The Writeup: Patricia Neal has suffered more personal setbacks in her life than any one person should be able to survive. Yet somehow she bounced back every time and got her career back in order. Patricia's Hollywood career began after she won a Tony Award for Lillian Hellman's "Another Part of the Forest" and numerous offers began coming in. She made her debut opposite Ronald Reagan in John Loves Mary (1949) and a wonderful screen career was begun. She starred opposite Gary Cooper in The Fountainhead (1949) and shortly thereafter began a much publicized affair with the married star. She starred in, among others, Bright Leaf (1950), Three Secrets (1950), The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951), and Week-End with Father (1951) before suffering a nervous breakdown after ending her relationship with Cooper. She took a long hiatus from American films to recover, and in that time married writer Roald Dahl. She returned in 1957 with A Face in the Crowd, but work was less frequent for her at this point. Her next film was Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961), but she reached a creative high point with Hud (1963), winning an Oscar. After the film she suffered another tragedy, her youngest child, Theo was hit by a cab and killed, and her youngest daughter Olivia died from the measles. She managed to bounce back from these tragedies with the film In Harm's Way (1965) and had begun work on another when she suffered a series of strokes, effectively paralyzing her and preventing her from working. She staged another comeback, this time nabbing an Oscar nomination in her return film, The Subject Was Roses (1968). She subsequently appeared in the occasional feature film, such as The Night Digger (1971), Baxter! (1973), The Passage (1979), Ghost Story (1981) and Cookie's Fortune (1999).