Mia Farrow Net Worth

Mia Farrow's Quotes

• I get it now; I didn't get it then. That life is about losing and about doing it as gracefully as possible...and enjoying everything in between.
• I wondered if, after all the things I'd been through, could I really act again?
• I want a big career, a big man and a big life. You have to think big - that's the only way to get it ... I just couldn't stand being anonymous. - in 1965
• As a young actress on her slender, waifish figure, "I'm kind of 20-20-20."
• I don't like to talk about acting. I don't analyze it.

Interesting Facts about Mia Farrow

1. Daughter of John Farrow and Maureen O'Sullivan. Sister of John Charles Farrow, Prudence Farrow, Stephanie Farrow, Tisa Farrow and the late Patrick Farrow (a sculptor found dead at age 66 on 15 June 2009, after he committed suicide by gunshot at his home in Castleton, Vermont) and the late Michael Farrow (1939-1958, who was killed in a plane crash while taking flying lessons). The siblings had a paternal half-sister, Felice Farrow (1925-1997).
2. Was on the first cover of People Magazine.
3. John Lennon wrote "Dear Prudence" for her younger sister Prudence Farrow.
4. Auditoned for the role of Liesl in The Sound of Music (1965). but the part went to Carmian Carr who retired from acting after the film.
5. Hit #111 on the Billboard Hot 100 pop charts with "Lullaby from Rosemary's Baby" in August of 1968.
6. Farrow was the first U.S. actress to be accepted as a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company.
7. Her godparents were gossip columnist Louella Parsons and famed director George Cukor.
8. Mia and her family once lived in huge rent-controlled apartment building right next door to Manhattan's legendary Dakota apartment house, which starred as the devilish locale in Rosemary's Baby (1968). The Dakota is also the building where John Lennon, lived and in front of which he was shot to death. After the rent control laws were changed, she and her children moved into her Connecticut country home full time.
9. Her mother attended Roehampton Sacred Heart Catholic convent school at the same time as two years younger fellow future actress Vivien Leigh, and Leigh gave Farrow's career a push when she made her off-Broadway debut playing Cecily in a New York revival of "The Importance of Being Earnest". Leigh put out personal phone calls to make sure that agents and casting directors saw the show, as a newspaper strike had prevented publication of reviews.
10. Daughter Malone attended Bard College (Class of 2007).
11. Was one of the bridesmaids when Liza Minnelli married David Gest in a lavish ceremony on March 16, 2002.
12. Her father was born in Australia, and had English ancestry. Her mother was born in Ireland, and had Irish, as well as Scottish and English, ancestry.
13. Was the voice of the Unicorn/Amalthia in the 1982 animated version of The Last Unicorn (1982) and was at one point set to portray the Molly Grue character in a live action remake.
14. Contracted Polio at the age of nine.
15. Is portrayed by Nina Siemaszko in Sinatra (1992) and by Patsy Kensit in Love and Betrayal: The Mia Farrow Story (1995).
16. Former stepmother of Nancy Sinatra, Tina Sinatra and the late Frank Sinatra Jr.. Frank Sinatra Jr. and Nancy Sinatra were older than her.
17. Returned to the New York stage in September 2005 to appear off-Broadway in "Fran's Bed"; her performance won wide critical praise.
18. In 1992, she accused Woody Allen of molesting their adopted daughter Dylan, then aged 7. The lead doctor of Yale-New Haven Hospital Child Sexual Abuse Clinic's investigation into the allegations, Dr. John Leventhal, gave sworn testimony via a deposition that, in his opinion, Dylan either invented the story under the stress of living in a volatile and unhealthy home or that it was planted in her mind by Farrow. Dylan - who changed her name to Eliza in 1993, then changed it again in 2003 to Malone - recounted the alleged sexual assault in a series of op-ed articles beginning in 2013. Allen has never been charged. The estranged son Allen and Farrow adopted together, Moses Farrow, is a family therapist and told author Eric Lax in 2017 that Farrow had brainwashed Dylan/Eliza/Malone and coached her to make the allegations.
19. Friends with singer Carly Simon.
20. Farrow is a UNICEF Special Representative and a United Nations Goodwill Ambassador. In 2007, in the latter capacity, she toured the Central African Republic and Chad for a week each. Her goal was to bring worldwide attention to those impoverished African countries. Has been an advocate for action to stop the genocide in Darfur. She asked Steven Spielberg to quit his planned direction of the opening ceremonies for the 2008 Beijing Olympics, due to China's strong support for the Sudanese government; Mr. Spielberg did walk away from the assignment after discussing the issue with Farrow.