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Tatum O'Neal

Tatum O'Neal at the 75th annual Academy Awards

Birth name

Tatum Beatrice O'Neal

Born

November 5 1963 (age 44)
Los Angeles, California, United States

Years active

1973 - present

Spouse(s)

John McEnroe (1 August 1986 - 1992) (divorced) 3 children

Awards
Academy Awards
Best Supporting Actress 1973 Paper Moon

Tatum Beatrice O'Neal (born November 5, 1963 in Los Angeles, California) is an Academy Award-winning American actress best known for her film work as a child actress in the 1970s. To this day, she remains the youngest actor ever (at the age of 10) to win an Oscar.

Biography

O'Neal was born into the motion picture family of actor Ryan O'Neal and actress Joanna Cook Moore. Her brother, Griffin, was born in 1964. In 1967 her parents divorced. Her father married actress Leigh Taylor-Young, the mother of her half-brother, Patrick (who was married to actress Rebecca DeMornay). She also has another half-brother, Redmond, from Ryan O'Neal's relationship with actress Farrah Fawcett. Tatum's mother died in 1997 of lung cancer at age 63 after a career in which she had appeared in such movies as Touch of Evil.

A Paper Life

In her autobiography called A Paper Life, Tatum O'Neal alleged that she had been molested by a male friend of her father. Tatum also alleges physical and emotional abuse from her father, much of which she attributes to drug use. She later said she was dragged to an opium-fueled orgy by Melanie Griffith when she was 12 years old. In the book, Tatum also details her own heroin addiction and its effects on her relationship with her children.

Academy Award as a child

In 1974, Tatum O'Neal became the youngest person ever to win an Oscar, a record that she still holds to this day. She won the Best Supporting Actress award for her performance in Paper Moon. O'Neal played the role of Addie Loggins, a child con artist being tutored by a Depression-era grifter played by her father, Ryan. She was 9 years old at the time she won the award.

Other roles

Other movies starring O'Neal include The Bad News Bears, Nickelodeon, International Velvet, and Little Darlings. Controversy arose as well around her underage nude scene opposite screen icon Richard Burton in the Canadian-made Circle of Two. She also starred as the title character in the Faerie Tale Theatre episode Goldilocks and the Three Bears. Her acting career took a backseat to her marriage to John McEnroe, the professional tennis player, for many years, but in 2005 she began a recurring role as Maggie Gavin on the firehouse drama series Rescue Me, portraying the unbalanced and lively sister of Tommy Gavin played by Denis Leary. O'Neal's character is married to a firefighter in her brother's firehouse.

In January 2006, she participated in the second season of ABC's reality series Dancing with the Stars but was the second contestant to be eliminated in the second round. She went on to do commentary for the series on Entertainment Tonight.

From 2006 to early 2007, Tatum starred as the vindictive and psychotic Blythe Hunter in the My Network TV prime-time drama Wicked Wicked Games. She appears opposite Nashawn Kearse and Vanessa L. Williams in the Liberty Artists feature film My Brother (2007).

Personal Life

O'Neal describes her upbringing as chaotic, with her mother battling drug and alcohol problems and neglecting the care of her and her brother Griffin, while her father was absentee and prone to abusive outburts of temper. After her parents divorced, Ryan O'Neal obtained custody and Tatum was exposed to his celebrity, bachelor lifestyle, as well as his temper.<ref name="Tatum O'Neal Shares Survival Story: Part 1">Tatum O'Neal Shares Survival Story: Part 1.

In 1986, O'Neal wed tennis superstar John McEnroe. No one from her family attended the ceremony. The couple had three children: Kevin, Sean, and Emily. The couple divorced in 1992. After the divorce, Tatum's drug problems re-emerged and she developed an addiction to heroin. As a result of her drug problems, McEnroe obtained custody of the children in 1998. <ref name="Tatum O'Neal Shares Survival Story: Part 2">Tatum O'Neal Shares Survival Story: Part 2.

Filmography

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1973	Paper Moon	Addie Loggins	Best Supporting Actress
1976	The Bad News Bears	Amanda Whurlitzer
1976	Nickelodeon	Alice Forsyte
1978	International Velvet	Sarah Brown
1980	Circle of Two	Sarah Norton
1980	Little Darlings	Ferris
1981	Prisoners	Christie	(never released)
1985	Certain Fury	Scarlet
1992	Little Noises	Stella
1996	Basquiat	Cynthia Kruger
2002	The Scoundrel's Wife	Camille Picou
2003	The Technical Writer	Slim
2006	My Brother	Erica
2008	Saving Grace	Grace

Awards
Preceded by Eileen Heckart for Butterflies Are Free	Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress 1973 for Paper Moon	Succeeded by Ingrid Bergman for Murder on the Orient Express

Television Work

Faerie Tale Theatre as Goldilocks (1984) 1 episode
CBS Schoolbreak Special (episode 15 and Getting Straight) as Kim (1989)
(1993)
Sex and the City (cameo in A Woman's Right To Shoes in 2003)
8 Simple Rules For Dating My Teenage Daughter as Ms. McKenna (2004) 1 episode
as Kelly Garnett (2004) 1 episode
Ultimate Film Fanatic (judge in 2005)
Rescue Me (cast member, 2005 to Present)
Dancing with the Stars (cast member in 2006)
Wicked Wicked Games (2006) (set for 65 episode run)

References

Tatum O'Neal autobiography: A Paper Life - ISBN 0-06-054097-4.

Footnotes

External links

Tatum O'Neal at the Internet Movie Database
Tatum O'Neal at TV.com
Tatum O'Neal at the Notable Names Database
When Young Stars Burn Out MSN Movies

Academy Award

Awarded for Excellence in cinematic achievements
Presented by Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
Country United States
First awarded May 16, 1929 to honor achievements of 1927/1928
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John McEnroe

Country United States
Residence New York City
Date of birth January 16 1959 (age 48)
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Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role is one of the Academy Awards of Merit presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) to recognize an actress who has delivered an outstanding performance while working within the film industry.
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Paper Moon is an American motion picture comedy that was released in 1973 and was directed by Peter Bogdanovich.

The screenplay was adapted from the novel Addie Pray by Joe David Brown.
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November 5 is the feast day of the following Roman Catholic Saints:

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Ryan O'Neal

Birth name Patrick Ryan O'Neal
Born March 20 1941 (age 66)
Los Angeles, California, United States

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Joanna Cook Moore

Actress Joanna Cook Moore
Birth name Dorothy Cook
Born November 10, 1934
Americus, Georgia, USA
Died November 22, 1997, age 63
Indian Wells, California, USA

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Griffin O'Neal

Birth name Griffin Patrick O'Neal
Born September 28 1964 (age 43)
Los Angeles, California

Years active 1976 - 1992
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Leigh Taylor-Young

Leigh Taylor-Young at the 47th Emmy Awards

Born January 25 1945 (age 62)

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Patrick Ryan O'Neal, Jr. (born September 14, 1967 in Santa Monica, California) is a studio host and reporter for Fox Sports Net in Los Angeles. Most of his appearances come during pregame and postgame shows of the Los Angeles Dodgers and Los Angeles Kings, as well as the Los
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Rebecca De Mornay

Birth name Rebecca J. Pearch
Born July 29 1959 (age 48)
Santa Rosa, California, U.S.
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Farrah Fawcett

Birth name Ferrah Leni Fawcett
Born January 2 1947 (age 60)
Corpus Christi, United States

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Touch of Evil (1958) is considered one of the last examples of film noir in the genre's classic era (from the early 1940s until the late 1950s).
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