiden names

A married name is the family name adopted by a person upon marriage, and in speaking of the many cultures where the practice is traditional for women, the maiden name is the family name that the married name replaces....
 Frembd), a housewife and chef
Chef

A chef is a person who cooking professionally. In a professional kitchen setting, the term is used only for the one person in charge of everyone else in the kitchen, the executive chef....
, and Robert Scott "Bob" Ringwald, a blind
Blindness

Blindness is the condition of lacking visual perception due to physiological or neurological factors.Various scales have been developed to describe the extent of vision loss and define "blindness." Total blindness is the complete lack of form and visual light perception and is clinically recorded as "NLP," an abbreviation for "no ligh...
 jazz
Jazz

Jazz is a primarily American musical art form which originated at the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States from a confluence of African and European music traditions....
 pianist. Ringwald has two siblings, Elizabeth and Kelly. She started her acting career at age 5, starring in a stage production of Alice in Wonderland
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland is a novel written by England author Charles Lutwidge Dodgson under the pseudonym Lewis Carroll. It tells the story of a girl named Alice who falls down a Rabbit hole into a fantasy world populated by peculiar and anthropomorphic creatures....
 as the dormouse. By the time she was 6 years old, she had recorded I Wanna Be Loved by You, a music album of Dixieland jazz with her father and his group, the Fulton Street Jazz Band.

Acting career

As a young actress, Ringwald appeared in numerous local TV commercials and stage plays in the Sacramento area. In 1978, at the age of 10, she was chosen to play Kate in the West Coast production of Annie, performing in Los Angeles. In 1979, Ringwald appeared in one episode of the television series Diff'rent Strokes
Diff'rent Strokes

Diff'rent Strokes is an United States television program that aired on the National Broadcasting Company television network from November 3, 1978 to May 4, 1985, and on American Broadcasting Company from September 27, 1985 to March 7, 1986....
 and was selected to become a cast member of the spin-off
Spin-off

A spin-off is a new organization or entity formed by a split from a larger one, such as a television series based on a pre-existing one, or a new company formed from a university research group or business incubator....
 Facts of Life
The Facts of Life (TV series)

The Facts of Life is an United States sitcom that originally ran on the NBC television network from August 24, 1979 to September 13, 1988. A spin-off of the sitcom Diff'rent Strokes, the series' original premise focused on the character, Edna Garrett , as she becomes housemother to seven girls at the fictional Eastland School, a pres...
. Molly played "Molly Parker," a perky, fun-loving student at Eastland Girls School. Although essentially a supporting role, one entire episode, "Molly's Holiday" revolved around her character dealing with the effects of her parents' divorce. After the first thirteen episodes, the producers restructured the show to be more like the popular film Little Darlings
Little Darlings

Little Darlings is a 1980 in film teen film starring Tatum O'Neal, Kristy McNichol, Matt Dillon and Armand Assante, directed by Ronald F. Maxwell....
, so Ringwald and three other girls were written out of the series in 1980. However, she made a final guest appearance at the start of the second season.

In 1980, Ringwald performed as a lead vocalist on two Disney
The Walt Disney Company

The Walt Disney Company is the largest media and entertainment corporation in the world. Founded on October 16, 1923, by brothers Walt Disney and Roy O....
 albums. On the patriotic album Yankee Doodle Mickey, Ringwald sang "This Is My Country
This Is My Country (song)

"This is My Country" is an American patriotic folk song composed in 1940. The lyrics are by Don Raye and the music is by Al Jacobs....
" , "The Star-Spangled Banner
The Star-Spangled Banner

"The Star-Spangled Banner" is the national anthem of the United States of America. The lyrics come from a poem written in 1814 by then 35-year-old amateur poet Francis Scott Key who wrote "Defence of Fort McHenry" after seeing the bombardment of Fort McHenry at Baltimore, Maryland, Maryland, by Royal Navy ships in the Chesapeake Bay during th...
" and "God Bless America
God Bless America

"God Bless America" is an United States patriotic song originally written by Irving Berlin in 1918 and revised by him in 1938, as sung by Kate Smith ....
". She later performed one track on a Disney Christmas
Christmas

