She was in the biggest box-office hits for teenager in the 1980s – movies so beloved, they are still often referenced today.
This high-profile actress worked with several 80s favorites including Judd Nelson, Ally Sheedy, Robert Downey Jr and Andrew McCarthy.
The star was known for her bee-stung lips long before they ever became popular, and she always had red hair.
More recently, the 55-year-old star has worked with Jacob Elordi. And she was in a massive teen drama series.
Now she is in a big ensemble series that comes out later this month.
Can you guess who she is?
She was in the biggest box-office hits for teenager in the 1980s – movies so beloved, they are still often referenced today. This actress worked with Judd Nelson, Ally Sheedy, and Andrew McCarthy
The star was known for her bee-stung lips long before they ever became popular, and she always had red hair. More recently, the 55-year-old star has worked with Jacob Elordi. Now she is in a big ensemble series that comes out later this month
She is Molly Ringwald.
This new image of her is from Feud: Capote vs. The Swans.
It is the second season of the anthology television series Feud created by Ryan Murphy for FX, which debuted in 2017.
Directed by Gus Van Sant, Max Winkler, and Jennifer Lynch, it is written by Jon Robin Baitz.
Ringwald plays Joanne Carson, who was married to late night talk show host Johnny Carson; she was his second wife. Later in life became a close confidant of Truman Capote.
Her birth name was Joanne Copeland.
She was a model who had worked as a stewardess for Pan American World Airways. Her life changed when she met Johnny in 1960.
She is Molly Ringwald, best known for Sixteen Candles, Pretty In Pink and The Breakfast Club. This new image of her is from Feud: Capote vs. The Swans
Ringwald plays Joanne Carson, who was married to late night talk show host Johnny Carson; she was his second wife. Later in life became a close confidant of Truman Capote. Her birth name was Joanne Copeland. Seen in 1980
She was a model who had worked as a stewardess for Pan American World Airways. Her life changed when she met Johnny in 1960
Joanna died in 2015 at age 83.
Molly has some of the 1980s’ biggest hits under her best: she starred in Sixteen Candles, Pretty In Pink and The Breakfast Club.
She was also in all three Kissing Booth movies with Elordi as well as Joey King. And she was on Riverdale.
Molly got her start on the sitcoms Diff’rent Strokes and The Facts of Life (both 1979–1980).
She was noticed with the drama film Tempest (1982).
She took off when working with filmmaker John Hughes’ teen films Sixteen Candles (1984), The Breakfast Club (1985), and Pretty in Pink (1986).
Ringwald, Michael Schoeffling in Sixteen Candles in 1984
Ally Sheedy, Judd Nelson, Anthony Michael Hall, Emilio Estevez, Ringwald in The Breakfast Club – 1985
Jon Cryer, Ringwald and Andrew McCarthy on set of the film Pretty In Pink, 1986
Ringwald is held by Robert Downey Jr in publicity portrait for the film The Pick-Up Artist, 1987
Ringwald in Riverdale
The star hugging Joey King in The Kissing Booth
These films led to the media referring to her as a member of the Brat Pack.
Her final teen roles were in For Keeps and Fresh Horses (both in 1988).
Following leading roles in King Lear (1987), The Pick-up Artist (1987), Strike It Rich (1990), and Betsy’s Wedding (1990), Ringwald moved to Paris and began acting in French films.
In subsequent decades, Ringwald acted in the television shows The Secret Life of the American Teenager (2008–2013), Riverdale (2017–2023), Creepshow (2021), and Dahmer – Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story (2022).
(l to r) Calista Flockhart, Chloe Sevigny, Diane Lane, Molly Ringwald, Naomi Watts and Demi Moore for Feud: Capote Vs. The Swans
Naomi looks very different with her dark hair
Naomi Watts plays Babe Paley in Feud: Capote Vs. The Swans which kicks off January 31.
Babe, real name Barbara Cushing Mortimer Paley, was an American magazine editor and socialite.
Her second husband William S. Paley was the founder of CBS.
Affectionately known as ‘Babe’ throughout her life, Paley made notable contributions in the field of magazine editing.
She was a style icon known for her slender frame, bouffant hairstyle and elegant designer duds.
She died in 1978.
Watts seen at the Golden Globes on January 7
The Australian actress plays Babe Paley in Feud: Capote Vs. The Swans which kicks off January 31
Babe was a style icon known for her slender frame, bouffant hairstyle and elegant designer duds
Paley wearing a pink silk dress with a pearl necklace at the opening of the Museum of Modern Art’s African Textiles and Decorative Arts exhibit in New York in the 1970s
Paley, the former Barbara Cushing Mortimer, of New York, is shown here in the 1950s
Watts, 55, came to fame with the creepy thriller Mulholland Drive.
She then went on to star in big hits like The Ring, King Kong and, more recently, The Watcher. The movie she made with Leonardo DiCaprio was J Edgar in 2011; she played Helen Gandy.
She dated Heath Ledger from 2002 until 2004. He died in 2008.
Watts had two children with actor Liev Schreiber, her costar in the 2006 drama The Painted Veil. She is now wed to Billy Crudup of The Morning Show.
Calista Flockhart looks very different too in the new ensemble show.
In the new poster for her project Feud: Capote Vs. The Swans, the 59-year-old has brown hair, red lipstick and silver earrings as she holds onto a black swan.
She plays Lee Radziwill.
Caroline Lee Bouvier, later Canfield, Radziwiłł, and Ross, was an American socialite, public relations executive, and interior decorator.
She was the younger sister of Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis and sister-in-law of President John F. Kennedy.
The Manhattan socialite died in 2019.
Feud: Capote vs. The Swans begins January 31, 2024.
Calista Flockhart plays Lee Radziwill. Caroline Lee Bouvier, later Canfield, Radziwiłł, and Ross, was an American socialite, public relations executive, and interior decorator
She was the younger sister of Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis and sister-in-law of President John F. Kennedy. Seen in 1965
Also in the series is Tom Hollander as Truman Capote; Diane Lane as Slim Keith; Chloë Sevigny as C.Z. Guest; Demi Moore as Ann ‘Bang-Bang’ Woodward.
Calista became famous from the hit TV show Ally McBeal about a lawyer who works with her ex-boyfriend.
And she is married to Star Wars actor Harrison Ford of Star Wars and Indiana Jones fame.
Together they are raising her son Liam.
Demi Moore as Ann ‘Bang-Bang’ Woodward
Diane Lane as Slim Keith
