Inspirational Quotes by Mia Farrow (American Actress, Activist)

Mia Farrow (b.1945,) born Maria de Lourdes Villiers Farrow, is an American actress and human rights activist.

Born in Los Angeles, California, Farrow is the daughter of film director John Farrow and actress Maureen O’Sullivan, who starred as Jane in the popular Tarzan movie series of the 1930s. Mia found celebrity in the television soap opera Peyton Place. Her big-screen breakthrough came in the popular horror movie Rosemary’s Baby (1968,) for which she won a Golden Globe.

Farrow was nominated for a second Golden Globe in 1970 for her role beside Dustin Hoffman in the sex comedy John and Mary (1969,) though the film was a commercial failure. The Great Gatsby (1974,) Hannah and Her Sisters (1986,) and Husbands and Wives (1992) followed.

Farrow has drawn much media attention all through her career, much of it concerning her dramatic personal life, her romantic relationships, and her many adopted and biological children. Farrow began dating director Woody Allen in 1980. She acted in 13 of Allen’s productions, about one film a year while they were together. In 1992, after Farrow discovered that Allen had been having an affair with her then 19-year-old adopted daughter Soon-Yi, the couple’s relationship imploded.

Farrow continued to act on occasion and turned to humanitarian efforts. She became a goodwill ambassador for UNICEF in 2000, traveled on numerous missions to Africa, and was unusually outspoken regarding the crisis in Darfur in Sudan.

Farrow published her much-praised autobiography, What Falls Away: A Memoir, in 1997.

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