Mia Farrow as Rosemary
Rosemary and her new husband, Guy, move into a new apartment in New York, befriending an elderly couple who live near by. But when another girl in the block commits suicide, Rosemary starts getting more attention than she desires, from all the wrong people. And now with her (late) friend's warnings about witches in mind, she has a new problem - the protection of her forthcoming child. But it may not be the child that needs protection.
Biography for Mia Farrow
Birth name
Maria de Lourdes Villiers Farrow
Date of birth
9 February 1945
Los Angeles, California, USA
Mia Farrow is the daughter of the director John Farrow (I) and the actress and Tarzan-girl 'Maureen O'Sullivan'. She debuted at the movies in 1959 in very small roles. She was noticed for the first time in the film Rosemary's Baby (1968) by Roman Polanski. She showed her talent also on TV and at the theatre but her final breakthrough was when she met Woody Allen and became his Muse after the film Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy, A (1982). After that Woody Allen wrote many other roles for her.
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Trivia
By 1994 Mia Farrow had 14 children, 9 of them adopted. 6 from her marriage with Andr� Previn - 3 of whom were adopted, and 3 from her time with Woody Allen - 2 of whom were adopted.
Daughter of 'Maureen O'Sullivan.
Was on the first cover of People Magazine.
John Lennon wrote "Dear Prudence" for her younger sister Prudence Farrow.
Auditoned for the role of Liesel in Sound of Music, The (1965)
Hit #111 on the Billboard Hot 100 pop charts with "Lullaby from 'Rosemary's Baby'" in August of 1968.
Mia's adopted daughter, Tam Farrow, died March 2000 due to an apparent heart ailment. She was 19.
The first American actress to be accepted as a member of London's prestigious Royal Shakespeare Company.
Her godparents were gossip columnist Louella Parsons and famed director George Cukor.
Biography from Leonard Maltin's Movie Encyclopedia: She fell victim to devil worshippers who coveted her unborn child in Rosemary's Baby (1968), and Mia Farrow is still remembered for her performance in that screen chiller. The daughter of actress Maureen O'Sullivan and director John Farrow, this tiny, fragile, doelike actress made her screen bow in John Paul Jones (1959, directed by her father), spent two years playing Alison MacKenzie on the TV series "Peyton Place" (1964-66), and cultivated a wild-child image before achieving stardom as the besieged young mother in Baby Lead roles throughout the 1970s, in such films as The Great Gatsby (1974) and A Wedding (1978), followed, but Farrow hit her creative stride as the star of more than 10 movies-including Zelig (1983), Hannah and Her Sisters (1986), and Alice (1990)-directed by former boyfriend Woody Allen, with whom she has a son. Fashioning roles with her in mind, Allen brought out qualities in Farrow moviegoers had never seen before, from the gum-chewing exgangster's moll in Broadway Danny Rose (1984) to the lovesick Hollywood movie fan in The Purple Rose of Cairo (1985) to the cigarette-girl-turned-gossip queen in Radio Days (1987) to a despairing psychiatric patient in Another Woman (1988). It is by any measure a remarkable gallery of performances. In 1992 she and Allen made headlines for months in a vituperative splitup which had unintended repercussions when audiences watched them as a disintegrating couple on-screen in the concurrently released Husbands and Wives (1992). She was replaced by Diane Keaton in Woody's next film, Manhattan Murder Mystery (1993). Previous marriages to show-business personalities Frank Sinatra and composer/conductor Andr� Previn ended in divorce. Her sister Tisa, also an actress, has starred in Fingers (1978), The Grim Reaper (1981), and many European-made movies of varying quality.
