What Is Molly Ringwald's Net Worth, And Why Is It So Low? (2024)

Back in the ’80s, Hollywood had a lot of stars in the making (and some controversial movies in the works). That was the decade Johhny Depp kickstarted his career with 21 Jump Street, Julia Roberts starred in Mystic Pizza, and Tom Cruise debuted as Maverick in Top Gun. At the same time, the ’80s was also the time that everyone fell in love with actress Molly Ringwald.

Ringwald is an ’80s star who is best known for a series of hit films that have since been recognized as classics. She also worked with Jon Cryer, Emilio Estevez, and James Spader who have gone on to find much success in Hollywood.

Since then, Ringwald herself also continued taking on various film and TV roles. Despite all these, however, it seems the actress’ current net worth fails to accurately reflect her long and extensive career.

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Updated June 2024: This article has been updated to reflect the most current net worth information.

Molly Ringwald’s Filmography Includes Several Hits In Her Early Career

Molly Ringwald started her career off with some solid hits that helped her earn an impressive net worth at a young age

Anyone familiar with the hit films from the ’80s would readily recognize Ringwald’s name. After getting cast on both Diff’rent Strokes and The Facts of Life in the late ’70s, the actress went on to land the role of Samantha ‘Sam’ Baker in John Hughes’ rom-com Sixteen Candles.

Soon after, Ringwald continued to collaborate with Hughes. The actress also became one of the OG members of the Brat Pack after joining the star-studded cast of The Breakfast Club. She also landed a starring role alongside Cryer in Pretty in Pink.

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Some of the more notable and more recent projects that Ringwald has worked on over the years, according to IMDb include:

In more recent years, Ringwald’s career has taken an upward swing and she has been appearing in more projects than in years past. She was even asked to appear in Andrew McCarthy’s Brats documentary, but she declined for unknown reasons.

Molly Ringwald’s Net Worth Is Surprisingly Low

Molly Ringwald’s net worth is $11 million

Considering that Ringwald had several hit films early on in her career, one might have expected the actress to be worth a lot more by this time. Sure, the actress likely continues to collect royalties from her past movies (John Kapelos, her co-star on The Breakfast Club, once revealed that he still does), although it’s unclear how much Ringwald and the rest of the main cast are receiving from those.

At the same time, it is also worth noting that Ringwald decided to move to France shortly after rising to stardom in the ’80s. It was a traumatic experience on set that may have led to the decision that Ringwald wrote about in The New Yorker.

She also recalled a time when she was forced to wear a dog collar on set, even though it was never written in the script.

“I told [my agent] and he just laughed and said, ‘Well, I guess that’s one for the memoirs.’ I fired him and moved to Paris not long after,” Ringwald continued. Since then, she called France home as she took on projects in Hollywood and Europe.

Meanwhile, in the years that followed, the actress also took some time to raise her family.

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After starring in the 2006 TV movie An American Girl on the Home Front, Ringwald next starred alongside a much younger Shailene Woodley in the ABC Family series The Secret Life of the American Teenager.

And while it looked like she juggled projects in previous years, Ringwald reduced her workload around this time as she was expecting.

As such, while the rest of the cast was still filming, Ringwald had been off for several months.

Where Is Molly Ringwald Today?

Molly Ringwald is staging a comeback today and has been successful with it

These days, one might say that Ringwald is staging a comeback. For starters, the actress surprised fans by signing on to play Archie’s (K.J. Apa) mom in the Archie comics-based crime drama Riverdale while the late Luke Perry played her husband.

Of Ringwald’s casting, showrunner Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa simply said that “it makes perfect sense” while executive producer Sarah Schechter commented, “I pushed for anyone who had ever played a teenager on film or television to come in.”

Back in 2018, the actress also signed on to play Jacob Elordi and Joel Courtney’s mom in Netflix’s The Kissing Booth. Ringwald went on to reprise the role throughout The Kissing Booth trilogy. Not long after, the actress also joined the cast of Ryan Murphy’s true crime series Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story where she played serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer’s stepmother Shari.

And Ringwald was, arguably, unrecognizable in the role which she loved.

Since then, Ringwald has also been cast in Murphy’s upcoming second season of his FX series Feud. Season 2 is titled Capote’s Women, telling the story of events that took place from 1970 until the death of Truman Capote in 1984. Ringwald has been tapped to play Johnny Carson’s ex-wife, Joanne Carson, who had been good friends with Capote up until his death (Capote died in Joanne’s Bel Air home in the ’80s).

Meanwhile, the actress currently has several other projects in the works. Ringwald is attached to two upcoming films with one reportedly in post-production. And given that the actress has also been collaborating with Murphy a lot lately, the two might also have something else in the works.