This actress built much of her early career on playing bubbly, popular blondes in late 1990s and early 2000s films.

She had her breakout role in the 1993 coming-of-age sports comedy The Sandlot, portraying the neighborhood pool lifeguard whose mere presence left the boys captivated.

She later played Tobey Maguire’s love interest in the 1998 comedy Pleasantville, which also featured Reese Witherspoon.

Then she took on a supporting part in the 1999 Drew Barrymore romantic comedy Never Been Kissed.

Earlier this week, she was seen vacationing in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, with her film producer husband and their two teenage daughters.

Can you identify her?

The answer is Marley Shelton.

The Daily Mail has contacted Shelton’s representative for comment.

On Tuesday, the still-very busy actress traded the set for the beach as she enjoyed the sunshine south of the border with her family, and looking fabulously fit in a bikini with green top and mauve bottoms.

Her famous blonde bob was twisted into a knot at the back of her head and a red-and-white baseball cap kept the sun’s glare out of her eyes.

The day’s excursion included a walk with her husband, film producer Beau Flynn, 56, and at another point she was seen doting on her daughters, West, 17, and Ruby, 14.

Shelton is perhaps best known for playing lifeguard Wendy Peffercorn in The Sandlot, which told the story of a group of young baseball players during the summer of 1962.

The movie starred Tom Guiry, Mike Vitar, Karen Allen, Denis Leary and James Earl Jones, but clearly Shelton was a stand-out star on her own.

Though Shelton wasn’t featured on The Sandlot’s theatrical release movie poster, there were lots of signed publicity stills of Shelton at the pool printed and sold as wall art at the time.

She portrayed Maguire’s popular high school girlfriend Margaret in Pleasantville, and Kristen, the mean high school girl-clique leader in Never Been Kissed who antagonized Barrymore’s character, Josie Geller.

Shelton anchored her status as a teen genre star in the dark comedy Sugar & Spice and the slasher film Valentine, both released in 2001.

But Shelton soon transitioned from teen-movie staple to mature film and television character actor.

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She joined the Scream franchise playing Deputy – and later Sheriff – Judy Hicks in Scream 4 (2011) and the 2022 Scream sequel.

‘I couldn’t believe it. I was over the moon,’ Shelton told ET’s Matt Cohen about learning her character would be returning for another sequel.

‘We shot Scream 4 about 10 years ago and that was already just a huge honor to join because I am a huge fan.

‘This franchise is so unique,’ she added. ‘Like, the tone is so absolutely terrifying, yet funny and meta and self-referencing and character driven.’

With the 2022 sequel, Shelton said, ‘We set [out] to do right by that and do it again.’

Shelton has enjoyed a steady continuity of roles into recent years.

She starred as Emma Dutton in the Yellowstone prequel 1923 (2022-2023).

Her character was the wife of John Dutton Sr and the mother of Jack Dutton, and after her husband was killed by Banner Creighton (Jerome Flynn) and his men, Emma’s storyline met a tragic conclusion as well.

In 2024, Shelton had the guest role of Erika Kennedy in episode four, season one of the CBS action drama Tracker.

She played Lydia Reed in three episodes of Matlock in 2025.

The versatile actress recently wrapped production on the indie drama Road to Recovery directed by Scout Taylor-Compton. It follows a sick teen named Sadie (Ryan Kiera Armstrong) and her father Tom (Freddie Prinze Jr) who travel across the US in search of the boy Sadie loves.

Still, the image of Wendy Peffercorn in her red bathing suit in The Sandlot will live on in the memory of her fans.

‘I’m shocked! Initially, people liked the movie but nobody thought it was going to have the legs that it did and become this cult classic,’ Shelton told Us Weekly in 2018.

‘I think it had something to do with it being this very coming of age story.

‘It’s such a fun movie — there are so many great throwback moments. I think it’s still relatable. Something about baseball and adolescence and that simpler time in life, I think people really relate to.

‘I’m always so flattered when people recognize me from it because it was 25 years ago! I’m like, “Wow thanks, I’m glad you recognize me as Wendy Peffercorn.”‘

She added: ‘I love when we get sent pictures of people dressing up as them for Halloween. It’s such a riot. There are some great costumes out there that probably rival the original.’

Heroes, zeros and the inside pitch from the Yankees’ 2-0 Subway Series victory over the Mets on Sunday in The Bronx:

Hero

With six starters taking the mound in a series packed with intriguing and high-powered arms, Cam Schlittler stood above the rest. The Yankees right-hander silenced the Mets across six scoreless innings, allowing just one hit.

Zero 

Juan Soto had energized Mets fans in The Bronx with a home run Saturday, but Sunday brought a far different result. Soto finished 0-for-4 with two strikeouts, and after David Bednar struck him out in the ninth, a particularly loud wave of boos followed him back to the dugout.

Unsung hero

Ben Rice made sure the Yankees had an early edge, leading off the game by sending his 38th homer of the season into the short porch. It proved to be the only run New York needed.

Key stat

1.95: Cam Schlittler’s ERA, a mark that would make him the fourth qualified Yankees pitcher since 1913 to post an ERA below 2.00.

