Farrah Fawcett began her career in the 1960s appearing in commercials and guest roles on television.
70 Facts About Farrah Fawcett
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Farrah Fawcett later returned as a guest star in six episodes during the show's third and fourth seasons.
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In 1983, Farrah Fawcett received positive reviews for her performance in the Off-Broadway play Extremities.
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Farrah Fawcett was cast in the 1986 film version and received a Golden Globe nomination.
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Farrah Fawcett received Emmy Award nominations for her role as a battered wife in The Burning Bed and for her portrayal of real-life murderer Diane Downs in Small Sacrifices.
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The 2009 NBC documentary Farrah Fawcett's Story chronicled her battle with the disease.
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Farrah Fawcett posthumously earned her fourth Emmy nomination for her work as a producer on Farrah's Story.
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Farrah Fawcett was born on February 2,1947, in Corpus Christi, Texas, and was the younger of two daughters.
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Farrah Fawcett's mother, Pauline Alice Fawcett, was a homemaker and her father, James William Fawcett, was an oil field contractor.
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Farrah Fawcett's older sister, Diane Fawcett Walls, was a graphic artist.
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Farrah Fawcett was of Irish, French, English and Choctaw Native American ancestry.
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Farrah Fawcett graduated from W B Ray High School in Corpus Christi, where she was voted "most beautiful" by her classmates in her freshman, sophomore, junior, and senior years of high school.
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Farrah Fawcett's photos were sent to various agencies in Hollywood.
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Farrah Fawcett turned him down, but he continued for the next two years.
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Finally, in the summer of 1968, Farrah Fawcett moved to Los Angeles, initially staying at the Hollywood Studio Club, with her parents' permission to "try her luck" in the entertainment industry.
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When Farrah Fawcett arrived in Hollywood at age 21 in 1968, Screen Gems signed her to a $350-a-week contract.
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Farrah Fawcett began to appear in commercials for such products as Ultra Brite toothpaste, Noxzema skin cream, Max Factor cosmetics, Mercury Cougar automobiles, and Beautyrest mattresses, among others.
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Farrah Fawcett's earliest acting appearances were guest spots on The Flying Nun and I Dream of Jeannie.
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Farrah Fawcett had a sizable part in the 1969 French romantic-drama Love Is a Funny Thing.
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Farrah Fawcett played the role of Mary Ann Pringle in Myra Breckinridge.
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Farrah Fawcett selected her six favorite pictures from 40 rolls of film, and the choice was eventually narrowed to the one that made her famous.
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Farrah Fawcett earned a supporting role in Michael Anderson's science-fiction film Logan's Run with Michael York.
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Each of the three actresses was propelled to stardom, but Farrah Fawcett dominated popularity polls.
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Farrah Fawcett subsequently won a People's Choice Award for Favorite Performer in a New TV Program.
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In 1980, Farrah Fawcett starred with Kirk Douglas in Stanley Donen's science-fiction film Saturn 3; the film earned unfavorable reviews from critics and experienced poor box office sales.
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In 1983, Farrah Fawcett won critical acclaim for her role in the Off-Broadway stage production of the controversial play Extremities, written by William Mastrosimone.
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Farrah Fawcett described the role as "the most grueling, the most intense, the most physically demanding and emotionally exhausting" of her career.
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In 1986, Farrah Fawcett appeared in the movie version of Extremities, which performed well financially.
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Farrah Fawcett appeared in Jon Avnet's Between Two Women with Colleen Dewhurst, and took several more dramatic roles as either infamous or renowned women.
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Farrah Fawcett was nominated for Golden Globe awards for roles as Beate Klarsfeld in Nazi Hunter: The Beate Klarsfeld Story and troubled Woolworth heiress Barbara Hutton in Poor Little Rich Girl: The Barbara Hutton Story, and won a CableACE Award for her 1989 portrayal of groundbreaking LIFE magazine photojournalist Margaret Bourke-White in Double Exposure: The Story of Margaret Bourke-White.
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Farrah Fawcett caused a major stir by posing semi-nude in the December 1995 issue of Playboy.
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The issue and its accompanying video featured Farrah Fawcett actually using her own body to paint on canvas; for years, this had been one of her ambitions.
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On June 5,1997, Farrah Fawcett received negative commentary after she gave a rambling interview and appeared distracted on Late Show with David Letterman.
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Farrah Fawcett explained that what appeared to be random looks across the theater was just her looking and reacting to fans in the audience.
