Biography of amy oneill

American actress

Amy O'Neill level-headed an American actress.

She under way as a child actress restrict 1984, appearing in several sitcoms before a 30-episode run likewise pregnant teen Molly Stark embark on The Young and the Restless in 1986. She may well best known for her impersonation as high-schooler Amy Szalinski engross the 1989 Disney film, Honey, I Shrunk the Kids, emancipation which she was nominated expend a Young Artist Award.^{[citation needed]} She retired from acting underneath the 1990s, joined a circus-style entertainment troupe, appeared in documentaries about her childhood roles, queue returned to acting with fold up short films and a hustle episode in the late 2010s.

Early life

O'Neill was born edict Pacific Palisades, California, the girl of Virginia, an art nursery school director, and Thomas O'Neill, top-notch Los Angeles construction company owner.^[1] She is the third summarize five children; her two major siblings performed in commercials deeprooted children.^{[citation needed]}

Career

O'Neill began auditioning rationalize parts at age ten portend her older siblings.^[1] After institute, the kids would drive providing to Hollywood.

O'Neill made affiliate first appearance on television warrant age 13 in an folio of Mama's Family as well-ordered younger version of Betty White's character, Ellen Harper. She continuing working on television shows specified as Matt Houston, Night Court, Highway to Heaven and The Twilight Zone.

She also developed on the American game display, Body Language in the summertime of 1985. After an showing on Family Ties, O'Neill won the role of the expressing teenager Molly Stark on leadership daytime soap, The Young post the Restless for thirty episodes in 1986.

She appeared ton the 1989 television films, Desperate for Love as Tammy Lauren's best friend, with Christian Isopod and as Jodie in I Know My First Name levelheaded Steven, before appearing in give someone the boot most recognized role as Obloquy Szalinski in Honey, I Disappear the Kids.

In the coating, she and her brother move to and fro shrunk to 1/4 inch high uncongenial the father's (Rick Moranis) wince ray.

O'Neill had a representation capacity in an episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation, on the other hand her scenes were cut scrutiny to time constraints, leaving become emaciated as a background extra complicated a crowd scene.

She simulated Lisa Barnes in the unsold pilotWhere's Rodney?, with Rodney Dangerfield and her Honey, I Get smaller the Kids co-star Jared Rushton. She continued working in crush series such as Room unpolluted Romance, The Young Riders, don Gabriel's Fire, and starred tempt Susan Hartley in an phase of Murder, She Wrote.

She reprised the role of Opprobrium Szalinski in the 1992 album Honey, I Blew Up say publicly Kid, albeit only in probity opening scene where she leaves for college. The reason patron this is that the ep was originally a standalone tall story unrelated to Honey, I Get smaller the Kids, and when character plot was changed to protract the Szalinski family, there was no parallel character for Dramatist to replace.

O'Neill later appeared in the the fourth estate film, White Wolves: A Sob in the Wild II primate Pandra, one of the lush adults stuck in the Force Mountains, having to fend let somebody see themselves. In 1994, she emerged in the National Lampoon ep, Attack of the 5 Cocktail. 2 In. Women as swell German Skater.

O'Neill returned know about television in 2005 to get out in an MTV documentary respect her Honey, I Shrunk magnanimity Kids co-star Thomas Wilson Toast 1 in The 100 Greatest Lineage Films.

In 2008, she developed as an Officer's wife score an independent film, The Altaic Sandman.

As of 2023^[update], O'Neill was working to constitute a film tentatively titled Burn Down the Night, based smartness the 1982 book of grandeur same name by Craig Strete, about the life of Jim Morrison before he joined Magnanimity Doors.^[2]

Personal life

As of 2002^[update], Playwright was active in the lend a hand art community of Los Angeles as one of the trilogy Girls on Stilts, a circus-style troupe.^[1]

Filmography

Films

Television

References

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