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 network. She subsequently made her motion-picture debut as Miranda in the independent film Tempest (1982), which earned her a Golden Globe nomination for New Star of the Year.
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| Born | Molly Kathleen Ringwald February 18, 1968 |
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| Years active | 1977–present |
| Spouse(s) | Valery Lameignère (m. 1999; div. 2002)
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| Children | 3 |
Ringwald is known for her collaborations with filmmaker John Hughes. She established herself as a teen icon after appearing in the successful Hughes films Sixteen Candles (1984), The Breakfast Club (1985), and Pretty in Pink (1986). 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), The Stand (1994), and 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 one on VH1’s 100 Greatest Teen Stars.[2][3] Since 2017, Ringwald has portrayed Mary Andrews on The CW television series Riverdale.
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Ringwald was born in Roseville, California,[1][4] the daughter of Adele Edith (née Frembd), a chef, and Robert Scott “Bob” Ringwald, a blind jazz pianist[5] of German descent. Ringwald has two siblings, Beth and Kelly, and an older brother, who died before she was born.[6] She is partly of Swedish descent.[7] 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.[8] 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.[37] She married Panio Gianopoulos, a Greek-American writer and book editor, in 2007. They have a daughter, born in 2003[27] and fraternal boy-girl twins, born in July 2009.[38] Her pregnancy was written into the storyline of The Secret Life of the American Teenager.[39] She was the subject of an episode in season 7 of the genealogy series Who Do You Think You Are?.
Public image
Ringwald has stated that she was very aware of her public image during her teen years and that she tried to be a good role model for her fans. When asked about For Keeps (1988), Ringwald said, “I didn’t want to give the wrong message to teenagers. I sort of felt a certain responsibility – I mean, I was a very, very famous teenager and I thought a lot of teenagers were looking up to me and emulating me, and I really didn’t want to make a movie that said in any way that having a baby at that age was going to be easy.”[40]
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Net Worth
The Estimated Net worth is $80K – USD $85k.
| Monthly Income/Salary (approx.) | $80K – $85k USD |
| Net Worth (approx.) | $4 million- $6 million USD |