She starred in an iconic 1980s teen comedy (and there's a Tom Cruise connection)... can you guess who she is?

A prima of 1 of the astir beloved comedies of the 1980s was spotted retired and astir successful Los Angeles this Thanksgiving week.

She made her large surface debut other Tom Cruise successful a movie that turned retired to beryllium a flop successful spite of its legendary manager and A-list starring man.

However, 1 twelvemonth aboriginal astatine the property of 18, this histrion became a celebrated look each implicit America acknowledgment to her relation successful an iconic precocious schoolhouse comedy.

In the intervening decades, she has continued featuring successful movies, including 1 this twelvemonth that saw her formed other a large Marvel name.

When she spotted moving errands successful Los Angeles this week, the present 57-year-old histrion sported a stylish short-cropped grey hairdo.

But tin you conjecture who she is?

Mia Sara, who played the rubric character's woman successful the smash deed 1986 drama Ferris Bueller's Day Off, was the histrion seen conscionable earlier Thanksgiving.

She draped her inactive enviably lithe framework successful a fashionable outfit that included a flannel top, sleek achromatic leather boots and a acceptable of leggings to match. 

Born Mia Sarapochiello successful Brooklyn, she landed her large interruption aged 16 with the 1985 phantasy movie Legend starring her arsenic a princess and Tom Cruise arsenic a antheral from the woods.

The movie was anchored by Hollywood heavyweights - not conscionable Tom but besides manager Ridley Scott - and yet turned retired to beryllium a flop astatine the container office.

However, 1 twelvemonth later, Mia became recognizable each implicit the state arsenic Sloane Peterson, the woman of mischievous precocious schoolhouse elder Ferris Bueller (Matthew Broderick).

Ferris gets his celebrated time disconnected by pretending to beryllium sick, and manages to get Sloane to articulation him by feeding the schoolhouse the fake communicative that her grandma has died.

Upon its release, Ferris Bueller's Day Off became a thunderous container bureau occurrence and remains 1 of the best-loved precocious schoolhouse comedies to look from Hollywood.

Shortly aft the movie came out, Mia showered praise connected some Tom Cruise and Matthew Broderick, whom she noted 'had overmuch much experience' than she did.

'Tom was dedicated and I learned a batch of bully enactment habits from him. And I respected Matt due to the fact that I had seen him connected Broadway. He was 1 of my favorites,' she told UPI. 

In the 1990s she featured successful specified movies arsenic the Melanie Griffith play A Stranger Among Us - directed by Sidney Lumet of 12 Angry Men fame - arsenic good arsenic the smash deed Jean-Claude Van Damme enactment movie Timecop.

She continued acting connected TV Programs similar CSI: NY and movies similar Dorothy & The Witches of Oz until 2013, erstwhile she took a hiatus that yet lasted longer than a decade.

As aboriginal arsenic 2010, she had remarked that she was 'mostly retired' arsenic she had go a 'mother with a truly noisy, hard location to maintain!'

The New York autochthonal besides noted: 'I'm a poet, truthful for the past mates of years that's what I've been focusing on,' successful an interrogation with Total Film. 

Mia present has a girl called Amelia, 19, by her 2nd and existent hubby Brian Henson, who is the lad of The Muppets creator Jim Henson.

She besides has a 27-year-old lad called Dashiell by her archetypal hubby Jason Connery, whose begetter was nary different than James Bond fable Sean Connery.

After 11 years distant from the movies, she mounted her expansive instrumentality this twelvemonth successful the subject fabrication play The Life Of Crank, based connected a novella by Stephen King.

Mia features amid a star-studded formed including Tom Hiddleston, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Mark Hamil, Jacob Tremblay, Karen Gillan and Nick Offerman.   

The movie earned a lukewarm effect from the critics erstwhile it premiered successful September astatine the Toronto International Film Festival, and volition beryllium retired successful theaters adjacent summer.