- Tamara De Treaux
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birthdate =21 October 1959
birthplace =California
deathdate =28 November 1990 Tamara Detro (
21 October 1959 –28 November 1990 ), known by the stage name Tamara De Treaux, was an American actress. She was 79 cm (2' 7") tall.De Treaux played ET in
Steven Spielberg 's film E. T. (1982), squatting inside the doll. She is uncredited for the performance. De Treaux was a friend of the American writerArmistead Maupin . Her diaries supplied the main influence for the heroine Cadence Roth in his novel "Maybe the Moon ". The book was described by Maupin as 'partly autobiographical', despite the main character being a femaleheterosexual Jewish dwarf . [ [http://web.archive.org/web/20060304204018/www.literarybent.com/mtm_04_behind.html Behind the scenes: THE OUTSIDER] - "San Francisco Focus Magazine] ", October 1992. Interview with Maupin about his friendship with Tamara De Treaux.] [ [http://web.archive.org/web/20060304204013/www.literarybent.com/mtm_02_about.html Reviews of "Maybe the Moon" and synopsis] ]She was a 1978 graduate of
San Leandro High School inSan Leandro, California . In 1990 she passed away at the age of 31 years due to heart failure.References
External links
* [http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C0CEEDB1E39F930A35751C1A966958260 "New York Times" obituary]
*imdb name|0211972|Tamara De Treaux
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