Mia Farrow Trivia | 50 facts about the actress

Mia Farrow is an American actress known for her film role, as Rosemary in Roman Polanski’s «Rosemary’s Baby».

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1. Mia Farrow wrote “Dear Prudence” for her younger sister Prudence Farrow.
2. When Farrow first met husband-to-be Frank Sinatra in 1964, she was 19 and he 48, a fact that prompted Dean Martin to quip that he owned a bottle of Scotch older than Farrow.
3. After André Previn left his second wife Dory Previn for Farrow in 1968, Dory wrote the song “Beware of Young Girls” in response.
4. Her first husband Frank Sinatra had intended for her to star opposite him in his film The Detective (1968). Her film Rosemaries Baby (1968) was running over schedule and so she refused his offer. Jacqueline Bisset was cast in the role instead and Sinatra’s lawyer served Farrow divorce papers on the set of Rosemaries Baby (1968).
5. Was on the first cover of People Magazine.
6. Farrow was the first U.S. actress to be accepted as a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company.
7. Daughter Lark Previn contracted HIV in her 20s, claiming she caught it from a dirty needle at a tattoo parlor. Both of Lark’s children, Sara and Christine, were born with the virus. Margaret Roach is Lark’s godmother. Lark died on December 25, 2008, aged 35.
8. Turned down the role of Mattie Ross in the 1969 now classic True Grit (1969) opposite John Wayne, a decision she now cites as the worst mistake she has made in her career.
9. Auditioned for the role of Liesl von Trapp in The Sound of Music (1965), but the part went to Charmian Carr.
10. Had a fistfight with co-star Timothy Bottoms on the set of Hurricane (1979) resulting in sixteen stitches.
11. 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.
12. Introduced to Woody Allen by Michael Caine at famed (now defunct) New York restaurant Elaine’s, although they had met years earlier in California.
13. The two maintained separate residences during their 12 year relationship. Her apartment was half a mile across Central Park from his East Side duplex.
14. Mia has 14 children.
15. She has three biological sons with André Previn: nonidentical twins Matthew Phineas Previn and Sascha Villiers Previn (born February 26, 1970) and Fletcher Previn (born March 14, 1974). She adopted three daughters while married to Previn: Soon-Yi Previn (born circa October 8, 1970; briefly renamed Gigi by Mia before reverting back to Soon-Yi), Lark Previn (February 15, 1973 – December 25, 2008) and Daisy Previn (aka Summer; born October 6, 1974). She has one biological son with Woody Allen: Ronan Farrow (born December 19, 1987) whose birth name is Satchel; he was also known as Seamus for some time and briefly as Harmon. She and Allen adopted two children together: Moses Farrow (born January 27, 1978), who briefly went by Misha, and Dylan O’Sullivan Farrow (born July 11, 1985), who changed her name to Eliza and later to Malone, though most current press accounts refer to her once again as “Dylan” now. She adopted five more children as a single parent: Tam Farrow (1979-2000), Thaddeus Wilk Farrow (originally named Gabriel; December 16, 1988 – September 21, 2016), Frankie-Minh Farrow (born February 4, 1989), Isaiah Justus Farrow (born February 3, 1992) and Quincy Maureen Farrow (aka Kaeli-Shea; aka Bailey; born January 19, 1994). Biologically, she has six granddaughters (from her sons by Previn), and at least nine more grandchildren through her adopted kids.
16. Contracted Polio at the age of nine.
17. At one time, was scheduled to star in Thelma & Louise (1991) as Thelma, with Jane Fonda as Louise. But two writers’ strikes, one in 1981 and another in 1988 left the project into development hell. The film was eventually made with Geena Davis as Thelma and Susan Sarandon as Louise, and became a box office success.
18. Son Moses Farrow has cerebral palsy.
19. Hit #111 on the Billboard Hot 100 pop charts with “Lullaby from Rosemary’s Baby” in August of 1968.
20. Was replaced by Diane Keaton for the role of Carol Lipton in Manhattan Murder Mystery (1993) after the public and acrimonious end of her long-term relationship with Woody Allen.
21. 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.
22. Second-to-last adopted daughter, Frankie-Minh Farrow, is named after her ex-husband Frank Sinatra.
23. Holds United States, Irish and Australian citizenship.
24. Was one of the bridesmaids when Liza Minnelli married David Gest in a lavish ceremony on March 16, 2002.
25. Childhood friend of Liza Minnelli and Candice Bergen.
26. Was a close friend of director friend Roman Polanski’s wife, Sharon Tate, and was devastated by Tate’s savage murder in 1969. Both women were pregnant at the time.
27. 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.
28. She appeared in thirteen films directed by her then boyfriend Woody Allen.
29. She played the daughter of her real life mother Maureen O’Sullivan in Hannah and Her Sisters (1986). Her younger sister, Stephanie Farrow, played her sister in both Zelig (1983) and The Purple Rose of Cairo (1985).
30. Her godparents were gossip columnist Louella Parsons and famed director George Cukor.
31. Friends with singer Carly Simon.
32. 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.
33. 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.
34. Made her film debut in John Paul Jones (1959), which was the last film directed by her father, John Farrow.
35. Dated Peter Sellers between marriages.
36. In 2008, she was selected by TIME Magazine as one of the most influential people in the world.
37. 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).
38. 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.
39. Returned to the New York stage in September 2005 to appear off-Broadway in “Fran’s Bed”; her performance won wide critical praise.
40. 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.
41. She has appeared in one film that has been selected for the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being “culturally, historically or aesthetically” significant: Rosemary’s Baby (1968).
42. In October 2013, she made headlines after telling Vanity Fair that her late ex-husband Frank Sinatra is “possibly” the biological father of her son Ronan Farrow, whose father has always officially been known to be Woody Allen. Sinatra’s daughters Tina and Nancy called Farrow’s claim “nonsense”, and also said their father had a vasectomy years before Ronan’s birth. Farrow has since walked back on the claim, and when interviewed seven years later for Allen v. Farrow (2021) she did not mention the possibility of anyone other than Allen being Ronan’s father.
43. Is portrayed by Nina Siemaszko in Sinatra (1992) and by Patsy Kensit in Love and Betrayal: The Mia Farrow Story (1995).
44. Former stepmother of Nancy Sinatra, Tina Sinatra and the late Frank Sinatra Jr.. Frank Sinatra Jr. and Nancy Sinatra were older than her.
45. Was replaced by Kate Nelligan for the role of Charlotte Randall in Wolf (1994).
46. In 1977, she wrote a character reference for her friend and former director Roman Polanski when he was charged with five sex-related offenses against Samantha Geimer, a 13-year-old girl.
47. Listed in Newsweek Magazine’s ‘Women Who Shake the World’.
48. Ex-sister-in-law of Ava Roosevelt.
49. She attends an Episcopal church.
50. Daughter Malone attended Bard College (Class of 2007).