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Birth Name |
Molly Kathleen Ringwald |
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Gender |
Female |
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Date of Birth |
February 18, 1968 (age 55) |
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Place of Birth |
Roseville, California, United States |
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Spouse |
Valery Lameignère (1999-2002) |
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Children |
3 |
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Role |
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Molly Kathleen Ringwald (born February 18, 1968) is an american Actress. She became a teen icon in eighties, starring in big film's such as The Breakfast Club, Sixteen Candles, and Pretty In Pink. She played Claire Standish.
Early life[]
Ringwald was born in Roseville, California,the daughter of Adele Edith (née Frembd), a chef, and Robert Scott "Bob" Ringwald, a blind jazz pianist of German descent. Ringwald has two siblings, Beth and Kelly, and an older brother, who died before she was born. She is partly of Swedish descent. She started her acting career at age five, appearing in a stage production of Alice in Wonderland as the Dormouse. The next year, she recorded "I Wanna Be Loved by You", a music album of Dixieland jazz with her father and his group, the Fulton Street Jazz Band. Ringwald graduated from the Lycée Français de Los Angeles.
Personal life[]
Ringwald married Valéry Lameignère, a French writer, in Bordeaux, France, on July 28, 1999; they divorced in 2002. She married Panio Gianopoulos, a Greek-American writer and book editor, in 2007. They have a daughter, born in 2003 and fraternal boy-girl twins, born in July 2009. Her pregnancy was written into the storyline of The Secret Life of the American Teenager. She was the subject of an episode in season 7 of the genealogy series Who Do You Think You Are?.