About Mary Badham
Mary Badham is an American actress who portrayed Jean Louise "Scout" Finch in To Kill a Mockingbird (1962), for which she was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. At the time, Badham was the youngest actress ever nominated in this category. At the time, Badham (aged 10) was the youngest actress ever nominated in this category. In 2015, she defended the release of Harper Lee's first draft of Go Set a Watchman and its portrayal of an older, more bigoted, Atticus Finch. List of oldest and youngest Academy Award winners and nominees - Best Supporting Actress, Youngest Nominees Goldrup, Tom and Jim (October 6, 2015). During filming, Badham became particularly close to actor Gregory Peck, who played Scout's father, Atticus Finch; she kept in contact with him, always calling him "Atticus," until his death in 2003.
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