Christmas , also referred to as Christmas Day, is an annual holiday celebrated on December 25 that commemorates the birth of Jesus. The day marks the beginning of the larger season of Christmastide, which lasts Twelve Days of Christmas....
 album. Turning toward motion pictures, she found her breakout role in Sixteen Candles
Sixteen Candles

Sixteen Candles is a 1984 in film coming-of-age film starring Molly Ringwald, Michael Schoeffling and Anthony Michael Hall. The film was written and directed by John Hughes , and is often associated with the beginning of the Brat Pack ....
 (1984). Molly Ringwald was a member of the so-called Brat Pack
Brat Pack (movies)

The Brat Pack is a nickname given to a group of young actors and actresses who frequently appeared together in teen-oriented :Category:Coming-of-age films in the 1980s....
 of 1980s teen actors. Though she played a high school "princess
Princess

Princess, is the feminine form of prince . Most often, the term has been used for the consort of a prince, or her daughters.For many centuries, the title "princess" was not regularly used for a monarch's daughter, who might simply be called "Lady" or a non-English equivalent; Old English language had no female equivalent to "prince", "earl"...
" in her biggest hit, 1985's The Breakfast Club
The Breakfast Club

The Breakfast Club is a 1985 in film United States teen film written and directed by John Hughes . The storyline follows five teenagers as they spend a Saturday in Detention together and come to realize that they are all deeper than their respective stereotypes....
, Ringwald specialized in portrayals of moody, awkward, brainy, angst
Angst

Angst is a German language and Dutch language word for fear or anxiety. It is used in English to describe an intense feeling of strife. The term Angst distinguishes itself from the word Furcht in that Furcht usually refers to a material threat , while Angst is usually a nondirectional emotion....
-filled characters. Her performances greatly influenced teen-oriented television and movies that would follow in the 1990s, as previous films with teenage subjects were mostly of the horror or exploitation comedy genres, and did not attempt to realistically portray teenage life. Among Ringwald's movies are Fresh Horses
Fresh Horses

Fresh Horses is a 1988 drama film starring Andrew McCarthy and Molly Ringwald, directed by David Anspaugh....
, The Pick-up Artist
The Pick-up Artist (film)

The Pick-up Artist is a 1987 United States film written and directed by James Toback. This romantic comedy starred Molly Ringwald and Robert Downey Jr....
 and Pretty in Pink
Pretty in Pink

Pretty in Pink is an 1986 film about teenage love and social cliques in 1980s American high schools. It is one of a group of John Hughes movies starring Molly Ringwald, and is commonly identified as a "Brat Pack " movie....
. During the mid- to late-1980s, when Ringwald was among Hollywood's top female teens, she appeared on many covers of such publications as Tiger Beat
Tiger Beat

Tiger Beat is an United States fan magazine marketed primarily to adolescents. It is currently published by Laufer Media of Los Angeles, California, California....
, Teen, Time
Time

Time is a component of the measurement used to sequence events, to compare the durations of events and the intervals between them, and to quantify the motions of objects....
 and Life
Life

Life is a characteristic of organisms that exhibit certain biological processes such as chemical reactions or other events that results in a transformation....
.

Ringwald reportedly turned down the leading role of Julia Roberts
Julia Roberts

Julia Fiona Roberts is an American actress and former fashion model. She became well known during the early 1990s after starring in the romantic comedy Pretty Woman opposite Richard Gere, which grossed $463 million worldwide....
' part in the 1990 box office smash Pretty Woman
Pretty Woman

Pretty Woman is a 1990 in film romantic comedy film. The film centers on the titular character, down-on-her-luck prostitute Vivian Ward who is hired by a wealthy businessman and Corporate raid, Edward Lewis to be his escort for several business functions, and their developing relationship....
 and also Demi Moore
Demi Moore

Demetria Gene "Demi" Moore Kutcher is an American actress. She became well-known after a string of 1980s teen-oriented movies, and was one of the best known actresses of 1990s Hollywood....
's leading role in the film Ghost
Ghost (film)

Ghost is a 1990 in film romance film fantasy film starring Patrick Swayze, Demi Moore, Tony Goldwyn and Whoopi Goldberg, written by Bruce Joel Rubin and directed by Jerry Zucker ....
. In 1995, her nude appearance in the film Malicious made some media waves due to her previous archetypal 'good girl' movie roles. Her 1996 return to television, starring on the ABC sitcom
Situation comedy

