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  UNICEF - UNICEF People - Mia Farrow
Mia Farrow feeds a malnourished girl, Esperança, age 6, at a nutrition centre in Angola, 2002.
Farrow's association with UNICEF dates from December 1998, when she participated in a celebration at the UN in New York to mark the 50th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
Mia Farrow speaks with Julia, age 20, who lost part of one leg in a landmine accident.
www.unicef.org /people/people_mia_farrow.html   (484 words)

  
  CNN - Mia Farrow slams Woody Allen in tell-all book - Feb. 5, 1997
Farrow, whose 1992 child custody battle with Allen made international headlines, said one of their oddest moments together came when he discovered the drain to the shower in her new country house was in the middle and not the side.
Farrow said that in her years with Allen, "There were three of us in the relationship: Woody, his shrink and me. No decisions were ever made without her.
Farrow described Allen as being obsessed with Dylan, saying, "He whispered her awake, he caressed her and entwined his body around her as she watched television, as she played on the floor, as she ate, as she slept.
www-cgi.cnn.com /SHOWBIZ/9702/05/farrow.book   (536 words)

  
  Mia Farrow - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Mia Farrow was born Maria de Lourdes Villiers-Farrow in Los Angeles, California, to John Farrow (an Australian film director) and the late Irish actress Maureen O'Sullivan.
Farrow was stricken with polio as a child and spent a year in an iron lung.
Farrow and Previn had three biological children (twins Matthew and Sascha, born in 1970; and Fletcher, born in 1974) together and adopted three children from Korea, Soon-Yi, Lark Song, and Daisy.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mia_Farrow   (1356 words)

  
 The Biography Channel - Mia Farrow Biography
Mia Farrow was the daughter of film star Maureen O'Sullivan and director John Farrow.
Farrow's first important movie appearance was in 'Rosemary's Baby', as the unwitting mother of Satan's offspring.
Farrow and Allen were then engaged in a long and well-publicized court battle for custody of their adopted and biological children.
www.thebiographychannel.co.uk /biography_home/159:0/Mia_Farrow.htm   (359 words)

  
 Mia Farrow Tribute at Classic Movie Stars
Mia Farrow was born Maria de Lourdes Villiers Farrow February 9, 1945 in Los Angeles, California to John Farrow and Maureen O'Sullivan.
After recovering from her illness, Mia was educated in an English convent school.
Mia's role as the betrayed and frightened Rosemary furthered her stardom.
www.angelfire.com /ri2/rebeccastjames/mia.html   (515 words)

  
 Independent Online Edition > Features   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Mia Farrow tugs at the gold chain around her neck, revealing a pendant of Our Lady of Perpetual Help.
Farrow was just 23 years old when she met with a chorus of religious disapproval after starring as the unwitting mother of Satan in Roman Polanski's horror classic Rosemary's Baby.
Farrow's somewhat altered appearance today has earned her cruel mentions on websites such as awfulplasticsurgery.com, but in person she simply glows.
enjoyment.independent.co.uk /film/features/article623335.ece   (1317 words)

  
 Beatles in Rishikesh - Additional Stories, Mia Farrow
Mia's marriage to super-star crooner and actor Frank Sinatra had ended some months before she came to India.
At one point, Mia's name came up and Mal said that she still felt very awkward with all the attention the Maharishi was paying to her, far in excess of any other individual there.
Mia would later recount in her autobiographical book 'What Falls Away' that one day the Maharishi invited her to meditate with him, alone in his cave-like meditation room, in the basement of his bungalow.
www.thebeatlesinrishikesh.com /stories/miafarrow.html   (682 words)

  
 Mia Farrow - MSNBC.com Chat - MSNBC.com
Mia Farrow traveled there with her son to bear witness to the devastation as a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador to report back to America what she’d seen.
Mia Farrow: This country is now at peace and it’s a hard won peace and the country itself is in a humanitarian crisis that we can’t turn away from.
Mia Farrow: I’ve been trying to tell you in the last half hour about a country that seems very far away, that is not accessible to most Americans or anyone really outside Angola.
msnbc.msn.com /id/3080861   (3329 words)

  
 Amazon.ca: What Falls Away: Books: Mia Farrow   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Mia Farrow was born into a privileged Hollywood family; her mother was an actress and her father was a director.
Mia Farrow doesn't exactly bare her soul in "What Falls Away." What she does do is expose Woody Allen, and a life that mixes the disquieting and the impressive.
Mia is a tender woman with a tender heart, and I can't find it within myself to be overly critical of her or of her naivete with regard to relationships with men.
www.amazon.ca /What-Falls-Away-Mia-Farrow/dp/0553473468   (1846 words)

