Farrah Fawcett

At 62 years old, Farrah Fawcett has this physical status:

Farrah Leni Fawcett (originally spelled Ferrah; 1947-1990) was an American actress, singer, and painter.

Fawcett, a five-time Emmy Award winner and six-time Golden Globe Award winner, came to international prominence as private investigator Jill Munroe in the first season of Charlie's Angels (1976-1977). Fawcett began her career in the 1960s as a host in commercials and guest appearances on television.

She appeared in many television series, including recurring roles on Harry O (1974–1976) and The Six Million Dollar Man (1974–1978) during her lifetime, including recurring appearances with her first husband, film, and television actress Lee Majors.

Jill Munroe, Jill Munroe, Charlie's Angels, 1976, her breakthrough role came as Jill Munroe, alongside Kate Jackson and Jaclyn Smith.

Both three actors were cast, but particularly Fawcett, who was then described as "Farrah Fawcett-Majors" on television.

After appearing only in the first season, she decided to leave the show but returned as a guest star in six episodes (1978-1980).

She received her first Golden Globe nomination for her work with Charlie's Angels. Fawcett received accolades for her work in the Off-Broadway play Extremities in 1983.

She appeared in the 1986 film version and was later nominated for the Golden Globe Award.

In the 1989 film Small Sacrifices, she received two Emmy Award nominations for her work in television shows, as a battered wife in the 1984 film The Burning Bed, and as real-life murderer Diane Downs.

Her 1980s appearances in television movies earned her four additional Golden Globe nominations. She gained some critical notice for her appearance on The Late Show with David Letterman in 1997, but she also received raves for her role in Robert Duvall's film The Apostle.

She appeared in a number of television series, including recurring appearances in the sitcom Spin City (2001) and the drama The Guardian (2002–2003).

She earned her third Emmy nomination for the latter.

Love Is a Funny Thing (1969), Myra Breckinridge (1978), Logan's Run (1980), and Dr. Frank Lloyd (1980).

T & the Women (2000). Fawcett was diagnosed with anal cancer in 2006 and died three years later at the age of 62.

The Farrah's Story, a 2009 NBC documentary chronicled her battle with the disease.

She received her fourth Emmy nomination for her work as a producer on the documentary, and she received her fourth Emmy Award.

Early life

Fawcett was born in Corpus Christi, Texas, on February 2, 1947, and was the youngest of two daughters. Pauline Alice Fawcett (née Evans; 1914–2005) was a homemaker and her father, James William Fawcett (1917-2010), was an oil field contractor. Diane Fawcett Walls (1938–2001), her older sister, was a graphic artist. She was of Irish, French, English, and Choctaw Native American ancestry. Fawcett said that the name "Farrah" was "made up" by her mother's child because it went well with their last name.

Fawcett, a Roman Catholic, began her early education at the parish school of the church she and her family attended, St. Patrick's Roman Catholic Church in Corpus Christi. She graduated from W. B. Ray High School in Corpus Christi, where she was named "most beautiful" by her classmates in her freshman, sophomore, junior, and senior years of high school. She studied microbiology at the University of Texas, where she shifted her focus to art from 1965 to 1968. She lived on 22nd Street, west of the campus, and was a member of Delta Delta Delta Delta Sorority.

She was named one of the "ten most beautiful coeds on campus" in her freshman year, marking the first time a freshman was selected for the award for the first time. Her photographs were sent to various Hollywood companies. David Mirisch, a Hollywood agent, called her and urged her to visit Los Angeles. She turned him down, but he continued for the next two years. Finally, Fawcett, a 1968 bride, moved to Los Angeles, initially staying at the Hollywood Studio Club, with her parents' permission to "test her luck" in the entertainment industry.

Personal life

In the late 1960s, Fawcett began dating Lee Majors. She appeared on Majors from 1973 to 1982, but the couple divorced in 1979. They had no children. She used the name Farrah Fawcett-Majors in her film credits throughout her marriage (and after the separation).

