Profile of Mia Farrow on Famous Like Me

Mia Farrow (born on February 9, 1945 in Los Angeles, California) is an Irish-American actress. Farrow was christened Maria de Lourdes Villiers Farrow but has always been known as Mia. She is the daughter of the late Australian-born director John Farrow and his wife, the late Irish-born actress Maureen O'Sullivan.

Personal

Mia Farrow was stricken with polio as a youngster and spent a year in an iron lung.

Farrow married Frank Sinatra on July 19, 1966, when she was only 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 Mia, who did not think Frank 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.

When Rosemary's Baby was released around the same time as The Detective and widely outgrossed it at the box office, Farrow asked producer Robert Evans to run an ad touting the fact as a way of getting back at Sinatra. He obliged her.

Farrow married André Previn in 1970. They had three biological children (twins Matthew and Sascha, born in 1970; and Fletcher, born in 1974) together and adopted three children from Korea, Soon-Yi, Lark Song, and Daisy. André and Mia divorced in 1979, but remained on good terms.

Next, Farrow lived with but did not marry Woody Allen, and by him had one biological son, Satchel (born in 1987, and is now called Seamus Farrow). They also adopted a son and daughter together. They separated after Allen began a relationship with Farrow's adopted daughter Soon-Yi (whom he later married). After their separation, Farrow accused Allen of child molestation on a U.S.-televised interview. She claimed to having witnessed Allen abusing one of their youngest adopted children.

Farrow continued to adopt children as a sole parent, is active in agencies that encourage adoptions and is a UNICEF Special Representative. By 1994, Farrow had 14 children, 9 of them adopted: 6 from her marriage with André Previn (3 adopted) and 3 from her time with Woody Allen (2 adopted).

Farrow's adopted daughter Tam Farrow died at age 19 in March 2000 after a long illness, and she is estranged from Soon-Yi Previn whom she no longer wants to see, so she now has 12 children.

Trivia

• Farrow made her film debut in a 1947 short subject with her famous mother. The short was about famous mothers and their children modeling the latest fashions for families.
• Screen-tested for the role of Liesel Von Trapp in The Sound of Music.
• Appeared in the Cold War educational film, Duck and Cover
• Farrow became friends with Roman Polanski and his wife Sharon Tate while filming Rosemary's Baby.
• Woody Allen had an affair with Mia's adopted daughter Soon-Yi, and Mia accused him of molesting one of her other children. Woody is now married to Soon-Yi, and has adopted two children with her.
• Farrow was the person on the first issue of People Magazine, in 1974.
• Farrow's son Seamus was enrolled at Simon's Rock College at 11 years of age. He has not spoken to or seen his father since he was 7, and is said to have a phobia of him. He reportedly does not see him as his father, just as a man who had an affair with his sister. Seamus graduated from Bard College in 2004.
• Mia's sister, Prudence, became the subject of the Beatles song "Dear Prudence".

Filmography

• Unusual Occupations: Film Tot Holiday (1947) (short subject)
• John Paul Jones (1959)
• Guns at Batasi (1964)
• Mia and Roman (1968) (short subject)
• A Dandy in Aspic (1968)
• Rosemary's Baby (1968)
• Secret Ceremony (1968)
• John and Mary (1969)
• Blind Terror (1971)
• Follow Me! (1972)
• Dr. Popaul (1972)
• The Great Gatsby (1974)
• Full Circle (1977)
• A Wedding (1978)
• Avalanche (1978)
• Death on the Nile (1978)
• Hurricane (1979)
• A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy (1982)
• The Last Unicorn (1982) (voice)
• Zelig (1983)
• Broadway Danny Rose (1984)
• Supergirl (1984)
• The Purple Rose of Cairo (1985)
• Hannah and Her Sisters (1986)
• Radio Days (1987)
• September (1987)
• Another Woman (1988)
• New York Stories (1989)
• Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989)
• Alice (1990)
• Shadows and Fog (1992)
• Husbands and Wives (1992)
• Widows' Peak (1994)
• Miami Rhapsody (1995)
• Reckless (1995)
• Angela Mooney (1996)
• Redux Riding Hood (1997) (voice) (short subject)
• Private Parts (1997) (Cameo)
• Junket Whore (1998) (documentary)
• Coming Soon (1999)
• Purpose (2002)
• Arthur and the Minimoys (2006) (voice) (currently filming)
• The Last Unicorn (2006) (voice) (currently in pre-production)

TV Work

• Peyton Place (cast member from 1964-1966)
• Johnny Belinda (1967)
• Goodbye, Raggedy Ann (1971)
• Peter Pan (1976)
• Miracle at Midnight (1998)
• Forget Me Never (1999)
• A Girl Thing (2001) (miniseries)
• The Secret Life of Zoey (2002)
• Samantha: An American Girl Holiday (2004)

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