  
 Mia Farrow tours Central African Rep. - Boston.com
Shaking hands with droves of cheering street children, Mia Farrow began a weeklong tour of the Central African Republic on Saturday to draw attention -- and aid -- to one of the world's forgotten crises.
American actress Mia Farrow is greeted by a child as other children gather around at a project for street children called Voices From The Heart center in Bangui, the capital of Central African Republic, Saturday, Feb. 10, 2007.
Farrow is on the first day of a week long tour of Central African Republic as U.N. Children's Fund goodwill ambassador.
www.boston.com /ae/celebrity/articles/2007/02/10/mia_farrow_tours_central_african_rep   (437 words)

  
 Mia Farrow - MSNBC.com Chat - MSNBC.com
Mia Farrow traveled there with her son to bear witness to the devastation as a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador to report back to America what she’d seen.
Mia Farrow: This country is now at peace and it’s a hard won peace and the country itself is in a humanitarian crisis that we can’t turn away from.
Mia Farrow: I’ve been trying to tell you in the last half hour about a country that seems very far away, that is not accessible to most Americans or anyone really outside Angola.
www.msnbc.msn.com /id/3080861   (3276 words)

  
 Mia Farrow
Farrow has 13 living children, including three fathered by Previn and three adopted during their marriage, one fathered by Allen and two adopted during their long relationship, and several more children Farrow adopted through UNICEF as a sole parent.
Farrow and her famous family did, however, appear in a filmed attack drill at their posh Hollywood home, footage of which was used in publicity for Duck and Cover.
Farrow's sister Prudence attended Maharishi Mahesh Yogi's spiritual retreat in India at the same time the Beatles were there, but she declined John Lennon's invitation to "come out and play." For her reticence, she was immortalized in the Beatles' song "Dear Prudence."
www.nndb.com /people/667/000024595   (665 words)

  
 Mia Farrow at Hollywood.com
Delicately pretty with blonde hair and blue eyes, Mia Farrow projected an aura of vulnerability, yet was capable of tempering that ethereal quality with a grounding strength (perhaps due in part to surviving a childhood bout with polio)....
Farrow was in demand as a young leading lady and by the time of her divorce from Sinatra was headlining two films, "A Dandy in Aspic" and the now classic thriller "Rosemary's Baby" (both 1968).
Farrow continued to seek challenging roles (a blind woman stalked by a killer in the chilling "See No Evil" 1971) but after the birth of twins and her subsequent marriage to composer-conductor Andre Previn in 1970, she curtailed her activities.
www.hollywood.com /celebrity/Mia_Farrow/198077   (2508 words)

  
 USATODAY.com - Mia Farrow visits Darfur on U.N. mission   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Farrow, who is a goodwill ambassador for the United Nations Children's Fund, was on her second visit to Darfur with her son Ronan, 17, who is a UNICEF youth spokesman.
Farrow, who began her film career with Rosemary's Baby in 1968 and has appeared in more than 40 films, has been a UNICEF goodwill ambassador for the past decade.
Farrow stressed that the increased number both of refugees and warring factions — more than 20 antagonist rebel groups and pro-government militias — made the job increasingly perilous for aid workers.
www.usatoday.com /life/people/2006-06-12-farrow-darfur_x.htm   (621 words)

  
 Mia Farrow Bio - Mia Farrow Biography - Mia Farrow Stories
Mia had a setback in her life at the age of 9 when she contracted Polio.
Mia lives in a huge rent-controlled apartment building which is right next door to the infamous Dakota building where John Lennon was shot.
Mia was married to Frank Sinatra from July 19, 1966 until they divorced in 1968.
www.tv.com /mia-farrow/person/52319/biography.html   (612 words)

  
 ABC News: VOICES: Mia Farrow Talks of Work in Africa
Mia Farrow shocked audiences a generation ago in "Rosemary's Baby." Now, the actress is trying to save children as an ambassador for UNICEF.
Farrow, in Nigeria in 2001: I had polio myself when I was nine years old.
Mia Farrow: When I first came on board with this, there were about 350,000 cases of paralytic polio around the world.
abcnews.go.com /ThisWeek/story?id=2143303   (385 words)

  
 Mia Farrow Biography (Actor) — Infoplease.com
As an actor Mia Farrow will always be remembered for her starring role in Roman Polanski's horror classic Rosemary's Baby (1968) and for her many films with Woody Allen in the 1980s and '90s.
As a celebrity she is famous for her controversial two-year marriage to Frank Sinatra (30 years her senior) in the 1960s, her marriage to composer-conducter Andre Previn in the 1970s and her very public break-up with Allen in 1992.
Farrow continues to make movies once in while, but spends most of her time raising a large brood of kids, including several adopted children with special needs.
www.infoplease.com /biography/var/miafarrow.html   (417 words)

