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80s child star is now a glamorous leather-clad bombshell at 48… can you guess who she is?

80s child star is now a glamorous leather-clad bombshell at 48… can you guess who she is?

A child star from the 1980s was the image of Hollywood glamour at the age of 48 during her latest public appearance.

She began acting when she was just two and became known all over America at the age of seven when she began playing the lead role on a NBC sitcom in 1984.

After guest-starring on various shows like Friends in the 1990s, she landed another series regular spot on a beloved teen show of the early 2000s.

Just a few years ago, the show that made her a star in the 1980s became one of the many classic TV comedies to be revived – with her back as the main character.

This week she attended a special screening of a new documentary she has directed about a former fellow child star who met a far more tragic fate than she.

Can you guess who she is?

A child star from the 1980s was the image of Hollywood glamour at the age of 48 during her latest public appearance

A child star from the 1980s was the image of Hollywood glamour at the age of 48 during her latest public appearance

The actress in question is none other than Soleil Moon Frye, who won the hearts of fans at age seven as the тιтle character on the NBC sitcom Punky Brewster, then again as the best friend on Sabrina The Teenage Witch.

Soleil was seen this Wednesday attending a Los Angeles screening of her upcoming two-part documentary The Carters: Hurts To Love You.

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The Paramount+ project focuses on the lives of late child star Aaron Cater, his brother Nick Carter of the Backstreet Boys, and their family.

In November 2022, Aaron’s housekeeper found him ᴅᴇᴀᴅ at home aged 34 of what the coroner ruled was an accidental overdose.

An autopsy then revealed that the actor and singer drowned in the bath after consuming Xanax and huffing, TMZ reported.

Soleil’s documentary – narrated by Aaron and Nick’s sister Angel Carter – will center not only on the brothers themselves but also on the way their stardom came back to affect their entire family. 

Soleil glowed at her film’s screening, wearing a skinтιԍнт black leather cocktail dress that highlighted her peтιтe frame and matched her platform high-heeled boots.

She also took the stage at the AMC at The Grove to address the audience who had gathered to watch her film, which premieres April 15. 

The actress in question is none other than Soleil Moon Frye, who won the hearts of fans at age seven as the тιтle character on the NBC sitcom Punky Brewster (pictured)

The actress in question is none other than Soleil Moon Frye, who won the hearts of fans at age seven as the тιтle character on the NBC sitcom Punky Brewster (pictured) 

Soleil was seen this Wednesday attending a Los Angeles screening of the upcoming two-part documentary The Carters: Hurts To Love You

Soleil was seen this Wednesday attending a Los Angeles screening of the upcoming two-part documentary The Carters: Hurts To Love You

The Paramount+ project focuses on the lives of late child star Aaron Cater, his brother Nick Carter of the Backstreet Boys, and their family

The Paramount+ project focuses on the lives of late child star Aaron Cater, his brother Nick Carter of the Backstreet Boys, and their family

In the 1990s, she guest-starred on shows like Friends and went to college - and in 2000, she landed the best friend role of Roxie on Sabrina The Teenage Witch (pictured)

In the 1990s, she guest-starred on shows like Friends and went to college – and in 2000, she landed the best friend role of Roxie on Sabrina The Teenage Witch (pictured)

Born to actor Virgil Frye and talent agent Sondra Peluce, Soleil started acting when she was two – the age she was when her parents divorced. 

By the time she was seven years old, she had landed her breakthrough role on Punky Brewster, which ran four seasons from 1984 to 1988. 

Punky is a plucky, resourceful child who is abandoned by her parents and is ultimately taken in by a curmudgeonly older widower played by George Gaynes.

Children fell in love with the character of Punky, to the point that Nancy Reagan as First Lady enlisted Soleil as a public face of her anti-drug campaign.

In the 1990s, she guest-starred on shows like Friends and went to college – and in 2000, she landed the best friend role of Roxie on Sabrina The Teenage Witch. 

She also lent her voice to a number of television cartoons over the years, including Bratz, The Proud Family, Johnny Bravo and Planet Sheen.

In 2021, Punky Brewster was revived at Peacock, with Soleil now playing the тιтle character as a divorced mother of three living in the same Chicago apartment she occupied as a child on the original show.

Soleil and Cherie Johnson returned from the original cast, without their old co-stars George Gaynes and Susie Garrett, who had died in the intervening time.

The reboot, which featured new cast members including Freddie Prinze Jr. as Punky’s ex-husband Travis, was canceled after one season.

On the personal front, Soleil was married from 1998 to 2022 to Punk’d producer Jason Goldberg, with whom she shares four children – daughters Poet, 19, and Jagger, 17, and sons Lyric, 11, and Story, eight.

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