Quote of the night

“Special weekend for the city. As much as the fans don’t like each other, I feel like they came together for this weekend and enjoyed something special. … It was a little frustrating [Saturday] just hearing all the Mets chants. I wanted to make sure I could come in here today and kind of shut that down.”

— Cam Schlittler

Iran-backed Houthi rebels seized Perim Island in the Bab el-Mandeb Strait on Sept. 11, expanding their reach at one of the world’s most critical shipping chokepoints. A former Pentagon official said Sunday that the militants had effectively placed themselves in a “kill box.”

The takeover followed a month-long Houthi offensive along Yemen’s western coast that left more than 1,500 soldiers dead and compelled Yemen’s government to concede what it described as a “painful” defeat, according to The Associated Press.

“With Perim, they have gained what we could call the cork in the Red Sea bottle,” Morgan Murphy, a retired Navy captain and former Pentagon press secretary, told News Media.

“But they’ve put themselves into a kill box. They’re nowhere near the capability of the United States and if the president so chooses, he can wipe them off the face of that rock pretty easily,” Murphy warned.

While Perim lies at the center of the narrow maritime corridor, Murphy said the Houthis’ position on the island also leaves them exposed to concentrated military fire.

“Perim cuts that chokepoint right in half, and it’s only 18 miles wide there,” Murphy said.

He noted that the island has been an important maritime lookout for centuries. French forces once sought control of it, while the British Empire held it for more than 100 years.

Perim, a barren volcanic island also called Mayun, is located about 20 miles from the Horn of Africa. Its position also places it near Camp Lemonnier in Djibouti, one of the largest U.S. military bases in Africa.

“We have incredible firepower in that region, and that’s a little rock in the middle of that strait. It’s a volcanic rock. It doesn’t have any water. It’s uninhabitable,” Murphy warned.

“There’s no vegetation to speak of. And the Houthis have just massed their troops on that rock. So what that is, what we would call that in the Navy, is a kill box.”

Satellite imagery of the island shows a 1.85-kilometer (6,070-foot) runway alongside three military hangars, which regional intelligence reports attribute to past construction by the United Arab Emirates.

“There’s a 6,000-foot airstrip on that island. I think that Emiratis built it,” Murphy said.

“It’s nice to have an airstrip, and especially a long runway, but we don’t know the condition of that runway. We don’t know how they could possibly use that runway, and they certainly don’t have the sophisticated air power that the United States and its allies have to project power from that runway.”

He added that the U.S. military holds overwhelming force options if commanders elect to target the island.

“We could wipe that rock into glass, just blast it into a smooth glass surface, put skates back on our feet, and skate all over it,” Murphy said.

“That’s why the Houthis have kind of played coy with the president, and they know that even if they fortify that rock they’re not going to be able to hold it in the face of the United States Navy.”

The developments come amid diplomatic maneuvering between Washington, Riyadh and the Houthis in recent days.

Sources confirmed to News Media that Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman had called President Donald Trump twice Sept. 10 to urge him to authorize U.S. military strikes against Houthi positions.

Trump declined direct intervention, with U.S. officials noting the administration has no immediate plans for direct combat involvement but will continue offering intelligence assistance.

Speaking to reporters in Dublin on Sept. 12, Trump also indicated the Houthis had signaled a desire to avoid direct confrontation with American forces.

“The Houthis called us, and they don’t want to fight with us. They let us know, they don’t want to fight with us… they don’t want us to go after them,” Trump said.

Murphy suggested, however, that Washington’s restraint should not be mistaken for inaction.

“I can’t speak for the president. But this administration has not shown a lack of resolve to use force,” Murphy said.

“I wouldn’t doubt at all if the president took steps to pound some of these folks into the sand if they continue to really disrupt the global energy supply.”

Yemeni government, regional and Iranian sources told Reuters the Houthi advance was sustained by Iranian weaponry and tactical direction from the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, or IRGC, with U.S. officials estimating hundreds of IRGC officers remain active in Yemen.

Murphy noted that Tehran’s strategy appears designed to drive up global fuel prices by choking critical shipping lanes.

Comparing the conflict to historical naval power struggles, Murphy emphasized the strategic mismatch.

“We’re in a different era. They are nowhere near the sophistication of the world’s major powers. The Houthis are using a 19th-century playbook. They are not using 21st-century warfare,” he said.

“So, yes, they’ve caught a critical cork in the Red Sea bottle, but how they use it remains to be seen,” Murphy concluded.

“This is an example of why great powers really have to have a strong Navy. This is why Great Britain had a strong navy. This is why the United States has a strong navy, because there’s so many regional powers who want to try to bottle up shipping, whether it is in the Strait of Malacca, whether it is in the Strait of Hormuz, and here, in this case, in the Red Sea.”

“I think what we’re going to see in the next several days and weeks is a coordinated effort by the Trump administration to make sure our allies are on board in helping us keep these critical waterways open, free, and clear for freedom of navigation,” he said.

CHICAGO (WLS) — A 15-year-old girl accused of pushing a man from a CTA train, resulting in his death, was ordered detained Saturday, according to the Cook County State’s Attorney’s Office.