Fawcett became romantically involved with actor Ryan O'Neal in 1979, and the couple had a son named Redmond James Fawcett O'Neal, who was born in 1985. Fawcett told TV Guide in 1994 that their marriage had some difficulties. "While Ryan breaks my heart, he's also responsible for giving me confidence in myself," she said. After she caught Fawcett in bed with actress Leslie Stefanson in 1997, the couple ended. Tatum O'Neal's daughter suspects that he physically assaulted Fawcett after their split. "He had a tumultuous temper and was very violent." "He beat her up," she said. Fawcett and O'Neal rekindled their friendship in 2001. Ryan O'Neal and Reuters revealed on June 22, 2009, that Fawcett had promised to marry him as soon as she felt strong enough.

Fawcett was in a relationship with Canadian filmmaker James Orr, the writer and producer of Man of the House, which she co-starred with Chevy Chase and Jonathan Taylor Thomas from 1997 to 1998. Orr was arrested and charged, but later convicted of beating Fawcett during a 1998 fight.

When they were undergrads at the University of Texas, Fawcett dated Longhorn football star Greg Lott. Lott and his partner revived their love in 1998 and became a "loving, consensual, one-on-one relationship" until she died in 2009. In her remaining days, Ryan O'Neal had prevented him from seeing Fawcett. He "prevents me from seeing the love of my life before she died." She left nothing for O'Neal in Fawcett's family trust, but she left $100,000 for Lott. Fawcett's friendship with O'Neal was only for show, according to Lott. "Everything she did with Ryan, as well as all of those so-called reality shows they produced together, was just Hollywood fantasy," he said.

Diane Fawcett Walls, Fawcett's older sister, died of lung cancer right before her 63rd birthday on October 16, 2001. The actress returned to Texas to visit her father, James, and his mother, Pauline, in the fifth episode of her 2005 Chasing Farrah series. Pauline Fawcett died on March 4, 2005, at the age of 91.

Redmond James Fawcett-O'Neal, Fawcett's only child, was born on January 30, 1985. For the most part of his adult life, he has struggled with heroin use. Redmond and his father were arrested in 2008 for heroin use in their Malibu home. When Redmond was arrested for unlawful driving while under the influence of heroin, he was under scrutiny; Fawcett was in the hospital at the time. Tatum O'Neal, his half-sister, told People, "I love him but I have never seen a more frightening side of heroin use," and she begged him to attend 12-step meetings with her but he declined. His probation was suspended in 2015 and he was sentenced to three years in the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation. After reportedly attempting to rob a convenience store in Santa Monica, he was arrested and charged with attempted murder, robbery, assault, and heroin use. He blamed his struggles on his parents, adding that it was "not medications that have been a problem, it's the mental turmoil of my entire life" that had the most effect on him. He was found ineligible to appear in court after being diagnosed with bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, and an antisocial personality disorder alongside heroin and alcohol use. His appeal was suspended and he was transferred to a state mental hospital with a maximum commitment date of Oct. 4, 2021. If convicted, he faces a maximum term of 22 years in state prison.

Fawcett was diagnosed with anal cancer in 2006 and began chemotherapy and surgery. Fawcett died without a single cancer cell in the United States four months later, on February 2, 2007, her 60th birthday. The Associated Press announced it four months later. Fawcett recurred and was diagnosed with stage IV cancer that had metastasized to her liver in May 2007 (which has a 5-year survival rate of less than 20%); a malignant polyp was discovered where she had been treated for the first cancer in May 2007. Doctors debated whether to insert a radiation seeder (which differs from conventional radiation and is used to treat other forms of cancer). Fawcett's doctors told her that she would need a colostomy.

She went to Germany for medical treatment of her stage IV cancer, rather than going to a colostomy for her stage IV cancer treatment. "Aggressive" and "alternative" were the words she used in the press. Dr. Ursula Jacob of Germany prescribed surgery to remove the anal tumor, a process of perfusion and embolization for her liver cancer by Doctors Claus Kiehling and Thomas Vogl, as well as chemotherapy in Los Angeles. Although the tumors were regressing, their reappearance a few months later necessitated a new course, this time including laser ablation therapy and chemoembolization. Fawcett, aided by a colleague, chronicled her fight with the disease.

