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Kristy McNichol is a Actor and Co-Executive Producer American born on 11 september 1962 at Los Angeles (USA)

Kristy McNichol

Kristy McNichol
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Birth name Christina Ann McNichol
Nationality USA
Birth 11 september 1962 (61 years) at Los Angeles (USA)

Christina Ann "Kristy" McNichol (born September 11, 1962) is an American actress and singer.

McNichol is known for her roles as Letitia “Buddy” Lawrence on the television drama series Family and as Barbara Weston on the sitcom Empty Nest.

Biography

Le père de Kristy McNichol, James McNichol, est un ouvrier d'origine écossaise ; sa mère Carolyn McNichol Lucas, est une actrice et devient sa manager. Elle a deux frères Jimmy et Thomas McNichol. Ses parents divorcent quand elle a deux ans.
Dès l'âge de six ans McNichol participe à des films publicitaires et en 1973 elle fait ses débuts à la télévision dans la série Love, American Style. Elle devient célèbre à l'échelle internationale en 1976 avec le rôle de Buddy Lawrence dans la série télévisée Family, qu'elle tient jusqu'en 1980. Elle apparaît pour la première fois au cinéma en 1978 dans le film Suicidez-moi docteur (The End) au côté de Burt Reynolds. Elle a beaucoup de succès dans le film Les Petites Chéries (Little Darlings ) avec Tatum O'Neal, Matt Dillon et Cynthia Nixon et avec son rôle dans Cœur de pirate (1982) avec Christopher Atkins.

Pendant le tournage du film Just the Way You Are (1984) où elle tient le rôle principal, Kristy McNichol fait une dépression nerveuse due à la pression subie et suit une psychothérapie. Après cet épisode, ses apparitions à la télé se font plus rares. Elle met un terme à sa carrière d'actrice en 1998, et enseigne depuis les études théâtrales dans une université privée. Kristy McNichol est ouvertement lesbienne.

Best films

Only When I Laugh (1981)
(Actress)

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Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Kristy McNichol (22 films)

