Tricia O'Neil
{{Short description|American actress}}
{{BLP sources|date=January 2019}}
{{Infobox person
| name = Tricia O'Neil
| image = Tricia O'Neil Portrait 2 (1967).jpg
| caption = O'Neil in 1967
| other_names = Patti O'Neil
| birth_name = Patricia Lou O'Neil
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1945|3|11}}
| birth_place = Shreveport, Louisiana, U.S.
| education = McAllen High School
| occupation = {{hlist|Actress|model}}
| yearsactive = 1972–2001
| alma_mater = Baylor University
| known_for = Two by Two
Captain Rachel Garrett in "Yesterday's Enterprise ", Star Trek: The Next Generation
Lisa / Christine Ames in "Labyrinth", Hawaii Five-O
| spouse = James Irving Van Valkenburg
}}
Tricia O'Neil (born Patricia Lou O'Neil;[https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-monitor/139515139/ "'Two by Two Another Triumph for Rodgers'"]. McAllen Monitor. December 6, 1970. p. 44. Retrieved January 25, 2024.[https://www.newspapers.com/image/430011124/?clipping_id=139515663 "Van Valkenburg-O'Neil Vows Solemnized in Rite"]. El Paso Times. August 7, 1966. p. 24. Retrieved January 25, 2024.[https://www.newspapers.com/image/434526793/?clipping_id=139523080 "Marriage Plans Told for King-O'Neil Rite"]. El Paso Times. June 7, 1965. p. 8. Retrieved January 25, 2024. March 11, 1945{{Cite news|title=Almanac|author=|date=March 11, 2023|work=Dubuque Telegraph-Herald|page=A3|quote=Media mogul Rupert Murdoch is 92. Former ABC News correspondent Sam Donaldson is 89. Musician Flaco Jimenez (FLAH'-koh hee-MEH'-nez) is 84. Actor Tricia O'Neil is 78. Actor Mark Metcalf is 77. Rock singer-musician Mark Stein (Vanilla Fudge) is 76. Singer Bobby McFerrin is 73.|id={{ProQuest|2786298863}}}} See also:
- {{Cite news|title=Wire reports|author=|date=March 11, 2003|work=South Florida Sun - Sentinel|page=2A|quote=media mogul Rupert Murdoch, 72; ABC News correspondent Sam Donaldson, 69; U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, 67; musician Flaco Jimenez, 64; actress Tricia O'Neil, 58; singer Bobby McFerrin, 53;|id={{ProQuest|387819111}}}}) is an American actress.
Early life
Born in Shreveport, Louisiana, she is the daughter of James Weldon O'Neil and Mary Jane Marter."United States, GenealogyBank Historical Newspaper Obituaries, 1815-2011", FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q5Q6-C3KD : Fri Oct 20 08:53:05 UTC 2023), Entry for James Weldor O'Neil and Mary Jane Marter, 02 Jan 1978. The family lived in El Paso, Texas, from 1952 to 1959 and in 1963. O'Neil attended elementary and intermediate schools in El Paso and graduated from McAllen High School. In 1968, she graduated from Baylor University, where she studied with singer Miklos Bencze.[https://www.newspapers.com/image/961493837/?clipping_id=139530273 "Music Club Elects New Officer Slate"]. The Waco Times-Herald. April 29, 1965. p.20. Retrieved January 25, 2024.
Career
In 1965, while attending Baylor, O'Neil performed on two locally produced TV specials, both of them airing on KCEN-TV. First, on May 14, she was one of 18—and one of three Baylor students—selected to appear on Talent '65. Sponsored by Southwestern Bell and produced by KHOU-TV for the purpose of showcasing statewide talent, it was hosted by John Hambrick.[https://www.newspapers.com/image/961560400/?clipping_id=139524513 "TV Show Featuring College Talent Includes Baylorites"]. The Waco Times-Herald. May 13, 1965. p. 11-B. Retrieved January 26, 2024. Accompanying herself on guitar, O'Neil performed "Babe, I'm Gonna Leave You"[https://www.newspapers.com/image/961564174/?clipping_id=139524155 "Patti O'Neil"]. The Waco Times-Herald. May 14, 1965. p. 11-B. (Anne Bredon's composition, popularized in 1962 by Joan Baez).Ojala, Jani (2022). [https://books.google.com/books?id=cNSPEAAAQBAJ&pg=PA50 The Top 100 Albums of the 1960s: My Beautiful Mine]. S.I.: Books on Demand. p. 50. {{ISBN|9789528067511}}. On December 24 and 25, she and the Baylor University Religious Hour Choir were featured on Christmas: Old and New, an hour-long special which was heard in Dallas on WFAA (AM) on Christmas Eve and seen on KCEN on Christmas Day.[https://www.newspapers.com/image/961496514/?clipping_id=139540859 "Baylor Religious Choir to Appear on Channel 6"]. The Waco Times-Herald. Dec 20, 1965. p. 13. Retrieved January 26, 2024.
