Kristy McNichol

Kristy McNichol ( born September 11, 1962 as Christina Ann McNichol in Los Angeles, California ) is a former American film actress.

Biography

Kristy McNichol was born in September 1962 in Los Angeles. Her father James McNichol, a Scotsman, was a craftsman. Her mother Carollyne McNichol Lucas, half Palestinian, was an actress and later Kristy's manager. She has two brothers: Jimmy and Thomas McNichol. Jimmy McNichol is also an actor. When she was three years old, her parents divorced. She was 19 when her mother married the German Siegfried Lucas. Together they adopted the same year Kristy's sister Jennifer Lucas.

At the age of six years turned McNichol several commercials and had her first television appearance in 1973 in the series Love, American Style. She gained international recognition in 1976 for her role as "Buddy" Lawrence on the television series An American Family, which she played until 1980. In parallel, they also had some guest appearances in other successful series like The seven- million-dollar woman, Starsky & Hutch and The Love Boat. In 1978, McNichol made ​​her film debut in Nobody Is Perfect at the side of Burt Reynolds.

Aside from acting, McNichol is also dedicated himself to music. They signed a recording contract with RCA Records in 1978 and took with her brother the album Kristy McNichol & Jimmy on. The single release He's So Fine, a cover of The Chiffons hits from 1963, reaching number 70 of the U.S. Billboard charts.

With Tatum O'Neal, Matt Dillon and Cynthia Nixon, she starred in the movie Youth Small beasts (1980) and stood together with Christopher Atkins in Pirate Movie (1982 ) in front of the camera.

In 1982, McNichol starred in the film A class girl with Michael Ontkean. During filming in France, she suffered a nervous breakdown and then underwent psychotherapy. It justified its collapse later with the non-stop work and the pressure that her mother had exerted on them. In addition did you create the sole financial responsibility for their family. After therapy McNichol was able to continue the filming of A -grade girls and the film came in 1984 to the cinema.

After this incident, the actress appeared professionally slightly shorter. 1988 McNichol was in the movie Two Moon Junction and in a guest role in the television series Murder, She Wrote to see. In the same year, she also took in the television series Harry's nest a starring role opposite Richard Mulligan, but their commitment ended in 1992 due to renewed mental problems.

This was followed by a few TV movies and two guest appearances on the hit series Golden Girls before 1998 McNichol finally retired from the film business. According to a report by the TV channel CBS in the show Where Are They Now, she taught in connection to a private school in Los Angeles theater and drama.

Kristy is a lesbian.

Filmography

Awards and Nominations (selection)

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