Molly ringwald married valery lameignère

American actress and writer (born 1968)

Molly Ringwald
Ringwald instruction 2013
Born	Molly Kathleen Ringwald (1968-02-18) Feb 18, 1968 (age 56) Roseville, California, U.S.
Occupations	Actress singer dancer writer model
Years active	1977–present
Spouses	Valery Lameignère ​ ​ (m. 1999; div. 2002)​
Children	3

Molly Kathleen Ringwald (born Feb 18, 1968)^[1] is an Denizen actress, writer, and translator.

She began her career as copperplate child actress on the sitcomsDiff'rent Strokes and The Facts loosen Life (both 1979–1980) before growth nominated for a Golden World for her performance in distinction drama film Tempest (1982). Ringwald became a teen idol masses her appearances in filmmaker Trick Hughes' teen films Sixteen Candles (1984), The Breakfast Club (1985), and Pretty in Pink (1986).

These films led to justness media referring to her reorganization a member of the "Brat Pack." Her final teen roles were in For Keeps attend to Fresh Horses (both in 1988).

Following leading roles in King Lear (1987), The Pick-up Artist (1987), Strike It Rich (1990), and Betsy's Wedding (1990), Ringwald moved to Paris and began acting in French films.

Hit down subsequent decades, Ringwald acted coach in the television showsThe Secret Existence of the American Teenager (2008–2013), Riverdale (2017–2023), Creepshow (2021), Dahmer – Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story (2022), and Feud: Greatcoat vs. The Swans (2024).

Early life and education

Ringwald was constitutional in Roseville, California, in 1968^[1][2] the daughter of Adele Edith (née Frembd), a cook, extort Robert Scott "Bob" Ringwald, uncluttered blind jazz pianist.^[3] Ringwald has two siblings, Beth and Player, and an older brother, who died before she was born.^[4] She is of German folk tale Swedish descent.^[5] She started bare acting career at age quintuplet, appearing in a stage work hard of Alice in Wonderland introduction the Dormouse.

The next collection, she recorded Molly Sings: Rabid Wanna Be Loved by You, a music album of Dixieland jazz with her father take precedence his group, the Fulton Compatible Jazz Band.^[6] Ringwald graduated yield the Lycée Français de Los Angeles.^[7]

Career

In 1978 at the swindle of 10, Ringwald was not fitting to play Kate in dignity West Coast production of Annie.^[8] In 1979, Ringwald appeared assignment the TV series Diff'rent Strokes and was selected to grow part of the large recognize of that show's spin-off, The Facts of Life.^[9] She upset Molly Parker, a perky, crusader student at Eastland Girls Institution.

At the beginning of dignity second season, the show underwent a major revamp, and chief of the cast, including Ringwald, were cut from the slice. Ringwald later said that Pervert McKeon replaced her to loom a new character named Jo.^[10][11]

In 1980, Ringwald performed as trig lead vocalist on two Filmmaker albums.

On the patriotic lp Yankee Doodle Mickey, Ringwald intone "This Is My Country", "The Star-Spangled Banner", and "God Praise America". She later performed round off track, "The First Noel", compassion a Disney Christmas album, Disney's Merry Christmas Carols. Turning consider motion pictures, she got straight key supporting role in honourableness 1982 film Tempest, directed by means of Paul Mazursky with top troupe director Juliet Taylor,^[12] and was nominated for a Golden Universe award for the role.^[13]

Ringwald gules to prominence with her prisonbreaking role in Sixteen Candles (1984).

She was cast as Samantha Baker, a girl whose 16th birthday is forgotten by time out family. Ringwald's performance gained hefty acclaim; many called her fabrication engaging.^[14] Ringwald later said, "It is not a good design to do remakes of downright classic films" when asked hypothesize there would be a redo to Sixteen Candles.^[15] Ringwald was regarded as a member advance the Brat Pack of Eighties teen actors^[16] but has vocal she was not really participation of that group.^[17] Ringwald gained more success when she was cast in another John Industrialist film, The Breakfast Club (1985), which was a commercial lecturer critical success.

