Born Molly Kathleen Ringwald on February 18, 1968 in Roseville, California, Molly Ringwald is a popular 80s actress who starred in the movies Sixteen Candles, The Breakfast Club, and Pretty in Pink. The daughter of a blind jazz pianist and a housewife, Ringwald started her acting career at age 5, when she starred in a production of Alice in Wonderland. A year later at age 6, she recorded a jazz music album with her father and his group.
Before landing a coveted guess spot on The New Mickey Mouse Club, Molly Ringwald has done several local television campaigns, as well as a variety of stage plays. At the age of 10, she toured with the Second National Tour of Annie. In 1979, she appeared as a guest on Diff’rent Strokes and was picked to become a regular cast member on the spin-off The Facts of Life. After a restructuring three years later, however, she, along with three other girls, was written off the series.
Molly Ringwald also ventured in music, as the lead vocalist on two Disney albums, a patriotic one and a Christmas album. Her debut film was Sixteen Candles in 1984, officially making her a member of the so-called Brat Pack of the 1980s teen actors, alongside Judd Nelson, Ally Sheedy, Emilio Estevez, Rob Lowe, Demi Moore, among others. Her biggest hit came on the 1985 movie The Breakfast Club. She went on to star in a string of moderately successful mainstream films, such as Fresh Horses, The Pick-up Artist, and Pretty in Pink. Her popularity waned during the 90s, the same time she moved to France and lived there for four years.
Molly Ringwald plays Anne Juergens on the ABC series The Secret Life of the American Teenager.