:Mia Farrow

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Maria de Lourdes Villiers Farrow was born February 9, 1945,{{sfn|Bartrop|2012|p=86}}{{sfn|Reuter|1999|p=39}} in Los Angeles, California, the third child and eldest daughter of Australian film director John Farrow and his second wife, the Irish actress Maureen O'Sullivan. She is one of seven children, with older brothers Michael Damien, Patrick,{{cite web|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/5563507/Mia-Farrows-brother-commits-suicide.html|work=The Telegraph|title=Mia Farrow's brother commits suicide|date=June 17, 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100805034752/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/5563507/Mia-Farrows-brother-commits-suicide.html|archive-date=August 5, 2010}} younger brother John Charles,{{efn|In the late 1960s, Mia Farrow's younger brother, John Charles Villiers-Farrow, was briefly wed to Polish socialite Ava Roosevelt (née Fichtner), who later married one of FDR's grandsons.{{cite web|work=New York Post|url=https://nypost.com/2014/08/08/i-would-have-been-the-manson-familys-6th-victim/|title=How I was almost the Manson Family's 6th victim|date=August 8, 2014|last=Marsh|first=Julia|access-date=July 24, 2020|archive-date=July 24, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200724030237/https://nypost.com/2014/08/08/i-would-have-been-the-manson-familys-6th-victim/|url-status=live}} According to Roosevelt, the marriage ended due to the utter lack of compatibility between them.{{Cite web|url=https://www.theracingheart.com/about-the-author-2/|title=About the Author – The Racing Heart|accessdate=April 28, 2022|archive-date=May 23, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220523011450/https://www.theracingheart.com/about-the-author-2/|url-status=live}} John Charles' pederastic tendencies surfaced in the press in 2012, when he was arrested for molesting two boys in Maryland.{{cite web|work=The Hollywood Reporter|url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/mia-farrows-brother-arrested-child-sex-abuse-390910|title=Mia Farrow's Brother Arrested on Child Sex Abuse Charges|date=November 15, 2012|last=Hayden|first=Erik|access-date=July 24, 2020|archive-date=July 24, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200724040916/https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/mia-farrows-brother-arrested-child-sex-abuse-390910|url-status=live}} {{As of|2013}} he is serving a 10-year prison sentence.{{cite web|work=Daily News|location=New York|url=https://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/gossip/mia-farrow-brother-sentenced-10-years-sexually-abusing-boys-article-1.1500032|title=Mia Farrow's brother sentenced to 10 years in jail for sexually abusing two young boys|date=October 29, 2013|access-date=July 24, 2020|archive-date=July 24, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200724054131/https://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/gossip/mia-farrow-brother-sentenced-10-years-sexually-abusing-boys-article-1.1500032|url-status=live}} For her part, Mia has refused comment on the case involving her brother.{{cite web|work=E!|url=https://www.eonline.com/news/363855/mia-farrow-s-younger-brother-john-charles-villiers-farrow-arrested-on-child-sex-abuse-charges|title=Mia Farrow's Younger Brother, John Charles Villiers-Farrow, Arrested on Child Sex Abuse Charges|date=November 16, 2012|last=Grossberg|first=Josh|access-date=July 24, 2020|archive-date=July 24, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200724024553/https://www.eonline.com/news/363855/mia-farrow-s-younger-brother-john-charles-villiers-farrow-arrested-on-child-sex-abuse-charges|url-status=live}}}} and younger sisters Prudence, Stephanie, and Tisa.{{Sfn|Current Biography Yearbook|1970|p=132}} Her godparents were director George Cukor and columnist Louella Parsons.{{sfn|Parish|2004|p=222}}

Farrow was raised in Beverly Hills, California, in a strict Catholic household.{{cite web|url=https://www.pbs.org/weta/finding-your-roots/blog/mia-farrows-interactive-family-tree/|work=Oregon Public Broadcasting (OPB)|publisher=PBS|location=Portland, Oregon|title=Mia Farrow's Interactive Family Tree|date=March 9, 2016|author=Gates, Henry Louis Jr.|author-link=Henry Louis Gates Jr.|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161109135325/http://www.pbs.org/weta/finding-your-roots/blog/mia-farrows-interactive-family-tree/|archive-date=November 9, 2016|series=Finding Your Roots}}{{sfn|Parish|2004|pages=222–223}} She was described by her family as an eccentric and imaginative child,{{sfn|Parish|2004|p=222}} and would occasionally put on performances with "toy daggers and fake blood" for passing celebrity tour buses. Aged two, she made her film debut in a short documentary, Unusual Occupations: Film Tot Holiday (1947).{{Sfn|Holmes|Negra|2011|p=239}} Farrow attended Catholic parochial schools in Los Angeles for her primary education.{{sfn|Parish|2004|p=222}} At nine years old, she contracted polio during an outbreak in Los Angeles County reportedly affecting 500 people.{{cite news|url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article49874251|title=Polio Strikes Los Angeles|newspaper=The West Australian|location=Perth|date=August 14, 1954|page=4|publisher=National Library of Australia|access-date=March 3, 2012|archive-date=May 3, 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240503034354/https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/49874251|url-status=live}} She was placed in an isolation ward for three weeks{{cite news| url=https://www.nytimes.com/2000/09/26/nyregion/public-lives-older-wiser-and-still-reaching-out-to-help.html|author=Wadler, Joyce|title=PUBLIC LIVES; Older, Wiser and Still Reaching Out to Help|work=The New York Times|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180919061951/https://www.nytimes.com/2000/09/26/nyregion/public-lives-older-wiser-and-still-reaching-out-to-help.html|archive-date=September 19, 2018|date=September 26, 2000}} and later said the experience "marked the end of [her] childhood."

In 1958, the Farrow family temporarily relocated to Spain, where her father was filming John Paul Jones (1959). Farrow, then age 13, made a brief uncredited appearance in the film.{{sfn|Parish|2004|p=222}} In September 1958, Farrow and her sister Prudence were sent to attend a convent-operated boarding school in Surrey, England{{sfn|Parish|2004|p=222}}{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2006/jan/29/2|title='I've always had a sense of the unworthiness of myself'|work=The Guardian|date=January 29, 2006|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190203151254/https://www.theguardian.com/film/2006/jan/29/2|archive-date=February 3, 2019|first=Gaby|last=Wood}}{{cite news|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/features/mia-farrow-my-faith-helps-me-through-hard-times-480665.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220512/https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/features/mia-farrow-my-faith-helps-me-through-hard-times-480665.html |archive-date=May 12, 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|title=Mia Farrow: 'My faith helps me through hard times'|work=The Independent|date=June 2, 2006|first=Gill|last=Pringle}} while her father completed post-production on John Paul Jones in London.{{sfn|Farrow|1997|p=45}}

On October 28, 1958, Farrow's eldest brother Michael died in a plane crash near Pacoima, California while a member of the United States Marine Corps Reserve.{{sfn|Parish|2004|p=222}}{{cite news|work=Los Angeles Times|date=November 5, 1958|title=Maureen O'Sullivan Attends Rites for Son|page=6|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/28287810/the_los_angeles_times/|via=Newspapers.com|access-date=February 11, 2019|archive-date=February 12, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190212012843/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/28287810/the_los_angeles_times/|url-status=live}} {{open access}} After his burial, Farrow returned to boarding school in Surrey. Her family temporarily lived in the London Park Lane Hotel before renting a home in Chelsea.{{sfn|Farrow|1997|p=49}} Farrow's father began drinking heavily, which strained the marriage.{{sfn|Farrow|1997|pages=50–51}} In her memoir, Farrow recalls witnessing violent arguments between her parents while visiting their Chelsea residence.{{sfn|Farrow|1997|pages=50–52}}

When Farrow was 16, she returned with her family to the United States and continued her education at an all-girls Catholic school in Los Angeles, Marymount High School. (She was among its most famous alumnae.){{cite magazine |url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-features/barbara-broccoli-profile-james-bond-1235058174/ |last=Siegel |first=Tatiana |title=Why 'Bond' Mogul Barbara Broccoli Has Earned a License to Chill |magazine=The Hollywood Reporter |date=December 7, 2021 |access-date=December 10, 2021 |archive-date=January 9, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240109193754/https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-features/barbara-broccoli-profile-james-bond-1235058174/ |url-status=live }}{{sfn|Parish|2004|p=222}} Farrow subsequently studied at Bard College.{{Cite web |last=Taylor |first=Robyn |date=November 2021 |title=This Hudson Valley College Boasts Superstar Alumni |url=https://wpdh.com/this-hudson-valley-college-boasts-superstar-alumni/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230221080514/https://wpdh.com/this-hudson-valley-college-boasts-superstar-alumni/ |archive-date=February 21, 2023 |access-date=2023-02-21 |website=101.5 WPDH |language=en}}

During this time, her parents were struggling financially, and her mother relocated to New York City to act in Broadway productions.{{sfn|Farrow|1997|p=58}} Farrow's father remained in California, where he died the following year of a heart attack, when she was 17 years old.{{sfn|Farrow|1997|p=59}}

The family was left with little money after her father's death, prompting Farrow to begin working to help support herself and her siblings. She initially found work as a fashion model.{{cite web|url=http://www.vogue.com.au/beauty/vogue+loves/beauty+icon+mia+farrow,14939|author=Hall, Anni| title=Beauty icon: Mia Farrow|work=Vogue|date=October 25, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111130092742/https://www.vogue.com.au/beauty/vogue+loves/beauty+icon+mia+farrow,14939|archive-date=November 30, 2011}} She began in theatre as a replacement in a New York stage production of The Importance of Being Earnest.{{sfn|Farrow|1997|p=66}}

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Farrow screen-tested for the role of Liesl von Trapp in The Sound of Music (1965), but did not get the part.{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-10912919|title=Profile: Mia Farrow|work=BBC News|date=August 9, 2010|access-date=August 7, 2013|archive-date=October 3, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131003201000/http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-10912919|url-status=live}} The footage has been preserved, and appears on the fortieth Anniversary Edition DVD of The Sound of Music.{{cite web|title=The Von Trapp Family Reunites!|url=https://abcnews.go.com/GMA/story?id=1303227|work=ABC News|author= Staff|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181105233107/https://abcnews.go.com/GMA/story?id=1303227|archive-date=November 5, 2018|date=November 11, 2005}} She began her acting career in movies by appearing in supporting roles in several 1960s films, making her first credited appearance in Guns at Batasi (1964).