Kyle Bickham, 29, was on his way home from work when he was allegedly pushed from a moving CTA Red Line train near the 69th Street station during an altercation at about 2:40 p.m. Monday, police said. His family said he had been heading home at the time.

Investigators said Bickham fell onto the third rail before being struck by another train.

Chicago police said the teen was one of three people who allegedly used force to push Bickham from the train. She faces a first-degree murder charge, along with other charges.

The girl was arrested Friday and appeared in court Saturday for a detention hearing. She is scheduled to return to court Monday.

Family members remembered Bickham as a compassionate and hardworking man who cared deeply for his loved ones. The youngest son among four siblings, he enjoyed making others laugh and cherished time spent with family and friends, they said.

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Bickham’s relatives gathered Sunday at the 69th Street Red Line station, urging witnesses and the two other people police believe were involved in his death to come forward and speak with investigators.

The CTA said no passengers or CTA employees on the bus were injured.

The video in the player above is from a previous report.

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Alexander Zverev ended Ben Shelton’s fairytale run on home soil to lift the US Open trophy, beating the American hope 6-3, 7-6(2), 5-7, 6-2 in a gripping New York final.

Shelton had been chasing a landmark moment as the first American man in 23 years to win a Grand Slam title. But in his first major final, experience ultimately overcame momentum. His late response against the French Open champion offered hope, though it arrived too late and did not last long enough.

Zverev was so locked into the contest that he initially did not realise the championship point had sealed the match. As Arthur Ashe Stadium burst into celebration, he began walking across court as though Shelton was about to serve again.

“I thought it was 5-1. I knew I broke him twice, I thought, ‘Okay, I’m going to have a relaxed service game here, and then get tight,’” Zverev said with a laugh after the final. “Teachers always tell you, forget about the score – I forgot about the score, and it helped me.”

Their head-to-head record had pointed strongly in Zverev’s direction, with the German having won each of their previous five meetings. Particularly effective against left-handed opponents such as 23-year-old Shelton, Zverev played with complete assurance, staying solid enough to let the American’s mistakes surface at the biggest moments.

Shelton entered Arthur Ashe Stadium to a thunderous, partisan reception, his expression set with determination. Yet that early intensity soon faded. The fearless winners that had powered him past Carlos Alcaraz and Frances Tiafoe earlier in the tournament began missing their mark, sailing beyond the baseline or finding the net.

The pressure showed quickly. The top seed broke Shelton in his opening service game and immediately established control. Zverev dictated play with his reliable backhand, absorbed the longest exchanges and varied the tempo at will, while Shelton’s frustration grew over the German’s prolonged pre-serve ball bouncing.

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A feature at this US Open only, Zverev has averaged 10 seconds of bouncing before either first or second serves. That’s two hours and 30 minutes of interminable up-and-down, before the final. Even a time violation from chair umpire Marijana Veljovic in the fourth set could not end his rhythm-breaking, rule-bending, habit.

After that opening wobble, Shelton was able to get the set back on track with the help of his weapon of a serve, which frequently hits 140mph-plus. But it was a meat-and-potatoes game, with only flashes of the inventiveness he showed against Tiafoe or Alcaraz.

When the serve didn’t work, it was fatal. Double faults sealed the opening break of Shelton’s serve, and handed Zverev the set. It also did little to help him in the second-set tiebreak, with Zverev capable of absorbing all of its zip and dictate from return.

Shelton was full of fight, keeping pace deep in the third and heaping the pressure on a player with a long history of tightening up in the biggest moments. Another double fault, this time the German’s, and the end of his 67 consecutive holds against Shelton.

Shelton has been the comeback king of New York, but his blood was too hot going into the fourth and Zverev pounced with a second break of his opening serve. That doused the flames of patriotism fired-up inside Ashe pretty quickly.

The crowd never truly died down for their battling player, at times slipping into classless heckling. But Zverev tuned out the noise capably, just as the type-1 diabetic impressively managed multiple injections of insulin during the contest to keep his blood sugar levels steady. Long tennis’ nearly-man, he had already survived the five-set scramble against Flavio Cobolli in Paris. Avoiding a second should be counted as growth. 

Zverev will never be a universally popular champion. His game is considered and clinical, but lacks a flash and flair to tempt the neutral. There’s the smog of domestic abuse allegations from two ex-partners, the second of which went to trial, and was settled by Zverev in 2024 with legal proceedings discontinued. 

Zverev has repeatedly denied these claims but incorrectly stated in June that his innocence has been proven. Beating an American in New York will not do much to bolster his appeal Stateside.

But there is much to admire about Zverev’s capacity to seize his moment this year, after his previous four Grand Slam finals – including 2020’s in New York – slipped through his fingers.

He has been criticised for winning his two majors with fortunate draws en route, but he cannot choose his opponents, only beat them. And with the absence of Jannik Sinner and Alcaraz in the later stages in Paris and New York, Zverev has not wasted his opportunity. Of course, when they have been there, at the Australian Open, and at Wimbledon, his run has ended. He continues to look up at their singular rivalry.