Pretty in white: Brat Pack star Molly Ringwald steps out in Miami with her twins
Gen X-ers, look away. Because Molly Ringwald is middle-aged.
The star of so many of your favorite John
Hughes’ teen-angst movies is 56 and a married mother of three.
Not that you can tell. The California native still looks like the many characters she played back in the day — the uptight rich girl in “Breakfast Club,” the lovesick high-schooler whose parents forgot her milestone birthday in “Sixteen Candles” and a student who can’t afford a prom dress and makes her own (“Pretty in Pink”).
Ringwald, who incredibly has never received an award in her career, was finally feted by Variety magazine at the Miami Film Festival on Saturday night for her four decades in film and TV.
Ringwald brought her 14-year-old twins Adele and Roman to the red carpet at the Chapman Center at Miami Dade College. Dad is husband, author Panio Gianopoulos.
It was a rare outing for Ringwald, who was rocking a white and gold embroidered dress with cutouts.
Despite doing a number of projects since then (playing a mom in ABC Family’s “The Secret Life of the American Teenager” comes to mind) it’s her part in the so-called Brat Pack that will go down in the annals of Hollywood history.
Ringwald is more than well-aware and told Variety before her trip to Miami that she is grateful for her time working with
Hughes.
“Not everyone was able to write for teenagers as successfully as [he] did,” she told the outlet. “And even though I wanted to take on adult material, I was limited because I was still a teenager.”
Speaking of teens: Have hers ever watched her old movies?
The “Feud: Capote vs. the Swans” star recently told the Los Angeles Times that Adele and Roman have seen “The Breakfast Club.”
The millennials’ review? “Put it this way,” the actress said. “They watched the whole thing without picking up their phones, which is huge.”
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