A situation comedy, usually referred to as a sitcom, is a genre of comedy programs which originated in radio. Today, sitcoms are found almost exclusively on television as one of its dominant narrative forms....
 Townies
Townies

Townies was a short-lived situation comedy 1996 in television by American Broadcasting Company. It was set in Gloucester, Massachusetts and starred Molly Ringwald, Jenna Elfman, Bill Burr, Conchata Ferrell, Lauren Graham, and Ron Livingston....
, was critically praised, but low viewer ratings
Nielsen Ratings

Nielsen Ratings are audience measurement developed by the AC Nielsen Company, to determine the audience size and composition of broadcast programming....
 resulted in the show's cancellation after nine episodes. She also made one appearance as a blind lady on the critically acclaimed series Remember WENN
Remember WENN

Remember WENN is an Emmy-winning television series that aired from 1996 to 1998 on the cable channel American Movie Classics. Created and written by Rupert Holmes and set at the fictional Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania radio station WENN in the early 1940s, it depicted events in the personal and professional lives of the station's staff in th...
 (American Movie Classics Channel 1996-1998).

During the 1990s, Ringwald lived in France
France

France , officially the French Republic , is a country whose Metropolitan France is located in Western Europe and that also comprises various Overseas departments and territories of France....
 for four years and appeared in French-language
French language

French is a Romance language spoken around the world by around 80 million people as first language, by 190 million as second language, and by about another 200 million people as an acquired tongue, with significant speakers in 54 countries....
 films. She performed in Horton Foote
Horton Foote

Albert Horton Foote, Jr. was an United States of America playwright and screenwriter, perhaps best known for his screenplay for the 1962 film To Kill a Mockingbird , for which he received an Academy Award....
's Lilly Dale on Broadway
Broadway theatre

Broadway theatre, commonly called simply Broadway, refers to theatrical performances presented in one of the 39 large professional theaters with 500 seats or more located in the Theatre District, New York in Manhattan, New York City....
 and performed in When Harry Met Sally on the West End
West End

West End most commonly refers to:* West End of London* West End theatre...
 in London
London

London is the capital of both England and the United Kingdom, and the most populous municipality in the European Union. An important settlement for two millennia, History of London goes back to its founding by the Roman Empire....
. In 1994 she starred in the tv adaptation of Stephen King
Stephen King

Stephen Edwin King is an United States author of contemporary horror fiction, fantasy fiction and science fiction.Having sold an estimated List of bestselling fiction authors of his books, King is best known for his work in horror fiction, in which he demonstrates a thorough knowledge of the genre's history....
's The Stand
The Stand

The Stand is a post-apocalyptic horror fiction/science fiction novel by Stephen King originally published in 1978. It re-works the scenario in King?s earlier short story, "Night Surf" ....
. She also starred with Lara Flynn Boyle
Lara Flynn Boyle

Lara Flynn Boyle is an American actress....
 and Teri Hatcher
Teri Hatcher

Teri Lynn Hatcher is an United States actress. She portrayed Lois Lane in the television series Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman....
 in the 1998 made-for-television movie Since You've Been Gone
Since You've Been Gone (film)

Since You've Been Gone is a 1998 in film U.S. made-for-TV movie directed by David Schwimmer about a 10th anniversary class reunion. Apart from Schwimmer himself, the film starred Philip Rayburn Smith, Joy E....
. In 2000, she appeared in an episode of Showtime's The Outer Limits
The Outer Limits

The Outer Limits is an United States television series. Similar in style to the earlier The Twilight Zone , with more science fiction than fantasy stories, The Outer Limits is an anthology of discrete story episodes, sometimes with a plot twist at the end....
.