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The same year, she achieved stardom on the successful primetime soap opera Peyton Place, playing naive, waif-like Allison MacKenzie.{{cite web|last=Orth|first=Maureen|title=Momma Mia!|url=http://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2013/11/mia-farrow-frank-sinatra-ronan-farrow|work=Vanity Fair|date=November 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151222193534/https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2013/11/mia-farrow-frank-sinatra-ronan-farrow|archive-date=December 22, 2015}} Farrow left the series in 1966 at the urging of Frank Sinatra, whom she married on July 19, 1966, when she was 21 and he was 50 years old.{{Sfn|Newcomb|2004|p=1755}}{{Sfn|Toth|1981|p=357}} She subsequently appeared in her first featured role in the British spy film A Dandy in Aspic (1968).{{sfn|Thompson|1967|p=75}}

Farrow's first leading film role was in the psychological horror film Rosemary's Baby (1968), which was a critical and commercial success. It is highly regarded as a classic of the horror genre, and named the second-best horror film of all time (after Psycho) by The Guardian in 2010.{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2010/oct/22/rosemarys-baby-polanksi-horror|work=The Guardian|title=Rosemary's Baby: No 2 best horror film of all time|date=October 22, 2010|author=Billson, Anne|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130824082031/http://www.theguardian.com/film/2010/oct/22/rosemarys-baby-polanksi-horror|archive-date=August 24, 2013}} She won numerous awards, including the Golden Globe Award for New Star of the Year – Actress,{{cite web|url=https://www.goldenglobes.com/person/mia-farrow|work=Golden Globes|title=Mia Farrow|publisher=Hollywood Foreign Press Association|archive-url=https://archive.today/20190210084707/https://www.goldenglobes.com/person/mia-farrow|archive-date=February 10, 2019}} and became established as a leading actress. Film critic and author Stephen Farber described her performance as having an "electrifying impact... one of the rare instances of actor and character achieving a miraculous, almost mythical match". Film critic Roger Ebert called the film "brilliant", and noted, "A great deal of the credit for this achievement must go to Mia Farrow, as Rosemary."{{cite news|url=http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/19680729/REVIEWS/807290301/1023|author=Ebert, Roger|work=Chicago Sun-Times|date=July 29, 1968|title=Rosemary's Baby|access-date=August 29, 2006|archive-date=March 6, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130306124046/http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=%2F19680729%2FREVIEWS%2F807290301%2F1023|url-status=dead}}

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Following Rosemary's Baby, Farrow was to be cast as Mattie in True Grit and was keen on the role. But, prior to filming she made Secret Ceremony in England with Elizabeth Taylor and Robert Mitchum. While filming, Mitchum told her that True Grit director Henry Hathaway had a reputation for being rude to actresses. Farrow asked producer Hal Wallis to replace Hathaway. Wallis refused; Farrow quit the role, which was then given to Kim Darby.Davis, Ronald L. (2003), Duke: The Life and Image of John Wayne, University of Oklahoma Press, p. 286.

Secret Ceremony divided critics but has developed a devoted following. Farrow's other late 1960s films include John and Mary (1969) opposite Dustin Hoffman.{{cite news |title=Happy ending for Mia |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1300&dat=19691211&id=u8hUAAAAIBAJ&pg=6494,2092771 |newspaper=The Age |location=Melbourne, Victoria |via=Google News Archive |date=December 11, 1969 |page=22 |access-date=September 13, 2020 |archive-date=June 9, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230609035736/https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1300&dat=19691211&id=u8hUAAAAIBAJ&pg=6494,2092771 |url-status=live }} {{free access}} She earned a Golden Globe nomination for Best Actress in a Comedy or Musical.

Beginning in the early 1970s, Farrow appeared onstage in numerous classical plays in London, beginning with the Royal Shakespeare Company's 1971 production of Jeanne d'Arc au bûcher{{em dash}}in which she portrayed Joan of Arc{{em dash}}at the Royal Albert Hall.{{failed verification|reason=Source does not mention RSC, performance is not a play (classical or otherwise), one is not numerous|date=January 2021}}{{cite web | last=McHarg | first=Sue | url=https://www.theguardian.com/news/2015/feb/08/joan-at-the-stake-mia-farrow-andre-previn | date=February 8, 2015 | title=From the Observer archive, February 7, 1971: Joan at the Stake is the hottest ticket in town | archive-url=https://archive.today/20150422084704/http://www.theguardian.com/news/2015/feb/08/joan-at-the-stake-mia-farrow-andre-previn | archive-date=April 22, 2015 | work=The Guardian | access-date=December 12, 2016 | url-status=live }} Farrow made history as the first American actress to join the Royal Shakespeare Company.{{Unreliable source?|reason=Why is this not supported by a UK theatre source?|date=January 2021}}{{Sfn|Bartrop|2012|p=86}} The same year, she appeared in the British horror film See No Evil, portraying a blind woman whose family is stalked by a killer.{{cite news|title=Screen: Killer Pursues Mia Farrow in 'See No Evil':Fleischer Directs a Work by Clemens Relatives of a Blind Woman Murdered|date=September 3, 1971|author=Greenspun, Roger|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1971/09/03/archives/screen-killer-pursues-mia-farrow-in-see-no-evilfleischer-directs-a.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190211022251/https://www.nytimes.com/1971/09/03/archives/screen-killer-pursues-mia-farrow-in-see-no-evilfleischer-directs-a.html|archive-date=February 11, 2019}} Though he gave the film a mixed review, Roger Greenspun of The New York Times wrote that Farrow "plays her blind patrician with exactly the right small depth of pathos and vulnerable nobility." Farrow also starred in the television film Goodbye, Raggedy Ann (1971), playing an unstable Hollywood starlet.{{cite web|url=http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b72033cf9|work=British Film Institute|title=Goodbye, Raggedy Ann|archive-url=https://archive.today/20190211092033/http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b72033cf9|archive-date=February 11, 2019|access-date=February 11, 2019|url-status=dead}} In 1972, Farrow starred in the French black comedy film Dr. Popaul, opposite Jean-Paul Belmondo, as a secretary who marries a womanizer,{{sfn|González|1993|p=79}} and in Carol Reed's Follow Me! as a woman suspected of having an affair by her wealthy husband.{{sfn|González|1993|pages=132–133}} Onstage, she starred as the lead in a 1972 stage production of Mary Rose,{{cite news | first=Emma | last=Cook | url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/how-we-met-john-tavener-and-mia-farrow-1138155.html | title=HOW WE MET: JOHN TAVENER AND MIA FARROW | work=The Independent | date=January 11, 1998 | archive-url=https://archive.today/20150422084638/http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/how-we-met-john-tavener-and-mia-farrow-1138155.html | archive-date=April 22, 2015 | access-date=September 4, 2017 | url-status=live }} followed by the role of Irina in The Three Sisters,{{cite web | url=http://www.greenwichtheatre.org.uk/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=3:ourhistory&catid=1:about-us&Itemid=23 | title=GREENWICH THEATRE: A BRIEF HISTORY | work=Greenwich Theatre| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110807155334/http://www.greenwichtheatre.org.uk/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=3:ourhistory&catid=1:about-us&Itemid=23|archive-date=August 7, 2011}} and a dual role in The House of Bernarda Alba (both 1973).{{cite web | url=http://www.backstage.com/news/the-dissonance-of-dissidents/ |last=Robb|first=J. Cooper| title=The Dissonance of Dissidents | work=Backstage|date=November 25, 2002 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150927065357/http://www.backstage.com/news/the-dissonance-of-dissidents/|archive-date=September 27, 2015}}

Farrow was cast as Daisy Buchanan in the 1974 Paramount Pictures film adaptation of The Great Gatsby, directed by Jack Clayton. The film was a commercial success, grossing over $25 million in the United States,{{cite web|work=The Numbers|url=https://www.the-numbers.com/movie/Great-Gatsby-The|title=The Great Gatsby (1974)|archive-url=https://archive.today/20190211023322/https://www.the-numbers.com/movie/Great-Gatsby-The%23tab=summary|archive-date=February 11, 2019|access-date=February 11, 2019|url-status=live}} while Variety deemed it "the most concerted attempt to probe the peculiar ethos of the Beautiful People of the 1920s."{{cite web|work=Variety|date=December 31, 1973|title=The Great Gatsby|url=https://variety.com/1973/film/reviews/the-great-gatsby-2-1200423157/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140121014052/https://variety.com/1973/film/reviews/the-great-gatsby-2-1200423157/|archive-date=January 21, 2014}} In 1975, Farrow was cast as the lead in a stage production of The Marrying of Ann Leete, followed by The Zykovs (1976), both of which were staged at the Aldwych Theatre.{{cite web | url=http://theatricalia.com/play/9r/the-marrying-of-ann-leete/production/1db | title=Production of The Marrying of Ann Leete | work=Theatricalia|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170518013842/https://theatricalia.com/play/9r/the-marrying-of-ann-leete/production/1db|archive-date=May 18, 2017}}{{cite web | url=http://www.thewonderfulworldofgarybond.com/plays---the-zykovs.html | title=Plays- The Zykovs | publisher=Gary Bond | url-status=usurped | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160305195953/http://www.thewonderfulworldofgarybond.com/plays---the-zykovs.html | archive-date=March 5, 2016 | df=mdy-all }} She again appeared at the Aldwych in the 1976 production of Ivanov, portraying Sasha.{{cite journal|journal=Plays and Players|issue=24|title=Enough of Ivanov|page=26|publisher=Hansom Books|location=Philadelphia|oclc= 175307348}} She also appeared onscreen, portraying Peter Pan in the television musical film Peter Pan (1976), and as a woman haunted by the ghost of a deceased girl in the horror film Full Circle (1977).{{sfn|González|1993|pages=81, 133}}

Farrow had a supporting role in Robert Altman's comedy A Wedding (1978), playing the mute daughter of a trucking company tycoon.{{sfn|González|1993|p=90}} The same year, she starred with Rock Hudson in the disaster film Avalanche,{{sfn|González|1993|p=90}} followed by the British Agatha Christie adaptation Death on the Nile.{{sfn|González|1993|pages=90–91}} In 1979, Farrow appeared on Broadway opposite Anthony Perkins in the play Romantic Comedy by Bernard Slade,{{cite web | first=Andrea | last=Chambers| url=http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20075365,00.html | title=Mia Farrow Has Her First Broadway Hit, Loses Her Second Husband and Adopts Her Seventh Child | work= People|date=December 17, 1979| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180114184427/http://people.com/archive/mia-farrow-has-her-first-broadway-hit-loses-her-second-husband-and-adopts-her-seventh-child-vol-12-no-25/|archive-date=January 14, 2018}}{{sfn|Farrow|1997|p=170}} and in the romance film Hurricane, opposite Jason Robards.{{sfn|González|1993|p=134}}

