Tatum O'Neal

Tatum Beatrice O'Neal born November 5, 1963 in Los Angeles, California, U.S. She is an American actress best known for her film work as a child actress in the 1970s. She is the youngest to win a competitive Academy Award, at the age of 10, which she won 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 (1976), International Velvet (1978) and Little Darlings (1980).In 1986, she married tennis player John McEnroe, with whom she had three children. The couple separated in 1992 and were divorced in 1994.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 in 1997 of lung cancer at age 63, after a career in which she had appeared in such movies as Walk on the Wild Side and Follow That Dream.

One of O'Neal's first public boyfriends was pop star Michael Jackson, whom she dated in the late 1970s to early '80s. In 1986, O'Neal married tennis player John McEnroe. She invited no one from her family to attend the ceremony. The couple have three children: Kevin (born 1986), Sean (born 1987) and Emily (born 1991). They separated in December 1992 and were divorced in 1994. Following the divorce, O'Neal's drug problems reemerged and she developed an addiction to heroin. As a result of her drug problems, McEnroe obtained custody of the children in 1998. O'Neal was estranged from her father for 25 years until a reconciliation process was begun in 2011 in the television series, Ryan and Tatum: The O'Neals.She writes in her autobiography that when she was 12, her father took her and her friend Melanie Griffith on a trip to Europe, where she caught him having sex with Griffith in their hotel room. O'Neal also alleged that she and Griffith participated in an opium-filled orgy in a Paris hotel room.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.

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