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Introduction About Molly Ringwald
Being brave and bold is a choice, which a few dare to take. Molly Ringwald is one of these people who dares to be brave and bold.
Let’s take a look at the life of yesteryear’s famous Brat Pack who charmed a lot of teens of the 1980s.
Molly Ringwald, a curious girl from Roseville, California went on to become a famous name in Hollywood.
Net Worth & Salary of Molly Ringwald in 2022
The net worth of Mrs.Molly Ringwald is around $11M. She earns around $1.8M per year.
Besides being an actress, she is a singer with a few jazz albums and a writer of a memoir and novel, and sometimes writes columns for New Yorker and Guardian.
She gets paid from the royalty received from her previous works besides the acting gigs she takes from time to time.
Age, Early Life & Biography of Molly Ringwald
As of 2022, Molly Ringwald is around 54 years old.
She was born to Adele and Robert Ringwald, who were residents of Roseville, California on February 18, 1968. She had three siblings but her older brother left the world before she was born.
Her father was a blind Jazz artist and her mother was a pianist and a pastry chef. She was raised in a family full of love, music, and protection in Roseville.
She had grown fond of performing arts and music arts at an early age and often tagged along with her blind father to various band performances. Little Molly was not a stranger to the stage and was very familiar with the art of charming audiences.
The Brat-pack American sweetheart was enrolled in Casa Roble High, Orangevale for her high school education. With high school on one side, she had to manage her singing performances and acting shows as a teen star on another hand.
When she was living in Paris, she attended Lycée Français de Los Angeles to learn about the country’s culture and lifestyle which later helped in translating Lie With Me into English.
| Name: | Molly Kathleen Ringwald |
| Gender: | Female |
| Age:1.7 | 54 |
| Birth Date: | February 18, 1968 |
| Birth Place: | Roseville, California, U.S. |
| Nationality: | American |
| Height: | 1.73m |
| Sexual Orientation: | Straight |
| Marital Status: | Married |
| Wife/Spouse (Name): | Valery Lameignère(m.1999- div. 2002)Panio Gianopoulos(m.2007) |
| Children/Kids (Son and Daughter): | 3 |
| Dating/Girlfriend (Name): | N/A |
| Profession: | Actor, Author, Singer, Dancer |
| Yearly Income: | $1.8M |
| Net Worth in 2022 | $11M |
| Content Last Updated: | August 2022 |
Personal Life of Molly Ringwald
Ringwald was married twice in her life. Her first marriage was to Valéry Lameignère, a French writer hailing from Bordeaux, France in 1999. She met Lameignère during her difficult time of life when she had decided to quit Hollywood for a peaceful and ordinary life.
But they weren’t destined to be together and divorced in 2002 due to cruel treatment and settled it without any alimony and financial settlements.
After her divorce, she met her current husband After she met Panio Gianopoulos, a Greek-American at a bookshop and they dated for a while after that and settled their marriage in 2002.
She gave birth to their eldest daughter Matilda in 2003. She was named after her paternal grandmother. Then a few years later she gave birth to two fraternal twins of different gender in 2009.
Career of Molly Ringwald
From childhood, the Brat Pack star was inclined to acting and music. She essayed the role of “Dormouse” in “Alice in Wonderland” which was produced by a local stage production when she was just five.
Her parents were very supportive of her talents and naturally encouraged her to groom her talents. Her father with his band helped her record her first jazz album at the age of six “I Wanna Be Loved By You”.
Her acting career started with playing small roles in TV series like Different Shades and The Facts of Life in 1979-80 which allowed her to delve into the acting industry step by step. Her first big break came in the 1982 film “Tempest” as Mirinda Dimitrius.
With this big break, she went to play in teen angst movies like Sixteen Candles, Pretty in Pink, and The Breakfast Club making her stand in limelight and establishing her as Hughes’s muse in the entertainment industry.
During the early 80s, she had performed as a lead vocalist for Disney albums like ‘Yankee Doodle Mickey’ and ‘Disney’s Christmas Album.’ while her acting career was going a bit slow.
She was a brave and bold woman who liked to play many characters and explore something beyond their roles such as Darcy Elliot in For Keeps and Randy Jackson in The Pick-Up Artist, which were commercial hits and helped a lot in developing her acting.
Her career was smooth sailing at that time but she was dissatisfied with the projects and left Hollywood for a while to study French and acted in a few French movies and TV shows. Her acting and singing had won millions of French people’s hearts.
After her return from France, she acted in “Stand”, a TV adaptation of Stephen King’s life story. In the 1990s, she was very much active in the American TV industry and played in works like Townies, Malicious, Since You’ve Been Gone, and How I Learned to Drive.
After her marriage, she took a little break from acting to focus on her family life. During that break period, she didn’t sit idle but delved into a new work field called writing which she wanted to do for years.
She went on to write a memoir called “Getting the Pretty Back: Friendship, Family, and Finding the Perfect Lipstick” in 2010 and published a book with the title “When it Happens to You: A Novel in Stories” in 2012. Besides being an author, she wrote essays for The New Yorker and The Guardian.
After being away from on-screen, she came back to screen to work in ‘The Secret Life of the American Teenager’, King Cobra, Riverdale, Raising Expectations, Siberia, Kissing Booth, etc. In 2013, she released her second jazz album ‘Except Sometimes.’, which peaked at number seven on the Jazz Albums chart.
Awards & Achievements of Molly Ringwald
All dreams come true if we dare to pursue them. Being interested in multiple fields, she was never arrogant but humble and pursued her passions well be it writing or acting and her achievements are proof of it.
She brought forth the Golden Globes, Young Artist Award, and MTV Movie Awards home.
Major Investments and Assets of Molly Ringwald
Molly had owned a mansion on Mulholland Drive in Los Angeles, which she sold to Drew Carey in 1996. She sold her decade-old NYC apartment for $1.7M in 2016.
Besides owning some properties, she receives royalties from the books written and published by her.
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