Highest rated as cast or director
DAHMER - Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story
2022 · 1 Season
The Stand
1994 · 1 Season
Sixteen Candles
1984
Pretty in Pink
1986
One Night Only
2026
Molly Ringwald's 5 titles from the 1980s have a median Balasaur Score of 66, led by The Breakfast Club (77) and Sixteen Candles (70), against 53 for those from the 2020s.
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 (1982), which earned her a Golden Globe nomination for New Star of the Year. Ringwald is primarily known for her collaborations with filmmaker John Hughes. She established herself as a teen icon after appearing in the successful Hughes films Sixteen Candles (1984), The Breakfast Club (1985), and Pretty in Pink (1986). She later starred in The Pick-up Artist (1987), Fresh Horses (1988), and For Keeps (1988). She starred in many films in the 1990s, most notably Something to Live for: The Alison Gertz Story (1992), The Stand (1994), and Some Folks Call It a Sling Blade (1994 short film – precursor to Sling Blade). Ringwald had regular roles on the television series The Secret Life of the American Teenager (2008 - 2013) as Anne Juergens, Riverdale(2017 - 2023) as Mary Andrews, and Feud: Capote vs. The Swans (2024) as Joanne Carson. She is also recognized by younger audiences for her role as Sara Flynn in The Kissing Booth movies. Ringwald was part of the "Brat Pack", and she was ranked number one on VH1's 100 Greatest Teen Stars.
Acted in 84
2020s
- 2026
- 2025
Montauk
Wolcott
- 2023
Catherine & Michael
Naomi
Bad Things
Miss Auerbach
Pursued
Carol
- 2022
- 2021
- 2020
2010s
- 2019
All These Small Moments
Carla Sheffield
- 2018
- 2017
SPF-18
Linda Sanders
- 2016
Raising Expectations
Paige Wayney · 27 episodes
- 2015
Jem and the Holograms
Aunt Bailey
Bad Night
The Collector
- 2014
Rainbow Brite
Dark Princess · 3 episodes
- 2012
2000s
- 2008
Sincerely Yours
Claire Standish (archive footage) (uncredited)
- 2006
Molly: An American Girl on the Home Front
Helen McIntire
- 2005
- 2002
The Big Time
Marion Powers
Cowboy Up
Connie
In the Darkness of Time
(archive footage) (uncredited)
- 2001
- 2000
The $treet
Devyn Alden · 1 episode
In the Weeds
Chloe
The Giving Tree
Penelope
1990s
- 1999
Requiem for Murder
Anne Winslow
- 1998
Twice Upon a Time
Beth Sager
Since You've Been Gone
Claire the Fan
Titey
Anne Frank (voice)
- 1997
Office Killer
Kim Poole
- 1996
Townies
Carrie Donovan · 15 episodes
Baja
Bebe Stone
Enfants de salaud
Susan
- 1995
Seven Sundays
Janet Gifford
- 1994
Some Folks Call It a Sling Blade
Teresa Tatum
- 1993
Face the Music
Lisa Hunter
- 1992
Something to Live for: The Alison Gertz Story
Alison Gertz
- 1990
Betsy's Wedding
Betsy Hopper
Strike It Rich
Cary
1980s
- 1988
Fresh Horses
Jewel
King Lear
Cordelia
- 1987
P.K. and the Kid
P.K. Bayette
- 1986
Johnny Appleseed
Jenny Smith
- 1985
Surviving
Lonnie
- 1984
- 1983
Spacehunter: Adventures in the Forbidden Zone
Nikki
Packin' It In
Melissa Webber
- 1982
Tempest
Miranda
1970s
- 1979
- 1978
Diff'rent Strokes
Molly Parker · 2 episodes
- 1975
No release date
Saturday TV Funhouse
Anne Frank (voice) · 1 episode
Created 1
No release date
Puff and the Incredible Mr. Nobody
Creator
Appearances25
2020s
- 2025
Everybody Wants to Be Gen X
Self
Simple Minds: Everything Is Possible
Self
- 2024
- 2023
- 2022
A Brief History of Us
Narrator (voice)
2010s
- 2018
- 2017
- 2015
- 2014
- 2011
- 2010
Wax On, Fuck Off
Self
2000s
- 2009
- 2006
Life After Tomorrow
Self (archive footage)
- 2003
1990s
- 1997
- 1996
- 1993
1980s
- 1986
Looney Tunes 50th Anniversary
Self