# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/molly-ringwald
# Generated: 2026-08-13T02:54:14.709Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/molly-ringwald"
name: "Molly Ringwald"
slug: "molly-ringwald"
description: "Molly Kathleen Ringwald is an American actress, writer, and translator. She began her career as a child actress on the sitcoms Diff'rent Strokes and The Facts of Life before being nominated for a Golden Globe Award for her starring role in the drama film Tempest (1982). Ringwald became a teen idol following her lead roles in filmmaker John Hughes's teenage films Sixteen Candles (1984), The Breakfast Club (1985), and Pretty in Pink (1986). These films led to the media referring to her as a member of a group of actors known as the \"Brat Pack.\""
tagline: "American actress and writer (born 1968)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Molly_Ringwald_at_Sundance_Film_Festival_2026-4_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Actors"
  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "Actor"
  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1968-02-18"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             0.5112858229774284
  historical:           26.686408
  currentAttention:     17.04
  sourceConfidence:     85
  profileCompleteness:  90
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    handle:    "MollyRingwald"
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    handle:    "mollyringwald"
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    handle:    "nm0000208"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump