Maria de Lourdes Villiers "Mia" Farrow is an American actress.
108 Facts About Mia Farrow
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Mia Farrow first gained notice for her role as Allison MacKenzie in the television soap opera Peyton Place and gained further recognition for her subsequent short-lived marriage to Frank Sinatra.
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Mia Farrow received numerous critical accolades for her performances in several Allen films, including Golden Globe Award nominations for Broadway Danny Rose, The Purple Rose of Cairo, and Alice, and a BAFTA nomination for Hannah and Her Sisters.
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Since the 2000s, Mia Farrow has made occasional appearances on television, including a recurring role on Third Watch.
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Mia Farrow has had supporting parts in such films as The Omen, Be Kind Rewind, and Dark Horse.
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Mia Farrow is known for her extensive work as a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador.
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Mia Farrow is involved in humanitarian activities in Darfur, Chad, and the Central African Republic.
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Maria de Lourdes Villiers Mia Farrow was born February 9,1945, in Los Angeles, California, the third child and eldest daughter of Australian film director John Mia Farrow and his second wife, the Irish actress Maureen O'Sullivan.
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Mia Farrow is one of seven children, with older brothers Michael Damien, Patrick younger brother John Charles; and younger sisters Prudence, Stephanie, and Tisa.
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Mia Farrow's godparents were director George Cukor and columnist Louella Parsons.
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Mia Farrow was raised in Beverly Hills, California, in a strict Catholic household.
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Mia Farrow was described by her family as an eccentric and imaginative child, and would occasionally put on performances with "toy daggers and fake blood" for passing celebrity tour buses.
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Mia Farrow attended Catholic parochial schools in Los Angeles for her primary education.
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When Mia Farrow was 16, she returned with her family to the United States and continued her education at an all-girls Catholic school in Los Angeles, Marymount High School.
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Mia Farrow's father remained in California, where he died the following year of a heart attack, when she was 17 years old.
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The family was left with little money after her father's death, prompting Mia Farrow to begin working to help support herself and her siblings.
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Mia Farrow began in theatre as a replacement in a New York stage production of The Importance of Being Earnest.
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Mia Farrow screen-tested for the role of Liesl von Trapp in The Sound of Music, but did not get the part.
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Mia Farrow began her acting career in movies by appearing in supporting roles in several 1960s films, making her first credited appearance in Guns at Batasi.
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Mia Farrow left the series in 1966 at the urging of Frank Sinatra, whom she married on July 19,1966 when she was 21 and he was 50 years old.
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Mia Farrow's first leading film role was in the psychological horror film Rosemary's Baby, which was a critical and commercial success.
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Wallis refused; Mia Farrow quit the role, which was then given to Kim Darby.
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Mia Farrow earned a Golden Globe nomination for Best Actress in a Comedy or Musical.
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Mia Farrow made history as the first American actress to join the Royal Shakespeare Company.
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Mia Farrow was cast as Daisy Buchanan in the 1974 Paramount Pictures film adaptation of The Great Gatsby, directed by Jack Clayton.
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Mia Farrow again appeared at the Aldwych in the 1976 production of Ivanov, portraying Sasha.
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Mia Farrow appeared onscreen, portraying Peter Pan in the television musical film Peter Pan, and as a woman haunted by the ghost of a deceased girl in the horror film Full Circle.
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Mia Farrow had a supporting role in Robert Altman's comedy A Wedding, playing the mute daughter of a trucking company tycoon.
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In 1979, Mia Farrow appeared on Broadway opposite Anthony Perkins in the play Romantic Comedy by Bernard Slade, and in the romance film Hurricane, opposite Jason Robards.
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Mia Farrow next appeared in Allen's Zelig, portraying a psychiatrist whose patient, Leonard Zelig, takes on characteristics of those around him in an effort to be liked.
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In Broadway Danny Rose, Mia Farrow starred as the mistress of a washed-up lounge musician who becomes involved with the mob.
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Mia Farrow gained weight for the role and adopted a thick Italian-American accent; Allen biographer John Bailey described her as "unrecognizable" in the role.
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Mia Farrow gained critical notice for this role, and she was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Comedy or Musical.
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Mia Farrow voiced the title role in the animated film The Last Unicorn.
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Mia Farrow reunited with Allen for his The Purple Rose of Cairo, which follows a film character who emerges from the screen and enters the real world.
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Mia Farrow earned a BAFTA nomination for Best Actress and a Golden Globe nomination for Best Actress in a Comedy or Musical.
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Mia Farrow earned her third BAFTA nomination, again in the category of Best Leading Actress.
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In 1987, Mia Farrow appeared in two films directed by Allen: the comedy Radio Days, in which she had a supporting role as an aspiring radio star; and the drama September, in which she played a woman haunted by her killing of her mother's abusive lover.
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Mia Farrow shot the latter film twice, originally with her own mother Maureen O'Sullivan playing her character's mother in the film.
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Mia Farrow was cast opposite Gena Rowlands in Allen's drama Another Woman, which follows a philosophy professor who becomes acquainted with a troubled woman undergoing an existential crisis.
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Mia Farrow appeared in a supporting role in his film Crimes and Misdemeanors, portraying a producer who falls in love with a documentary filmmaker.
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Mia Farrow was next cast by Allen in his fantasy film Alice, marking the couple's 11th collaboration.
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The next year, Mia Farrow appeared as a circus performer in Allen's black-and-white comedy Shadows and Fog.
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Mia Farrow had a lead role in Allen's drama Husbands and Wives, in which she portrayed the wife of a writer and professor having an affair with one of his students.
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Mia Farrow appeared in the comedy Miami Rhapsody, playing the mother of a single woman in her thirties.
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That year Mia Farrow had a lead role in the film adaptation of Craig Lucas' Off-Broadway play Reckless, a dark comedy in which she portrayed a woman whose husband arranges a contract killing against her.
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Mia Farrow is so perfectly cast as Rachel that the character seems a distillation of nearly every role she has played since she was a teen-ager in Peyton Place.
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Mia Farrow had a cameo appearance as herself in Howard Stern's biographical comedy, Private Parts.
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Mia Farrow appeared on television in the 1998 The Wonderful World of Disney segment Miracle at Midnight, a dramatization of the Rescue of the Danish Jews during the Holocaust.
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Also in 1999, Mia Farrow appeared in the comedy Coming Soon, playing the hippie mother of a high school student.
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Mia Farrow began with a recurring role on the series Third Watch, in which she guest-starred in five episodes between 2000 and 2003.
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Mia Farrow appeared in the 2001 LGBT-themed television film A Girl Thing, opposite Kate Capshaw and Stockard Channing, followed by a lead in the Lifetime film The Secret Life of Zoey in 2002.
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Mia Farrow appeared in a touring stage production of The Exonerated the same year, followed by the lead in Fran's Bed, staged at Connecticut's Long Wharf Theatre in the fall of 2003.
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Mia Farrow subsequently had a supporting part in the children's television film Samantha: An American Girl Holiday.
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Mia Farrow made her first feature film appearance in several years as Mrs Baylock, a Satanic nanny, in the remake of The Omen.
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Mia Farrow [is] chillingly believable as a sweet-talking nanny from hell.
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Mia Farrow subsequently appeared as the mother of a Manhattan attorney in the romantic comedy The Ex, starring opposite Jason Bateman and Zach Braff.
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Mia Farrow next voiced Daisy Suchot in Luc Besson's animated fantasy film Arthur and the Invisibles.
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Mia Farrow provided voice narration for the documentary film As We Forgive, which recounts the stories of two Rwandan women who confronted the individuals who murdered their families during the Rwandan genocide.
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In 2009, Mia Farrow reprised her voice role as Daisy Suchot in Arthur and the Revenge of Maltazard, and again for Arthur 3: The War of the Two Worlds.
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Mia Farrow was cast in a supporting role in the comedy-drama Dark Horse, directed by Todd Solondz, in which she played the mother of a stunted 35-year-old man.
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In September 2014, Mia Farrow returned to Broadway in the play Love Letters.
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In 2022 Mia Farrow appeared in Ryan Murphy's Netflix series The Watcher.
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Mia Farrow became a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador in 2000 and is a high-profile advocate for human rights in Africa, particularly for children's rights.
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Mia Farrow has worked to raise funds and awareness for children in conflict-affected regions and to draw attention to the fight to eradicate polio.
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Mia Farrow has received several awards for her humanitarian work including the Leon Sullivan International Service award, the Lyndon Baines Johnson Moral Courage Award and the Marion Anderson Award.
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Mia Farrow has traveled to Darfur several times for humanitarian efforts, first in 2004.
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Later in 2007, Mia Farrow offered to "trade her freedom" for the freedom of a humanitarian worker for the Sudan Liberation Army who was being treated in a UN hospital while under threat of arrest.
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Mia Farrow wanted to be taken captive in exchange for his being allowed to leave the country.
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Mia Farrow is a board member of the Washington, DC based non-profit Darfur Women Action Group.
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In 2009, Mia Farrow narrated a documentary, As We Forgive, relating the struggle of many of the survivors of the Rwandan genocide to forgive those who murdered family and friends.
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Mia Farrow's goal was to fast for three weeks, but she called a halt after twelve days on the advice of her doctor.
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Mia Farrow helped build The Darfur Archives, which document the cultural traditions of the tribes of Darfur.
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Mia Farrow has filmed some 40 hours of songs, dances, children's stories, farming methods and accounts of genocide in the region's refugee camps that make up the current archives.
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In 2013, Mia Farrow criticized President Barack Obama for his lack of address regarding Sudanese genocide during a United Nations General Assembly.
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In February 2015, Mia Farrow appeared in an episode of A Path Appears, a PBS documentary series from the creators of the Half the Sky movement.
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Mia Farrow has participated in environmental activism, in 2014 protesting against Chevron, accusing the oil company of environmental damage in the South American rainforest.
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Mia Farrow's visit received worldwide media attention at the time because of the presence of all four members of the Beatles, Donovan, Mike Love, and her sister, Prudence Farrow.
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Mia Farrow has stated that she has long been a registered Independent, though she has consistently voted for Democratic candidates.
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Mia Farrow tweeted in support of Joe Biden during the 2020 Democratic Party presidential primaries, but later added that she would vote for Sanders if he was nominated.
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Sinatra wanted Mia Farrow to give up her acting career, which she initially agreed to do.
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Mia Farrow accompanied Sinatra while he was shooting several films, but soon grew tired of doing nothing and signed on to star in Roman Polanski's horror film Rosemary's Baby.
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In November 1967, while Mia Farrow was filming Rosemary's Baby, Sinatra's lawyer served her with divorce papers.
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Mia Farrow later blamed the demise of the marriage on their age difference and said she was an "impossibly immature teenager" when she married Sinatra.
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On September 10,1970, Mia Farrow married conductor and composer Andre Previn in London.
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Mia Farrow had begun a relationship with Previn while he was still married to his second wife, songwriter Dory Previn.
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When Mia Farrow became pregnant, Previn left Dory and filed for divorce.
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Mia Farrow gave birth to twin sons in February 1970, and Previn's divorce from Dory became final in July 1970.
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In 1980, Mia Farrow began a relationship with film director Woody Allen.
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When Mia Farrow asked Dylan about the alleged incident, Dylan responded that Allen had touched her "private part" while the two were alone in the attic of the home.
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One of the women employed to care for Mia Farrow's children claimed that for around 20 minutes that afternoon she had not known where Dylan was, while a second said that, at one point, she noticed Dylan had been wearing no underwear beneath her dress.
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Mia Farrow reported the incident to the family's pediatrician, who in turn reported the allegations to authorities.
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Mia Farrow acted upon a desire for revenge against him for seducing Soon-Yi.
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Soon Yi Previn and Moses Mia Farrow have defended Allen against the abuse allegations.
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In 2013, Moses Farrow publicly asserted that Mia had coached her children into believing stories she made up about Allen.
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Mia Farrow gave me a piercing look that stopped me in my tracks and asked if I had taken it, as she had been looking for it all day.
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Mia Farrow told me I was lying and directed me to tell my brothers and sisters that I had taken the tape measure.
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Mia Farrow would walk into the room and I would tell her I was sorry for taking the tape measure, that I had taken it to play with and that I would never do it again.
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Mia Farrow made me rehearse it at least a half-dozen times.
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Mia Farrow insisted that I had closed them and left them that way.
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Mia Farrow had stripped me of my voice and my sense of self.
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In later years Mia Farrow did not bring dates or significant others into her home due to trust issues which arose after her relationship with Allen.
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In 1980, following her divorce from Previn, Mia Farrow adopted Moses Mia Farrow, a two-year-old Korean orphan with cerebral palsy.
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Tam Mia Farrow died of heart failure in 2000 at the age of 21.
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In May 2018, Moses Mia Farrow made claims on his personal blog that Tam had actually died from a prescription medication overdose following a lifelong battle with depression.
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In 2021, Mia Farrow confirmed Moses' claim that Tam had died after an overdose of a prescription medication.
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On September 21,2016, Thaddeus Mia Farrow was found dead at the age of 27 after an apparent car crash in Connecticut, though it was ruled he had committed suicide by shooting himself in the torso while inside his car.
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Mia Farrow has six biological granddaughters from her and Previn's sons.