Molly Ringwald

Molly Ringwald

1968-02-18 Roseville, California, USA 68 Credits

Biography

Molly Kathleen Ringwald (born February 18, 1968) 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 (1979–80) after a casting director saw her playing an orphan in a stage production of the musical Annie. She and several other members of the original Facts of Life cast were let go when the show was reworked by the network. She subsequently made her motion-picture debut as Miranda in the independent film Tempest (1...

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Montauk

Montauk

2025

as Wolcott

10.0
Acting

Childhood friends set out to find treasure on a mysterious private island and discover the secrets behind the family who lives there.

BRATS

BRATS

2024

as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

6.0
Acting

In the 1980s, Andrew McCarthy was part of a young generation of actors who were set to take over Hollywood after a string of successful teen movies. H...

Catherine & Michael

Catherine & Michael

2023

as Naomi

Acting

An unhappily married couple visits their do-everything-right friends for a supposedly fun weekend upstate. But when their fragile relationship crumble...

Bad Things

Bad Things

2023

as Miss Auerbach

4.1
Acting

A weekend getaway for a few friends at a snowy hotel becomes a psychological tailspin and bloody nightmare.

Pursued

Pursued

2023

as Carol

Acting

After the death of her father a young woman starts to investigate her mother’s new boyfriend, but she makes a mistake and connects with a serial kille...

Judy Blume Forever

Judy Blume Forever

2023

as Self

7.5
Acting

The radical honesty of the books by young adult fiction pioneer Judy Blume changed the way millions of readers understood themselves, their sexuality,...

A Brief History of Us

A Brief History of Us

2022

as Narrator (voice)

Acting

When you are in a long-term relationship, you sometimes feel you are no longer an individual but a part of a super-organism. Between your daily routin...

The Kissing Booth 3

The Kissing Booth 3

2021

as Mrs. Flynn

6.9
Acting

It’s the summer before Elle heads to college, and she has a secret decision to make. Elle has been accepted into Harvard, where boyfriend Noah is matr...

The Sparks Brothers

The Sparks Brothers

2021

as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

7.4
Acting

Take a musical odyssey through five weird and wonderful decades with brothers Ron & Russell Mael, celebrating the inspiring legacy of Sparks: your fav...

The Kissing Booth 2

The Kissing Booth 2

2020

as Mrs. Flynn

7.6
Acting

With college decisions looming, Elle juggles her long-distance romance with Noah, changing relationship with bestie Lee and feelings for a new classma...

All These Small Moments

All These Small Moments

2019

as Carla Sheffield

6.5
Acting

A teenage boy's infatuation with a woman he sees on the bus further complicates his already tumultuous adolescence.

Siberia

Siberia

2018

as Gabby

4.7
Acting

Lucas, a diamond trader who travels to Saint Petersburg to arrange a sale, discovers that his Russian business partner has left his hotel and gone to ...

The Kissing Booth

The Kissing Booth

2018

as Mrs. Flynn

7.2
Acting

When teenager Elle's first kiss leads to a forbidden romance with the hottest boy in high school, she risks her relationship with her best friend.

Always at The Carlyle

Always at The Carlyle

2018

as Self

6.8
Acting

The iconic Carlyle hotel has been an international destination for a particular jet set as well as a favorite haunt of the most discernible New Yorker...

SPF-18

SPF-18

2017

as Linda Sanders

4.4
Acting

18-year-old Penny Cooper spent years pining for Johnny Sanders Jr., but when a mysterious musician shows up on the beach, Penny is torn.

King Cobra

King Cobra

2016

as Amy

5.9
Acting

It’s 2006, YouTube is in its infancy, and internet porn is still behind a paywall. Taking the stage name Brent Corrigan, a fresh-faced, wannabe adult ...

Jem and the Holograms

Jem and the Holograms

2015

as Aunt Bailey

5.5
Acting

As a small-town girl catapults from underground video sensation to global superstar, she and her three sisters begin a one-in-a-million journey of dis...

Bad Night

Bad Night

2015

as The Collector

4.7
Acting

When Kate and Abby are mistaken for famous art thieves, their fun night out quickly goes from good to bad.

Wishin' and Hopin'

Wishin' and Hopin'

2014

as Madame Frechette

4.8
Acting

Felix Funicello is a Catholic school fifth-grader in 1964, whose claim to fame is his cousin Annette Funicello, the famous Mouseketeer and teen movie ...

Me

Me

2014

as Pepper Folly

2.5
Acting

A down and out actress secretly sells a reality show about her friend, a delusional eccentric, a once famous creator of reality shows, who now believe...

Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films

Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films

2014

as Self - Actress

7.2
Acting

A documentary about the rise and fall of the Cannon Film Group, the legendary independent film company helmed by Israeli cousins Menahem Golan and Yor...

More Business of Being Born

More Business of Being Born

2011

as Self [Part 3]

Acting

Executive Producer Ricki Lake and Filmmaker Abby Epstein follow their landmark documentary,'The Business of Being Born', with an all-new, four part DV...

