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12 Facts About Prudence Farrow

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Prudence Anne Villiers Farrow Bruns was born on January 20,1948 and is an American author, meditation teacher, and film producer.

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Prudence Farrow is a daughter of film director John Farrow and actress Maureen O'Sullivan and younger sister of actress Mia Farrow.

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Prudence Farrow learned the Transcendental Meditation technique in 1966 at UCLA, and the next year became interested in yoga, opening a yoga institute at a former church in Boston.

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Prudence Farrow was dedicated to practicing the TM technique so she could become a TM teacher.

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Prudence Farrow "turned into a near recluse" and "rarely came out" of her cottage.

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Prudence Farrow taught TM for several decades after her teacher training course in India.

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Prudence Farrow returned to India for further instruction from the Maharishi in 1986 and has taught Transcendental Meditation in Florida since 1970.

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Later in her life, Prudence Farrow earned a BA, an MA, and a PhD from the University of California, Berkeley, where she majored in Asian studies.

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Prudence Farrow became an elementary school teacher and according to her resume she has held teaching positions or presented at conferences held at the University of California at Berkeley, Rutgers University and the University of Wisconsin.

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Prudence Farrow has worked in the theater and film industry as a production assistant on The Muppets Take Manhattan and the art department coordinator for The Purple Rose of Cairo.

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Prudence Farrow "conceived and co-produced" the film Widows' Peak, which featured her sister, Mia, in a part originally written for their mother, Maureen O'Sullivan.

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Prudence Farrow was known to have been in a relationship with convicted murderer Robert Durst, whom she dated for three years.