80s film pin-up, 62, looks unrecognizable 39 years after hit films and new career

In the mid-’80s, she was one of an impressive group of up-and-coming talents perhaps unfairly dubbed “The Brat Pack.”

Although Charli Moore, Robert Downey Jr. and others surrounded Rob Lowe, among others.

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The nickname, a play on the famous “Rat Pack” nickname given to crooners of the ’50s and ’60s such as Frank Sinatra and Nat King Cole, came about after a number of young up-and-comers starred alongside each other in several coming-of-age films such as St .Elmo’s Fire and The Breakfast Club.

At the height of these films’ success, Ally wasn’t particularly bothered, and why should she be, as one of the hottest new stars in the business?

She told Vanity Fair in 2022, “Movies and working in.” film and TV and stuff – it was this all-consuming love affair in my twenties. This is what I want to do….

“So I understand myself in my 20s and I also understand how dangerous it can be to just decide that this is my path – period, end of story, nothing else matters. But this is in your twenties. You’re passionate.”

However, this attitude began to change as she became increasingly pigeonholed and forced to change her style to compete for more prominent roles.

The superficial nature of Hollywood annoyed her and she had no desire to transform herself into the stereotypical “pretty girl” to get roles.

It was something she had enough trouble with during her role in a pivotal scene in The Breakfast Club, when her character Allison gets a glamorous makeover that then makes her more attractive to boys.

She told The Independent in 2020: “I never liked the makeover. Listen, it was Hollywood in the ’80s. They wanted to take the ugly duckling and turn it into a swan.

“In my opinion, that’s not what I did with that character, but that’s what they wanted.”

Ally lamented the misogynistic culture in Hollywood at the time and the pressure on women to conform to the standards set by the governing “white men’s club.”

She said: “Acting started to feel more and more like something I didn’t necessarily want my life to be about.”

Despite her disillusionment, Ally has remained in the industry but has been selective about the roles she takes on and the people she works with.

1998 the romantic comedy High Art renewed interest in her acting career.

Ally played the seductive, party-loving photographer Lucy, who lives with her heroin-addicted friend in the apartment above aspiring high-fashion photographer Syd.

After a chance meeting, Lucy and Syd’s lives begin to become complicatedly intertwined, both professionally and romantically.

Ally has proven to say this role is her favorite and loves every aspect of it, from directing to acting the script and filmography.

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62-year-old Ally, mother of one daughter, divides her time between acting and working as a professor theater Department at the City University of New York.

She recently spoke about her class and how she deals with students who may not be as committed to the course as they should be.

“This course has so much to offer, it’s really great,” she said. “If you don’t use what’s here, then it’s on you. If I can see a particular child talking on the phone all the time, I won’t say anything. It’s just that you’re missing out.”