Sincerely Yours

Sincerely Yours

2008

as Claire Standish (archive footage) (uncredited)

Acting

Documentary about the making and impact of "The Breakfast Club."

Life After Tomorrow

Life After Tomorrow

2006

as Self (archive footage)

6.4
Acting

Women who have played orphans in "Annie" are brought together in this documentary.

Molly: An American Girl on the Home Front

Molly: An American Girl on the Home Front

2006

as Mrs. Helen McIntire

7.1
Acting

Molly is a girl living in the year 1944 and WWII has brought many changes to Molly's life. An English girl comes to live with Molly's family to escape...

The Wives He Forgot

The Wives He Forgot

2006

as Charlotte Saint John

3.1
Acting

When a man, beaten and bloody, stumbles into the law office of Charlotte, she discovers that he has amnesia. She takes him in as a guest, hoping that ...

The Tulse Luper Suitcases, Part 1: The Moab Story

The Tulse Luper Suitcases, Part 1: The Moab Story

2003

as Actress

5.2
Acting

The first of three parts, we follow Tulse Luper in three distinct episodes: as a child during the first World War, as an explorer in Mormon Utah, and ...

The Big Time

The Big Time

2002

as Marion Powers

3.5
Acting

In 1948 Manhattan, a diverse group of people are committed to making the fledgling Empire Network a success. Among them: a naive young woman who's hir...

Cowboy Up

Cowboy Up

2002

as Connie

5.9
Acting

"Cowboy Up" is a celebration of the risk-taking, daredevil personalities of modern rodeo. In the world of professional bull riding, newcomer Ely Braxt...

In the Darkness of Time

In the Darkness of Time

2002

as (archive footage) (uncredited)

7.5
Acting

Conceived as a reflection on the theme of time at the turn of the millennium, "Dans le noir du temps" functions as a Pandora’s box which hides all the...

Not Another Teen Movie

Not Another Teen Movie

2001

as Flight Attendant

5.8
Acting

On a bet, a gridiron hero at John Hughes High School sets out to turn a bespectacled plain Jane into a beautiful and popular prom queen in this outrag...

In the Weeds

In the Weeds

2000

as Chloe

6.4
Acting

It's Martha's first night as a waitress in an upscale New York restaurant. Veteran Chloe shows her the ropes and introduces her to the lives of the re...

The Giving Tree

The Giving Tree

2000

as Penelope

2.5
Acting

Nine former schoolmates, staying at a secluded mountain cabin for a reunion, try to figure out why one of their friends and their hostess would invite...

Cut

Cut

2000

as Vanessa Turnbill / Chloe

4.5
Acting

A group of film students set out to finish filming a movie that was never completed after its director was murdered. After they begin filming, they re...

Kimberly

Kimberly

1999

as Nancy

4.6
Acting

Four young men fall in love with the same woman. When they all find themselves attracted by Kimberly, hey vow not to fight for her affections during t...

Teaching Mrs. Tingle

Teaching Mrs. Tingle

1999

as Miss Banks

5.5
Acting

A bright high-school senior has her impending status as valedictorian jeopardized when her bitter history teacher, Mrs. Tingle, gives her a poor grade...

Requiem for Murder

Requiem for Murder

1999

as Anne Winslow

6.7
Acting

Anne Winslow hosts a popular classical music radio show. Detective Lou Heinz discovers Anne is connected to a series of murders in which the victim is...

Twice Upon a Time

Twice Upon a Time

1998

as Beth Sager

4.0
Acting

An unhappy woman makes a wish for a different life which whisks her to a parallel world where she falls back in love with her boyfriend.

Since You've Been Gone

Since You've Been Gone

1998

as Claire the Fan

4.6
Acting

The story of a 10th anniversary High School reunion, told through the eyes of a doctor who was humiliated on graduation day by being badly beaten up b...

Titey

Titey

1998

as Anne Frank (voice)

Acting

A Saturday Night Live parody of a (fictional) Walt Disney film of the famous Titanic. Jason Alexander provides the voice for the ship, and Whoopi Gold...

Office Killer

Office Killer

1997

as Kim Poole

5.2
Acting

When Dorine Douglas' job as proofreader for Constant Consumer magazine is turned into an at-home position during a downsizing, she doesn't know how to...

Baja

Baja

1996

as Bebe Stone

5.3
Acting

On the run from a drug deal gone wrong, a beautiful young woman escapes across the border only to find herself trapped in a dangerous web of intrigue ...

Enfants de salaud

Enfants de salaud

1996

as Susan

4.5
Acting

Sylvette, a sassy waitress, Sandro, a macho guy, Sophie, a shy bourgeoisie, and Susan, an American actress, do not know each other and do not have muc...

Malicious

Malicious

1995

as Melissa Nelson

4.5
Acting

A mystery woman turns vengeful after a college athlete dumps her following a one-night stand.

Seven Sundays

Seven Sundays

1995

as Janet Gifford

7.0
Acting

Dodo, a French man living in Florida, has one goal in life: Get by without working. Difficult to implement without the help of some women. Betty is on...

