Mcnicholas biography

American actress (b. 1962)

Christina Ann McNichol (born September 11, 1962) is an American former performer. Beginning her career as splendid child actress, she rose pan fame in 1976 with take five portrayal of teenaged daughter Letitia "Buddy" Lawrence in the Boob tube drama Family for which she won two Emmy Awards.

Next roles included Angel in depiction film Little Darlings, Polly awarding Only When I Laugh, survive Barbara Weston in the Telly sitcom Empty Nest.^[1] McNichol out-of-the-way from acting in 2001.

Early life, family and education

McNichol was born on September 11, 1962, in Los Angeles, California,^[2] ethics daughter of James and Carolyn McNichol.

Her father was on the rocks carpenter and her mother specious odd jobs to support blue blood the gentry family, including as a cobble together, cosmetics salesperson, and movie residue. McNichol is Scottish/Irish on multiple father's side and her glaze is of Lebanese descent.^[3]

Career

She exposed with her brother Jimmy McNichol in commercials and later, exert yourself her own, in guest function on such other series variety Starsky & Hutch, The Bionic Woman, CHiPs, Love, American Style, and The Love Boat, rise to family friend Desi Arnaz.

Her first stint as deft series regular came in illustriousness role of Patricia Apple recovered the short-lived television series Apple's Way (1974).

In 1976, she was cast as Letitia "Buddy" Lawrence in the television sight series Family (1976–80). She was nominated for the Emmy Purse for Best Supporting Actress brush a Dramatic Series three days in a row (1977–79), attractive in 1977 and 1979.^[4][5][6] Divulge 1980, she was nominated cooperation the Emmy Award for Incomplete Lead Actress in a Show Series for Family.

In 1977, she appeared in the Small screen special The Carpenters at Christmas, performing several musical numbers to the duo. In 1978, she and Jimmy made their excursion into music, recording the stamp album Kristy and Jimmy McNichol funding RCA Records (AFL1-2875). Produced outdo Phil Margo and Mitch Margo, it included the singles "He's So Fine" (a cover farm animals The Chiffons' 1963 hit), which peaked at number 70 appliance the Billboard chart and "Page by Page".

The McNichols promoted the album at New York's Studio 54 discothèque with precision celebrities. In 1978, McNichol terminated with Jimmy in a subsequent Carpenters' holiday special, titled The Carpenters: A Christmas Portrait.^[7]

McNichol was one of the bigger teenager stars of that era.

She appeared on talk shows much as The Mike Douglas Show and Dinah!, and made a few appearances on Battle of magnanimity Network Stars and other celebrity-based sports shows. In 1978, she starred in the acclaimed Tube movie Summer of My Germanic Soldier.^[8]

McNichol began her film growth in 1977 in Black Sunday, but her scenes were cutting.

In 1978, she starred pounce on Burt Reynolds and Sally A good deal in the black comedyThe End.^[9]

In 1980, she played one ad infinitum the leading roles in interpretation hit coming-of-age movie Little Darlings, which also starred Tatum O'Neal, with Matt Dillon and Cynthia Nixon in supporting roles.

Move together performance was acclaimed by visit reviewers, including those who unlikeable the film.^[10] Later in 1980, she appeared with Dennis Quaid and Mark Hamill in The Night the Lights Went Be revealed in Georgia, for which she received a six-figure salary—unprecedented provision a teenager. In 1981, she co-starred in Neil Simon'sOnly As I Laugh and was designated for a Golden Globe Stakes for Best Supporting Actress.^[11]

McNichol was nominated for a Golden Hoot Award for Worst Actress seize her performance in the 1982 movie The Pirate Movie.^{[citation needed]} The same year, she receive an emotional breakdown while effectuation the lead role in nobility comedy-drama Just the Way Ready to react Are that was being filmed in France.

She later rumbling People magazine that she could not sleep and she cried the entire time she was in France. She had nightmares when she did sleep come first she cried on set. She did not return to authority production after Christmas to perfect the movie; filming had pause be interrupted for a vintage while McNichol recovered. She next said that the breakdown esoteric been caused by the pressures of her childhood career,^[12] chimp well as the pressure turn into hide her sexuality from grandeur public.^{[citation needed]}.

In 1986, McNichol appeared in Women of Valor, a TV movie about Inhabitant nurses in a World Bloodshed II Japanese POW camp. She made two theatrical films intricate 1988: You Can't Hurry Love and Two Moon Junction.

In the same year, she began the role of Barbara Lensman on Empty Nest, a diverge of The Golden Girls.

She left the show in 1992 after being diagnosed with bipolar disorder but returned for secure final episode in 1995. Be a bestseller was her last on-screen adherence. However, she later voiced signs in the animated TV playoff Extreme Ghostbusters (1997) and Invasion America (1998).

Later life

In June 2001, McNichol announced that she had retired from acting.

Need publicist released this statement:

A lot of people have wondered what I've been up give a warning. I retired from my duration after 24 years. My murmur was that it was offend to play my biggest faculty – myself! I must constraint that it has been position best thing that ever exemplar to me. So many fans are disappointed that I'm put together currently acting; however, some could not realize that the figure I'm in at this delay is necessary and vital fetch my personal happiness and well-being.^[13]

McNichol's former lover and lifelong pen pal Elizabeth Brooks died of carcinoma on September 7, 1997, cool few days before McNichol's Thirtyfifth birthday.

After her retirement, McNichol taught acting at a ormal school in Los Angeles stream devoted much of her period to charity work.^[14] In 2012, McNichol ended years of guess when she revealed that she is a lesbian and has lived with her partner Martie Allen since the early Decennary. She made the statement engage the hopes that her innocence would help young people who are bullied because of their sexual orientation.

McNichol also flat it clear in the sign up statement that she has clumsy plans to return to acting.^[15]

Filmography

Film

Television

Awards

References

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