Fawcett was back in the United States and hospitalized in early April 2009. According to media reports, she was unconscious and in poor health, although subsequent reports indicated that her condition was not serious. The cancer had metastasized to her liver, according to the Associated Press on April 6. This was a change that Fawcett had not known about in May 2007 and in which her subsequent treatments in Germany had been aimed. The newspaper denied that she was conscious and said the hospitalization was not due to her cancer but rather a painful abdominal hematoma that had arisen as a result of a minor procedure. "She remains in good spirits with her trademark sense of humor, and she has an amazing sense of determination and an incredible resilience," her spokesperson said. Fawcett was discharged from the hospital on April 9. According to her doctor, she was accompanied by her longtime companion O'Neal, who was "walking and in great spirits, looking forward to celebrating Easter at home."

Fawcett was listed as critically ill a month later on May 7, with Ryan O'Neal as saying she was spending her days at home on an IV and often asleep. The Los Angeles Times announced that she was in the last stages of terminal cancer and had the opportunity to see her son Redmond in April 2009, but he was then detained and under surveillance because he had been detained. James, her 91-year-father, travelled to Los Angeles to visit.

Dr. Lawrence Piro, a Los Angeles cancer specialist, was treating Fawcett. On The Today Show, he and Fawcett's colleague, Angels co-star Kate Jackson, a breast cancer survivor, appeared together. Fawcett's had ever been in a coma, had ever dropped to 86 pounds (39 kg), and had never given up her fight against the disease or lost the will to live, according to them. Jackson slammed such lies, saying that they "actually do hurt a human being and a person like Farrah." Piro recalled when Fawcett would have to have surgery that would cause her hair loss, saying that "Farrah has the most famous hair in the world," but also that it is not a trivial matter for any cancer patient, whose hair "affects [one's] whole perception of who [they] are." "Mewcett did not do this to show that she is special, she did it to show that we are all unique," Jackson says of the film "T"he was meant to be a gift to others to help and inspire them."

On May 15, 2009, Fawcett and a friend Alana Stewart's story, a two-hour documentary, Farrah's Story, aired on NBC. The documentary had been watched by nearly nine million viewers at its premiere, and it had been re-aired on the television network's cable television networks MSNBC, Bravo, and Oxygen. Fawcett, who died on June 25, received her fourth Emmy nomination as the producer of Farrah's Story on July 16, 2009. The aired version of the documentary received controversies. Chasing Farrah, her initial production partner, argued that the editing of O'Neal and Stewart's program was not in accordance with her desire to investigate alternative therapies of rare forms of cancer, including her own.

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Career

Screen Gems agreed to a $30-per-week wage when Fawcett first appeared in Hollywood at the age of 21 in 1968. Among other things, she began appearing in advertisements for Ultra Brite toothpaste, Noxzema skin cream, Max Factor cosmetics, Mercury Cougar automobiles, and Beautyrest mattresses. Jeannie (1969–70), she appeared on The Flying Nun (1969) and I Dream of Jeannie (1969–70). Owen Marshall: Counselor at Law, Mayberry R.F.D., and The Partridge Family were among her numerous television appearances, including Getting Together, Owen Marshall: Counselor at Law, and The Partridge Family. She appeared in four episodes of The Six Million Dollar Man with husband Lee Majors on The Dating Game and S.W.A.T., and she appeared as Harry O with David Janssen as the title character's girlfriend, Sue. Love Is a Funny Thing, a 1969 French romantic drama, had her sizable role. In Myra Breckinridge (1970), she appeared as Mary Ann Pringle.

Pro Arts Inc. suggested the possibility of a Fawcett poster to her agent in 1976. Bruce McBroom, a photographer who had been recruited by the poster company, was then scheduled for a photo shoot. Fawcett sewed her own hair and did her makeup without the use of a mirror, according to friend Nels Van Patten. A squeeze of lemon juice lifted her blonde highlights. Fawcett chose her six favorite photographs from 40 rolls of film, but the choice was eventually narrowed to the one that made her famous. The resulting image of Fawcett in a one-piece red bathing suit is the best-selling poster in history.