Black Irish (2002) .... Margaret
Purpose (2001) .... Anna Simmons
"Girl Thing, A" (2001) (mini) TV Series .... Betty McCarthy
On Cukor (2000) (TV) .... Herself
... aka American Masters: On Cukor (2000) (TV) (USA)
AFI's 100 Years... 100 Stars (1999) (TV) .... Herself
Intimate Portrait: Mia Farrow (1999) (TV) .... Herself
Forget Me Never (1999) (TV) .... Diane McGowin
Coming Soon (1999/I) .... Judy Hodsell
Kennedy Center Honors, The (1998) (TV) .... Herself
Miracle at Midnight (1998) (TV) .... Doris Koster
Redux Riding Hood (1997) (voice) .... Doris/Mrs. Wolf
Private Parts (1997) (uncredited) .... Herself
... aka Howard Stern's Private Parts (1997)
Angela Mooney (1996) .... Angela Mooney
Reckless (1995/I) .... Rachel
Miami Rhapsody (1995) .... Nina Marcus
Widows' Peak (1994) .... Miss O'Hare
Husbands and Wives (1992) .... Judy Roth
Shadows and Fog (1992) .... Irmy
Alice (1990) .... Alice
Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989) .... Halley Reed
New York Stories (1989) .... Lisa
Another Woman (1988) .... Hope
September (1987) .... Lane
Radio Days (1987) .... Sally White
Hannah and Her Sisters (1986) .... Hannah
Purple Rose of Cairo, The (1985) .... Cecilia
Terror in the Aisles (1984) (archive footage) .... Rosemary Woodhouse (segment "Rosemary's Baby")
... aka Time for Terror (1984) (Europe: English title: video title)
Supergirl (1984) .... Alura
... aka Supergirl: The Movie (1984)
Broadway Danny Rose (1984) .... Tina Vitale
Zelig (1983) .... Dr. Eudora Fletcher
Compleat Beatles, The (1982) (archive footage) (uncredited) .... Herself (in India with the Maharishi)
Last Unicorn, The (1982) (voice) .... Unicorn/Amalthea
Sarah (1982) (TV) .... Narrator
... aka Seventh Match, The (1982) (TV) (Australia)
Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy, A (1982) .... Ariel
Hurricane (1979) .... Charlotte Bruckner
... aka Forbidden Paradise (1979) (TV title)
Death on the Nile (1978) .... Jacqueline De Bellefort
Avalanche (1978) .... Caroline Brace
Wedding, A (1978) .... Elizabeth 'Buffy' Brenner
Murder in Peyton Place (1977) (TV) (archive footage) .... Allison MacKenzie
Salute to Bette Davis, A (1977) (TV) .... Herself
... aka 5th American Film Institute Life Achievement Award: A Salute to Bette Davis (1977) (TV) (USA: complete title)
Full Circle (1976) .... Julia Lofting
... aka Haunting of Julia, The (1981) (USA)
Peter Pan (1976) (TV) .... Peter Pan
Great Gatsby, The (1974) .... Daisy Buchanan
Peyton Place Revisited (1973) (TV) .... Herself
Docteur Popaul (1972) .... Christine Dupont
... aka Dr. Popaul (1972)
... aka High Heels (1972) (USA)
... aka Scoundrel in White (1972) (UK)
... aka Trappola per un lupo (1972) (Italy)
Follow Me (1972) .... Belinda
... aka Follow Me! (1972) (UK)
... aka Public Eye, The (1972) (USA)
See No Evil (1971) .... Sarah
... aka Blind Terror (1971)
Goodbye, Raggedy Ann (1971) (TV) .... Brooke Collier
John and Mary (1969) .... Mary
Secret Ceremony (1968) .... Cenci
Rosemary's Baby (1968) .... Rosemary Woodhouse
Dandy in Aspic, A (1968) .... Caroline
Johnny Belinda (1967) (TV) .... Belinda MacDonald
Guns at Batasi (1964) .... Karen Eriksson
"Peyton Place" (1964) TV Series .... Allison Mackenzie (1964-1966)
John Paul Jones (1959)
Unusual Occupations (1947/I) (uncredited) .... Herself