What Is Mia Farrow's Ethnic Background?

Profile: Mia Farrow

Actress and campaigner Mia Farrow has given testimony in the war crimes trial of former-Liberian president Charles Taylor in The Hague.

Although she tin can count Rosemary's Baby, Run across No Evil and Hannah and Her Sisters amongst her many flick credits, it is Farrow's private life and clemency work which has attracted more attending in recent years.

Gilt Globe award

Farrow was born in Los Angeles in 1945 and grew up in Beverly Hills with her half dozen siblings.

Her parents were film director John Farrow and Irish extra Maureen O'Sullivan, so information technology was hardly a surprise when she began a career in showbusiness.

Farrow was screen-tested for the part of Liesl Von Trapp in The Audio of Music simply failed to win the part. But it was not long before she landed her first leading role in Roman Polanski'due south Rosemary's Baby, a part which thrust her into the spotlight.

The horror moving-picture show was a disquisitional success and a striking at the box office. Farrow won a Gold Globe award for her part, while her co-star, Ruth Gordon, won the Academy Award for all-time supporting actress.

Previn and Farrow remained on good terms after they split

By this time, Farrow had married and divorced singer Frank Sinatra, who she wed in 1966 when she was 21 and he was fifty.

Sinatra'south female parent had said of Farrow: "This one don't talk, she don't consume. What does she do?"

Farrow's other belatedly 60s films include John and Mary, opposite Dustin Hoffman.

By 1970, she was married once again, this time to conductor Andre Previn.

Family scandal

Farrow and Previn had three biological children and went on to prefer two babies from Vietnam and and an viii-year-sometime, Soon-Yi, from Korea effectually 1978. The couple divorced in 1979.

The following year, Farrow began dating director Woody Allen - the couple never married but went on to adopt two children. Farrow gave nativity to the couple's just biological kid in 1987.

Farrow starred in many of Allen's films during the time they were together, including Broadway Danny Rose, The Purple Rose of Cairo and Hannah and Her Sisters.

But the relationship was soon to disintegrate following a scandal which erupted in 1992 when Farrow discovered Allen was having an affair with Soon-Yi.

Rosemary's Baby is still considered a horror classic

The infidelity was discovered when she establish nude photos of Presently-Yi that Allen had taken in his apartment.

A bitter custody battle ensued - Farrow won custody of the children but has been estranged from Soon-Yi since her adopted daughter's marriage to Allen in 1997.

Hunger strike

Having taken a break from her acting career during much of the 90s to concentrate on her always-growing family, she later adopted half dozen more than children.

Farrow has too taken on a high-profile function every bit an advocate of children's rights.

She is a goodwill ambassador for Unicef, campaigning to fight polio - she contracted the disease when she was 9 and 1 of her adopted children become paralysed after becoming infected.

Farrow has too become an advocate for refugees in Darfur, Sudan.

She went on hunger strike for 12 days over the Sudanese government's decision to expel strange aid agencies and even offered to "trade her freedom" for the freedom of a rebel leader, who was existence treated in a United nations hospital simply was afraid to leave.

In 2006, Farrow fabricated a motion picture improvement, starring in three films released that year - a remake of The Omen, romantic one-act Fast Track and Luc Besson pic, Arthur and the Minimoys.

Now in the Hague to testify in the Charles Taylor example, Farrow finds herself well and truly back in the spotlight.