  
 Frank Sinatra And Mia Farrow, Love Between Frank Sinatra And Mia Farrow
Mia Farrow has made her name in the Hollywood and has won several awards with her performances.
Mia Farrow has another identity something with which she closely identifies.
Farrow wanted to continue work in her own way, but Sinatra wanted her to stop working on her movie and concentrate on his movie, The Detective.
www.mydearvalentine.com /famous-romances/frank-sinatra-and-mia-farrow.html   (438 words)

  
 Actors - Mia Farrow
Farrow was born in Los Angeles, California to John Farrow
Farrow was stricken with polio as a child and spent a year in an iron lung.
Farrow made her film debut in a 1947 short subject with her mother; the short was about famous mothers and their children modeling the latest fashions for families.
listing-index.ebay.com /actors/Mia_Farrow.html   (565 words)

  
 Mia Farrow -Picture Site
Mia Farrow continues to work with the United Nations to eradicate Polio from the world.
See Mia Farrow in her many roles as covergirl.
Latest News: Mia Farrow continues her crusade to offer assistance to the victims of genocide in Darfur.
www.mia-farrow.com   (247 words)

  
 AMCTV.com BIOGRAPHY - Mia Farrow   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
It is one of the great ironies of Mia Farrow's life that her story has all the makings of a Hollywood movie: she battled polio as a child, achieve fame as a teenager, married and divorced a legend thirty years her senior, became filmdom's most famous muse, and was betrayed by love.
Maria de Lourdes Villiers Farrow was born in 1945, the daughter of Maureen O'Sullivan (Tarzan's Jane) and writer-director John Farrow.
The scandal surrounding Allen's relationship with Mia's adopted daughter Soon-Yi Previn (from her marriage to composer Andre Previn) played out in the tabloids with Mia cast alternately as deranged psychotic and heartbroken mother.
www.amctv.com /person/detail?CID=6499-1-1   (337 words)

  
 CONELRAD: Atomic Secrets | Mia Farrow, The Original Duck And Cover Kid
Mia Farrow has played a role in so many culturally significant events over the years that it seems almost impossible to accept the fact that one person could have managed so much spirited hobnobbing in a single lifetime (Forrest Gump eat your heart out).
Farrow of her contribution to yet another chapter in pop culture history.
Mia Farrow for her generous responses to our research queries.
conelrad.com /atomicsecrets/secrets.php?secrets=04   (453 words)

  
 Mia Farrow: Shadows and Fog - Movie
Ferrer is to marry Mia Farrow, many years his junior, on that Sunday at the country house.
Allen and Farrow meet about half way through the film that brings Allen back to the circus after Farrow does a stint in a whorehouse and Allen comes close to being accused of being the murderer.
Mia Farrow, who works for the circus as a sword swallower, believes the lies her husband (a clown) tells her.
www.superiorpics.com /mia_farrow/movie/1992_shadows_and_fog.html   (1885 words)

  
 Amazon.com: What Falls Away: A Memoir: Books: Mia Farrow   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Farrow went through when the ---- hit the fan with Soon-Yi and Woody Allen (I love how she starts to refer to him as 'Woody Allen' instead of 'Woody' when she finally starts to come to her senses).
This book was a suprisingly interesting read, and Mia Farrow strikes me as a caring, compassionate person, but rather naive and illogical in her thinking.
Farrow is not only a talented actress, she is also a surprisingly good writer.
www.amazon.com /What-Falls-Away-A-Memoir/dp/0553564668   (2428 words)

  
 CONELRAD: Atomic Secrets | Mia Farrow, The Original Duck And Cover Kid
Mia Farrow has played a role in so many culturally significant events over the years that it seems almost impossible to accept the fact that one person could have managed so much spirited hobnobbing in a single lifetime (Forrest Gump eat your heart out).
Farrow of her contribution to yet another chapter in pop culture history.
Farrow's acknowledgement and recollection of her Duck and Cover period must surely now cement her image as the ultimate baby boomer.
www.conelrad.com /atomicsecrets/secrets.php?secrets=04   (453 words)

  
 Rotary International: Newsroom: Mia Farrow pays tribute to Rotarians
During her visit to District 7230's New York City conference in April, Mia Farrow only had one parting request: That she could come back and celebrate with the group when polio is completely eradicated.
While Farrow has campaigned for the past several years to eradicate polio as an ambassador for UNICEF, District 7230 Rotarians have raised $850,000 since 1985 to help immunize 1.4 million children in developing countries.
Farrow says that she felt compelled to fight polio because of her personal experience with the crippling disease.
www.rotary.org /newsroom/polio/060622_miafarrow.html   (493 words)

  
 Mia Farrow - Biography
Mia Farrow was born on February 9, 1945 in Los Angeles California.
Tam Farrow died in March of 2000 of a heart ailment.
Mia has continued her activities as a special representative of the United Nations Children’s Fund and UNICEF and regularly visits Africa to promote the health and safety of children.
mia-farrow.com /bio.html   (238 words)

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