In 2000 Ringwald appeared in the ensemble restaurant-themed film In the Weeds, in 2001 had a cameo in Not Another Teen Movie
Not Another Teen Movie

Not Another Teen Movie is a 2001 in film comedy film released on December 14, 2001 by Columbia Pictures. It is a parody of the teen film and other cinematic portrayals of adolescence which have accumulated in Hollywood over the last few decades....
, a parody/tribute film of many teen films, including some in which she had starred. In late 2004, she starred in the play Modern Orthodox
New World Stages

New World Stages, originally Dodger Stages, is a 5 theater Off-Broadway venue. It was the second most expensive complex of its kind to build, with a cost of approximately 23 million dollars....
 on Broadway, opposite Jason Biggs
Jason Biggs

Jason Matthew Biggs is an United States actor who is best known for his role as American Pie #Characters in the American Pie trio of teen sex comedies....
 and Craig Bierko
Craig Bierko

Craig Philip Bierko is an United States actor.Bierko is perhaps best known for his role as Timothy in the 1996 action film The Long Kiss Goodnight, as Max Baer in the film Cinderella Man, as Tom Ryan in Scary Movie 4 and on the Broadway stage as Harold Hill in The Music Man....
. In 2006 she starred in the TV movie The Wives He Forgot
The Wives He Forgot

The Wives He Forgot is a 2006 in film starring Molly Ringwald as Charlotte Saint John, a small town attorney, who comes to the aid of Gabriel , a handsome stranger who's suffering from amnesia....
. Ringwald recently appeared in an episode of the TV series Medium
Medium (TV series)

Medium is an American supernatural and dramatic television series which premiered on NBC on January 3, 2005. The series is about Allison DuBois who acts as a research medium for the Phoenix, Arizona, district attorney's office....
 in the episode "The Darkness is Light Enough" as Kathleen Walsh, a blind
Blindness

Blindness is the condition of lacking visual perception due to physiological or neurological factors.Various scales have been developed to describe the extent of vision loss and define "blindness." Total blindness is the complete lack of form and visual light perception and is clinically recorded as "NLP," an abbreviation for "no ligh...
 woman.

Ringwald has appeared in Cabaret
Cabaret (musical)

Cabaret is a Musical theater with a book by Joe Masteroff, lyrics by Fred Ebb, and music by John Kander. The 1966 Broadway theatre production became a hit and spawned an acclaimed 1972 film as well as numerous subsequent productions....
, tick, tick... BOOM!
Tick, Tick... BOOM!

tick, tick... BOOM! is a Musical theater written by American composer Jonathan Larson, best known for creating RENT. It tells the story of an aspiring composer named Jon, who lives in New York City in 1990....
, and Enchanted April on Broadway, and in the fall and winter of 2006 she starred as Charity Hope Valentine in the national tour of the Broadway revival of the musical Sweet Charity
Sweet Charity

Sweet Charity is a Musical theater with music by Cy Coleman, lyrics by Dorothy Fields and book by Neil Simon. It is based on Federico Fellini's screenplay for Nights of Cabiria....
.

Molly is currently starring in the ABC Family network's hit show The Secret Life of the American Teenager
The Secret Life of the American Teenager

The Secret Life of the American Teenager is a television series created by Brenda Hampton that debuted on ABC Family on July 1, 2008. The teen drama focuses on the relationships between families and friends dealing with the unexpected pregnancy of character Amy Juergens, portrayed by Shailene Woodley....
, which debuted on July 1, 2008.. She plays Anne Juergens, a woman who married her husband George at the age of 18 because she was pregnant. During the course of the show so far, she deals with her 15 year old daughter's unexpected pregnancy, her 13 year old daughter's rebellious streak, her husband's infidelity (leading her to kick him out of the house), and her mother's Alzheimer's disease
Alzheimer's disease

Alzheimer's disease , also called Alzheimer disease, Senile Dementia of the Alzheimer Type or simply Alzheimer's, is the most common form of dementia....
.

Personal life


Ringwald briefly dated actor Anthony Michael Hall
Anthony Michael Hall

Michael Anthony Hall , known professionally as Anthony Michael Hall, is an American actor, film producer and film director who starred in several successful teen-oriented films of the 1980s....
 during the time when they co-starred in The Breakfast Club. During the filming of Pretty in Pink, Ringwald was dating Dweezil Zappa
Dweezil Zappa

Dweezil Zappa is an American Rock music guitarist....
, son of Frank Zappa
Frank Zappa

Frank Vincent Zappa was an American composer, electric guitarist, record producer, and film director. In a career spanning more than 30 years, Zappa wrote rock music, jazz, electronic music, orchestral, and musique concr?te works....
. She was romantically linked with Beastie Boys
Beastie Boys

Beastie Boys are an American hip hop music group from New York City consisting of Michael Diamond, Adam Yauch, and Adam Horovitz. Since around the time of the Hello Nasty album, the DJ for the group has been Mix Master Mike, who was first featured in the song "Three MC's and One DJ"....
 member Adam Horovitz
Adam Horovitz

Adam Keefe Horovitz , better known as Ad-Rock or King Ad-Rock, is an American musician, guitarist, rapper, producer , and actor....
 in the mid '80s. They dated for about a year. At the time, rumors incorrectly hinted at their marriage.