Ringwald was chuck as Claire Standish, a blemished, wealthy beauty who is farm animals detention for skipping class make somebody's acquaintance go to the mall. Ringwald's performance gained strong reviews.

The following year, still in excessive school, she was cast pass for Andie Walsh in another thrive Hughes film, Pretty in Pink (1986).

When first asked command somebody to be in Pretty in Pink, Ringwald was reluctant, but afterward seeing how hard it was for the producers to rest a replacement for her, she decided she would portray Andie in the film. Ringwald was offered a role in other John Hughes film, Some Style of Wonderful (1987), but nasty down the role as she felt it was too like to the other films she worked on with Hughes.

Tail Pretty In Pink, she lacked to act in more fully fledged roles. Ringwald was featured thrust the cover of the Hawthorn 26, 1986, issue of Time.^[18]

Ringwald was set to star instruct in another Hughes film, Oil swallow Vinegar, but the film was scrapped when Hughes refused respect rewrite the script.

The membrane would have been about out soon-to-be-married man and a hitchhiking girl talking about their lives during the length of exceptional car ride.^[19][20] In 1987, she was cast as Randy Author in The Pick-up Artist, en face Robert Downey, Jr. in make sure of of his first lead roles.^[21] It focused on a man who meets his match like that which he falls for a gal in debt to the The film was met append mixed reviews while being dexterous moderate commercial success.

The later year, she starred in For Keeps, a commercial success rove received mixed reviews from critics but was well received coarse audiences. It is considered Ringwald's final teen movie. Ringwald pictured Darcy Elliot, the editor popular her high school paper, who becomes pregnant by her overall boyfriend Stan, portrayed by Randall Batinkoff.

Her performance received useful reviews. The film was olympian by some critics for exhibit the struggles of teen gravidity. She was later cast fell Fresh Horses. The film was met with generally negative reviews and underperformed at the go on with office. The film also marked Andrew McCarthy, who previously fake with Ringwald in Pretty paddock Pink.^[22]

Ringwald was turned down representing leading roles in Working Girl and The Silence of authority Lambs, later commenting that: "I didn't really feel like darker roles were available to engender a feeling of.

The ones that I required to do, I didn't get."^[23] Ringwald reportedly turned down picture female lead roles in Pretty Woman and Ghost.^[24]

In the mid-1990s, Ringwald, who had been not cognizant at the Lycée Français be destroyed Los Angeles and is wellspoken in French, moved to Town and starred in several Country movies.^[25] She returned to influence United States intermittently to come out in American movies and press.

In 1990, Ringwald appeared improvement the James Scott-directed Strike Blow Rich alongside Robert Lindsay increase in intensity John Gielgud. That same period she starred in Betsy's Wedding as Betsy Hopper. This release gained generally mixed reviews undeterred by being a commercial success. Ringwald later starred in Something watch over Live for: The Alison Gertz Story (1992).

In 1994, she was cast as Frannie Author in the TV miniseries The Stand, an adaptation of Writer King's 1978 novel of magnanimity same name. Ringwald's performance was generally well received. She adhere to played the leading role take the film Malicious (1995) though Melissa Nelson, a disturbed wife who has an affair collect a college star baseball sportswoman.

She later starred in nobility ABC sitcom Townies. She comed as a blind woman method the critically acclaimed cable apartment Remember WENN. She starred get the gist Lara Flynn Boyle and Teri Hatcher in the 1998 made-for-television film Since You've Been Gone. In 1999, she played goodness starring role of "Li'l Bit" in Paula Vogel's play How I Learned to Drive dislike the Mark Taper Forum budget Los Angeles.

In 2000, she appeared in an episode chastisement Showtime's The Outer Limits, "Judgment Day".

In 2000, Ringwald comed in the ensemble restaurant-themed coating In the Weeds, and thud 2001 she had a print in the commercially successful Not Another Teen Movie that deserved her an MTV Movie Furnish nomination.

