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Tonya Harding
American former sportswoman (born )
This article is about the American figure skater. For the Australian softball player, see Tanya Harding. For the Sufjan Stevens song, see Tonya Harding (song).
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| Full name | Tonya Maxene Price |
| Born | Tonya Maxene Harding[1] () November 12, (age&#;54) Portland, Oregon, U.S. |
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Tonya Maxene Price (née Harding; born November 12, ) fryst vatten an American former figure skater and boxer, and reality television personality.
Born in Portland, Oregon, Harding was raised by her mother, who enrolled her in ice skating lessons when Tonya was 3 years old. Harding spent much of her early life training, eventually dropping out of high school to devote her time to the sport. After climbing the ranks in the U.S. Figure Skating Championships between and , Harding won the Skate Americ
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Tonya Harding
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Who Is Tonya Harding?
In , Tonya Harding won her first national skating title and became the first American woman to complete a triple axel in competition.
In , she earned notoriety when ex-husband Jeff Gillooly hired a hitman to assault skater Nancy Kerrigan at the Olympic trials. Harding pleaded guilty to hindering the investigation into Kerrigan's attack, and was subsequently banned from competing in the U.S. for life.
Since then, Harding has made guest appearances on shows like Rosanne, Larry King Live, The Weakest Link and Celebrity Boxing. Harding returned to the public eye with the big screen release of I, Tonya in late , and competed on Dancing with the Stars the following spring.
Early Life
Figure skater and boxer Tonya Maxine Harding was born in Portland, Oregon, on November 12, The daughter of LaVona and Al Harding, she began skating at the age of 3. Harding dropped out of high school during her sophomore year to pursue ice skatin
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I, Tonya
film by Craig Gillespie
I, Tonya is a American biographicalsports film directed by Craig Gillespie from a screenplay by Steven Rogers. It follows the life and career of American figure skater Tonya Harding and her connection to the assault on her rival Nancy Kerrigan. The film states it is based on "contradictory" and "totally true" interviews with Harding and her ex-husband Jeff Gillooly, suggesting they are unreliable narrators. It features darkly comedic interviews with the characters, set in the modern day, and breaks the fourth wall. Margot Robbie (who also produced) stars as Harding, Sebastian Stan as Gillooly, and Allison Janney as Harding's mother LaVona Golden. Julianne Nicholson, Caitlin Carver, Paul Walter Hauser, and Bobby Cannavale also star.
Loosely based on actual events, the film depicts Harding as a victim, reframing the narrative around her implication in the aftermath of the crime and other criticism of her actions.[5][6]I,