Mary Badham
Mary Badham ( born October 7, 1952 in Birmingham, Alabama ) is an American actress.
Life
Mary Badham was born in 1952 in Alabama, daughter of a retired army officer and a English -born actress and radio presenter. The nine year old had no professional acting training when she was selected in 1962 under two thousand young girls, To Kill a Mockingbird to interpret the female lead in the same Hollywood version of Harper Lee's award-winning novel. In the drama of Robert Mulligan she mimed on the side of Gregory Peck and Robert Duvall Jean Louise Scout Finch, the woken, which is faced in the early 1930s as the daughter of a white lawyer with the racism in the American South. The film version of To Kill a Mockingbird was granted success with critics and audiences and won at the Academy Awards in 1963, three wins. By contrast, could not triumph the ten year old Mary Badham who at the time the youngest ever nominated for the Academy Award actress in the category Best Supporting Actress of the six years older than young actress Patty Duke was defeated ( light in dark). This record should be made only in 1973 by her compatriot Tatum O'Neal ( Paper Moon ) can be set exactly 37 days younger was when notified of their nomination at that category with ten years and 106 days as Badham.
In her acting debut, which was dubbed by Variety as the impressive Mary Badham did not match with one-time guest appearances in the television series Dr. Kildare and The Twilight Zone. In 1966, she appeared again with two films in U.S. cinemas in appearance, before she retired from the film business. In Sydney Pollack's romantic drama This girl is all she mimed the young and imaginative sister of heroine Natalie Wood and played the female lead in William Castle's ripped by the critics thriller Let's Kill Uncle. Two years later Badham spoke unsuccessfully for the part of Robert Ellis Miller's drama Mick in The Heart is a Lonely Hunter (1968 ) ago, the Sondra Locke should serve as a career springboard.
After finishing her acting career, Mary Badham worked as a restorer and coordinator for college entrance tests. The sister of film director John Badham kept in touch with her To Kill a Mockingbird - castmates Phillip Alford, Gregory Peck and Brock Peters and traveled around the world to present Harper Lee's novel and to report on their experiences during filming, most recently in September 2006 at the International Rome Film Festival. The married mother of two children living in the vicinity of Richmond ( Virginia) and made in 2005 after nearly forty years of canvas abstinence with the supporting role of Mrs. Nutbush in Cameron Watson's drama Our Very Own again as an actress attention.