Tatum O'Neal

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Tatum O'Neal
Born Tatum Beatrice O'Neal
(1963-11-05) November 5, 1963 (age 49)
Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Occupation Actress, author
Spouse(s) John McEnroe (m. 1986–1994; divorced)
Children Kevin, Sean & Emily

Tatum Beatrice O'Neal (born November 5, 1963) is an American actress and author. She is the youngest person ever to win a competitive Academy Award, which she won at the age of 10 for her performance as Addie Loggins in Paper Moon (1973) opposite her father Ryan O'Neal. She then starred in The Bad News Bears in 1976, followed by Nickelodeon, and Little Darlings.

In 1986, she married professional tennis player John McEnroe, with whom she had three children. The couple separated in 1992 and were divorced in 1994.

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Family background[edit]

O'Neal was born in Los Angeles, California, to actors Ryan O'Neal and Joanna Moore, who had appeared in various motion pictures and television shows. Her brother, Griffin, was born in 1964. In 1967, her parents divorced and her father quickly remarried. Her father's marriage to actress Leigh Taylor-Young produced Tatum's half-brother, Patrick, but the union ended in divorce in 1973. Tatum has another half-brother, Redmond, from Ryan O'Neal's relationship with actress Farrah Fawcett. O'Neal's mother died of lung cancer in 1997 at age 63, after a career in which she appeared in such movies as Walk on the Wild Side and Follow That Dream.

Career[edit]

Child actress[edit]

In 1974, aged 10, Tatum O'Neal won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress and the Golden Globe Award for New Star Of The Year - Actress for her performance in Paper Moon. She became the youngest person ever to win a competitive Academy Award, she was aged just 9 years old at the time of the films making. O'Neal played the role of Addie Loggins, a child con artist being tutored by a Depression-era grifter played by her father, Ryan. Beginning in 1934, the Academy Juvenile Award, also known as the Juvenile Oscar, was a Special Honorary Academy Award bestowed at the discretion of the Board of Governors of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to specifically recognize juvenile performers under the age of eighteen for their "outstanding contributions to screen entertainment". The Award continued to be presented intermittently over the next 25 years until 1961, when 12-year-old Hayley Mills became the last recipient to be awarded the child-size statuette for her role in Pollyanna.[1] After 1961, juvenile performers were placed in competitive categories with their adult peers.

O'Neal also starred in notable films such as The Bad News Bears (1976) with Walter Matthau, International Velvet (1978) with Christopher Plummer and Anthony Hopkins, and Little Darlings (1980) with Kristy McNichol. She also appeared in the less-successful film Nickelodeon (1976) with her father Ryan, and in Circle of Two (1980) with Richard Burton. She appeared as the title character in the Faerie Tale Theatre episode "Goldilocks and the Three Bears" (1984).

Adult career[edit]

O'Neal's relationship with John McEnroe began in 1984 when she moved into his Central Park West condo in New York City.[2] She appeared in only five films during the next 15 years. One notable role was her portrayal of Cynthia Kruger in Basquiat (1996).

In the early 2000s, O'Neal began acting again and made guest appearances on Sex and the City, 8 Simple Rules for Dating My Teenage Daughter, and Law and Order: Criminal Intent. In 2005, O'Neal 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.

In January 2006, she participated in the second season of ABC's reality series Dancing with the Stars with professional partner Nick Kosovich. They were eliminated in the second round. She went on to do commentary for the series on Entertainment Tonight.

From 2006 to 2007, she portrayed the vindictive and psychotic Blythe Hunter in the My Network TV drama Wicked Wicked Games. She appears opposite Nashawn Kearse and Vanessa L. Williams in the film My Brother (2007).

In 2011, Tatum and her father, Ryan began to restore their broken father/daughter relationship after 25 years. Their reunion and reconciliation process was captured in the Oprah Winfrey Network series, Ryan and Tatum: The O'Neals.[3]

Personal life[edit]

Family and relationships[edit]

One of O'Neal's first public boyfriends was pop star Michael Jackson, whom she dated in the late 1970s. Jackson described O'Neal as his first love, and in a 2002 interview with Martin Bashir said that O'Neal tried to seduce him, but he was terrified by the idea of sex.[4] O'Neal adamantly denied all of Jackson's claims in her 2004 autobiography.[5]

In 1986, O'Neal married tennis player John McEnroe. She invited no one from her family to the ceremony. The couple have three children: Kevin (born 1986), Sean (born 1987) and Emily (born 1991).[6] They separated in November 1992 and were officially divorced in 1994. Following the divorce, O'Neal'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.[7]

O'Neal has been estranged from her father for over 25 years.[8] A reconciliation process was begun in 2011 in the television series, Ryan and Tatum: The O'Neals. [9]

Arrest[edit]

On June 1, 2008, she was arrested for buying crack cocaine near her Manhattan apartment building.[10] When police searched her, they found two bags of drugs — one of crack cocaine, one of powder cocaine — and an unused crack pipe.[10] She was charged with a misdemeanor criminal possession of a controlled substance. Authorities released her without bail.[10] On July 2, 2008, O'Neal pleaded guilty to disorderly conduct in connection with the arrest and agreed to spend two half-day sessions in a drug treatment program.[11]

