Mia Farrow is an American actress, social activist, former wife of Frank Sinatra, as well as lover, muse and favorite actress of the incomparable Woody Allen.
If you've ever watched the cult movie Rosemary's Baby, then you know this actress for sure. A bright blonde with sensual deep eyes, Mia plays the role of a young woman giving birth to Satan's child. Perhaps this is one of the brightest projects in which Mia Farrow took part.
The beginning of the biography
The real name of the actress is Maria de Lourdes Ville Farrow. She was born on February 9, 1945 in the USA, in Los Angeles. Her father, John Farrow, was a successful and well-known director, and her mother, Maureen Sullivan, was an actress. In total, the family had 7 children, besides Mia, there were three more boys and three girls.
Career
After graduating from an English boarding school, Mia returned home to become an actress. After working for several seasons at the Broadway theater, Mia instantly becomes a famous person. However, this is not at all due to her acting talent. In 1966, a girl with the appearance of a teenage boy marries the legendary Frank Sinatra.
She was 21 at the time, and he was 50. The marriage lasted only 2 years, and the divorce just coincided with the filming of Mia Farrow in the movie Rosemary's Baby. The film was directed by Roman Polanski, and it was Rosemary's Baby that became his first American project. This film is called a classic horror film. By the way, Roman Polanski shot his wife Tate Sharon in an episode of the film, and the next year after the film was released, she was killed with her unborn child.
In the 70s, Mia actively acted in films. And this is another of her successful projects: 1970 - "John and Mary", 1971-1972 - "Blind Horror" and "On the Heels", 1974 - "The Great Gatsby", 1977 - "The Circle Is Closed", 1978 - "Death on the Nile" and "The Wedding", 1979 - "Hurricane". In addition to films, Mia continues to participate in productions of the Royal Shakespeare Company.
The movie "The Great Gatsby" again arouses public interest in the actress Mia Farrow. It was very plausible that she played a spoiled representative of the American bourgeoisie, when only the "dry law" appeared, which made former bootleggers millionaires and wealth flowed like a river, and America plunged into a maelstrom of endless social parties.
Mia Farrow's personal life
In the middle of an active period of filming in films and work in the theater, Mia Farrow becomes the wife of conductor Andre Previn. Children are born in marriage. First, twins, after the birth of which the spouses move to London for permanent residence. And a little later, Andre and Mia adopt four children from Vietnam.
But a large family with 6 children suddenly broke up when Mia, while filming the film "Hurricane", allowed herself a love relationship with the Swedish cinematographer Sven Nyquist.
After parting with her husband, Mia returned to America and three years later, in 1982, she appeared in the film "Erotic Comedy on a Midsummer Night", directed by Wooly Allen, which is, in fact, an on-screen declaration of love to her muse Mia. Mia was lucky in life with unique people. In 1982, she met the most unusual character in the American film industry - director Woody Allen and became "his" actress.
It was Mia Farrow who inspired Woody Allen for many of his subsequent film masterpieces.
Life and work with Woody Allen
Filming with Woody himself was already considered a success. His films are filled with meaning, sometimes understandable only to the director himself. Nevertheless, Woody's films remained in the memory and forced to think about the plot for some time after watching. Perhaps this is due precisely to the intuitive, coming from the heart, the selection of actors.
Take, for example, the films Hannah and Her Sisters, Alice, Crimes and Misdemeanors (1986 - 1990). In them, Mia appears in the image of herself - a mother trying to survive in the external world and psychological experiences due to unpleasant events in her life.
However, despite the role of the dramatic plan in Mia's filmography, Woody Allen still managed to reveal her comedic talent, which she showed with dignity in some of her husband's films during that period.
Despite the great creative union, the couple still broke up. The reason was Woody Allen's love affair with his adopted daughter Mia. Such a beloved actress and muse could not forgive. The couple broke up, but the actress continued to act in films and productions, though other directors.
Between the 1990s and 2000s, Mia Farrow significantly reduced the number of projects and decided to focus on parenting. Nevertheless, her voice could be found in animated films: Arthur and the Miniputes (2006), Arthur and the Invisibles: The Year of the Greatest Adventures (2007), Arthur and Urdalak's Revenge (2009), Arthur and the War of Two Worlds (2010).
In total, the filmography of the actress has more than 60 films and TV films.
But in recent years, Mia Farrow has been engaged in completely different, important projects for the planet.
Mia Farrow's social and charity work
With 4 children of her own and 9 adopted children, Mia cannot remain indifferent to the problems of starving children in underdeveloped countries. Through her activities, the actress calls on to listen to the crying of children of certain territories of our planet, to open their hearts and help them survive.
In 2000, Mia Farrow became a Goodwill Ambassador to the UN. Many colleagues in the film shop support the actress and her attempts to change the world. However, it is very difficult to deal with the lack of understanding and inability to solve the problems of its people of the government in the areas of humanitarian disasters: Darfur, Angola, Congo, Haiti, Chad and Nigeria.
In 2009, Mia Farrow went on a hunger strike to protest government in Darfur, a region in western Sudan where women and children died of hunger, disease and thirst.
Awards and achievements
Mia Farrow has received several film awards and awards for her participation in socially significant projects. These are the Leon Sullivan International Award, the Lyndon Baines Johnson Moral Courage Award, and the Marion Anderson Award.
Interesting Facts
1. Farrow's older brother Michael died in a plane crash in 1958, during a lesson in airplane control.
2. Even after the divorce, Mia Farrow and Frank Sinatra remained friends - until the singer's death.
3. Three of the adopted children died at different times.
4. In February 1968, Farrow visited India to study transcendental meditation at the ashram of Maharishi Mahesh Yogi in Rishikesh, Uttarakhand.
