Tatum o’neal is a well-known actress of American origin, famous for being the winning actress of the Oscar youngest in all history with only nine years.
Tatum Beatrice O’Neal was born November 5, 1963 in the populous city of The Angels, located within the state of California in the United States of America.
His family consisted of well-known actors such as being his father Ryan O’Neal and his mother Joanna cook moore. His younger brother Griffin he was born only a year after her.
On 1967 her parents decided to end their marriage, and Ryan decided to enter into a relationship with Leigh taylor young, who later became the mother of her half brother Patrick.
He also has another half brother named Redmond, the son of his father’s relationship with the actress Farrah fawcett.
On 1974, with a nascent acting career, was the youngest person to receive a Oscar, a title that it holds to this day. The award itself was for Best Supporting Actress in the feature film “Paper Moon”, When he was only nine years old.
From this moment on, her little life became totally chaotic, since now not only her parents were addicted to alcohol and drugs, but she also began to walk the same path.
Much later, in his autobiography “A Paper Life”, She confessed that her father used to beat her and treat her very badly, both her and her brother Griffin. He attributed this to the effects of alcohol and his mother neglecting them all the time.
In this same book she also says that she was sexually abused by one of her father’s friends, and that the young age of twelve was part of an opium-triggered orgy, invited by Melanie Griffith.
In this way, and struggling with his own addiction, O’Neal appeared in films such as “The Bad News Bears”. “Nickelodeon” Y “Little darlings”, Sharing the film sets with stars like Anthony Hopkins.
On 1986 married the famous tennis player John mcenroe with whom he later had three children. No one in his family attended his wedding, and shortly after it he stopped appearing on all kinds of screens.
More and more she relapsed into addiction and alcohol, which eventually led her to divorce her husband in 1992. By that time they already had three children: Kevin, Sean Y Emily. The constant bad life she led caused her to lose her custody in 1998.
Just in the 2005 reappeared on the small screens, playing Maggie gavin, within the drama series “Rescue me”.
On January 2006 He was a member of the all-star cast that participated in the reality show “Dancing With the Stars”Produced by ABC. Sadly, her ability carried her only until the second round.
In the 2007 appeared in the drama series “Wicked wicked games“Like psychotic Blythe hunter, while on the big screen he appeared in the film “My brother”Independently produced.