Amy O'Neill

Amy O'Neill is an American performer born in Pacific Palisades on July 8, 1971. The daughter of an art school director and a construction company owner, she is the third of five children. O'Neill began auditioning for roles at age ten and, accompanied by her older siblings, made her first appearance at age 13 in an episode of *Mama's Family* (1983), playing the younger version of Betty White's character. As a young teenager, she appeared in guest roles on television shows such as *Matt Houston* (1982), *Night Court* (1984), *Highway to Heaven* (1984), *The Twilight Zone* (1985), and *Family Ties* (1982), before securing a regular role on the 1986 season of the long-running soap opera *The Young and the Restless* (1973). She made her feature film debut in *Honey, I Shrunk the Kids* (1989), in which her character Amy is shrunk by her scientist father (Rick Moranis). O'Neill was nominated for a Young Artist Award for her performance but lost to Gaby Hoffmann for *Field of Dreams* (1989). She reprised her role in the sequel, *Honey, I Blew Up the Kid* (1992). Throughout the late 1980s and early 1990s, O'Neill continued to guest-star on popular television series such as *Star Trek: The Next Generation* (1987), *The Young Riders* (1989), and *Murder, She Wrote* (1984), and appeared in the biographical miniseries *I Know My First Name Is Steven* (1989). She also had roles in the made-for-TV films *White Wolves: A Cry in the Wild II* (1993) and *Attack of the 5 Ft. 2 Women* (1994), as well as the rejected comedy pilot *...Where's Rodney?* (1990).