Fawcett appeared in Michael Anderson's science-fiction film Logan's Run (1976) with Michael York. Lee Majors, Lee Majors, and her husband, television actress Aaron Spelling, were regular tennis partners with producer Aaron Spelling. Spelling and his business partner eventually selected Fawcett to appear in their forthcoming made-for-TV film, Charlie's Angels, a week of the week that premiered on ABC on March 21, 1976. Fawcett (then billed as Farrah Fawcett-Majors), Kate Jackson, and Jaclyn Smith as private investigators for Townsend Associates, a detective company operated by a reclusive multimillionaire who had never met the women. The Charles Townsend character, voiced by John Forsythe, delivered cases and disobeyed advice through a speakerphone to his core team of three female employees, whom he referred to as "Angels" on the website. They were often helped in the office and occasionally in the field by two male friends, played by character actors David Doyle and David Ogden Stiers. The pilot's principal cast minus Ogden Stiers was quickly earned a following, prompting the network to air it for a second time and allow for the production of a series.

The Charlie's Angels proper debuted on September 22, 1976. Each of the three actresses was rejected to fame, but Fawcett led opinion polls. She later received the People's Choice Award for Favorite Performer in a New TV Series. "I thought it was our acting when the show was number three," she said in a 1977 interview with TV Guide. When we were expected to be the top of the charts, I decided it couldn't be because no one of us wears a bra." Fawcett's appearance on the television show increased sales of her poster, and she earned much more in royalties from poster sales than she did from her salary for playing in Charlie's Angels. Her hairstyle went on to become a global trend, with women sporting a "Farrah-flip" or simply "Farrah hair." Her hairstyle predominated among American women's hairstyles well into the 1980s.

Fawcett left Charlie's Angels after only one season in 1977. Cheryl Ladd replaced her on ABC after a string of court disputes over her employment with ABC, portraying Jill Munroe's younger sister Kris Munroe. Several explanations were given for Fawcett's abrupt departure from the show over the years. Lee Majors, the actress of an established television show that lasted from 1974 to 1978, was frequently quoted as a reason, but an attempt to expand her acting capabilities in films has also been given as an explanation. Spelling never officially signed her series deal, owing to protracted talks over royalties from her image's use in peripheral products, which culminated in a much longer litigation filed by Spelling and his firm after she left the show. She reluctantly signed a new deal with ABC, announcing that she would make six guest appearances on the program over a two-year period (1978–1980).

Charlie's Angels were a worldwide success, retaining its appeal in syndication and spawning, including a variety of bubble gum cards, two sets of fashion dolls, many books, puzzles, and school supplies, as well as a board game featuring Fawcett's likeness. From numerous fan magazines to TV Guide (four times) to Time, the "Angels" appeared on magazines around the world.

The television film Behind the Camera: The Unauthorized Story of Charlie's Angels dramatized the events from the show, with supermodel and actress Tricia Helfer portraying Lee Majors, Fawcett's then-husband.

Somebody Killed Her Husband, Fawcett's first post-Angels film, received critical feedback (some critics referred to the film as Somebody Killed Her Child) and a poor box-office in 1978. Similar unfavorable reviews were given to Sunburn, co-starring Charles Grodin and Art Carney. Fawcett appeared with Kirk Douglas in Stanley Donen's science-fiction film Saturn 3 in 1980; critics and general public opinion alike, but the film did not have favourable feedback and suffered in poor box office sales. Burt Reynolds, Dean Martin, and Sammy Davis Jr. appeared in the comedy The Cannonball Run (1981). In the television film Murder in Texas later this year, she co-starred with Katharine Ross, Sam Elliott, and Andy Griffith.

Fawcett received critical acclaim in 1983 for her part in the Off-Broadway stage production of William Mastrosimone's controversial play Extremities. Susan Sarandon, a teen returning to prison for a simulated rape victim who turns the tables on her attacker. "The most grueling, physically demanding, and emotionally exhausting" of her career, she characterized her position as "the most grueling, most physically demanding, physically demanding, and emotionally exhausting part of her career. During one performance, a stalker in the audience interrupted the performance by asking Fawcett if she had seen the photographs and letters he had mailed her. The man was arrested and arrested only for disorderly conduct, but police were allowed to give him a summons.

