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She was guardian and supposed adopted mother of the football player Michael Oher. Their story was featured in the 2006 book The Blind Side: Evolution of a Game and its 2009 feature film adaptation The Blind Side. [1] In the film, Tuohy was portrayed by Sandra Bullock, who won an Academy Award and a Golden Globe Award for her performance.
Michael Jerome Oher (/ ɔː r /; né Williams Jr.; [1] born May 28, 1986) is an American former professional football tackle who played in the National Football League (NFL) for eight seasons. He played college football at the University of Mississippi , where he earned unanimous All-American honors as a senior, and was selected by the ...
Michael Oher. Ned Dishman/Getty Images Before Michael Oher learned he wasn’t actually adopted by Leigh Anne and Sean Tuohy, he shared a close bond with his supposed family. Oher was taken in by ...
Michael Oher is speaking out about his former foster family, the Tuohys, in his first interview since filing a lawsuit against them last year and dissolving his conservatorship. The NFL star’s ...
Michael’s career, The Blind Side and family fame Michael played for Ole Miss – the Tuohys’ alma mater – from 2005 to 2008 and was recognised as a unanimous all-American, graduating in 2009 ...
Michael Oher previously addressed his conservatorship with the Tuohy family in his own 2011 memoir, I Beat The Odds: From Homelessness, to The Blind Side, and Beyond. A passage from the book has ...
The story of Michael Oher, the retired NFL star who was supposedly adopted by a wealthy white family who lifted him out of poverty, was immortalized in the 2009 blockbuster film “The Blind Side.”
Even as a child, I found the depiction of Michael Oher’s story to be incredibly uncomfortable