Following her graduation from Baylor, O'Neil sang in supper clubs in Texas and California for two years before an opportunity to act on Broadway arose.Slaughter, Tony (October 9, 1968). [https://www.newspapers.com/article/fort-worth-star-telegram/139551892/ "Navy Day Oct. 27"]. Fort Worth Star-Telegram. p. 33. "Singer Patti O'Neal is currently at the Terrace Room at Colonial CC and will close Sunday night." Retrieved January 25, 2024.Slaughter, Tony (December 31, 1968). [https://www.newspapers.com/article/fort-worth-star-telegram/139552105/ "Just Call It Blackstone"]. Fort Worth Star-Telegram. p. 4. "Colonial CC's new Terrace Room is bringing back entertainers, with Vivian Mason due Jan. 7-19 and Patti O'Neil taking over Jan. 21 to Feb. 2." Retrieved January 25, 2024.[https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-shreveport-journal/139590941/ "Actress to Receive Theater World Citation"]. The Shreveport Journal. May 26, 1971. p. 8. "Tricia O'Neill, a native of Shreveport and granddaughter of Mr. and Mrs. Bob Clark of 4232 Youree, will receive a plaque for Most Promising Star on Broadway Thursday. Miss O'Neil currently sings the role of Rachel in the Danny Kaye musical 'Two by Two.' [...] Prior to her success in the role of Rachel, she sang background music for recordings of Jimmy Webb songs ('By the Time I Get to Phoenix' and 'Wichita Lineman') and fulfilled a singing engagement at The Horn in Santa Monica, Calif." Retrieved January 26, 2024. By that time, O'Neil had already dropped "Patti" in favor of "Tricia",Latham, Peggy (April 13, 1969). [https://www.newspapers.com/article/el-paso-times-tricia-oneil/107033252/ "Former El Paso Girl"]. El Paso Times. . p. 37. Retrieved January 26, 2024. after discovering there was already a Patti O'Neil registered at Actors Equity.[https://www.newspapers.com/article/los-angeles-mirror/139525539/ "LITTLE Patti O'Neil"]. Los Angeles Mirror. July 1, 1953. p. 39. "LITTLE Patti O'Neil monopolizes phone in scene from KNBH's TV Theater production of 'Boy of Mine,' tonight at 9." Retrieved January 25, 2024.
In 1970, O'Neil made her professional theatrical debut in the Broadway musical Two by Two.{{cite news|last1=Ligon|first1=Betty|date=January 4, 1971|title=El Pasoan Takes New York Entertainment Headlines|page=17|work=El Paso Herald-Post|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/85756564/tricia-oneil/|access-date=September 22, 2021|via=Newspapers.com}} Although the show received mixed reviews,{{Cite news|title=Broadway Review: 'Two by Two' Opens Broadway Run|author=Schmidt, Sandra|date=November 12, 1970|work=Los Angeles Times|page=J22|quote=I liked 'Two by Two.' Really, I did. [...] It's just that the whole thing hangs on a framework as casual as that which forms the ark, and all the emotions it touches are the automatic reaction we have to well done melodrama (or bedtime stories). In the end, it is only a very small show with very small aspirations. With the ingredients it has, I wish it had been more.|id={{ProQuest|156540641}}}} See also:
- {{Cite news|title='Two by Two' Lacks Real Sparkle|author=Kelly, Kevin|date=October 4, 1970|work=The Boston Globe|page=A45|quote=|id={{ProQuest|649055631}}}} O'Neil earned a Theatre World Award for her performance.{{cite web|title=Theatre World Award Recipients|url=http://www.theatreworldawards.org/past-recipients.html|publisher=Theatre World Awards, Inc.|accessdate=2019-05-15}} Newsweek's Jack Kroll, in particular, singles out O'Neil, amidst his otherwise blistering critique of the show itself:
There is only one delight in 'Two by Two'—Tricia O'Neil as Rachel, Noah's daughter-in-law who marries the wrong son. Miss O'Neil is a stunning girl with a full sweet voice and the grace of an Assyrian lioness. She is the only Biblical thing in the show, bearing the wheat of Zion in her hair, the loyalty of Ruth in her eyes, the determination of Judith in her arms, the sensuality of the Song of Solomon in her throat and the curve of her thigh.{{Cite news|title=Leaky Ark|author=Kroll, Jack|date=November 23, 1970|work=Newsweek|page=137|quote=|id={{ProQuest|1894130901}}}}
O'Neil made her film debut in the 1972 film The Legend of Nigger Charley (1972). Other film appearances include The Gumball Rally (1976), Mary Jane Harper Cried Last Night (1977), Are You in the House Alone? (1978), The Kid from Left Field (1979), Brave New World (1980), Piranha II: The Spawning (1982), Ted & Venus (1991) and Titanic (1997).
