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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Complete Filmography

Montauk
2025
as Wolcott
Childhood friends set out to find treasure on a mysterious private island and discover the secrets behind the family who lives there.

BRATS
2024
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
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
2023
as Naomi
An unhappily married couple visits their do-everything-right friends for a supposedly fun weekend upstate. But when their fragile relationship crumble...

Bad Things
2023
as Miss Auerbach
A weekend getaway for a few friends at a snowy hotel becomes a psychological tailspin and bloody nightmare.

Pursued
2023
as Carol
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
2023
as Self
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
2022
as Narrator (voice)
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
2021
as Mrs. Flynn
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
2021
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
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
2020
as Mrs. Flynn
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
2019
as Carla Sheffield
A teenage boy's infatuation with a woman he sees on the bus further complicates his already tumultuous adolescence.

Siberia
2018
as Gabby
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
2018
as Mrs. Flynn
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
2018
as Self
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
2017
as Linda Sanders
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
2016
as Amy
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
2015
as Aunt Bailey
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
2015
as The Collector
When Kate and Abby are mistaken for famous art thieves, their fun night out quickly goes from good to bad.

Wishin' and Hopin'
2014
as Madame Frechette
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
2014
as Pepper Folly
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
2014
as Self - Actress
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
2011
as Self [Part 3]
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
2008
as Claire Standish (archive footage) (uncredited)
Documentary about the making and impact of "The Breakfast Club."

Life After Tomorrow
2006
as Self (archive footage)
Women who have played orphans in "Annie" are brought together in this documentary.

Molly: An American Girl on the Home Front
2006
as Mrs. Helen McIntire
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
2006
as Charlotte Saint John
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
2003
as Actress
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
2002
as Marion Powers
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
2002
as Connie
"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
2002
as (archive footage) (uncredited)
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
2001
as Flight Attendant
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
2000
as Chloe
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
2000
as Penelope
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
2000
as Vanessa Turnbill / Chloe
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
1999
as Nancy
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
1999
as Miss Banks
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
1999
as Anne Winslow
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
1998
as Beth Sager
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
1998
as Claire the Fan
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
1998
as Anne Frank (voice)
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
1997
as Kim Poole
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
1996
as Bebe Stone
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
1996
as Susan
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
1995
as Melissa Nelson
A mystery woman turns vengeful after a college athlete dumps her following a one-night stand.

Seven Sundays
1995
as Janet Gifford
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
1994
as Frannie Goldsmith
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
1994
as Teresa Tatum
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
1993
as Lisa Hunter
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
1992
as Alison Gertz
An AIDS-stricken woman becomes a leader in the struggle to educate people about the disease and its prevention.

Betsy's Wedding
1990
as Betsy Hopper
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
1990
as Kit
This trio of tales, based on classic short stories, chronicles the complicated relations between the sexes.

Strike It Rich
1990
as Cary
A London accountant on his honeymoon gets swept away by gambling fever.

Fresh Horses
1988
as Jewel
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
1988
as Cordelia
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
1988
as Darcy Elliot Bobrucz
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
1987
as Randy Jensen
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
1987
as P.K. Bayette
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
1986
as Andie Walsh
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
1986
as Self
Celebrities are interviewed about the social and working lives of Bugs, Daffy, Porky and the rest of the Looney Tunes.

Johnny Appleseed
1986
as Betty Nature
Shelley Duvall acted as host for this 1980s television series about legendary characters and historical events. This volume chronicles Jonathan Chapma...

The Breakfast Club
1985
as Claire Standish
Five high school students from different walks of life endure a Saturday detention under a power-hungry principal. The disparate group includes rebel ...

Surviving
1985
as Lonnie
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
1984
as Samantha Baker
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
1983
as Nikki
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
1983
as Melissa Webber
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
1982
as Miranda
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
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
A teenage girl decides to stage a musical reenactment of a tragedy that took place at her high school 10 years ago.