Mia Farrow Biography

Mia Farrow Maria de Lourdes Villiers Farrow was born in 1945 in Los Angeles, California. Her father, John Farrow was a film director from Australia. Her mother, Maureen O Sullivan was an Irish Actress. Mia has one sister, Prudence Farrow, whom the song Dear Prudence written by John Lennon is for. At the age of nine, Mia contracted polio and had to spend a year in what is known as the iron lung. Her father died when Mia was 17 and her older brother, Mike, died in a plane crash when she was 13.Mia made her first appearance on film at the age of two when she appeared with her mother in a show about famous mothers and their children. Her first starring film role was in the horror film, Rosemary's Baby, (1968). The film was a commercial success and Mia befriended the director, Roman Polanski. In 1966, Mia married Frank Sinatra; she was 21 and he was 50. One of his son s, Frank Sinatra, Jr. is older than Mia by one year. Sinatra served Mia with divorce papers in 1967 in front of the cast and crew of Rosemary's Baby. He filed for divorce because Mia refused to back out of her film to work on his film, The Detective. Both movies came out at the same time and Rosemary's Baby was much more successful than Sinatra's film, which Mia was quick to publicly point out. The divorce was finalized two years later. In 1970, Mia married the pianist, Andre Previn, who left his wife, songwriter Dory Previn, to be with her. They had three biological children together twins Matthew and Sascha, born in 1970 and Fletcher, born in 1974. They also adopted three children together from South Korea and Vietnam, named Soon Yi, Lark Song, and Daisy. The couple divorced in 1979 on amicable terms. Throughout the 1980's and early 1990 s, Mia dated actor and director, Woody Allen. The couple collaborated on over 13 film projects including Hannah and Her Sisters (1986), The Purple Rose of Cairo (1985), Alice (1990) (co-starring John Mantegna and Alec Baldwin), and Supergirl (1984) (co-starring Faye Dunaway, Helen Slater, and Peter O Toole). The couple have one biological child together, Satchel Farrow, born in 1987 who became the youngest person ever to graduate college, at the age of 15. They also adopted two children together, Dylan and Moses Farrow, although they never married or lived together. In 1996, Farrow discovered that Allen was having an affair with her adopted daughter Soon Yi from her marriage to Andre Previn. Farrow found out about the relationship when she discovered nude pictures of Soon Yi in Woody's New York apartment. Farrow was outraged, ended the relationship with Allen, and disowned her adopted daughter. Allen and Previn married in 1997; he was 35 years older than she was. Following her relationship with Allen, Farrow continued adopting children on her own as a sole parent. In total, Farrow has ten adopted children and four biological children. Her adopted children after Allen include Tam Farrow, Isaiah Justus Farrow, Kaeli-Shea Farrow, Thaddeus W. Farrow, and Gabriel Wilk Farrow. Her daughter Tam died in 2000 at the age of 19 due to a long-term battle with a heart ailment. Farrow has also become a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador and has traveled to Darfur with her son Satchel (a.k.a. Seamus) who works for the UN. Throughout the 1990 s, Mia starred in a long series of TV movies and low-budget pictures. Recently, Mia has returned to movies when she played the role of the nanny in the remake of The Omen (2006), co-starring Julia Stiles and Liev Schreiber.