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Beginning in the 1980s, Farrow had a decade-long relationship with director Woody Allen; they collaborated on many of his films. Her first film with Allen was the comedy A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy (1982), in a role originally intended for Diane Keaton.{{sfn|Bailey|2014|p=55}} She next appeared in Allen's Zelig (1983), portraying a psychiatrist whose patient, Leonard Zelig (Allen), takes on characteristics of those around him in an effort to be liked.{{sfn|Bailey|2014|p=57}}

In Broadway Danny Rose (1984), Farrow starred as the mistress of a washed-up lounge musician who becomes involved with the mob. Both her character, and the film, were inspired by a woman she and Allen had frequently encountered while dining at Rao's, an Italian restaurant in East Harlem.{{sfn|Bailey|2014|p=60}} Farrow gained weight for the role and adopted a thick Italian-American accent; Allen biographer John Bailey described her as "unrecognizable" in the role.{{sfn|Bailey|2014|p=60}} Farrow gained critical notice for this role, and she was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Comedy or Musical. Allen subsequently reflected that her performance was a "very, very brave thing for her to do," as the majority of her scenes required her to wear sunglasses that block view of her eyes.{{sfn|Allen|1993|p=147}} Farrow also voiced the title role in the animated film The Last Unicorn (1982). After Broadway Danny Rose, Farrow had a supporting role in Jeannot Szwarc's superhero film Supergirl (1984), playing Alura In-Ze, the mother of Supergirl.{{sfn|González|1993|p=105}} The film was considered a box office bomb, earning $13 million against its $35 million budget.{{cite web | url=http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=supergirl.htm | title=Supergirl (1984) | work=Box Office Mojo | access-date=February 12, 2019 | archive-date=September 24, 2018 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180924105831/https://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=supergirl.htm | url-status=live }}{{cite news|author=Stecklow, Steve|title=Box Office Bombs May Turn Into Skyrockets On Videotape|work=Chicago Tribune|date=April 19, 1985|url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/1985/04/19/box-office-bombs-may-turn-into-skyrockets-on-videotape/|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171029065906/http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1985-04-19/entertainment/8501230412_1_videotape-box-office-top-videocassette-rentals|archive-date=October 29, 2017}}

Farrow reunited with Allen for his The Purple Rose of Cairo (1985), which follows a film character (portrayed by Jeff Daniels) who emerges from the screen and enters the real world. He falls in love with a waitress (Farrow).{{sfn|Bailey|2014|pages=62–63}} Farrow earned a BAFTA nomination for Best Actress{{cite web|url=http://awards.bafta.org/award/1986/film|work=BAFTA Awards|publisher=British Academy of Film and Television Arts|title=Film in 1986|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130502233936/http://awards.bafta.org/award/1986/film|archive-date=May 2, 2013}} and a Golden Globe nomination for Best Actress in a Comedy or Musical. Allen next cast Farrow as the lead in his drama Hannah and Her Sisters (1986), which follows a New York City family over a period of two years between two Thanksgivings.{{sfn|Bailey|2014|pages=66–67}} In the film, Farrow starred as the titular Hannah opposite Barbara Hershey and Dianne Wiest (who portray her sisters), and Michael Caine as her husband.{{sfn|Bailey|2014|pages=66–67}} Released in February 1986, Hannah and Her Sisters was a box-office hit, grossing $35 million in the United States during its original theatrical release.{{cite web|url=http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=hannahandhersisters.htm|title=Hannah and Her Sisters (1986) |work=Box Office Mojo|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180622063145/http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=hannahandhersisters.htm|archive-date=June 22, 2018}} The film was praised by critic Roger Ebert, who felt it was Allen's best work to date.{{sfn|Bailey|2014|p=69}} Farrow earned her third BAFTA nomination, again in the category of Best Leading Actress.{{cite web|url=http://awards.bafta.org/award/1987/film|work=BAFTA Awards|publisher=British Academy of Film and Television Arts|title=Film in 1987|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130502232102/http://awards.bafta.org/award/1987/film|archive-date=May 2, 2013}}

In 1987, Farrow appeared in two films directed by Allen: the comedy Radio Days, in which she had a supporting role as an aspiring radio star;{{sfn|Bailey|2014|p=70}} and the drama September, in which she played a woman haunted by her killing of her mother's abusive lover.{{sfn|Bailey|2014|p=77}} Farrow shot the latter film twice, originally with her own mother Maureen O'Sullivan playing her character's mother in the film.{{sfn|Bailey|2014|p=77}} Displeased with the final cut, Allen decided to recast several roles and reshoot the film entirely. The second and final version featured Elaine Stritch as Farrow's mother in the film.{{sfn|Bailey|2014|pages=77–76}} Farrow was subsequently cast opposite Gena Rowlands in Allen's drama Another Woman (1988), which follows a philosophy professor (Rowlands) who becomes acquainted with a troubled woman undergoing an existential crisis (Farrow).{{sfn|Bailey|2014|p=79}} While the film earned praise from critics such as Roger Ebert,{{cite web |last=Ebert |first=Roger |author-link=Roger Ebert |title=Another Woman |work=Chicago Sun-Times |date=November 18, 1988 |url=http://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/another-woman-1988|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181020223819/https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/another-woman-1988|archive-date=October 20, 2018}} its screenplay and dialogue were criticized by Vincent Canby in The New York Times. He described it as "full of an earnest teen-age writer's superfluous words."{{cite web |last=Canby |first=Vincent |author-link=Vincent Canby |title=Review/Film; Allen Directs Rowlands In 'Another Woman' |work=The New York Times |date=October 14, 1988 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/movie/review?res=940DE7D8123BF937A25753C1A96E948260 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190211035931/https://www.nytimes.com/1988/10/14/movies/review-film-allen-directs-rowlands-in-another-woman.html|archive-date=February 11, 2019}} In 1989, Farrow starred in a segment of Allen's anthology film New York Stories, playing the shiksa fiancée of a Jewish man (Allen). She appeared in a supporting role in his film Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989), portraying a producer who falls in love with a documentary filmmaker.{{sfn|Bailey|2014|pages=82–84}}

She was next cast by Allen in his fantasy film Alice (1990), marking the couple's 11th collaboration. In Alice, Farrow portrays the title character, an upper-class Manhattan woman who becomes enamored with a jazz musician. Her attraction results in feelings of Catholic guilt that manifest as physical ailments which she attempts to treat with herbal medicine.{{sfn|Bailey|2014|pages=90–91}} Vincent Canby praised her portrayal as career-defining, writing: "Miss Farrow gives a performance that sums up and then tops all of the performances that have preceded it."{{cite news | last = Canby | first = Vincent | title = Woody Allen's Magical Realism Has an Herb for Every Plaint | newspaper = The New York Times | date = December 25, 1990 | url = https://www.nytimes.com/1990/12/25/movies/review-film-woody-allen-s-magical-realism-has-an-herb-for-every-plaint.html | archive-url = https://archive.today/20141009214500/http://www.nytimes.com/1990/12/25/movies/review-film-woody-allen-s-magical-realism-has-an-herb-for-every-plaint.html | archive-date = October 9, 2014 | access-date = February 11, 2019 | url-status = live }} She was nominated for a Golden Globe for Best Actress in a Comedy or Musical, and won a National Board of Review award for Best Actress.{{cite web|work=National Board of Review|url=http://www.nationalboardofreview.org/award-names/best-actress/|title=Best Actress Archives|archive-url=https://archive.today/20131130175036/http://www.nationalboardofreview.org/award-names/best-actress/|archive-date=November 30, 2013}} The next year, Farrow appeared as a circus performer in Allen's black-and-white comedy Shadows and Fog.{{sfn|Bailey|2014|pages=92–93}}

Farrow had a lead role in Allen's drama Husbands and Wives (1992), in which she portrayed the wife of a writer and professor (Allen) having an affair with one of his students.{{sfn|Bailey|2014|pages=95–96}} Husbands and Wives marked Farrow's final collaboration with Allen. It was released shortly after the couple's highly publicized separation.{{sfn|Bailey|2014|pages=95–96}} Todd McCarthy of Variety noted in his review of the film that much of its audience would watch it "for the titillation of seeing Allen make out with a 21-year-old and go through a wrenching split from Farrow onscreen. Even those who enter in this frame of mind, however, probably will put these thoughts aside for the most part as they become involved in the romantic longings and verbal crossfire of a host of interesting, difficult, intersecting characters."{{cite web |last=McCarthy |first=Todd |author-link=Todd McCarthy |title=Review: 'Husbands and Wives' |work=Variety |date=August 26, 1992 |url=https://variety.com/1992/film/reviews/husbands-and-wives-2-1200430482/ |archive-url=https://archive.today/20190211043202/https://variety.com/1992/film/reviews/husbands-and-wives-2-1200430482/ |archive-date=February 11, 2019 |access-date=February 11, 2019 |url-status=live }}

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Citing the need to devote herself to raising her young children, Farrow worked less frequently during the 1990s. But she appeared in leading roles in several films, including the Irish film Widows' Peak (1994), in which she starred as "Miss O'Hare", the mysterious victim of a vengeful, matriarchal figure in a small Irish village.{{cite magazine|url=https://ew.com/article/1993/08/20/mia-farrow-widows-peak/|magazine=Entertainment Weekly|title=Mia Farrow in Widow's Peak|last=Lovece|first=Frank|date=August 20, 1993|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151106111415/https://ew.com/article/1993/08/20/mia-farrow-widows-peak/|archive-date=November 6, 2015}} She also appeared in the comedy Miami Rhapsody (1995), playing the mother of a single woman in her thirties (played by Sarah Jessica Parker).{{cite news|newspaper=The Washington Post|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1995/02/03/miami-rhapsody-an-inspired-marriage/d21f0f37-2ad0-4be7-9d5f-fd1527db7b83/|title=Miami Rhapsody: An Inspired Marriage|last=Hinson|first=Hal|date=February 3, 1995|archive-url=https://archive.today/20190211044702/https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1995/02/03/miami-rhapsody-an-inspired-marriage/d21f0f37-2ad0-4be7-9d5f-fd1527db7b83/?noredirect=on|archive-date=February 11, 2019|access-date=February 11, 2019|url-status=live}}

That year Farrow also had a lead role in the film adaptation of Craig Lucas' Off-Broadway play Reckless (1995), a dark comedy in which she portrayed a woman whose husband arranges a contract killing against her.{{cite news|first=Stephen|last=Holden|authorlink=Stephen Holden|title=FILM REVIEW; Running From a Hit Man and Her Own Past|newspaper=The New York Times |date=November 17, 1995|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1995/11/17/movies/film-review-running-from-a-hit-man-and-her-own-past.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150526144121/https://www.nytimes.com/1995/11/17/movies/film-review-running-from-a-hit-man-and-her-own-past.html|archive-date=May 26, 2015}} Critic Stephen Holden praised her performance, writing: "Ms. Farrow is so perfectly cast as Rachel that the character seems a distillation of nearly every role she has played since she was a teen-ager in Peyton Place." In the spring of 1996, Farrow had an uncredited voice role in the Broadway play Getting Away with Murder, appearing in a pre-recorded voice message.{{cite web | url=http://www.ibdb.com/production.php?id=4322 | title=Getting Away With Murder| work=Internet Broadway Database| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20180426075031/http://www.ibdb.com/broadway-production/getting-away-with-murder-4322|archive-date=April 26, 2018}}

In 1997, Farrow published her autobiography, What Falls Away.{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/books/97/02/23/reviews/970223.23harrist.html|title=Intimate Strangers|first=Kathryn|last=Harrison|work=The New York Times|date=February 23, 1997|access-date=February 11, 2017|archive-date=February 16, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170216033434/http://www.nytimes.com/books/97/02/23/reviews/970223.23harrist.html|url-status=live}} She had a cameo appearance as herself in Howard Stern's biographical comedy, Private Parts.{{cite web|work=Variety|url=https://variety.com/1997/film/reviews/private-parts-1200449335/|title=Private Parts|date=March 8, 1997|last=McCarthy|first=Todd|authorlink=Todd McCarthy|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181103011459/https://variety.com/1997/film/reviews/private-parts-1200449335/|archive-date=November 3, 2018}} She appeared on television in the 1998 The Wonderful World of Disney segment Miracle at Midnight, a dramatization of the Rescue of the Danish Jews during the Holocaust.{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1998/05/16/arts/television-review-when-denmark-didn-t-look-the-other-way.html|work=The New York Times|date=May 16, 1998|title=TELEVISION REVIEW; When Denmark Didn't Look the Other Way|last=Joyner|first=Will|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180321210208/http://www.nytimes.com/1998/05/16/arts/television-review-when-denmark-didn-t-look-the-other-way.html|archive-date=March 21, 2018}} Will Joyner of The New York Times credited Farrow's performance in the segment as "crucial to the production's success." Farrow was next cast as a woman suffering Alzheimer's disease in the television film Forget Me Never.{{cite web|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1999-oct-02-ca-17673-story.html|work=Los Angeles Times|title=Farrow a Standout in Poignant 'Never'|date=October 2, 1999|author=Linan, Steven|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150921115759/http://articles.latimes.com/1999/oct/02/entertainment/ca-17673|archive-date=September 21, 2015}} Critic Steven Linan of the Los Angeles Times praised Farrow, writing that she "convincingly conveys the fear and insecurity that accompany such a downward spiral." Her portrayal earned her her seventh Golden Globe nomination for Best Actress, in the category of Miniseries or Television Film. Also in 1999, Farrow appeared in the comedy Coming Soon, playing the hippie mother of a high school student.{{cite web|work=LA Weekly|url=https://www.laweekly.com/film/the-big-wet-one-2132149|title=The Big Wet One|first=Manohla|last=Dargis|author-link=Manohla Dargis|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190211050539/https://www.laweekly.com/film/the-big-wet-one-2132149|archive-date=February 11, 2019|date=June 14, 2000}}

In November 1999, Farrow returned to Broadway portraying Honey in a staged reading of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, opposite Matthew Broderick, Jonathan Pryce, and Uta Hagen.{{cite web|work=The New York Times|title=THEATER; A Timeless Moment Grounded in Impermanence|last=Canby|first=Vincent|author-link=Vincent Canby|date=November 28, 1999|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1999/11/28/theater/theater-a-timeless-moment-grounded-in-impermanence.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170914145520/http://www.nytimes.com/1999/11/28/theater/theater-a-timeless-moment-grounded-in-impermanence.html|archive-date=September 14, 2017}} Vincent Canby praised the production in The New York Times, writing that "as performed by Mr. Broderick and Ms. Farrow, Nick and Honey took on dimensions I have never seen before." The reading was subsequently staged in Los Angeles in the spring of 2000.{{cite web | url=http://www.playbill.com/news/article/hagen-pryce-gallagher-and-farrow-to-cry-woolf-in-l.a.-april-16-88522 | title=Hagen, Pryce, Gallagher and Farrow To Cry Woolf in L.A., April 16| work=Playbill|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181107104411/http://www.playbill.com/news/article/hagen-pryce-gallagher-and-farrow-to-cry-woolf-in-l.a.-april-16-88522|archive-date=November 7, 2018}}

During the 2000s, Farrow appeared on television. She began with a recurring role on the series Third Watch, in which she guest-starred in five episodes between 2000 and 2003.{{cite web|url=https://www.tvguide.com/celebrities/mia-farrow/credits/165869/|work=TV Guide|title=Mia Farrow Credits|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180623092947/http://www.tvguide.com/celebrities/mia-farrow/credits/165869|archive-date=June 23, 2018}} Farrow also appeared in the 2001 LGBT-themed television film A Girl Thing, opposite Kate Capshaw and Stockard Channing,{{cite web|url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-2001-01-19-0101180415-story.html|work=Chicago Tribune|date=January 19, 2001|title="A Girl Thing": TV's lesbian wave continues...|last=Johnson|first=Steve|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190211001916/https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-2001-01-19-0101180415-story.html|archive-date=February 11, 2019}} followed by a lead in the Lifetime film The Secret Life of Zoey in 2002.{{cite web|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2002-aug-18-tv-coverstory18-story.html|work=Los Angeles Times|last=King|first=Susan|date=August 18, 2002|title=Too Busy to Notice|archive-url=https://archive.today/20190211002109/http://articles.latimes.com/2002/aug/18/news/tv-coverstory18|archive-date=February 11, 2019|access-date=February 11, 2019|url-status=live}} She also appeared in a touring stage production of The Exonerated the same year,{{cite web| url=http://cultureproject.org/highlights/exonerated/| title=The Exonerated| work=The Culture Project| access-date=April 22, 2015| url-status=dead| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150329002310/http://cultureproject.org/highlights/exonerated/| archive-date=March 29, 2015| df=mdy-all}} followed by the lead in Fran's Bed, staged at Connecticut's Long Wharf Theatre in the fall of 2003.{{cite web | url=http://www.playbill.com/news/article/mia-farrow-stars-in-world-premiere-james-lapine-play-frans-bed-at-long-whar-115765 | title=Mia Farrow Stars in World Premiere James Lapine Play Fran's Bed at Long Wharf, Oct. 16-Nov. 23| work=Playbill|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181107104419/http://www.playbill.com/news/article/mia-farrow-stars-in-world-premiere-james-lapine-play-frans-bed-at-long-whar-115765|archive-date=November 7, 2018|author=Hernandez, Ernio|date=October 16, 2003}} She subsequently had a supporting part in the children's television film Samantha: An American Girl Holiday (2004).{{cite web|work=Variety|url=https://variety.com/2004/scene/markets-festivals/samantha-an-american-girl-holiday-1200529386/|title=Samantha: An American Girl Holiday|last=Fries|first=Laura|date=November 22, 2004|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180711224028/https://variety.com/2004/scene/markets-festivals/samantha-an-american-girl-holiday-1200529386/|archive-date=July 11, 2018}}

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Farrow made her first feature film appearance in several years as Mrs. Baylock, a Satanic nanny, in the remake of The Omen (2006). Although the film received a lukewarm critical reception, Farrow's performance was widely praised. The Associated Press declared "thank heaven for Mia Farrow" and said her performance was "a rare instance of the new Omen improving on the old one."{{cite news|url=http://old.chronicle.augusta.com/stories/2006/06/06/mov_84223.shtml|title=At the Movies: 'The Omen'|work=The Augusta Chronicle|location=Augusta, Georgia|date=June 6, 2006|agency=Associated Press|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171028191434/http://old.chronicle.augusta.com/stories/2006/06/06/mov_84223.shtml|archive-date=October 28, 2017}} The Seattle Post-Intelligencer also praised her performance, describing it as "a truly delicious comeback role... Farrow [is] chillingly believable as a sweet-talking nanny from hell."{{cite news|url=http://www.seattlepi.com/movies/272809_omen06q.html|work=Seattle Post-Intelligencer|first1=William|last1=Arnold|title=Final warning: Don't see 'Omen'|date=May 6, 2006|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131229161052/https://www.seattlepi.com/ae/movies/article/Final-warning-Don-t-see-Omen-1205334.php|archive-date=December 29, 2013}}

Farrow subsequently appeared as the mother of a Manhattan attorney (played by Amanda Peet) in the romantic comedy The Ex (2007), also starring opposite Jason Bateman and Zach Braff.{{cite web|work=The New York Times|title=Chasing an Old Flame, Taking No Prisoners|date=May 11, 2007|last=Holden|first=Stephen|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/11/movies/11ex.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180628184316/https://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/11/movies/11ex.html|archive-date=June 28, 2018}} The film was poorly received by critics, with several writing that the cast's talents were underserved by the material.{{cite web|url=http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/film/reviews/article_display.jsp?rid=9175 |title=Bottom Line: Jason Bateman's a blast, but this slack comedy's a bust |first=Michael |last=Rechtshaffen |date=May 11, 2007 |work=The Hollywood Reporter |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20070930223015/http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/film/reviews/article_display.jsp?&rid=9175 |archive-date =September 30, 2007}}{{cite web |url=http://deseretnews.com/movies/view/1,1257,450000908,00.html |title=The Ex |location=Salt Lake City, Utah |first=Jeff |last=Vice |date=May 11, 2007 |work=Deseret News |url-status=dead |access-date=February 11, 2019 |archive-date=September 30, 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070930190227/http://deseretnews.com/movies/view/1,1257,450000908,00.html }} Farrow next voiced Daisy Suchot in Luc Besson's animated fantasy film Arthur and the Invisibles (2007).{{cite web|title=The Human and the Animated, Shrunk to Size|last=Genzlinger|first=Neil|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/12/movies/12art.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170429172411/http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/12/movies/12art.html|archive-date=April 29, 2017|work=The New York Times|date=January 12, 2007}}