Ringwald has been married twice:
  • (1) Valery Lameignère, a French writer, in Bordeaux
    Bordeaux

    is a Port city on the Garonne in southwest France, with one million inhabitants in its aire urbaine at a 2008 estimate. It is the Capital of the Aquitaine regions of France, as well as the Prefectures in France of the Gironde Departments of France....
    , France
    France

    France , officially the French Republic , is a country whose Metropolitan France is located in Western Europe and that also comprises various Overseas departments and territories of France....
    , on July 28, 1999; they divorced in 2002.
  • (2) Panio Gianopoulos
    Panio Gianopoulos

    Panio Gianopoulos is a writer and editor for Bloomsbury Publishing.Gianopoulos' work has appeared in various magazines and newspapers, including Details, Glamour, Tin House, Nerve, Everyday with Rachael Ray, The Hartford Courant, The Journal News, Northwest Review, and The Brooklyn Rail....
    , a Greek-American writer and book editor. They married in 2007 and have a daughter, Mathilda Ereni (born October 22, 2003). They are expecting twins, a boy and a girl, in August 2009. Her pregnancy is expected to be written into the storyline of The Secret Life Of The American Teenager
    The Secret Life of the American Teenager

    The Secret Life of the American Teenager is a television series created by Brenda Hampton that debuted on ABC Family on July 1, 2008. The teen drama focuses on the relationships between families and friends dealing with the unexpected pregnancy of character Amy Juergens, portrayed by Shailene Woodley....
    ..


Filmography

Features:
  • Tempest
    Tempest (1982 film)

    Tempest is an United States comedy-drama film directed by Paul Mazursky. It's a very loose adaptation of the William Shakespeare Play , The Tempest....
     (1982)
  • Spacehunter: Adventures in the Forbidden Zone
    Spacehunter: Adventures in the Forbidden Zone

    Spacehunter: Adventures in the Forbidden Zone is a 1983 pulp, action-comedy, science fiction film. The movie stars Peter Strauss, Molly Ringwald, Ernie Hudson, Andrea Marcovicci, and Michael Ironside....
     (1983)
  • Sixteen Candles
    Sixteen Candles

    Sixteen Candles is a 1984 in film coming-of-age film starring Molly Ringwald, Michael Schoeffling and Anthony Michael Hall. The film was written and directed by John Hughes , and is often associated with the beginning of the Brat Pack ....
     (1984)
  • Surviving (TV movie) (1985)
  • The Breakfast Club
    The Breakfast Club

    The Breakfast Club is a 1985 in film United States teen film written and directed by John Hughes . The storyline follows five teenagers as they spend a Saturday in Detention together and come to realize that they are all deeper than their respective stereotypes....
     (1985)
  • Pretty in Pink
    Pretty in Pink

    Pretty in Pink is an 1986 film about teenage love and social cliques in 1980s American high schools. It is one of a group of John Hughes movies starring Molly Ringwald, and is commonly identified as a "Brat Pack " movie....
     (1986)
  • P.K. and the Kid (1987) (filmed in 1982)
  • King Lear
    King Lear (1987 film)

    King Lear is a 1987 in film filmic adaptation of the Shakespeare play of the same title, directed by Jean-Luc Godard. The script is primarily by Peter Sellars and Tom Luddy....
     (1987)
  • The Pick-up Artist
    The Pick-up Artist (film)

    The Pick-up Artist is a 1987 United States film written and directed by James Toback. This romantic comedy starred Molly Ringwald and Robert Downey Jr....
     (1987)
  • For Keeps? (1988)
  • Fresh Horses
    Fresh Horses

