Tamara De Treaux

Tamara De Treaux ( born October 21, 1959 in California as Tamara Detro, † November 28, 1990 in North Hollywood, Los Angeles, California ) was an American actress.

The dwarf, only 79 centimeters (2 feet, 7 inch) De Treaux was a friend of the American writer Armistead Maupin. They provided the model for the heroine Cadence Roth in his novel Maybe the Moon ( German: Die Kleine ).

Tamara De Treaux starred alongside Michael Patrick " Little Pat" Bilon in Steven Spielberg's ET (1982 ) the aliens and crouched inside the doll. Despite their role as it remained unknown to the public. In 1990, she died at the age of 31 of heart failure.