The following year, Farrow appeared in a supporting role opposite Danny Glover in Michel Gondry's comedy Be Kind Rewind (2008), playing the friend and patron of a video store operator in suburban New Jersey.{{cite web|url=https://variety.com/2008/film/markets-festivals/be-kind-rewind-2-1200548940/|work=Variety|title=Be Kind Rewind|date=January 20, 2008|author=McCarthy, Todd|author-link=Todd McCarthy|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181107104419/http://www.playbill.com/news/article/mia-farrow-stars-in-world-premiere-james-lapine-play-frans-bed-at-long-whar-115765|archive-date=November 7, 2018}} She also provided voice narration for the documentary film As We Forgive (2008), which recounts the stories of two Rwandan women who confronted the individuals who murdered their families during the Rwandan genocide.{{cite web|url=https://berkleycenter.georgetown.edu/events/as-we-forgive-film-screening|work=Berkley Center|publisher=Georgetown University|title=As We Forgive Film Screening|date=November 10, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151220132407/http://berkleycenter.georgetown.edu/events/as-we-forgive-film-screening|archive-date=December 20, 2015}} In 2009, Farrow reprised her voice role as Daisy Suchot in Arthur and the Revenge of Maltazard,{{cite web|url=https://variety.com/2009/film/markets-festivals/arthur-and-the-revenge-of-maltazard-1200478023/|work=Variety|title=Arthur and the Revenge of Maltazard|author=Mintzer, Jordan|date=December 2, 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170520153221/http://variety.com/2009/film/markets-festivals/arthur-and-the-revenge-of-maltazard-1200478023/|archive-date=May 20, 2017}} and she also reprised it for Arthur 3: The War of the Two Worlds (2010).{{cite web|work=Variety|url=https://variety.com/2010/film/reviews/arthur-and-the-war-of-two-worlds-1117943846/|title=Arthur and the War of the Two Worlds|date=October 14, 2010|author=Mintzer, Jordan|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161005004616/http://variety.com/2010/film/reviews/arthur-and-the-war-of-two-worlds-1117943846/|archive-date=October 5, 2016}} She was subsequently cast in a supporting role in the comedy-drama Dark Horse, directed by Todd Solondz,{{cite news |first=Borys |last=Kit |title=Christopher Walken among cast of Todd Solondz drama |url=http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/christopher-walken-among-cast-todd-29707 |work=The Hollywood Reporter |date=October 14, 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181107185204/https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/christopher-walken-among-cast-todd-29707|archive-date=November 7, 2018}} in which she played the mother of a stunted 35-year-old man.{{cite web|url=https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/dark-horse-2012|work=Chicago Sun-Times|author=Ebert, Roger|author-link=Roger Ebert|title=Dark Horse|date=June 20, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180111175250/https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/dark-horse-2012|archive-date=January 11, 2018}}

In September 2014, Farrow returned to Broadway in the play Love Letters. The play was well received by critics,{{cite news|last1=Sheward|first1=David|title=Review Roundup: 'Love Letters'|url=http://www.newyork.com/articles/broadway/review-roundup-love-letters-36626/|work=New York|date=September 19, 2014|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150216155626/http://www.newyork.com/articles/broadway/review-roundup-love-letters-36626/|archive-date=February 16, 2015}} with Charles Isherwood of The New York Times deeming Farrow's performance "utterly extraordinary...  as the flighty, unstable and writing-averse Melissa Gardner."{{cite news|last1=Isherwood|first1=Charles|title=The Muted Melancholy Between the Lines|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/19/theater/brian-dennehy-and-mia-farrow-in-love-letters-on-broadway.html|work=The New York Times|date=September 18, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150216155847/http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/19/theater/brian-dennehy-and-mia-farrow-in-love-letters-on-broadway.html?_r=1|archive-date=February 16, 2015}} In 2016, Farrow appeared with Faye Dunaway in an episode of the IFC mockumentary series Documentary Now!.{{cite web|work=The Hollywood Reporter|title=How 'Documentary Now!' Booked Hollywood Recluses Faye Dunaway, Mia Farrow for Robert Evans Spoof|last=Gardner|first=Chris|url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/rambling-reporter/how-documentary-booked-hollywood-recluses-939511|date=October 20, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170726085056/https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/rambling-reporter/how-documentary-booked-hollywood-recluses-939511|archive-date=July 26, 2017}} In 2022 Farrow appeared in Ryan Murphy's Netflix series The Watcher.{{cite web|work=MSN|title='The Watcher' Star Mia Farrow Hopes The Real-Life Family Doesn't Watch The Netflix Series|last=Ashabi|first=Azeez|url=https://www.msn.com/en-us/movies/news/the-watcher-star-mia-farrow-hopes-the-real-life-family-doesnt-watch-the-netflix-series/ar-AA13cI7S|date=October 21, 2022|access-date=October 31, 2022|archive-date=October 31, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221031162550/https://www.msn.com/en-us/movies/news/the-watcher-star-mia-farrow-hopes-the-real-life-family-doesnt-watch-the-netflix-series/ar-AA13cI7S|url-status=live}} It was announced that Farrow would make her return to Broadway in the Jen Silverman play The Roommate starring opposite Patti LuPone at the Booth Theatre in August 2024.{{cite web|url= https://www.broadwayworld.com/article/Patti-LuPone-Will-Return-to-Broadway-in-THE-ROOMMATE-Opposite-Mia-Farrow-20240411|title= Patti LuPone Will Return to Broadway in THE ROOMMATE Opposite Mia Farrow|website= BroadwayWorld|accessdate= April 11, 2024|archive-date= April 11, 2024|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20240411141814/https://www.broadwayworld.com/article/Patti-LuPone-Will-Return-to-Broadway-in-THE-ROOMMATE-Opposite-Mia-Farrow-20240411|url-status= live}} For her performance, she received her first Tony nomination for Best Actress in a Play.

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Selected credits:

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• Guns at Batasi (1964) (debut)
• Rosemary's Baby (1968)
• Secret Ceremony (1968)
• A Dandy in Aspic (1968)
• John and Mary (1969)
• See No Evil (1971)
• The Great Gatsby (1974)
• Peter Pan (1976)
• Avalanche (1978)
• A Wedding (1978)
• Death on the Nile (1978)
• A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy (1982)
• The Last Unicorn (1982)
• Sarah (1982)
• Zelig (1983)
• Supergirl (1984)
• Broadway Danny Rose (1984)
• The Purple Rose of Cairo (1985)
• Hannah and Her Sisters (1986)
• Radio Days (1987)
• September (1987)
• Another Woman (1988)
• Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989)
• Alice (1990)
• Shadows and Fog (1991)
• Husbands and Wives (1992)
• The Omen (2006)
• Be Kind Rewind (2006)
• Arthur and the Invisibles (2007)
• Arthur and the Revenge of Maltazard (2009)
• Arthur 3: The War of the Two Worlds (2010)

{{Main|List of awards and nominations received by Mia Farrow}}

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Farrow became a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador in 2000 and is a high-profile advocate for human rights in Africa, particularly for children's rights. She has worked to raise funds and awareness for children in conflict-affected regions and to draw attention to the fight to eradicate polio.{{Sfn|Bartrop|2012|p=86}} Farrow has received several awards for her humanitarian work{{cite web|url=http://www.refugeesinternational.org/press-room/press-release/release-ri-honor-mia-farrow-and-ronan-farrow-29th-anniversary-dinner|title=McCall-Pierpaoli Humanitarian Award press release|access-date=August 13, 2013|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110928122839/http://www.refugeesinternational.org/press-room/press-release/release-ri-honor-mia-farrow-and-ronan-farrow-29th-anniversary-dinner|archive-date=September 28, 2011}}{{cite web|url=http://www.unicef.org/people/people_mia_farrow.html|title=Mia Farrow Goodwill Ambassador|work=UNICEF|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181105215434/https://www.unicef.org/people/people_mia_farrow.html|archive-date=November 5, 2018}} including the Leon Sullivan International Service award,{{cite web|url=http://bnonews.com/urgent/4941/unicef-ambassador-mia-farrow-to-meet-war-affected-children-in-uganda|title=UNICEF Ambassador Mia Farrow to meet war-affected children in Uganda|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140218223100/http://bnonews.com/urgent/4941/unicef-ambassador-mia-farrow-to-meet-war-affected-children-in-uganda/|archive-date=February 18, 2014|work=BNO News}} the Lyndon Baines Johnson Moral Courage Award{{cite web|title=Lyndon Baines Johnson Moral Courage Award|url=https://www.hmh.org/au_award_page25.shtml|publisher=Holocaust Museum Houston|access-date=January 7, 2015|archive-date=January 26, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150126094642/http://www.hmh.org/au_award_page25.shtml|url-status=dead}} and the Marion Anderson Award.{{cite web|title=2011 Past Honorees Mia Farrow|url=http://www.marianandersonaward.org/#/index.php/past-honorees/mia-farrow/|website=The Marion Anderson Award|access-date=January 7, 2015|archive-date=December 28, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141228021404/http://www.marianandersonaward.org/?#/index.php/past-honorees/mia-farrow/|url-status=dead}} In 2006, Farrow and her son Ronan visited Berlin in order to participate in a charity auction of United Buddy Bears, which feature designs by artists representing 142 U.N. member states.{{cite web|url=https://www.alamy.de/stockfoto-us-amerikanische-schauspielerin-und-unicef-botschafterin-mia-farrow-besucht-die-ausstellung-der-united-buddy-bears-auf-dem-bebelplatz-in-berlin-deutschland-montag-19-juni-2006-142-buddy-bears-in-berlin-entstanden-stehen-friedlich-hand-142-mitgliedstaaten-der-vereinten-nationen-auf-dem-bebelplatz-in-berlin-bis-31-juli-2006-vertreten-die-bar-ausstellung-bittet-um-weitere-weltweite-toleranz-und-des-friedens-foto-53953954.html|work=Alamy|date=June 19, 2006|title=US-amerikanische Schauspielerin und UNICEF-Botschafterin Mia Farrow besucht die Ausstellung der United Buddy Bears auf dem Bebelplatz in Berlin|language=de|archive-url=https://archive.today/20190211075950/https://www.alamy.de/stockfoto-us-amerikanische-schauspielerin-und-unicef-botschafterin-mia-farrow-besucht-die-ausstellung-der-united-buddy-bears-auf-dem-bebelplatz-in-berlin-deutschland-montag-19-juni-2006-142-buddy-bears-in-berlin-entstanden-stehen-friedlich-hand-142-mitgliedstaaten-der-vereinten-nationen-auf-dem-bebelplatz-in-berlin-bis-31-juli-2006-vertreten-die-bar-ausstellung-bittet-um-weitere-weltweite-toleranz-und-des-friedens-foto-53953954.html|archive-date=February 11, 2019|access-date=February 11, 2019|url-status=live}} In 2008, Time magazine named her one of the most influential people in the world.{{Sfn|Bartrop|2012|pages=86–87}}{{cite magazine|author1=Rusesabagina, Paul|title=Heroes & Pioneers: Mia Farrow|url=https://content.time.com/time/specials/2007/article/0,28804,1733748_1733756_1735264,00.html|magazine=Time|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161204094948/http://content.time.com/time/specials/2007/article/0,28804,1733748_1733756_1735264,00.html|archive-date=December 4, 2016|url-status=live|date=May 12, 2008}}

