![As the daughter of A-list actor Ryan O’Neal, Tatum O’Neal fell into acting when director Peter Bogdanovich met the eight-year-old girl while visiting the O’Neal house and suggested she play opposite Ryan in the 1973 Depression-era movie Paper Moon. She’d already had a tumultuous life, left to her own devices with a neglectful mother before […]](https://www.tribute.ca/news/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/Tatum-ONeal-650x365.jpg "Tatum O’Neal")
As the daughter of A-list actor Ryan O’Neal, Tatum O'Neal fell into acting when director Peter Bogdanovich met the eight-year-old girl while visiting the O'Neal house and suggested she play opposite Ryan in the 1973 Depression-era movie Paper Moon. She’d already had a tumultuous life, left to her own devices with a neglectful mother before going to live with her father. Bogdanovich coaxed an Academy Award-winning performance out of the little girl, who went on to star in several more movies, but more famously, was known for attending clubs and partying with her father at a very young age. The lifestyle took its toll, and her career has been more off than on over the years, although she does work sporadically.
TATUM O’NEAL IS ALOT LIKE KRISTY MCNICHOL! TATUM AND KRISTY ARE BOTH VERY EMOTIONAL PEOPLE! BUT FOR DIFFRENT REASONS! TATUM WAS EMOTIONALLY ABUSED AS A LITTLE GIRL! KRISTY WAS VERY EMOTIONAL BECAUSE HER FATHER LEFT KRISTY AND KRISTY’S MOTHER WHEN KRISTY WAS 3 YEARS OLD! TATUM HAS SUFFERED ALOT IN HER LIFE LIKE KRISTY HAS SUFFERED ALOT IN HER LIFE AS WELL! KRISTY WAS NEVER ABUSED! KRISTY SAW HER FATHER WHEN SHE HAD TIME OFF FROM WORK! POOR TATUM WAS EMOTIONALLY ABUSED BY HER FAMILY MEMBER! TATUM AND HER FATHER RYAN O’NEAL NEVER SPOKE TO EACH OTHER FOR YEARS BUT THEY STILL LOVED EACH OTHER! THAT IS THE IMPORTANT THING!