    Fresh Horses is a 1988 drama film starring Andrew McCarthy and Molly Ringwald, directed by David Anspaugh....
     (1988)
  • Strike It Rich (1990)
  • Betsy's Wedding (1990)
  • Something to Live for: The Alison Gertz Story
    Something to Live for: The Alison Gertz Story

    Something to Live for: The Alison Gertz Story is a 1992 in television television movie based on the life of a prominent AIDS activist Alison Gertz....
     (1992)
  • Face the Music (1993)
  • The Stand
    The Stand (TV miniseries)

    The Stand is a 1994 television miniseries based on the novel The Stand by Stephen King. King also wrote the teleplay. It was directed by Mick Garris and stars Gary Sinise, Molly Ringwald and Jamey Sheridan....
     (1994)
  • Malicious (1995)
  • Baja (1995)
  • All Day Sunday (1995)
  • Bastard Children (1996)
  • Office Killer
    Office Killer

    Office Killer is a comedy-horror film directed by Cindy Sherman. It was released in 1997 and stars Carol Kane, Molly Ringwald and David Thornton....
     (1997)
  • Teaching Mrs. Tingle
    Teaching Mrs. Tingle

    Teaching Mrs. Tingle is a 1999 in film black comedy film and the directorial debut of screenwriter Kevin Williamson . The film stars Helen Mirren, Katie Holmes, Marisa Coughlan, Barry Watson and Jeffrey Tambor and was released on August 20 1999....
     (1999)
  • Kimberly (1999)
  • Cut (2000)
  • The Brutal Truth (2000)
  • In the Weeds (2000)
  • Cowboy Up (2001)
  • Not Another Teen Movie
    Not Another Teen Movie

    Not Another Teen Movie is a 2001 in film comedy film released on December 14, 2001 by Columbia Pictures. It is a parody of the teen film and other cinematic portrayals of adolescence which have accumulated in Hollywood over the last few decades....
     (2001)
  • The Tulse Luper Suitcases
    The Tulse Luper Suitcases

    The Tulse Luper Suitcases is a multimedia project by Peter Greenaway, initially intended to comprise three feature films, a 16-episode TV series, and 92 DVDs, as well as web sites, CD-ROMs and books....
     (2003)
  • Molly: An American Girl on the Home Front
    Molly: An American Girl on the Home Front

    Molly: An American Girl on the Home Front is the third movie in The American Girl Movie Collection, but is the first to premiere on the Disney Channel....
     (2006) (TV movie) as Helen McIntire
  • Guest of Cindy Sherman (2008) (documentary)
  • Holiday in Handcuffs 2 (2010)
  • Not Another Teen Movie(2007)
Short subjects:
  • Some Folks Call it a Sling Blade
    Some Folks Call it a Sling Blade

    Some Folks Call it a Sling Blade is a short film directed by George Hickenlooper and starring Billy Bob Thornton, Molly Ringwald, and J.T. Walsh....
     (1994)
  • Titey (1998) (voice)
  • The Translator (2000)
TV:
  • The Facts of Life
    The Facts of Life

    The Facts of Life may refer to:*A euphemism for sexual education, particularly coming from a parent. Similar to the birds and the bees.*The Facts of Life , a U.S....
     (1979-1980)... Molly Parker
  • Townies
    Townies

    Townies was a short-lived situation comedy 1996 in television by American Broadcasting Company. It was set in Gloucester, Massachusetts and starred Molly Ringwald, Jenna Elfman, Bill Burr, Conchata Ferrell, Lauren Graham, and Ron Livingston....
     (1996)... Carrie Donovan
  • Medium
    Medium

    Medium may refer to:...
     (2006)... Kathleen Walsh
  • The Secret Life of the American Teenager
    The Secret Life of the American Teenager

    The Secret Life of the American Teenager is a television series created by Brenda Hampton that debuted on ABC Family on July 1, 2008. The teen drama focuses on the relationships between families and friends dealing with the unexpected pregnancy of character Amy Juergens, portrayed by Shailene Woodley....
     (2008 - present)... Anne Juergens


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  • Katie Holmes
    Katie Holmes

    Kate "Katie" Noelle Holmes is an American actress who first achieved fame for her role as Joey Potter on The WB Television Network television teen drama Dawson's Creek from 1998 to 2003....
     (September 1999)