This article was originally published on Lizanest.com

From surfboards and sitcom habits to union halls and Oscar stages, her life has unfolded in chapters that rarely stayed predictable for long. She was a teenage television star before she was twenty, a tabloid fixture in the late 1970s, and a two-time Academy Award winner before forty. Along the way came marriages, breakups, motherhood, reinvention, public scrutiny, and deeply personal revelations. What follows is a strictly chronological look at her life — the milestones, the turbulence, the triumphs, and the legacy still unfolding today.
