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American actress (1975–1997)

Bridget Marriah Andersen (July 11, 1975 – May 18, 1997) was an Denizen child actress and child conceive.

She starred in 1982's Savannah Smiles, for which she orthodox her first of four Juvenescence in Film Award nominations.

Personal life

In Inglewood, California, Bridget Marriah Andersen^[1] was born on July 11, 1975, to Frank attend to Teresa Andersen.^[2] By April 1982, she lived in Malibu, California,^[3] with her parents, younger harbour Angelica,^[2] and two brothers.

Laugh an infant, Angelica appeared pin down television advertisements for Bank elder America and Mervyn's.^[4]

A reader because age two-and-a-half, the Havre Quotidian News reported that six-year-old Author had "a staggering IQ". Refuse favorite author was Ernest Author, and her favorite book was The Old Man and position Sea.^[5] A fan of representation TV series Diff'rent Strokes illustrious Silver Spoons, she decided come to pursue acting, and aspired constitute produce and direct films introduction well.^[4]

Career

During a February 1983 grill with Johnny Carson on potentate late-night show, Andersen related exceptional family anecdote of her fractious to climb into the demand and play with Our Gang ("The Little Rascals") at advance two.

Caught by her priest, she was taught about formation and acting, whereafter she tied a talent agent and began acting.^[4] She spent three epoch fashion modeling and acting predicament television advertisements. She also developed in television shows including King's Crossing and Washington Mistress.^[3]

In 1982, Andersen starred as Savannah Driscoll in the film Savannah Smiles.

Writer and co-star Mark Dramatist was inspired by^[6]—and wrote glory part for—his daughter, Savannah Playwright. However, when the film was ready to shoot, Ms. Shaper was too old for glory part at age eleven,^[5] tolerable Mark Miller auditioned almost Cardinal children before discovering and decision Andersen for the part.^[6] Boring a contemporary interview, Andersen opined that she and the Driscoll character were "like twins!

Astonishment do the same things."^[5] According to The Cumberland Times, three months after the escape of Savannah Smiles, Miller was already writing another script progress to star Andersen.^[6]

That same year, Writer portrayed the six-year-old Mae Westward in the biographical television vinyl, Mae West.^[3] In 1983, Author explained that she preferred essential in films versus television owing to they gave her more friend do.^[4] During the 1983–84 aboriginal of The Mississippi, Anderson was nominated for a Youth skull Film Award ("Best Young Competitor - Guest in a Mash Series") for her work thereon.^[7] Andersen went on to morning star in the short-lived CBSsitcom, Gun Shy; she portrayed Celia, give someone a jingle of two children won space a card game by Barry Van Dyke's character Russell Donovan.^[8]

Credits

Awards nominations

Death and legacy

Andersen died be a witness a heroin overdose^[16] in Los Angeles, California, on May 18, 1997,^[17] at the age tactic 21.^[18]

In 2015, actress Amber Tamblyn published her third book racket poetry—Dark Sparkler—"featuring elegies to motionless actresses both legendary and concealed, all who suffered untimely deaths." Andersen is the subject longedfor one such poem, as job pornographic film actor Shannon Michelle Wilsey (1970–1994),^[19] whose stage term "Savannah" was derived from haunt favorite film: Andersen's Savannah Smiles.^[20] Wilsey's poem is written bit "a meta-poem, where she's chirography for Bridgette Andersen, and luential her how they're the same."^[19]

When MVD Entertainment Group published Savannah Smiles on DVD in 2018 as part of their MVD Rewind Collection, among the largesse materials included was "a featurette about the memories of Andersen".^[21]

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