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| Birth Name(s) : Maria de Lourdes Villiers Farrow |
Date of Birth: February 9, 1945 |
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| Mia Farrow is the daughter of the director John Farrow (I) and the actress and Tarzan-girl Maureen O'Sullivan. She debuted at the movies in 1959 in very small roles. She was noticed for the first time in the film Rosemary's Baby (1968) by Roman Polanski. She showed her talent also on TV and at the theatre but her final breakthrough was when she met Woody Allen and became his Muse after the film Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy, A (1982). After that Woody Allen wrote many other roles for her. |
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Additional Mia Farrow Biography
Mia Farrow (born Maria de Lourdes Villiers-Farrow on February 9, 1945) is an American actress. Farrow has appeared in more than forty films and won numerous awards, including a Golden Globe award (and seven additional Golden Globe nominations), three BAFTA Film Award nominations, and a win for best actress at the San Sebastian International Film Festival. Farrow is also notable for her extensive humanitarian work as a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador. Her latest effort is www.miafarrow.org containing a guide on how to get involved with Darfur activism, along with her photos and blog entries from Darfur, Chad, and the Central African Republic.
Farrow's performance in Rosemary's Baby garnered numerous awards and established her as a leading actress. Film critic and author Stephen Farber described her performance as having an "electrifying impact… one of the rare instances of actor and character achieving a miraculous, almost mythical match. If Ira Levin's story shrewdly taps into every pregnant woman's fears about the stranger growing inside her, Mia Farrow gives those fears an achingly real and human force". Film critic Roger Ebert noted that "the brilliance of the film comes more from Polanski's direction, and from a series of genuinely inspired performances… The characters emerge as human beings actually doing these things. A great deal of the credit for this achievement must go to Mia Farrow, as Rosemary". Following Rosemary's Baby, Farrow starred in Secret Ceremony, opposite Elizabeth Taylor. The film divided critics, but has gone on to develop a devoted following. Farrow's other late '60s films include John and Mary, opposite Dustin Hoffman.
Farrow most recently appeared as "Mrs. Baylock", the Satanic nanny, in the 2006 remake of The Omen. Though the film itself received a lukewarm critical reception, Farrow's performance was widely praised, with the Associated Press declaring "thank heaven for Mia Farrow" and calling her performance "a rare instance of the new Omen improving on the old one." Filmcritic.com added "it is Farrow who steals the show," and the Seattle Post-Intelligencer described her performance as "a truly delicious comeback role for Rosemary herself, Mia Farrow, who is chillingly believable as a sweet-talking nanny from hell."
Farrow has been a high profile advocate for children's rights, working to raise funds and awareness for children in conflict affected regions, predominantly in Africa. She is a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador and has worked extensively to draw attention to the fight to eradicate polio, which she survived as a child. She has traveled to Darfur three times to advocate for Darfuri refuges. She traveled there, in November 2004 and June 2006, joining her son Ronan Farrow, who has also worked for UNICEF in Sudan. Her third trip was as part of a documentary film expidition in 2007. Farrow's photographs of Darfur appeared in People magazine in July 2006 and she authored an article on the crisis, published in the Chicago Tribune on July 25, 2006. On February 5, 2007, Farrow authored an editorial for the Los Angeles Times.. On August 7, 2007, Farrow offered to "trade her freedom" for the freedom of a rebel leader, being treated in a UN hospital but afraid to leave. She wanted to be taken captive in exchange for him being allowed to leave the country.
Her latest effort is www.miafarrow.org, containing a guide on how to get involved with Darfur activism, along with her photos and blog entries from Darfur, Chad, and the Central African Republic.
In 1968, Farrow famously traveled to India, where she spent the early part of the year at the ashram of the Maharishi in Rishikesh, Uttarakhand, studying transcendental meditation. The visit gained worldwide media attention due to the presence of all four Beatles, Donovan, Mike Love (the Beach Boys lead singer), Prudence Farrow (Mia's younger sister who inspired John Lennon to write Dear Prudence), and Mia Farrow.
Farrow married singer Frank Sinatra on July 19, 1966, when she was 21 and he was 50. While she was filming Rosemary's Baby with director Roman Polanski, Sinatra served her divorce papers in front of the cast and crew. The move came as a shock to Farrow, who did not think that Sinatra would divorce her because she had refused his prior demand that she quit filming in order to work on his movie The Detective. The split was finalized two years later. Farrow married German-American Jewish pianist André Previn in 1970. His former wife, songwriter Dory Previn, blamed Farrow for his leaving her and wrote a scathing attack in a song entitled "Beware of Young Girls". Farrow and Previn had three biological children (twins Matthew and Sascha, born in 1970; and Fletcher, born in 1974) together and adopted three children, one from Korea, the other two from Vietnam, Soon-Yi, Lark Song, and Daisy. André and Mia divorced in 1979, but they remained on good terms. Fletcher Previn appears in one of Farrow's Woody Allen films, Radio Days; Fletcher plays with the children in a scene set on a roof-top.
Adopted
- Soon-Yi Previn, (born in South Korea 8 Oct 1970, adopted c. 1978 )
- Lark Song Previn, (born in Vietnam 1973, adopted 1973)
- Summer Song Previn (also known as Daisy), (born in Vietnam c. 1975, adopted 1976)
Adopted
- Moses Amadeus Farrow (also known as Misha Farrow) (1978, adopted 1980)
- Dylan O'Sullivan Farrow (also known as Eliza Farrow, current name is Malone) |
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| I get it now; I didn't get it then. That life is about losing and about doing it as gracefully as possible...and enjoying everything in between. |
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