O'Neil made her television debut in the 1973 television movie Duty Bound. She appeared in a number of guest roles on various television series, including a dog trainer in a 1978 episode of Columbo titled "How to Dial a Murder",{{cite web|url=https://www.tvguide.com/celebrities/tricia-oneil/credits/177639/|title=Tricia O'Neil| website=TVGuide.com|publisher=TV Guide|access-date=27 April 2020}} nightclub singer Julie Heller in the episode "Murder! Murder!" of The Eddie Capra Mysteries (1978), as Dorothy Fulton in Hart to Hart (1979), as a police photographer in back-to-back episodes of Barney Miller (1980), as female stunt woman "Charlie" in the episode of the same name in the first season of The Fall Guy (1981), in Remington Steele (1982), as conniving "other woman" Ashley Vickers in the pilot episode of Murder, She Wrote (1984), as a pushy reporter in the second-season episode "Catch of the Day" in Riptide (1984), as the owner of a travelling Wild West rodeo show in the third-season Airwolf episode "Annie Oakley" (1985), and separate roles in three episodes of Matlock from 1989 to 1994. She appeared in the television miniseries Jacqueline Susann's Valley of the Dolls (1981) and in two episodes of The A-Team, playing Dr. Maggie "Mo" Sullivan in the season one episode "Black Day at Bad Rock" and the season two episode "Deadly Maneuvers".
O'Neil made a number of appearances in popular science fiction television series during the 1980s and 1990s. She portrayed Captain Rachel Garrett of the U.S.S. Enterprise (NCC-1701-C) in the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode "Yesterday's Enterprise", returning to that series with a role as the Klingon Kurak in the episode "Suspicions". Later she guest-starred on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine as Cardassian Korinas in the episode "Defiant".{{cite web |url=http://www.startrek.com/article/catching-up-with-tngs-capt-garrett-tricia-oneil |title=Catching Up With TNG's Capt. Garrett, Tricia O'Neil |author=Staff writers |publisher=Startrek.com |date=2013-01-28 |accessdate=2019-05-15}} O'Neil guest-starred in the Babylon 5 season-one episode "Believers" (1994) as "M'ola". Later, she played the Earth Alliance president in the Babylon 5 TV movie Babylon 5: In the Beginning (1998).
In 1991, O'Neil filmed her scenes in the role of Hoelun for the never-released film Genghis Khan. Efforts in 2010 to repackage the material as a miniseries, tentatively named Genghis Khan: The Story of a Lifetime, never came to fruition.
O'Neil's last screen appearance was on the television series JAG, playing Dr. Beth Salluci in the 2001 episode "Redemption".
Personal life
On August 6, 1966, O'Neil married opera singer James Irving Van Valkenburg, who she divorced 5 years later. .[]{{cite news |last1=Latham |first1=Peggy |title=Former El Paso Girl Makes Hit As Singer |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/107033252/tricia-oneil/ |access-date=August 6, 2022 |work=El Paso Times |date=April 13, 1969 |page=7-C|via = Newspapers.com}}
Filmography
=Film=
| class="wikitable sortable" |
| Year
! Title ! Role ! class="unsortable" | Notes |
|---|
| 1972
| Sarah Lyons |
| 1976
| Angie - Rolls-Royce Silver Shadow |
| 1982
| Anne Kimbrough |
| 1991
| Judge Katherine Notch | Black comedy film |
| 1997
| Titanic | Woman |
=Television=
| class="wikitable sortable" |
| Year
! Title ! Role ! class="unsortable" | Notes |
|---|
| 1973
| Duty Bound | Glenn's Wife |
| 1975
| Joan Willis |
| rowspan="3" | 1976
| Yvonne Danello | Episode: "The Adventure of the Wary Witness" |
| Serpico
| Grace | Episode: "The Indian" |
| Sirota's Court
| Sugar Hills | Episode: "Sirota's Car" |
| rowspan="5" | 1977
| Sharon Nicholson | Episode: "The Madness Within: Part 1" |
| Charlie Cobb: Nice Night for a Hanging
| Angelica | Television film |
| Big Hawaii
| Dr. Ericka Bergen | Episode: "Sun Children" |
| Mary Jane Harper Cried Last Night
| Dr. Angela Buccieri | Television film |
| Eight Is Enough
| Ellen Manning | Episode: "Double Trouble" |
| rowspan="3" | 1978
| Columbo | Miss Cochran - the dog trainer | Episode: "How to Dial a Murder" |
| Are You in the House Alone?
