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Maria de Lourdes Villiers Farrow, better known as Mia Farrow (born on February 9, 1945) is an American actress.

Early life

Farrow was born in Los Angeles, California to John Farrow (an Australian film director) and the late Irish actress Maureen O'Sullivan. O'Sullivan and John Farrow were practicing Catholics, and Mia had a Catholic upbringing. Farrow was stricken with polio as a child and spent a year in an iron lung.

Farrow made her film debut in a 1947 short subject with her mother; the short was about famous mothers and their children modeling the latest fashions for families. In the 1950s, she appeared in the Cold War educational film, Duck and Cover
.

Career

Farrow screen-tested for the role of Liesl Von Trapp in The Sound of Music
. She began her acting career by appear in supporting roles in several 1960s films. Her first leading role was in the 1968 horror film, Rosemary's Baby
, which was a critical and commercial success, establishing Farrow as a leading actress. Farrow became friends with director Roman Polanski and his wife Sharon Tate while filming "Baby".

Farrow was the person on the first issue of People Magazine in 1974. Several of her subsequent films were disliked by critics (including 1972's "Follow Me!", which was given a harsh review by critic Roger Ebert ), but a number of her 1970s films were notable, including the 1971 thriller "See No Evil" and the 1974 version of The Great Gatsby, in which Farrow played "Daisy Buchanan". Farrow also appeared in a number of made for television films in the 1970s.

Farrow's relationship with director Woody Allen in the 1980s resulted in a number of film collaborations. Farrow appeared in most of Allen's critically acclaimed films during the decade and the early 1990s, including most notably Hannah and Her Sisters
(playing the title role of "Hannah"), The Purple Rose of Cairo
(in the lead role) and 1990's Alice
, again as the title character. Farrow also played Alura, mother of Kara (Helen Slater
), in the 1984 film version of Supergirl
.

During the 1990s, Farrow's notable films included Widows' Peak (an Irish film) and the 1995 film, "Miami Rhapsody", which has been described by some critics as "Woody Allen"-esque . Farrow appeared in many lower-budget and television films throughout the late 1990s and early 2000s. She has been cast in the role of "Mrs. Baylock", the Satanic nanny, in the 2006 remake of the horror film, The Omen 666
.

Relationships

Frank Sinatra

Farrow married singer Frank Sinatra on July 19 1966, when she was 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 Farrow, who did not think that Sinatra 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. Evans obliged her.

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