Tatum O'Neal Biography (Courtesy Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia)

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

Tatum O'Neal was born on November 5th, 1963 in Los Angelos, California. Daughter of Ryan O'Neal, it was difficult after she had won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress in "Paper Moon". She was the youngest person ever to win an Academy Award, she was ten. After she had won, her dad ignored her, and couldn't delt with the fact his daughter won an Oscar, and he didn't win his, or the Golden Globe. After that, in 1976 she become the highest paid actress in history, earning $350,000 for "The Bad News Bears". Then after she turned out the limelight, she was married in 1986, and had three children. She and her husband divorced in 1992. He was rewarded full custody. And afterwards in 2004 she wrote a book about her life in her debut book "A Paper Life". It become #4 on the New York's best times. So besides of being the youngest Oscar winner in history, you never know what will come next.

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 10 years old at the time she won the award.

Other roles

Other movies starring O'Neal include The Bad News Bears, Nickelodeon (both 1976), International Velvet (1978), and Little Darlings (1980). Controversy arose as well around her underage nude scene opposite screen icon Richard Burton in the Canadian-made Circle of Two (1980). 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).

Marriage

In 1986, O'Neal wed tennis superstar John McEnroe, and the couple had three children: Kevin, Sean, and Emily. The couple divorced in 1992.

Filmography

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1973	Paper Moon	Addie Loggins	Best Supporting Actress
1976	The Bad News Bears	Amanda Whurlitzer
	Nickelodeon	Alice Forsyte
1978	International Velvet	Sarah Brown
1980	Circle of Two	Sarah Norton
	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

Television Work

• Faerie Tale Theatre as Goldilocks (1984) 1 episode
• CBS Schoolbreak Special (episode 15 and Getting Straight) as Kim (1989)
• Woman on the Run: The Lawrencia Bembenek Story (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
• Law and Order: Criminal Intent 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)

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