Sammi Kane Kraft

About

Remembered for her starring role in the 2005 version of Bad News Bears, she also excelled during her short life as an athlete and a musician. Shortly before her death, she took part in the Junior Olympics (as a baseball player) and formed a band called Scary Girls.

Before Fame

Bad News Bears, which marked Kraft's acting debut, was released when she was only thirteen years old.

Trivia

Tragically, she died at the age of twenty in an automobile accident in Los Angeles, California.

Family Life

The youngest of three children and a member of a Jewish family, she grew up in New Jersey and California.

Associated With

In the original (1976) version of Bad News Bears, actress Tatum O'Neal played Kraft's character, Amanda Whurlitzer.