She has traveled to Darfur several times for humanitarian efforts, first in 2004.{{cite web|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/africa/mia-farrows-exclusive-dispatch-i-am-a-witness-to-darfurs-suffering-5334926.html|work=The Independent|title=Mia Farrow's exclusive dispatch: I am a witness to Darfur's suffering|date=August 27, 2007|archive-url=https://archive.today/20181107052258/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/africa/mia-farrows-exclusive-dispatch-i-am-a-witness-to-darfurs-suffering-5334926.html|archive-date=November 7, 2018|access-date=November 7, 2018|url-status=live}} Her third trip was in 2007, with a film crew engaged in making the documentary Darfur: On Our Watch.{{cite web|title=Frontline: On Our Watch (transcript)|url=https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/darfur/etc/script.html|publisher=PBS|access-date=October 6, 2014|date=November 20, 2007|archive-date=October 11, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141011185738/http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/darfur/etc/script.html|url-status=live}} The same year, she co-founded the Olympic Dream for Darfur campaign, which drew attention to China's support for the government of Sudan. The campaign hoped to change China's policy by embarrassing it in the run-up to the 2008 Summer Olympics held in Beijing. In March 2007, China said it would urge Sudan to engage with the international community. The campaign persuaded Steven Spielberg to withdraw as an artistic adviser to the opening ceremony. During the Olympics, Farrow televised via the internet from a Sudanese refugee camp to highlight China's involvement in the region.{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/30/magazine/30olympics-t.html|title=Changing the Rules of the Games|author=Greenburg, Ilan|work=The New York Times Magazine|date=March 30, 2008|access-date=August 12, 2013|archive-date=May 31, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130531212407/http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/30/magazine/30olympics-t.html|url-status=live}}

File:Mia Farrow in discussion with EUFOR soldier (2530868572).jpg soldier in Darfur, 2008]]

Later in 2007, Farrow offered to "trade her freedom" for the freedom of a humanitarian worker for the Sudan Liberation Army who was being treated in a UN hospital while under threat of arrest. She wanted to be taken captive in exchange for his being allowed to leave the country.{{cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/1559602/Mia-Farrow-offers-freedom-to-save-Darfur-rebel.html|author=Holt, Richard|title=Mia Farrow offers freedom to save Darfur rebel|newspaper=The Telegraph|date=August 7, 2007|archive-date=October 10, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141010113146/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/1559602/Mia-Farrow-offers-freedom-to-save-Darfur-rebel.html}} Farrow is also a board member of the Washington, D.C.–based non-profit Darfur Women Action Group (DWAG).{{cite web|url=http://www.darfurwomenaction.org/about/board/mia-farrow-member-darfur-women-action-group%E2%80%99s-advisory-board |archive-date=September 10, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150910093448/http://www.darfurwomenaction.org/about/board/mia-farrow-member-darfur-women-action-group%E2%80%99s-advisory-board |title=Mia Farrow, Member of Darfur Women Action Group's Advisory Board|work=Darfur Women Action Group|url-status=dead }}

In 2009, Farrow narrated a documentary, As We Forgive, relating the struggle of many of the survivors of the Rwandan genocide to forgive those who murdered family and friends.{{Sfn|Bartrop|2012|p=87}} To show "solidarity with the people of Darfur" Farrow began a water-only fast on April 27, 2009.{{cite news|url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-sudan-darfur-farrow-idINTRE53K65T20090421|author=Charbonneau, Louis|title=Mia Farrow to start fast over Darfur|work=Reuters|date=April 22, 2009|access-date=August 13, 2013|archive-date=November 7, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181107105633/https://www.reuters.com/article/us-sudan-darfur-farrow-idINTRE53K65T20090421|url-status=live}} Farrow's goal was to fast for three weeks, but she called a halt after twelve days on the advice of her doctor.{{cite news|url=http://edition.cnn.com/2009/SHOWBIZ/Movies/05/08/mia.farrow.strike/index.html|author=Duke, Alan|title=Mia Farrow ends fast after health concerns|publisher=CNN|date=May 8, 2009|access-date=August 13, 2013|archive-date=November 26, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131126120814/http://edition.cnn.com/2009/SHOWBIZ/Movies/05/08/mia.farrow.strike/index.html|url-status=live}} In August 2010, she testified in the trial against former Liberian President Charles Taylor in the Special Court for Sierra Leone.{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/law/2010/aug/09/mia-farrow-contradicts-naomi-campbell|title=Mia Farrow contradicts Naomi Campbell in Charles Taylor trial|author=Davies, Lizzy (in The Hague), and Adam Gabbatt|work=The Guardian|date=August 9, 2010|access-date=December 12, 2016|archive-date=April 18, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170418084140/https://www.theguardian.com/law/2010/aug/09/mia-farrow-contradicts-naomi-campbell|url-status=live}}

Farrow helped build The Darfur Archives, which document the cultural traditions of the tribes of Darfur.{{cite web|title=The Sudan and Darfur Research Collections|url=http://sudan.uconn.edu/farrow_darfur_archives.htm|publisher=Thomas J. Dodd Research Center, University of Connecticut|access-date=January 6, 2015|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304125803/http://sudan.uconn.edu/farrow_darfur_archives.htm|archive-date=March 4, 2016}} She has filmed some 40 hours of songs, dances, children's stories, farming methods and accounts of genocide in the region's refugee camps that make up the current archives.{{cite news|author1=Farrow, Mia |author2=Goldhagen, Daniel Jonah|title=Mass Slaughter and Obama's Mystifying Indifference|url=https://www.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424127887324463604579040654002211502|work=The Wall Street Journal|date=September 26, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171126132057/https://www.wsj.com/articles/mass-slaughter-and-obama8217s-mystifying-indifference-1380236391?tesla=y|archive-date=November 26, 2017}} Since 2011, the Archives have been housed at the Thomas J. Dodd Research Center at the University of Connecticut.{{cite news|last1=Megan|first1=Kathleen|title=Mia Farrow Documents Darfuri Culture|url=https://www.courant.com/2011/10/11/mia-farrow-documents-darfuri-culture-donates-work-to-uconn/|access-date=January 6, 2015|work=The Hartford Courant|location=Hartford, Connecticut|date=October 11, 2011|archive-date=January 7, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150107001833/http://articles.courant.com/2011-10-11/news/hc-farrow-archives-uconn-1012-20111011_1_refugee-camp-farrow-darfur-region|url-status=live}} In 2013, Farrow criticized President Barack Obama for his lack of address regarding Sudanese genocide during a United Nations General Assembly. In February 2015, Farrow appeared in an episode of A Path Appears, a PBS documentary series from the creators of the Half the Sky movement. In the episode Farrow travels to Kibera, Kenya's largest slum, to share stories from organizations providing education to at-risk girls.{{cite news|last1=Locker|first1=Melissa|title=A Path Appears: can celebrities really help tackle humanity's biggest problems?|url=https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2015/feb/02/a-path-appears-pbs-documentary-charities-eva-longoria|work=The Guardian|date=February 2, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151224125859/https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2015/feb/02/a-path-appears-pbs-documentary-charities-eva-longoria|archive-date=December 24, 2015}}{{cite news|last1=Carmen|first1=Allison|title=Ronan and Mia Farrow Find Shining Hope in One of the World's Worst Slums|url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/allison-carmen/ronan-and-mia-farrow-find_b_6627410.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170418082048/http://www.huffingtonpost.com/allison-carmen/ronan-and-mia-farrow-find_b_6627410.html|archive-date=April 18, 2017|work=The Huffington Post|date=February 6, 2015}}

Farrow has also participated in environmental activism, in 2014 protesting against Chevron, accusing the oil company of environmental damage in the South American rainforest.{{cite news|url=https://www.economist.com/news/business/21598641-judge-finds-foul-play-behind-controversial-case-against-chevron-courtroom-drama|title=Judge finds foul play behind controversial case against Chevron|newspaper=The Economist|date=March 8, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181107185425/https://www.economist.com/business/2014/03/08/courtroom-drama|archive-date=November 7, 2018}}

