| Mia Farrow  AKA Maria de Lourdes Villiers-Farrow
Born: 9-Feb-1945
Birthplace: Los Angeles, CA
Gender: Female
Religion: Roman Catholic
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Actor, Victim Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Rosemary's Baby Born in Hollywood, Mia Farrow's father was screenwriter and director John Farrow, who made The Big Clock with Ray Milland and Hondo with John Wayne. Her mother was Maureen O'Sullivan, who played Jane in Tarzan the Ape Man with Johnny Weissmuller, and owned the sanitarium in the Marx Brothers' A Day at the Races.
As a child, Farrow was stricken with polio, and spent a year in an iron lung. She was educated at an English convent, and always wanted to be an actress. At 13 she made her film debut in her father's John Paul Jones with Robert Stack and Bette Davis. At 18, with her parents' connections, she bypassed the "struggling actress" period and was cast in the lead in an off-Broadway production of The Importance of Being Ernest. Mere months later she landed the role of Allison Mackenzie on the prime time soap opera Peyton Place.
At 22, Farrow shot to even high heights of fame when she married superstar Frank Sinatra. Five years younger than Sinatra's daughter Nancy, she became the butt of jokes and the topic of scandalous gossip sheet reports. Their marriage ended at about the time of Farrow's greatest film success, playing the pregnant wife of John Cassavetes and unknowing mother of Satan's spawn in Rosemary's Baby.
She spent the 1970s married to another older man, pianist André Previn, with whom she had three sons. During that decade she starred with Robert Redford in The Great Gatsby, and she was in Robert Altman's ensemble A Wedding, but her star began to dim with a few tedious disaster films, Avalanche with Rock Hudson and Hurricane with Jason Robards.
After divorcing Previn, Farrow took up with auteur Woody Allen, who cast her in many of his films, including Zelig, The Purple Rose of Cairo, Hannah and Her Sisters, and Crimes and Misdemeanors. Their relationship came to a very public end after Farrow discovered Allen's affair with her adopted daughter. In the media circus of their break-up, Farrow accused Allen of molesting their daughter Dylan; Allen denied it, and no evidence was offered beyond Farrow's say-so, but the media coverage was so intense that the girl has since changed her first name -- twice -- presumably to escape media attention.
Since ending her relationship with Allen, Farrow's roles have been less frequent and less memorable. Her best post-Allen work includes Widow's Peak with Joan Plowright, a recurring role on TV's Third Watch, and playing nanny to the Anti-Christ in the 2006 remake of The Omen. She also wrote an angry book about her years with Allen, What Falls Away, and she has done charity work with UNICEF in Africa, and tried to draw attention to the genocide in Darfur.
Farrow has 13 living children, including three fathered by Previn and three adopted during their marriage, one fathered by Allen and two adopted during their long relationship, and several more children Farrow adopted through UNICEF as a sole parent. In addition, a 14th child died of heart failure, and a 15th was adopted as a crack-addicted baby, and died in infancy.
Contrary to popular rumors, Farrow did not appear as a child in the Cold War civil defense short Duck and Cover. Farrow and her famous family did, however, appear in a filmed attack drill at their posh Hollywood home, footage of which was used in publicity for Duck and Cover.
Farrow's sister Prudence attended Maharishi Mahesh Yogi's spiritual retreat in India at the same time the Beatles were there, but she declined John Lennon's invitation to "come out and play." For her reticence, she was immortalized in the Beatles' song "Dear Prudence." Father: John Farrow (film director)
Mother: Maureen O'Sullivan (actress)
Brother: Michael Farrow (b. 1939, d. 1958 plane crash)
Brother: Joseph Farrow (b. 1943)
Brother: John Charles Farrow (b. 6-Sep-1946)
Sister: Prudence Farrow (producer, b. 1948)
Sister: Stephanie Farrow (b. 1949)
Sister: Teresa 'Tisa' Farrow (actress, b. 22-Jul-1951)
Husband: Frank Sinatra (m. 19-Jul-1966, div. 1968)
Husband: André Previn (m. 1970, div. 1978, six children)
Son: Matthew Phineas Previn (twin b. 26-Feb-1970 with Previn)
Son: Sascha Villiers Previn (twin b. 26-Feb-1970 with Previn)
Son: Fletcher Previn (b. 1974 with Previn)
Daughter: Soon-Yi Previn (adopted with Previn, later Allen's lover and eventually wife)
Daughter: Lark Song Previn (b. 1973, adopted with Previn)
Daughter: Summer Song Previn (b. 6-Oct-1974, adopted with Previn)
Daughter: Tam Farrow (b. 1979, adopted by Farrow, d. 2000 heart failure)
Boyfriend: Woody Allen (cohabited in 1980s; she was later his mother-in-law)
Son: Satchel Farrow (b. 19-Dec-1987 with Allen, his name was later changed to Seamus, then changed to Ronan)
Daughter: Dylan Farrow (b. 1985, adopted with Allen, her name was later changed to Eliza, then Malone)
Son: Moses Farrow (marriage counselor, b. 1978, adopted with Allen, he briefly went by 'Misha')
Son: Isaiah Farrow (adopted by Farrow)
Daughter: Kaeli-Shea Farrow (adopted by Farrow)
Son: Thaddeus Farrow (adopted by Farrow)
Son: Gabriel Farrow (adopted by Farrow)
UNICEF
Wedding: David Gest and Liza Minnelli (2002)
Transcendental Meditation
Risk Factors: Polio, Smoking
TELEVISION
Third Watch Mona Mitchell (2000-03)
Peyton Place Allison MacKenzie (1964-65)
FILMOGRAPHY AS ACTOR
Be Kind Rewind (20-Jan-2008)
The Ex (8-Feb-2007)
Arthur and the Invisibles (29-Nov-2006)
The Omen (6-Jun-2006)
Samantha: An American Girl Holiday (23-Nov-2004)
Purpose (21-Feb-2002)
A Girl Thing (20-Jan-2001)
Coming Soon (17-Apr-1999)
Reckless (15-Sep-1995)
Miami Rhapsody (27-Jan-1995)
Widows' Peak (13-May-1994)
Husbands and Wives (14-Sep-1992)
Shadows and Fog (30-Mar-1992)
Alice (25-Dec-1990)
Crimes and Misdemeanors (13-Oct-1989)
New York Stories (1-Mar-1989)
Another Woman (18-Nov-1988)
September (18-Dec-1987)
Radio Days (30-Jan-1987)
Hannah and Her Sisters (7-Feb-1986)
The Purple Rose of Cairo (1-Mar-1985)
Supergirl (10-Oct-1984)
Broadway Danny Rose (27-Jan-1984)
Zelig (15-Jul-1983)
The Last Unicorn (19-Nov-1982) [VOICE]
A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy (16-Jul-1982)
Hurricane (12-Apr-1979)
Death on the Nile (30-Oct-1978)
Avalanche (30-Aug-1978)
A Wedding (29-Aug-1978)
Full Circle (11-Sep-1977)
The Great Gatsby (26-Mar-1974)
Blind Terror (02-Sep-1971)
John and Mary (14-Dec-1969)
Secret Ceremony (23-Oct-1968)
Rosemary's Baby (12-Jun-1968)
A Dandy in Aspic (2-Apr-1968)
Guns at Batasi (6-Nov-1964)
John Paul Jones (16-Jun-1959)
Official Website:
http://www.miafarrow.org/
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