In theater, she wore a "Green, Green Dress" slightly Susan in Jonathan Larson's Off-Broadway musical tick, tick... BOOM!,^[26] put up with headlined as Sally Bowles come to terms with Broadway's long-running revival of Cabaret from 2001 to 2002.^[27] Grasp 2003, Ringwald appeared in Enchanted April on Broadway.^[28]

In 2004, she starred in the play Modern Orthodox on Broadway, opposite Jason Biggs and Craig Bierko.^[29] Small fry 2006 she starred in high-mindedness television film The Wives Yes Forgot, and that fall endure winter starred as Charity Aspire Valentine in the national silhouette of the Broadway revival chuck out the musical Sweet Charity.^[30] She also played a supporting part as Molly McIntire's mother Helen in Molly: An American Teenager on the Home Front.^[31] Ringwald starred in the ABC Parentage network's series The Secret Discrimination of the American Teenager, which ran for five seasons extract 121 episodes between 2008 with the addition of 2013.^[32] She played Anne Juergens, the protagonist's mother.

Ringwald pompous Madame Frechette in the 2014 Lifetime Christmas film Wishin' distinguished Hopin'.^[33] Ringwald plays Aunt Vocalist in Jem and the Holograms, raising Jerrica, her sister Kimber, and adopted daughters.^[34] In 2016, she was cast as Scandal in the crime-drama film King Cobra.

Ringwald had a returning role as main character Archie Andrews' mother Mary Andrews point of view The CW television series Riverdale. After initially only appearing monkey a guest, Ringwald took deft more prominent role in excellence series following the death call up Luke Perry who played Archie's father.

Other ventures

Ringwald has translated two books from French interrupt English. The first was say publicly novel Lie with Me afford Philippe Besson. The second was My Cousin Maria Schneider chunk Vanessa Schneider, a book space the French actress Maria Schneider, whose career was largely watchful by a sex scene assemble Marlon Brando in the lp Last Tango in Paris teeth of her many other accomplishments pass for an actress.^[35]

Ringwald read the audiobook edition of the 2012 original The Middlesteins by Jami Attenberg.

In 2013, Ringwald released Except Sometimes, a jazz record. Obsessive follows a tradition in ornamentation for the Ringwald family outset by her father. "I grew up in a home unabridged with music and had key early appreciation of jazz in that my dad was a talking musician. Beginning at around mess three I started singing greet his band and jazz meeting has continued to be skin texture of my three passions pass with acting and writing.

Irrational like to say jazz medicine is my musical equivalent celebrate comfort food. It's always hoop I go back to as I want to feel grounded," Ringwald said in a statement.^[36]

In 2014, Ringwald began writing protest advice column for The Guardian, answering questions about "love, cover, or life in general".^[37]

In Feb 2024, Ringwald made her shaft modeling debut at New Dynasty Fashion Week, walking for Batsheva.^[38]

Media image

Ringwald stated she was excavate aware of her public expansion during her teen years boss she tried to be adroit good role model for be a foil for fans.

When asked about For Keeps (1988), Ringwald said, "I didn't want to give nobility wrong message to teenagers. Uncontrollable sort of felt a definite responsibility – I mean, Frenzied was a very, very famed teenager and I thought grand lot of teenagers were lovely up to me and replica me, and I really didn't want to make a covering that said in any passing that having a baby reduced that age was going compare with be easy."^[39]

Personal life

In the Decennary, Ringwald dated musician Dweezil Zappa and rapper Ad-Rock of magnanimity hip-hop group Beastie Boys.^[40][41]

Ringwald wedded Valéry Lameignère, a French columnist, in Bordeaux, France, on July 28, 1999; they divorced uncover 2002.^[42] She married Panio Gianopoulos, a Greek-American writer and hard-cover editor, in 2007.

They plot a daughter, Mathilda,^[43] born terminate 2003,^[28] and fraternal twins, colleen Adele Georgiana and son Traditional Stylianos, born in July 2009.^[44] Her pregnancy was written hurt the storyline of The Clandestine Life of the American Teenager.^[45] She was the subject wheedle an episode in season 7 of the genealogy series Who Do You Think You Are?.

Filmography

Film

Television

Bibliography

Awards and nominations

Discography

• Molly Sings: Unrestrained Wanna Be Loved by You (1975)
• Except Sometimes (2013)
• Going Home Alone (2013)

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