Molly Ringwald: Biography, Movies & Photos — RecapFlicks

Molly Ringwald: Biography, Movies & Photos — RecapFlicks

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1Judged the Tropfest Film Festival in Australia.
2Family: dad, Robert Ringwald; mom, Adele; older sister, Beth Ringwald; older brother, Kelly.
3Her first acting break was as Kate in the West Coast production of "Annie".
4Listed as one of 12 "Promising New Actors of 1984" in John Willis' Screen World, Vol. 36.
5Is fluent in French, having been educated at the Lycee Francaise School in Los Angeles, lived and worked in France for a few years, and was married to a Frenchman.

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6Turned down the Julia Roberts role in Pretty Woman (1990) and the Demi Moore role in Ghost (1990)
7Refused the Lea Thompson role in Some Kind of Wonderful (1987), ending her successful business relationship with John Hughes, who was furious.
8Her parents owned a cafeteria in downtown Los Angeles.
9David Lynch sent her the screenplay of Blue Velvet (1986), in the hope that she would be interested in playing the role of Sandy, which was eventually played by Laura Dern. However, Molly's mother read it first, and because it disturbed her, she never showed it to Molly for consideration.
10Made the cover of Time magazine in 1986.
11Auditioned for one of the lead roles in Ghost (1990). The character she was tested for was ironically named Molly. (That part ultimately went to Demi Moore, a fellow member of the so-called Brat Pack.)
12Book reviewer for the Hartford Courant newspaper in Connecticut, and writes entertainment profiles for the Westchester Journal News (NY).
13"Ereni" (eeh-ree-nee), her daughter's middle name, means "peace" in Greek.
14Married to Panio Gianopoulos, a book editor and a writer. Younger than Ringwald, he published an elegiac essay about romancing older women called "Confessions of a Boy Toy" in a recent anthology.
15At the beginning of her film collaboration with John Hughes, she was driving a silver VW Rabbit convertible. By the time it ended with Pretty in Pink (1986), she was driving a white BMW.
16Was one of the eight original core members of the 1980s "Brat Pack" along with Judd Nelson, Anthony Michael Hall, Demi Moore, Rob Lowe, Ally Sheedy, Emilio Estevez, and Andrew McCarthy.
17She revealed at the 2005 MTV Movie Awards (2005) that she's having negotiations about a sequel to Sixteen Candles (1984).
18Ranked #17 in VH1's list of the "100 Greatest Kid Stars."
19Ranked #1 in VH1's list of the "100 Greatest Teen Stars."
20Because her name is so associated with the "Brat Pack" movies of the 1980s, there is a band that plays covers of '80s hits called "The Molly Ringwalds".