Autobiography claims[edit]

In her autobiography, A Paper Life, O'Neal alleged that she was molested by her father's drug dealer when she was 12. She also alleges physical and emotional abuse from her father, much of which she attributed to drug use. She also detailed her own heroin addiction and its effects on her relationship with her children. Her father, Ryan, denied these allegations.[12] In a prepared statement, Ryan O'Neal said: "It is a sad day when malicious lies are told in order to become a 'best-seller'."[12]

In her autobiography, O'Neal claims that when she was 12 and her friend Melanie Griffith was 18, her father, Ryan O'Neal, took the girls on a trip to Europe, where she caught him having sex with Griffith in their hotel room.[7] O'Neal also alleged that Griffith persuaded her into participating in an orgy after they had smoked opium and hashish.[5][13]

In 2011, O'Neal wrote a new collections of memoirs titled Found: A Daughter's Journey Home, which dealt with her tempestuous relationship with her father, tempestuous marriage to John McEnroe, and her recent drug arrest.[14]

Filmography[edit]

Films[edit]

Year Title Role Notes
1973 Paper Moon Addie Loggins Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress
David di Donatello Award for Best Foreign Actress tied with Barbra Streisand for The Way We Were
Golden Globe Award for New Star Of The Year – Actress
Nominated–Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy
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 Unreleased
1985 Certain Fury Scarlet
1992 Little Noises Stella
1996 Basquiat Cynthia Kruger
2002 The Scoundrel's Wife Camille Picou US video title: The Home Front
2003 The Technical Writer Slim
2006 My Brother Erica
2008 Saving Grace Grace
Fab Five: The Texas Cheerleader Scandal Lorene Tippit
2010 The Runaways Marie Harmon
Last Will Hayden Emery
Sweet Lorraine Lorraine Bebee completed
Mr. Sophistication Kim Waters filming completed

Television[edit]

Year Title Role Notes
1984 Faerie Tale Theatre Goldilocks "Goldilocks and the Three Bears"
1989 CBS Schoolbreak Special Kim "15 and Getting Straight"
1993 Woman on the Run: The Lawrencia Bembenek Story Lawrencia Bembenek
2003 Sex and the City Kyra "A Woman's Right to Shoes"
2004 8 Simple Rules Ms. McKenna "Opposites Attract: Part 3: Night of the Locust"
Law and Order: Criminal Intent Kelly Garnett "Semi-Detached"
2005 Ultimate Film Fanatic Judge
2005-2011 Rescue Me Maggie
2006 Dancing with the Stars Herself 5 episodes
Wicked Wicked Games Blythe Hunter 51 episodes
2011 Ryan and Tatum: The O'Neals Herself

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References[edit]

  1. ^ "33rd Academy Awards". Oscars.org. Archived from the original on 6 July 2011. Retrieved July 6, 2011. 
  2. ^ Victor Bockris (June 1985). America's Couple. Spin. p. 71. Retrieved 2010-08-22. 
  3. ^ "'Ryan & Tatum' review: Estranged father and daughter actors reconnect on their OWN show". New York Daily News. June 18, 2011. Retrieved January 8, 2013. 
  4. ^ "Fact Checking “Michael Jackson’s Secret World” by Martin Bashir « Vindicating Michael". Vindicatemj.wordpress.com. Retrieved 2012-11-07. 
  5. ^ a b O'Neal, Tatum (2004). A Paper Life. HarperCollins. ISBN 0-06-054097-4. 
  6. ^ "John McEnroe discusses Tatum O'Neal in memoir". CNN. June 5, 2002. Retrieved October 08, 2012. 
  7. ^ a b Phillips, Stone. "Tatum O'Neal Shares Survival Story: Part 2". Dateline NBC. 15 October 2004.
  8. ^ "Ryan and Tatum O'Neal open up on family feud". BBC News. June 16, 2011. 
  9. ^ Sydney Morning Herald, "Ryan and Tatum: a loathe story", June 23, 2011
  10. ^ a b c Alison Gendar; Bill Hutchinson (June 2, 2008). "Tatum O'Neal in crack bust". New York Daily News. Retrieved 2008-12-17. 
  11. ^ Samuel Maull; Jennifer Peltz (June 2, 2008). "Tatum O'Neal in New York Drug Bust". The Huffington Post. Retrieved 2008-12-17. 
  12. ^ a b Corky Siemaszko (October 13, 2006). "O'Yeah? Tatum's just lyin', sez Ryan". New York Daily News. Retrieved 2008-12-17. 
  13. ^ "Melanie Griffith - Tatum O'neal Corrupted By Griffith". Contactmusic.com. 13 October 2004. Retrieved 22 January 2012. 
  14. ^ O'Neal, Tatum; Liftin, Hilary (2011). Found: A Daughter's Journey Home. William Morrow. ISBN 978-0-06-206656-5. 

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