Farrow was raised as a Catholic and in a 2013 interview with Piers Morgan, she stated that she had not "lost her faith in God."{{cite web|url=https://transcripts.cnn.com/show/pmt/date/2013-03-14/segment/01|work=CNN|title=Interview with Mia Farrow, Martin Sheen and Craig Kielburger; Steubenville, Ohio Rape Case Shining Light on Rape of Young Girls in America (Transcript)|date=March 14, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170418163822/http://edition.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1303/14/pmt.01.html|archive-date=April 18, 2017|author1=Farrow, Mia |author2= Martin Sheen |url-status=live|author3=Piers Morgan}} In 1968, when she was 23 years

old, Farrow spent part of the year living at the ashram of Maharishi Mahesh Yogi in Rishikesh, Uttarakhand, India, studying Transcendental Meditation.{{Sfn|Kaiser|2012|p=212}} Her visit received worldwide media attention at the time because of the presence of all four members of the Beatles, Donovan, Mike Love, and her sister, Prudence Farrow.{{Sfn|Warner|2004|p=52}}{{Sfn|Lee|1999|p=89}} The behavior of her sister Prudence during this trip inspired John Lennon to write the song "Dear Prudence".{{cite magazine|first=David|last=Chiu|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/the-real-dear-prudence-on-meeting-beatles-in-india-74048/|title=The Real 'Dear Prudence' on Meeting Beatles in India|magazine=Rolling Stone|date=September 4, 2015|archive-date=October 12, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181012175424/https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/the-real-dear-prudence-on-meeting-beatles-in-india-74048/}} The trip also inspired the song "Sexy Sadie", originally titled 'Maharishi', which was written by John Lennon in response to alleged sexual advances made by the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi towards Mia Farrow.{{cite web |url=https://www.elle.com/culture/movies-tv/a23653929/mia-farrow-women-in-hollywood-me-too/ |title=Mia Farrow Takes an Unflinching Look at Her Past in the Wake of the #MeToo Movement |work=Elle |last=Langmuir |first=Molly |date=October 10, 2018 |access-date=August 11, 2023 |archive-date=August 2, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230802023719/https://www.elle.com/culture/movies-tv/a23653929/mia-farrow-women-in-hollywood-me-too/ |url-status=live }} Paul McCartney, George Harrison, and Cynthia Lennon have later said that they believe the story to have been fabricated.{{cite book |last1=Brown |first1=Peter |year=2002 |author-link=Peter Brown (music industry) |last2=Gaines |first2=Steven |author-link2=Steven Gaines |title=The Love You Make: An Insider's Story of The Beatles |publisher=New American Library |location=New York |isbn=0-451-20735-1 |page=264}}{{cite book |last=Spitz |first=Bob |year=2005 |author-link=Bob Spitz |title=The Beatles: The Biography |url=https://archive.org/details/beatlesbiography00spit |url-access=registration |publisher=Little, Brown |location=Boston |isbn=0-316-80352-9 |pages=[https://archive.org/details/beatlesbiography00spit/page/755 755–757]}}{{cite book |last=Lennon |first=Cynthia |year=1978 |title=A Twist of Lennon |publisher=Avon |pages=174–176}}{{cite book |author=The Beatles |year=2000 |author-link=The Beatles |title=The Beatles Anthology |publisher=Chronicle Books |location=San Francisco |isbn=0-8118-2684-8 |pages=[https://archive.org/details/beatlesanthology0000unse/page/285 285–286] |url=https://archive.org/details/beatlesanthology0000unse/page/285 }}{{cite book |last=Miles |first=Barry |year=1997 |author-link=Barry Miles |title=Paul McCartney: Many Years From Now |publisher=Henry Holt and Company |location=New York |isbn=0-8050-5249-6 |page=[https://archive.org/details/paulmccartneyman00mile/page/429 429] |url=https://archive.org/details/paulmccartneyman00mile/page/429 }}

Farrow has stated that she has long been a registered Independent, though she has consistently voted for Democratic candidates.Archived at [https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211211/CNCivk5g9Kc Ghostarchive]{{cbignore}} and the [https://web.archive.org/web/20200506034904/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CNCivk5g9Kc&gl=US&hl=en Wayback Machine]{{cbignore}}: {{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CNCivk5g9Kc|title=Mia Farrow on her Democratic voice|date=April 26, 2016|work=CBSN|publisher=CBS News}}{{cbignore}} In the 2016 Democratic presidential election, Farrow publicly endorsed Democratic Party candidate Bernie Sanders,{{cite web|first1=Summer|last1=Fields|first2=Louise|last2=Simpson|url=https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/meet-bernie-sanders-top-celebrity-backers/story?id=33020601|title= Meet Bernie Sanders' Top Celebrity Backers|work=ABC News|date=August 11, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180621015839/https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/meet-bernie-sanders-top-celebrity-backers/story?id=33020601|archive-date=June 21, 2018}}{{cite news|first=Bill|last=Whalen|url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/billwhalen/2015/09/11/is-socialism-here-to-stay-or-is-sanders-just-another-dean/#792c7c1449d4|title=Is Socialism Here To Stay In 2016, Or Is Bernie Sanders Just Another Howard Dean?

|work=Forbes|date=September 11, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180717185131/https://www.forbes.com/sites/billwhalen/2015/09/11/is-socialism-here-to-stay-or-is-sanders-just-another-dean/|archive-date=July 17, 2018}} though she subsequently stated that "as a pragmatist" she planned to vote for Hillary Clinton. Farrow tweeted in support of Joe Biden during the 2020 Democratic Party presidential primaries, but later added that she would vote for Sanders if he was nominated.{{Cite news|last=Zafar|first=Nina|date=March 3, 2020|title=Dua Lipa for Bernie? Cher for Biden? Here's where the celebrities stand on Super Tuesday.|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/arts-entertainment/2020/03/03/celebrity-endorsements-super-tuesday/|access-date=November 1, 2021|newspaper=The Washington Post|archive-date=March 5, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200305011210/https://www.washingtonpost.com/arts-entertainment/2020/03/03/celebrity-endorsements-super-tuesday/|url-status=live}}

File:Mia Farrow and Andre Previn at Juilliard (1969).jpg at Juilliard, 1969]]

On July 19, 1966,{{cite web|work=The New York Times|url=http://movies2.nytimes.com/books/97/02/23/reviews/farrow-feature.html|title=Picking Up The Legos And The Pieces|last=Smith|first=Dinitia|date=May 8, 1994|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181107104438/http://movies2.nytimes.com/books/97/02/23/reviews/farrow-feature.html|archive-date=November 7, 2018}} she married singer Frank Sinatra at the Las Vegas home of Jack Entratter.{{Sfn|Ringgold|1993|p=19}}{{cite news| url=https://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/24/fashion/setting-the-record-and-the-hair-straight-mia-farrow-weighs-in-on-her-60s-pixie.html| author=Farrow, Mia|title=Setting the Record (and the Hair) Straight| newspaper=The New York Times|date=January 23, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181204121328/https://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/24/fashion/setting-the-record-and-the-hair-straight-mia-farrow-weighs-in-on-her-60s-pixie.html?_r=0|archive-date=December 4, 2018}} Farrow was 21 years old; Sinatra 50. Sinatra wanted Farrow to give up her acting career, which she initially agreed to do.{{Sfn|Ringgold|1993|p=19}} She accompanied Sinatra while he was shooting several films, but soon grew tired of doing nothing and signed on to star in Roman Polanski's horror film Rosemary's Baby.

Filming of Rosemary's Baby ran over its initial schedule, which angered Sinatra, who had cast Farrow in a role in his film The Detective (1968). After Farrow failed to report for filming, Sinatra cast Jacqueline Bisset in Farrow's role.{{Sfn|Ringgold|1993|p= 21}}

In November 1967, while Farrow was filming Rosemary's Baby, Sinatra's lawyer served her with divorce papers.{{Sfn|Santopietro|2009|pages=397–398}} Their divorce was finalized in August 1968.{{cite news|title=Mia Farrow, André Previn Expecting Baby|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1915&dat=19591014&id=kgAhAAAAIBAJ&pg=1112,2346143|newspaper=The Day|location=London|via=Google News Archive|date=October 14, 1969|page=21|access-date=September 13, 2020|archive-date=March 5, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220305070907/https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1915&dat=19591014&id=kgAhAAAAIBAJ&pg=1112,2346143|url-status=live}} {{free access}}

Farrow later blamed the demise of the marriage on their age difference and said she was an "impossibly immature teenager" when she married Sinatra.{{Sfn|Santopietro|2009|p=398}}{{Sfn|Turner|2004|p=150}} The two remained friends until Sinatra's death.{{Sfn|Santopietro|2009|pages=397–398}}

On September 10, 1970, Farrow married conductor and composer André Previn in London. She was 25, and he was 41.{{cite news|title=Actress, conductor wed|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1310&dat=19700911&id=OLRVAAAAIBAJ&pg=5166,2134479|newspaper=The Register-Guard|location=Eugene, Oregon|date=September 11, 1970|page=3A|via=Google News Archive|access-date=September 13, 2020|archive-date=March 5, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220305130047/https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1310&dat=19700911&id=OLRVAAAAIBAJ&pg=5166,2134479|url-status=live}} {{free access}}

Farrow had begun a relationship with Previn while he was still married to his second wife, songwriter Dory Previn. When Farrow became pregnant, Previn left Dory and filed for divorce. Farrow, with two stepdaughters Claudia Previn and Alicia Previn,{{cite news|title=André Previn obituary|url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2019/feb/28/andre-previn-obituary|newspaper=The Guardian|date=February 28, 2019|access-date=February 23, 2024|archive-date=February 22, 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240222004148/https://www.theguardian.com/music/2019/feb/28/andre-previn-obituary|url-status=live}} gave birth to twin sons in February 1970, and Previn's divorce from Dory became final in July 1970.{{cite web|url=http://www.mtv.com/artists/dory-previn/biography/|title=About Dory Previn|work=MTV|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140203184302/http://www.mtv.com/artists/dory-previn/biography/|archive-date=February 3, 2014}}

Dory Previn later wrote a scathing song, titled "Beware of Young Girls", about the loss of her husband to Farrow.{{cite news|url=http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-dory-previn-20120216,0,2450227.story?page=1|work=Los Angeles Times|first=Valerie J.|last=Nelson|title=Dory Previn dies at 86; Oscar-nominated songwriter|date=February 16, 2012|access-date=February 18, 2012|archive-date=August 10, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120810052843/http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-dory-previn-20120216,0,2450227.story?page=1|url-status=live}}

Previn and Farrow divorced in 1979.