The Stand

The Stand

1994

as Frannie Goldsmith

Acting

After a deadly plague kills most of the world's population, the remaining survivors split into two groups - one led by a benevolent elder and the othe...

Some Folks Call It a Sling Blade

Some Folks Call It a Sling Blade

1994

as Teresa Tatum

6.8
Acting

25 years after committing a double murder, Karl Childers is going to be released from an institution for the criminally insane. A local reporter comes...

Face the Music

Face the Music

1993

as Lisa Hunter

4.8
Acting

Tensions run high when a recently-divorced couple are given an offer they can't refuse. Once well-established movie songwriters, Lisa and Charlie are ...

Something to Live for: The Alison Gertz Story

Something to Live for: The Alison Gertz Story

1992

as Alison Gertz

5.8
Acting

An AIDS-stricken woman becomes a leader in the struggle to educate people about the disease and its prevention.

Betsy's Wedding

Betsy's Wedding

1990

as Betsy Hopper

5.7
Acting

Offbeat fashion student Betsy Hopper and her straight-laced investment-banker fiancé Jake Lovell just want an intimate little wedding reception, but B...

Women and Men: Stories of Seduction

Women and Men: Stories of Seduction

1990

as Kit

4.5
Acting

This trio of tales, based on classic short stories, chronicles the complicated relations between the sexes.

Strike It Rich

Strike It Rich

1990

as Cary

5.0
Acting

A London accountant on his honeymoon gets swept away by gambling fever.

Fresh Horses

Fresh Horses

1988

as Jewel

5.3
Acting

A Cincinnati college student breaks off his engagement to his wealthy fiancée after he falls in love with a backwoods Kentucky girl he meets at a part...

King Lear

King Lear

1988

as Cordelia

6.3
Acting

A descendant of Shakespeare tries to restore his plays in a world rebuilding itself after the Chernobyl catastrophe obliterates most of human civiliza...

For Keeps

For Keeps

1988

as Darcy Elliot Bobrucz

6.5
Acting

Young high school couple Darcy Elliot and Stan Bobrucz are one year from graduation, with promising futures ahead of them. But their paths take a dras...

The Pick-up Artist

The Pick-up Artist

1987

as Randy Jensen

5.7
Acting

A womanizer meets his match when he falls for the daughter of a gambling addict who is in debt to the mob.

P.K. and the Kid

P.K. and the Kid

1987

as P.K. Bayette

5.0
Acting

P.K. runs away from home because her step-father keeps on harassing her sexually and her mother is ignoring the problem. She hides in the loading spac...

Pretty in Pink

Pretty in Pink

1986

as Andie Walsh

6.7
Acting

Andie is an outcast, hanging out either with her older boss, who owns the record store where she works, or her quirky high school classmate Duckie, wh...

Bugs Bunny/Looney Tunes All-Star 50th Anniversary

Bugs Bunny/Looney Tunes All-Star 50th Anniversary

1986

as Self

6.7
Acting

Celebrities are interviewed about the social and working lives of Bugs, Daffy, Porky and the rest of the Looney Tunes.

Johnny Appleseed

Johnny Appleseed

1986

as Betty Nature

Acting

Shelley Duvall acted as host for this 1980s television series about legendary characters and historical events. This volume chronicles Jonathan Chapma...

The Breakfast Club

The Breakfast Club

1985

as Claire Standish

7.7
Acting

Five high school students from different walks of life endure a Saturday detention under a power-hungry principal. The disparate group includes rebel ...

Surviving

Surviving

1985

as Lonnie

5.2
Acting

Lonnie and Rick seem to be complete opposites, at first glance. A survivor of suicide, Lonnie is introverted and ill at ease around her parents, Lois ...

Sixteen Candles

Sixteen Candles

1984

as Samantha Baker

6.8
Acting

With the occasion all but overshadowed by her sister's upcoming wedding, angst-ridden Samantha faces her 16th birthday with typical adolescent dread. ...

Spacehunter: Adventures in the Forbidden Zone

Spacehunter: Adventures in the Forbidden Zone

1983

as Nikki

5.3
Acting

On a distant planet inhabited by mutants, two bounty hunters race to rescue three Earth female captives from the clutches of an evil warlord.

Packin' It In

Packin' It In

1983

as Melissa Webber

7.0
Acting

In quest of a wholesome place to live: at first the Webbers laugh at their neighbors when they leave L.A. for the mountains of Oregon. But when they r...

Tempest

Tempest

1982

as Miranda

6.0
Acting

A sobering mid-life crisis fuels dissatisfaction in Philip Dimitrius, to the extent where the successful architect trades his marriage and career in f...

Columbarium

N/A

Acting

Faced with their grandmother's dying wish, two brothers are tasked with stealing her dead dogs' ashes from her ex-husband, their grandfather, on his 8...

Thoughts and Prayers

N/A

as Aunt Val

Acting

A teenage girl decides to stage a musical reenactment of a tragedy that took place at her high school 10 years ago.