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Actress

The Forgotten One, 1h29
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Horror, Romance
Actors Kristy McNichol, Terry O'Quinn, Elisabeth Brooks
Roles Barbara Stupple
Rating56% 2.8049552.8049552.8049552.8049552.804955
A writer who is recently widowed moves into a Victorian house that may be haunted. The writer is attracted to his beautiful new neighbor, yet finds himself being seduced by the spirit of a woman murdered in his house one hundred years ago.
Two Moon Junction, 1h44
Directed by Zalman King
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Films about sexuality, Erotic films
Actors Sherilyn Fenn, Richard Tyson, Louise Fletcher, Burl Ives, Kristy McNichol, Martin Hewitt
Roles Patti Jean
Rating50% 2.514572.514572.514572.514572.51457
April Delongpre (Sherilyn Fenn) is the well-born, 21-year-old, eldest daughter of a powerful Alabama senator and heiress to an old and respectable Southern family. After graduating from college, April returns home to her parents house for the summer to await her semi-arranged marriage to her fiancé Chad Douglas Fairchild (Martin Hewitt). When a carnival comes to the town, April and Chad accompany April's two younger sisters to the fairgrounds where April sees from a distance a rugged carnival roustabout and drifter named Perry (Richard Tyson). When April accidentally leaves her purse behind in one of the rides, Perry returns it for her and introduces himself (after having looked inside and gotten April's name and home address). Intrigued by the mysterious drifter, April returns to the carnival that evening to talk with Perry, but she refuses his advances.
Dream Lover, 1h44
Directed by Alan J. Pakula
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Fantastic, Horror, Crime
Actors Kristy McNichol, Ben Masters, Paul Shenar, Justin Deas, John McMartin, Gayle Hunnicutt
Roles Kathy Gardner
Rating48% 2.4122952.4122952.4122952.4122952.412295
Kathy, flûtiste, vit seule. Une nuit, alors qu'elle est endormie, un intrus pénètre dans son domicile et tente d'abuser d'elle. Terrorisée, elle l'ébouillante, puis le poignarde. Le calvaire semble bel et bien fini pour la jeune femme. Cependant, elle cauchemarde et revoit la scène de meurtre sous différents angles. Cela devient vite une obsession. Elle fait alors appel à un spécialiste du sommeil qui tente d'analyser son comportement à différents stades du sommeil. Il va découvrir que ses cauchemars deviennent trop dangereux pour elle et pour son entourage s'il ne trouve pas très rapidement une solution à son problème.
Women of Valor, 1h40
Directed by Buzz Kulik
Origin USA
Genres War
Themes Seafaring films, Prison films, Transport films, Political films
Actors Susan Sarandon, Kristy McNichol, Alberta Watson, Valerie Mahaffey, Terry O'Quinn, Neva Patterson
Roles T.J. Nolan
Rating56% 2.811472.811472.811472.811472.81147
A group of American Army nurses are captured by the Japanese in April 1942. They are put in a prisoner-of-war camp in Bataan, where they spend three years of their lives. The story focuses on Lt Margaret Ann "Maggie" Jessup, the head army nurse who survived the camp and testifies against the Japanese in front of the United States Congressional subcommittee years later as a colonel.
Love, Mary
Love, Mary (1985)
, 1h30
Directed by Robert Day
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Kristy McNichol, Matt Clark, David Paymer, Rachel Ticotin, Piper Laurie, Wayne Robson
Roles Mary Groda-Lewis
Rating75% 3.755773.755773.755773.755773.75577
Mary Louise Groda was a lonely and poor child, from a family of poor farm workers in Portland, Oregon. She was in frequent trouble with juvenile authorities, partly because she hated to go to school.
Just the Way You Are, 1h34
Directed by Édouard Molinaro, Marc Rivière, Étienne Dhaene
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Musical, Romance
Actors Kristy McNichol, Michael Ontkean, Timothy Daly, Lance Guest, Robert Carradine, André Dussollier
Roles Susan Berlanger
Rating59% 2.9523952.9523952.9523952.9523952.952395
Susan is a professional flautist in Boston who has been handicapped since childhood and is forced to wear a leg brace to get around. After breaking up with her boyfriend, she accepts the offer to travel to Europe on a concert tour. While in Paris, she comes up with an idea to disguise her leg by putting it in a cast and travel on her own to the French Alps to be treated without pity. Not looking to find romance, Susan however has become the interest of Peter, a news photographer. They soon fall in love and Susan is forced to decide if she should tell Peter the truth about herself.
The Pirate Movie, 1h44
Directed by Ken Annakin
Genres Drama, Comedy, Musical theatre, Action, Musical, Romance
Themes Seafaring films, Films about music and musicians, Transport films, Pirate films, Musical films, Children's films
Actors Christopher Atkins, Kristy McNichol, Ted Hamilton OAM, Maggie Kirkpatrick, Bill Kerr, Garry McDonald
Roles Mabel
Rating53% 2.6504752.6504752.6504752.6504752.650475
Mabel Stanley (Kristy McNichol) is an introverted teenage girl yearning for popularity in a seaside community in Australia. She attends a local pirate festival featuring a swordplay demonstration led by a young curly-haired instructor (Christopher Atkins), who then invites her for a ride on his boat. She is duped by her acquaintances, Edith (Kate Ferguson), Kate (Rhonda Burchmore), and Isabel (Catherine Lynch), into missing the launch, so she rents a small sailboat to give chase. A sudden storm throws her overboard, and she washes up on a beach. She subsequently dreams an adventure that takes place a century before. In this fantasy sequence, the swordplay instructor is now named Frederic, a young apprentice of the Pirates of Penzance, celebrating his 21st birthday on a pirate vessel. Frederic refuses an invitation from the Pirate King (Ted Hamilton), his adoptive father, to become a full pirate, as his birth parents were murdered by their contemporaries. Frederic swears to avenge their deaths and is forced off of the ship on a small boat.
White Dog
White Dog (1982)
, 1h24
Directed by Samuel Fuller
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Horror
Themes Films about animals, Films about dogs, Mise en scène d'un mammifère
Actors Kristy McNichol, Paul Winfield, Burl Ives, Jameson Parker, Parley Baer, Lynne Moody
Roles Julie Sawyer
Rating69% 3.495783.495783.495783.495783.49578
Young actress Julie Sawyer (Kristy McNichol) accidentally runs over a stray White German Shepherd Dog one night. After the dog is treated by a vet, Julie takes him home while trying to find his owners. A rapist breaks into her house and tries to attack her, but the dog protects her so she decides to adopt him, against the wishes of her boyfriend (Jameson Parker). Unbeknown to her, the dog was trained by a white racist to attack any and all black people on sight. It sneaks out of the house one night and kills a black truck driver in an attack. Later, when Julie takes the dog to work with her, it attacks a black actress on the set.
Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp, 1h5
Directed by Ardwight Chamberlain
Genres Fantasy, Adventure, Animation
Actors Christopher Atkins, Kristy McNichol, John Carradine, June Lockhart
Rating66% 3.335563.335563.335563.335563.33556
Aladin est un jeune adolescent fougueux, il fait partie d'une petite bande de copains qui s'amusent à dérober de la nourriture pour la partager avec les enfants nécessiteux du quartier. Le soir, il rentre chez sa mère qui tente tant bien que mal de survivre avec son maigre salaire. Un jour, un étrange personnage remarque l'habileté et l'intelligence d'Aladin. Cet homme décide alors de lui proposer une tâche pour laquelle il sera très bien payé, mais ce travail en vaut-il vraiment la peine...
The Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia, 2h
Directed by Ronald F. Maxwell
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Musical
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films
Actors Kristy McNichol, Dennis Quaid, Mark Hamill, Don Stroud, Barry Corbin, Sunny Johnson
Roles Amanda Child
Rating59% 2.9518252.9518252.9518252.9518252.951825
A young singer and his sister/manager travel to Nashville in search of stardom. As they journey from one grimy hotel to another, it becomes increasingly obvious that only one of them has what it takes to become a star.
Only When I Laugh, 2h
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Themes Films about alcoholism, Medical-themed films, Films about drugs, Films about television, Théâtre, Films based on plays
Actors Marsha Mason, Kristy McNichol, James Coco, Joan Hackett, David Dukes, John Bennett Perry
Roles Polly
Rating63% 3.196763.196763.196763.196763.19676
Actress Georgia Hines is being released from a rehab center where she has been undergoing treatment for alcoholism and weight gain. She returns to her Manhattan apartment to begin a new sober life with her supportive friends: Jimmy, an unemployed actor, and Toby, a sophisticated, vain socialite. She pledges to both that she will maintain her sobriety and slowly ease back into theatre work.