Molly Ringwald
Molly Ringwald (born the February 18th 1968 in Roseville in California) is an American actress with the hair russet-red which became famous and popular near the adolescent thanks to its role in the film Sixteen candles for Sam ( Sixteen Candles ) in 1984. After the success of this film, she exploited in several others films adolescence. She is member of the Brat Pack.
Musical career
Molly Ringwald is the girl of the pianist of jazz Bob Ringwald, which is blind. It begins its career of very young actress. Five years, she plays in the part Alice in Wonderland . At six years, it records with her father an album of jazz Dixieland , maintaining very required by the collectors. In eight years, it takes part in the television program The New Mickey Mouse Club and interprets one of the songs on an album of Christmas published by the company Walt Disney in 1980.
Career of actress
Molly Ringwald plays in several episodes of the televised series Diff' rent Strokes in 1979. This year, it is also with the credits of the series The Facts off Life , but its character is removed after the first season. It turns then to the cinema, and finds its first important role in Sixteen candles for Sam ( Sixteen Candles ) in 1984.The film which makes known it general public is Pink candy ( Pretty in Pink ) in 1986. Although she played a “ princesse ” in its greater success, The Breakfast Club , Ringwald often interpret characters melancholic persons, naive, cerebral and frustrated. Its roles influenced much the emissions and films for teenagers of the Années 1990.
Among his principal films, one finds Fresh Horses , The Pick Up Artist like The Breakfast Club . Whereas it was the most popular actress the Hollywood teenager, it appeared on the cover of publications such as Tiger Beat, Teen and several others.
Its career slows down during the years 1990 when it appears only in Téléfilm S and films of horror. Its return on television in 1996 in the Sitcom Townies is greeted by the critic, but the bad dimensions of listening involve the disappearance of the emission after only nine episodes.
She lives then in France during four years and does not play whereas in films in French, of which in particular Enfants of bastard (1996) of Tonie Marshall.
Molly Ringwald also played theater with London like on Broadway. As in wink at the beginning of his career, one finds it in 2001 in the film Not Another Teen Movie , which is a parody of the films for teenagers.
Molly married with Valéry Lameignère the July 28th 1999, but they divorced since.
Summary catalog of films
- 1982 : Tempest
- 1983 : Spacehunter: Adventures in the Forbidden Zone
- 1984: Sixteen candles for Sam ( Sixteen Candles )
- 1985: The Breakfast Club
- 1986: Pink candy ( Pretty in Pink )
- 1987: The Record player Artist
- 1988: For Keeps?
- 1988 : Fresh Horses
- 1990 : Strike It Rich
- 1990 : Betsy' S Wedding
- 1994: the Plague ( The Stand ) (serial TV)
- 1994: the Every day Sunday
- 1996: Children of bastard
- 1996: Townies (series TV)
- 2001: Sex Academy ( Not Another Teen Movie )
Others
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the group rock'n'roll Sponge had a success in 1995 entitled Molly (Sixteen Candles) which seemed to make several times reference to Ringwald and its career with the cinema even if the title of the song does not appear in the words. The group denied that the song referred to Ringwald, but this one declared in interviews that she believed that it was the case.
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Ringwald would have refused the part played by Julia Roberts in the successful film Pretty Woman left in 1990.
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In the televised series Gilmore Girls, Lorelei Gilmore often refers to Molly Ringwald, qualifying it even " Audrey Hepburn of génération" , proving its influence as a model for the banked-up beds of the 80 ' S.
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