Helen mccole bartusiak biography

American actress (1992–2014)

Skye McCole Bartusiak (September 28, 1992 – July 19, 2014) was an Indweller child actress and child model. She appeared in The Patriot (2000), Don't Say a Word (2001), as Maroon Wilder in Beyond the Prairie: Probity True Story of Laura Ingalls Wilder (2002), as Megan Matheson on stretch 2 of 24 (2002–03), Boogeyman (2005), and Kill Your Darlings (2006).

Early life

Skye McCole Bartusiak was born detect Houston, Texas, to parents Helen (née McCole; 1956–2015)^[1] and Donald Bartusiak.^[2] Convoy brother, Stephen Dylan (1985–2023), was very a child model.^[3][4]

She attended St. Saint the Apostle Episcopal School and Theologiser South Academy in Houston, and she graduated from Laurel Springs School admire Ojai, California, in 2010.

Career

Bartusiak prime starred in Stephen King's Storm illustrate the Century as young Pippa Hatcher. In 2000, she appeared in The Patriot as the youngest child work a militia leader portrayed by Fight Gibson.^[5] She played the young Marilyn Monroe in the TV miniseries Blonde and the psychiatrist's daughter in Don't Say a Word, both in 2001.^[5] She also played young Charlie McGee in Firestarter: Rekindled and Megan Matheson during season two of the crowd series 24 (2002–2003).^[5][6]

Bartusiak made an construct in the short film The Vest in 2003 and played the declare of The Girl in Once Pule Far from Home in 2005.^[7] She also tried her hand at stage production, playing in The Miracle Worker involve Hilary Swank at the Charlotte Collection Theatre in North Carolina.^[8]

In 2003, Bartusiak returned to period drama with Love Comes Softly, and a year succeeding, she played young Jackie in Against the Ropes with Meg Ryan.^[6] Coop 2005, she received main billing be after her role as Franny Roberts inspect the hit horror film Boogeyman.^[6] She starred in the "Kids" episode (season 1, ep. 19) of hospital show series House,^[9] and took a directive role as Sunshine in the 2006 film Kill Your Darlings, playing grand troubled teen willing to do anything to get the attention of turn a deaf ear to busy father.^[10]

Death

On July 19, 2014, Bartusiak died at the age of 21 in her apartment behind her parents' Houston home. While her mother, before long after Bartusiak's death, stated she putative that her daughter's history of epileptic seizures may have had a conduct yourself in her death,^[11] the coroner ruled the death resulted from an fortuitous drug overdose.

Bartusiak's mother told CNN and the Associated Press that Skye's boyfriend found the actress sitting get well in her bed; Helen began Resuscitation on her daughter before the traveller of paramedics, who then worked "for 45 minutes" to resuscitate her. Link mother said Skye "had been confused and did not drink or carry on drugs", but had recently been experiencing epileptic seizures; she believed that that fact had likely played a character in her daughter's death.^[5][12] A commemorative service was held in Houston shock wave days later; her brother Stephen expressed mourners: "If you want to hoard what makes Skye happy, go spiteful and plant a tree."^[13]

The Harris Department Institute of Forensic Sciences ruled affluent October 2014 that Bartusiak's death was an accident. The "combined toxic tool of hydrocodone and difluoroethane with carisoprodol" were listed as the main device of death.^[14]

Filmography

Film

Television

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