Francine Hughes' role in the fact-based television film The Burning Bed (1984), earning her her first of her four Emmy Award nominations each year. In this case, victims of domestic violence were the first television movie to have a national 800 number that offered assistance to others in the situation. It was the highest-rated television movie of the season.

Fawcett appeared in the film version of Extremities in 1986, which was a hit financially. She received a Golden Globe Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama. Colleen Dewhurst, a comedian, appeared in Between Two Women with Jon Avnet, and she appeared in numerous films as well-known or famous women. Barbara Hutton, the Beate Klarsfeld story and a struggling Woolworth heiress in Bad Little Rich Girl: The Barbara Hutton Story, she was nominated for Golden Globe Awards for her role as Beate Klarsfeld in Nazi Hunter: The Beate Klarsfeld Story and Barbara Hutton's Story in 1989. Margaret Bourke-White, a retired LIFE magazine photojournalist, was nominated for two Golden Globe prizes for her role as Beate Klarsfeld in

Diane Downs' appearance in the miniseries Small Sacrifices earned her her second Emmy Award nomination and her sixth Golden Globe Award nomination in 1989. Fawcett's appearance in the television miniseries earned a Peabody Award for excellence in television, with Fawcett's performance lauded by the group, which said, "Ms. Fawcett conveys a sense of realism rarely seen in a television miniseries (to) a drama of extraordinary strength."

Fawcett had steadfastly refused to sign a photographer for nude photographs of her in magazines throughout the 1980s, even though she had briefly appeared topless in the 1980 film Saturn 3. In the December 1995 issue of Playboy, she caused a lot of buzz by appearing semi-nude. She appeared in a pictorial for the July 1997 issue of Playboy, which later became a top seller at the age of 50. Fawcett had actually used her own body to paint on canvas, according to the issue and its accompanying video; for years, it had been one of her hopes.

Fawcett's comments after a tumultuous interview and appeared disoriented on the Late Show with David Letterman on June 5, 1997, were dismissive. Months later, she told The Howard Stern Show that her behavior was simply her way of joking around with the television host, partly in the disguise of promoting her Playboy pictorial and video. She explained that what seemed to be random looks around the theater was just her looking and reacting to fans in the audience. Despite the fact that the Letterman appearance sparked rumors and many rumors of her expense, she returned to the show in 1999. Letterman concluded an incoherent and largely unresponsive interview with Joaquin Phoenix in February 2009 by saying, "We owe an apology to Farrah Fawcett."

Robert Duvall selected Fawcett to play his wife in The Apostle, his first independent film that he was making that year. For the film, she was selected for the Best Support Female award by the Independent Spirit Award. She co-starred in the feature film Dr. T & the Women in 2000 as Richard Gere's wife. (Her character has a mental breakdown, resulting in Fawcett's first complete nude appearance.)

Fawcett befriended artist and designer Christopher Ciccone around 2001. In his book Life with My Sister Madonna, Ciccone mentioned Fawcett, who invited him to see her abstract paintings and sculptures. In 2002, Fawcett's collaboration with sculptor Keith Edmier was on display at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art in a show titled Contemporary Projects 7: Keith Edmier and Farrah Fawcett 2000. The exhibit was later on display at the Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The sculpture was also displayed in a series of photographs and a book by Rizzoli.

Fawcett appeared in a production of Bobbi Boland, the tragicomic tale of a former Miss Florida, in November 2003. However, during preview performances, the show never officially opened when it was closed. Fawcett was described as "vibrating with indignation" over the producer's bizarre decision to suspend the production; just days before, the same manufacturer closed an Off-Broadway show she had been supporting.

Fawcett continued to work in television and appeared in the made-for-television films and on a popular television show starring Ally McBeal, four episodes of Spin City, and four episodes of The Guardian. In 2004, she received her third Emmy nomination for her second appearance on the latter show.

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