Mia Farrow

Mia, born in Los Angeles, is the daughter of director John Farrow and actress Maureen O’ Sullivan. She made her stage debut in 1963 in an off-Broadway production of The Importance of Being Earnest, following that with her first screen appearance a year later, and the TV series “Peyton Place.” Her performance in Roman Polanski’s Rosemary’s Baby (1968), received glowing reviews. Following that, she moved to England where raised her family and appeared in several classic plays as a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company and in such films as The Great Gatsby (1974) and Death on the Nile (1978). In 1980 she returned to New York for a year-long run on Broadway in Beensrd Slade’s Romantic Comedy. Mia has appeared in more than 40 films including 33 with Woody Allen. They include Zelig, Broadway Danny Rose, Purple Rose of Cairo, Radio Days, Hannah and Her Sisters, Crimes and Misdemeanors, Shadows and Fog, Alice. In 1997, she published her New York Times best-selling memoir, What Falls Away. She has recently starred in such films as Reckless, Luc Besson’s “Arthur” trilogy, Michel Gondry’s Be Kind Rewind, and onstage in James Lapine’s Fran’s Bed at Playwrights Horizons and New Haven’s Long Wharf Theater, and Jessica Blake and Eric Jensen’s The Exonerated. She travels extensively as a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador with a focus on children in war zones. She is working in her own project, The Darfur Archives, documenting the cultural traditions of the tribes of Darfur. Her work as an activist is widely acknowledged, she blogs and has written numerous op-ed pieces, mainly for the Wall Street Journal. In 2008 she was selected by Time Magazine as one of the most influential people in the world.