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Tatum O'Neal
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November 5, 1963 in Los Angeles, CA
Biography:The youngest recipient of the Best Supporting Actress Academy Award, American actress "Tatum O'Neal" was the daughter of actors "Ryan O'Neal" and "Joanna Moore". When her father was cast as the confidence trickster protagonist of "Paper Moon" (1973), O'Neal was awarded the part of Addie Loggins, the con man's "ward" and partner in crime. For this remarkable debut, O'Neal won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress -- which enabled her to demand profit percentage points on her next film, The Bad News Bears (1976). O'Neal played the only female member of a misfit junior-league baseball team (she was doubled by two young baseball champs); her highlight scene in "Bears" was the one in which she all but promised her body to a preteen punk to get him to join the ball club. Mid-'70s audiences were oddly attuned to films in which children swore and swilled beer, so The Bad News Bears was O'Neal's second... Full Biography
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