The famous Molly Kathleen Ringwald 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 after a casting director saw her playing an orphan in a stage production of the musical Annie.
In 2000, Ringwald appeared in the ensemble restaurant-themed film In the Weeds, and in 2001 she had a cameo in the commercially successful Not Another Teen Movie which earned her an MTV Movie Award nomination.
In theater, she wore a “Green, Green Dress” in Jonathan Larson’s Off-Broadway musical tick, tick BOOM!, and headlined as Sally Bowles in Broadway’s long-running revival of Cabaret from December 18, 2001, until April 28, 2002. In 2003, Ringwald appeared in Enchanted April on Broadway beginning April 8 but left after the performance on June 15 due to her pregnancy with her daughter.
In late 2004, she starred in the play Modern Orthodox on Broadway, opposite Jason Biggs and Craig Bierko. In 2006 she starred in the television film The Wives He Forgot, and that fall and winter starred as Charity Hope Valentine in the national tour of the Broadway revival of the musical Sweet Charity.
She also played a supporting role as Molly McIntire’s mother Helen in Molly: An American Girl on the Home Front. Ringwald starred in the ABC Family network’s series The Secret Life of the American Teenager, which debuted on July 1, 2008, and ran for five seasons and 121 episodes, before ending on June 3, 2013. She played Anne Juergens, the title teenager’s mother.
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Molly Ringwald husband
Ringwald married Valéry Lameignère, a French writer, in Bordeaux, France, on July 28, 1999; they divorced in 2002. and got married to Panio Gianopoulos, from 2006 up to date, he is an American writer and editor.
Molly Ringwald children
Molly Ringwald has three children: Mathilda Ereni Gianopoulos, Adele Georgiana Gianopoulos, and Roman Stylianos Gianopoulos.
Molly Ringwald parents
Molly Ringwald is the daughter of Adele Edith (née Frembd), a chef, and Robert Scott “Bob” Ringwald, a blind jazz pianist of German descent.
Molly Ringwald siblings
Molly Ringwald has two siblings, Beth and Kelly, and an older brother, who died before she was born.