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That same year, Robert Duvall chose Farrah Fawcett to play the role of his wife in The Apostle, which was an independent feature film that he was producing.
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Farrah Fawcett received an Independent Spirit Award nomination for Best Supporting Female for the film.
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Ciccone mentioned Farrah Fawcett inviting him to view her abstract paintings and sculptures in his book, Life with My Sister Madonna.
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In November 2003, Farrah Fawcett prepared for her Broadway debut in a production of Bobbi Boland, the tragicomic tale of a former Miss Florida.
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Farrah Fawcett was described as "vibrating with frustration" at the producer's extraordinary decision to cancel the production; just days earlier, the same producer closed an Off-Broadway show she had been backing.
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Farrah Fawcett continued to work in television and appeared in the made-for-television movies and on popular television series that included Ally McBeal, four episodes of Spin City, and four episodes of The Guardian.
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Farrah Fawcett was married to Majors from 1973 to 1982, although the couple separated in 1979.
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In 1979, Farrah Fawcett became romantically involved with actor Ryan O'Neal, and they had a son named Redmond James Farrah Fawcett O'Neal, who was born in 1985.
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In 1994, Farrah Fawcett told TV Guide that their relationship had some troubles.
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Farrah Fawcett ended the relationship after she caught him in bed with actress Leslie Stefanson in 1997.
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From 1997 to 1998, Farrah Fawcett was in a relationship with Canadian filmmaker James Orr, who was the writer and producer of Man of the House, the Disney feature film in which she co-starred with Chevy Chase and Jonathan Taylor Thomas.
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Farrah Fawcett dated Longhorn football star Greg Lott while they were undergrads at the University of Texas.
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Farrah Fawcett claimed Ryan O'Neal kept him from seeing Fawcett in her final days.
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In Farrah Fawcett's living trust she left nothing for O'Neal, but she left $100,000 for Lott.
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The fifth episode of her 2005 Chasing Farrah Fawcett series followed the actress home to Texas to visit her father, James, and mother, Pauline.
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Pauline Farrah Fawcett died on March 4,2005, at the age of 91.
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Farrah Fawcett's only child, Redmond James Farrah Fawcett-O'Neal, was fathered by Ryan O'Neal and was born on January 30,1985.
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Farrah Fawcett has struggled with drug addiction for most of his adult life.
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Farrah Fawcett's trial was put on hold and he was transferred to a state mental hospital with a maximum commitment date until October 4,2021.
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Four months later, on February 2,2007, her 60th birthday, the Associated Press reported that Farrah Fawcett was at that point cancer-free.
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In May 2007, Farrah Fawcett experienced a recurrence and was diagnosed with stage IV cancer that had metastasized to her liver ; a malignant polyp was found where she had been treated for the initial cancer.
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In early April 2009, Farrah Fawcett was back in the United States and hospitalized.
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Farrah Fawcett was interred at the Westwood Village Memorial Park in Los Angeles, next to Rodney Dangerfield.
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Farrah Fawcett did not name long-time lover Ryan O'Neal in her living trust, which she amended in 2007.
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Farrah Fawcett left $500,000 to her nephew, Gregory Walls; $500,000 to her father, James Fawcett; and $100,000 to her college boyfriend Gregory Lott.
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Farrah Fawcett left all of her artwork to the University of Texas.
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Lott maintained that Farrah Fawcett never gave up ownership of the portrait and that it was her wish to bequeath all her artwork to her alma mater.
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News of Farrah Fawcett's death was largely overshadowed by media coverage of the death of music icon Michael Jackson, which occurred twelve hours later on the same day.
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The documentary Farrah Fawcett's Story re-aired on the Oxygen Network and MSNBC.
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Farrah Fawcett was a major TV star when the medium was clearly dominant.
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Farrah Fawcett was a selfless person who loved her family and friends with all her heart, and what a big heart it was.
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Farrah Fawcett showed immense courage and grace throughout her illness and was an inspiration to those around her.
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Friends and colleagues of Farrah Fawcett, including Ryan and Tatum O'Neal, Jane Fonda and film critic Roger Ebert, publicly expressed their outrage at the oversight.
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AMPAS executive director Bruce Davis noted that Farrah Fawcett had been recognized for her "remarkable television work" at the 61st Primetime Emmy Awards in September 2009.
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Weatherly and Farrah Fawcett chatted briefly and she told him she was going to visit her mother and was taking "the midnight plane to Houston".
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Farrah Fawcett later loaned the portraits to The Andy Warhol Museum.