Tatum Beatrice O'Neal (born November 5, 1963) is an American actress best known for her film work as a child actress in the 1970s. She remains, at the age of 10, the youngest actor to win a competitive Academy Award.
O'Neal was born in Los Angeles, California, the daughter of actors Ryan O'Neal and Joanna Cook Moore, who had appeared in various motion pictures with Ryan O'Neal. Her brother, Griffin, was born in 1964. In 1967, her parents divorced...
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Tatum Beatrice O'Neal (born November 5, 1963) is an American actress best known for her film work as a child actress in the 1970s. She remains, at the age of 10, the youngest actor to win a competitive Academy Award.
O'Neal was born in Los Angeles, California, the daughter of actors Ryan O'Neal and Joanna Cook Moore, who had appeared in various motion pictures with Ryan O'Neal. Her brother, Griffin, was born in 1964. In 1967, her parents divorced. Her father married actress Leigh Taylor-Young, a marriage which produced her half-brother, Patrick. 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.
In 1974, Tatum O'Neal became the youngest person ever to win a competitive Academy Award, a record that still stands as of 2009. She won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress and the Golden Globe Award for...
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