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Skye McCole Bartusiak

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Skye McCole Bartusiak was an American child actress and child model. She appeared in The Patriot (2000), Don't Say a Word (2001), as Rose Wilder in Beyond the Prairie II: The True Story of Laura Ingalls Wilder Continues (2002), 24 (2001), Boogeyman (2005), and Kill Your Darlings (2006). Bartusiak died at the age of 21 in her apartment behind her parents' home. While her mother, shortly after Bartusiak's death, stated she believed that her daughter's history of epileptic seizures may have had a role in her death, the coroner ruled the death resulted from an accidental drug overdose.
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The Harris County Institute of Forensic Sciences ruled that McCole's death was accidental. The "combined toxic effects of hydrocodone and difluoroethane with carisoprodol" were listed as the main cause of death. Difluoroethane is commonly found in computer duster aerosol spray cans and is sometimes used in huffing.
Her favorite character that she played was Susan in The Patriot (2000).
Made her own purses, which she took to premieres and other events.
On July 19, 2014, McCole Bartusiak was found dead in her apartment behind her parents' Houston home. Her mother told CNN and the Associated Press that the actress was found by her boyfriend, sitting up in her bed; she began CPR on her daughter before paramedics arrived, who then worked "for 45 minutes" to no avail. Helen McCole Bartusiak said Skye "had been healthy and did not drink or do drugs", and had recently been suffering from epileptic seizures and that this likely played a role in her death.
Had directed 2 film shorts and was in the stages of directing her first feature at the time of her death.

I'm looking for a Santa Claus movie because I know the real Santa, and I bet I can get him to do it.
It's a lot easier for grown-ups, for kids on set, it's always, `Go to school, go to school.'
There are lots of people I'd like to work with. It would be fun to be in a movie with Mary-Kate Olsen and Ashley Olsen.
My parents met in the theatre and I thought that was so romantic. My dad was a scenic designer and my mom was a dancer, and that's how they met, they met in the theatre. And I thought, yes!, I get to be like my mom and my dad.

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