| Jessica hirsch | Television horror film |
| The Eddie Capra Mysteries
| Julie Heller | Episode: "Murder, Murder" |
| rowspan="2" | 1979
| Marion Fowler |
| Hawaii Five-O
| Dilys Conover | Episode: "The Bark and the Bite" |
| rowspan="3" | 1980
| Maoina Krupps | Television film |
| Charlie's Angels
| Anne Moore (as Tricia O'Neill) | Episode: "Toni's Boys" |
| Barney Miller
| Alex Kramer (as Tricia O'Neill) | Episode: "Homicide: Part 1" |
| rowspan="2" | 1981
| The Misadventures of Sheriff Lobo | Sheila McKnight | Episode: "Macho Man" |
| Jacqueline Susann's Valley of the Dolls
| Enid Marshall | TV Mini Series |
| rowspan="4" | 1982
| Palms Precinct | Jeanine Monasco | Television film |
| Hart to Hart
| Dorothy Fulton | Episode: "The Harts Strike Out" |
| The Powers of Matthew Star
| Fortune Teller | Episode: "Mother" |
| Voyagers!
| Annie Brown | Episode: "Old Hickory and the Pirate" |
| 1982–1983
| Charlie | Episode: "Charlie" |
| rowspan="3" | 1983
| Kathy Fairgate | Episode: "Deadly Access" |
| Hardcastle and McCormick
| Pamela Peterson | Episode: "Once Again with Vigorish" |
| Lottery!
| | Episode: "New York: Winning Can Be Murder" |
| 1983–1984
| Maggie Sullivan (as Tricia O'Neill) | Episode: "Black Day at Black Rock" |
| 1984
| Riptide | Tawny Clark | Episode: "Catch of the Day" |
| rowspan="3" | 1985
| Rita Holden | Episode: "A Little Sex, a Little Scandal" |
| Megazone 23
| Additional Voices | (Streamline Pictures dub) (English version, voice) |
| Airwolf
| Annie Oakley, Louise Mackey | Episode: "Annie Oakley" |
| rowspan="3" | 1986
| Teresa George | Episode: "Breathing Room" (Pilot) |
| Dynasty
| Mrs. Davis | Episode: "The Trial: Part 1 |
| Kay O'Brien
| | Episode: "Princess of the City" |
| rowspan="4" | 1987
| MacGyver | Susan Murphy, Victoria James | Episode: "Phoenix Under Siege" |
| The New Mike Hammer
| Fran Lasker | Episode: "Little Miss Murder" |
| Jack and Mike
| Barbara | Episode: "Separate Lives" |
| Hunter
| Sylvia Brand | Episode: "Night on Bald Mountain" |
| 1983–1988
| Laura Reynolds | Episode: "It's Only a Game" |
| 1988
| Police Story: Gladiator School | D.A. Willis | Television film |
| 1989
| L.A. Law | Meredith Korngold | Episode: "Captain Hurt" |
| rowspan="2" | 1991
| Beth Crane | Episode: "Lies of the Hear" |
| Equal Justice
| Sara | Episode: "Courting Disaster" |
| 1984–1991
| Dallas | Dr. Barbara Mulgravy | Episode: "True Confessions" |
| 1984–1991
| Ashley Vickers | Episode: "The Murder of Sherlock Holmes" |
| 1991
| Delta Ridpath | Episode: "Every Time We Say Goodbye" |
| rowspan="2" | 1992
| Ruth Conway | Episode: "Whippit 'Til It Breaks" |
| A Woman Scorned: The Betty Broderick Story
| Margaret Fitzpatrick | Television film |
| 1993
| Acting Coach | Episode: "What Makes Doogie Run" |
| 1990–1993
| Star Trek: The Next Generation | Captain Rachel Garrett | Episode: "Yesterday's Enterprise" |
| rowspan="2" | 1994
| M'Ola | Episode: "Believers" |
| Robin's Hoods
| Lydia Barnhouse | Episode: "To Heir Is Human" |
| 1989–1994
| Matlock | Cynthia Slayton | Episode: "The Best Seller" |
| 1994
| Korinas | Episode: "Defiant" |
| 1995
| Degree of Guilt | Rosa | Television film |
| 1996
| Karen Donaldson | Episode: "University Blues: Part 1" |
| 1997
| Jane Ellington | Episode: "A History of Murder" |
| rowspan="3" | 1998
| Earth Alliance President | space opera television film |
| Gia
| Vogue Editor |biographical television film |
| Beverly Hills, 90210
| Mrs. O'Lare | Episode: "You say Goodbye, I Say Hello" |
| 2000
| Titans | Dr. Smith | Episode: "Bad Will Hunting" |
| 2001
| JAG | Amanda Litrell | Episode: "To Walk on Wings" |
Awards and nominations
| class="wikitable sortable" |
| Year
! Association ! Category ! Nominated work ! Result |
|---|
| 1970
| Performance | {{won}} |
References
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External links
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Category:American television actresses
Category:American film actresses
Category:American female models
Category:Actresses from Shreveport, Louisiana