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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.
Roy Rochlin/Getty Images While Michael Oher — the inspiration behind the film The Blind Side — deals with his drama with the Tuohys, his wife, Tiffany Roy, is his biggest support system. Oher ...
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 ...
Tuohy married his wife, Leigh Anne, in 1982 and the couple have two children together. They have one son, Sean Jr., who played guard for the Loyola Greyhounds . They reportedly adopted former NFL player Michael Oher when he was 17. [ 17 ]
"Without Mr. Oher there would have been no movie," Oher's attorneys wrote. "The Tuohys had it backward: 80% of the proceeds should have gone to (Oher) and 20% to the Tuohy family. Not the other ...
Sean Tuohy and Leigh Anne Tuohy. Dimitrios Kambouris/VF1/WireImage The Tuohy family filed new court documents revealing that Michael Oher was paid more than $138,000 for The Blind Side despite his ...
An attorney for the Tuohy family estimated last week that Sean and Leigh Anne Tuohy, their two biological children and Oher have each pocketed about $100,000 apiece from the movie so far.
The lawsuit states that the Tuohys and their two birth children were each paid $225,000, plus 2.5 per cent of the film’s “defined net proceeds” for the movie. The movie grossed more than $300m.