In 1980, Farrow began a relationship with film director Woody Allen.{{cite web|title=Woody Allen|url=http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20109512,00.html|work=People|date=December 28, 1992|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140222060607/http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20109512,00.html|archive-date=February 22, 2014}}{{cite magazine|magazine=People|last=Gliatto|first=Tom|title=A Family Affair|date=August 31, 1992|volume=38|issue=9|url=http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20108514,00.html|issn=0093-7673|access-date=February 17, 2014|archive-date=April 25, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160425132621/http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20108514,00.html|url-status=live}}

During their years together, Farrow starred in thirteen of Allen's films including, A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy (1982), Zelig (1983), Broadway Danny Rose (1984), The Purple Rose of Cairo (1985), Hannah and Her Sisters (1986), Radio Days (1987), September (1987), Another Woman (1988), Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989), Alice (1990), Shadows and Fog (1991), and her final film with Allen, Husbands and Wives (1992).

Several of her relatives made appearances in Allen's films, including her mother, Maureen O'Sullivan, in Hannah and Her Sisters.

Their relationship ended in 1992 when Allen's intimate relationship with Soon-Yi Previn, Farrow's 21-year-old adopted daughter, was publicized.{{cite web|first=Maureen|last=Orth|url=http://www.vanityfair.com/magazine/1992/11/farrow199211|title=Mia's Story|work=Vanity Fair|date=November 1992|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190210192152/https://www.vanityfair.com/magazine/1992/11/farrow199211|archive-date=February 10, 2019}}

Farrow has fourteen children: four biological and ten adopted. She and former husband André Previn have three biological sons: twins Matthew and Sascha (born February 26, 1970),{{cite web|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1243&dat=19700227&id=cAJYAAAAIBAJ&pg=4254,6211643|title=Mia Farrow gives birth to twins|agency=UPI|newspaper=The Bulletin|date=February 27, 1970|access-date=September 13, 2020|archive-date=June 9, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230609035738/https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1243&dat=19700227&id=cAJYAAAAIBAJ&pg=4254,6211643|url-status=live}} and Fletcher (born March 14, 1974).{{cite web|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1356&dat=19740314&id=-HdPAAAAIBAJ&pg=5352,2454659|title=Mia Farrow Has Son|work=Ocala Star-Banner|date=March 14, 1974|access-date=September 13, 2020|archive-date=June 9, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230609035735/https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1356&dat=19740314&id=-HdPAAAAIBAJ&pg=5352,2454659|url-status=live}} Sascha is a graduate of Fordham University, while Fletcher, a graduate of Connecticut College, became the chief information officer of IBM.{{cite news|first=Stephen|last=Norton|url=https://blogs.wsj.com/cio/2017/05/03/ibm-chief-information-officer-jeff-smith-leaves-company/|title=IBM Chief Information Officer Jeff Smith Leaves Company|work=The Wall Street Journal|date=May 3, 2017|access-date=July 11, 2017|archive-date=June 17, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170617102630/https://blogs.wsj.com/cio/2017/05/03/ibm-chief-information-officer-jeff-smith-leaves-company/|url-status=live}} Farrow and Previn adopted Vietnamese infants Lark Song Previn and Summer "Daisy" Song Previn, in 1973 and 1976, respectively,{{cite news|url=https://archive.seattletimes.com/archive/19920821/1508586/farrows-children-speak-out-as-family-turmoil-continues|title=Farrow's Children Speak Out as Family Turmoil Continues|work=The Seattle Times|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180923123904/http://community.seattletimes.nwsource.com/archive/?date=19920821&slug=1508586|archive-date=September 23, 2018|agency=Associated Press|url-status=live|date=August 21, 1992}} followed by the adoption of Soon-Yi from Korea in 1977. Soon-Yi's precise birth date is not known, but a bone scan estimated her age as from 5 to 7, at the time of her adoption. The Seoul Family Court established a Family Census Register (legal birth document) on her behalf on December 28, 1976, with a presumptive birth date of October 8, 1970.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1TYoAQAAIAAJ&q=%22Soon+Hee+Oh,+aka+Soon+Yi+Oh%22|title=United States Congressional serial set|date=1977|language=en|access-date=September 13, 2020|archive-date=May 3, 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240503034420/https://books.google.com/books?id=1TYoAQAAIAAJ&q=%22Soon+Hee+Oh,+aka+Soon+Yi+Oh%22#v=snippet&q=%22Soon%20Hee%20Oh%2C%20aka%20Soon%20Yi%20Oh%22&f=false|url-status=live}}{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UPBIAQAAMAAJ&q=%22October+8%22|title=Congressional Serial Set|date=1978|publisher=U.S. Government Printing Office|language=en|access-date=November 17, 2020|archive-date=May 3, 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240503034419/https://books.google.com/books?id=UPBIAQAAMAAJ&q=%22October+8%22#v=snippet&q=%22October%208%22&f=false|url-status=live}}

In 1980, following her divorce from Previn, Farrow adopted Moses Farrow, a two-year-old Korean orphan with cerebral palsy.{{cite news | work= People | archive-url= https://archive.today/20190211084748/https://people.com/celebrity/mia-farrows-children-where-are-they-now/ | archive-date= February 11, 2019 | date= September 22, 2016 | url= http://people.com/celebrity/mia-farrows-children-where-are-they-now/ | title= Thaddeus Is Not the First Child Mia Farrow Has Lost: Learn More About Her 14 Children | first= Stephanie | last= Petit | access-date= January 10, 2018 | url-status= live }} {{anchor|Dylan Farrow}} In 1985, Farrow adopted Dylan Farrow (born July 1985, adopted at two weeks old).{{cite news| url=http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20091491,00.html |title=Star Tracks |work=People |date=August 12, 1985 |archive-date=September 15, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150915211852/http://www.people.com/people/article/0%2C%2C20091491%2C00.html |url-status=dead}} Dylan was known as "Eliza" for some time and also as "Malone".{{cite news|first=Roger|last=Friedman|url=https://www.foxnews.com/story/mia-and-woodys-son-becomes-a-marriage-counselor/|title=Mia and Woody's Son Becomes a Marriage Counselor|work=Fox News|date=August 7, 2003|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131017050037/http://www.foxnews.com/story/2003/08/07/mia-and-woody-son-becomes-marriage-counselor/|archive-date=October 17, 2013}} In December 1991, a New York City court allowed Woody Allen to co-adopt Dylan and Moses.{{cite news|last1=Stern|first1=Marlow|title=Inside the Shocking Custody Case Court Documents that Shed Light on the Dylan Farrow-Woody Allen Saga|url= http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/02/10/inside-the-shocking-custody-case-court-documents-that-shed-light-on-the-dylan-farrow-woody-allen-saga.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190208213505/https://www.thedailybeast.com/inside-the-shocking-custody-case-court-documents-that-shed-light-on-the-dylan-farrow-woody-allen-saga|archive-date=February 8, 2019|work=The Daily Beast|date=February 10, 2014}}

With Allen, Farrow gave birth to her fourth and final biological child, son Satchel Ronan O'Sullivan Farrow (later known simply as Ronan Farrow),{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1991/02/24/magazine/woody-and-mia-a-new-york-story.html|author=Lax, Eric|title=Woody and Mia: A New York Story|newspaper=The New York Times|date=February 24, 1991|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180711200645/https://www.nytimes.com/1991/02/24/magazine/woody-and-mia-a-new-york-story.html?pagewanted=all&src=pm|archive-date=July 11, 2018}} on December 19, 1987.{{cite news | url = https://www.nytimes.com/1987/12/22/arts/son-born-to-mia-farrow-and-woody-allen.html | title = Son Born to Mia Farrow And Woody Allen | agency = Associated Press | work = 'The New York Times | date = December 22, 1987 | archive-url = https://archive.today/20190211085232/https://www.nytimes.com/1987/12/22/arts/son-born-to-mia-farrow-and-woody-allen.html?mtrref=en.wikipedia.org | archive-date = February 11, 2019 | access-date = February 11, 2017 | url-status = live }} In a 2013 interview with Vanity Fair, Farrow stated Ronan could "possibly" be the biological child of Frank Sinatra, with whom she claimed to have "never really split up."{{cite web|url=http://www.vanityfair.com/online/daily/2013/10/mia-farrow-children-family-scandal |title=Exclusive: Mia Farrow and Eight of Her Children Speak Out on Their Lives, Frank Sinatra, and the Scandals They've Endured |date=October 2, 2013 |work=Vanity Fair |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131031041558/http://www.vanityfair.com/online/daily/2013/10/mia-farrow-children-family-scandal |archive-date=October 31, 2013 }} In a 2015 CBS Sunday Morning interview, Sinatra's daughter Nancy dismissed the idea that her father is also the biological father of Ronan Farrow, calling it "nonsense". She said that her children were affected by the rumor because they were being questioned about it. "I was kind of cranky with Mia for even saying 'possibly,'" she said. "I was cranky with her for saying that because she knew better, you know, she really did. But she was making a joke! And it was taken very serious and was just silly, stupid."{{Cite news|first=Corinne|last=Heller|url=http://www.eonline.com/news/642284/nancy-sinatra-opens-up-about-frank-sinatra-sister-mia-farrow-and-ronan-farrow-paternity-rumor|title=Nancy Sinatra Opens Up About Frank Sinatra, Mia Farrow & Son Ronan|work=E! Online|date=June 2, 2015|archive-url=https://archive.today/20180314000842/http://www.eonline.com/news/642284/nancy-sinatra-opens-up-about-frank-sinatra-sister-mia-farrow-and-ronan-farrow-paternity-rumor|archive-date=March 14, 2018|access-date=November 6, 2017|url-status=live}}

Between 1992 and 1995, Farrow adopted five more children: Tam Farrow; Kaeli-Shea Farrow, later known as Quincy Maureen Farrow; Frankie-Minh; Isaiah Justus; and Gabriel Wilk Farrow, later known as Thaddeus Wilk Farrow{{cite web| url = http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/02/14/mia-farrow-family-tree_n_4790001.html |title= Here's Mia Farrow's Family Tree, Because We Know It Gets Confusing| date= February 14, 2014| first=Hilary |last=Miller | work= The Huffington Post|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171007220614/http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/02/14/mia-farrow-family-tree_n_4790001.html|archive-date=October 7, 2017}} and named after Elliott Wilk, the judge who oversaw Farrow's 1993 legal battle with Allen.{{cite news|url= https://www.nytimes.com/2002/07/03/nyregion/elliott-wilk-judge-and-dry-wit-dies-at-60.html| author=Martin, Douglas|title=Elliott Wilk, Judge and Dry Wit, Dies at 60|newspaper=The New York Times|date=July 3, 2002|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131005022244/https://www.nytimes.com/2002/07/03/nyregion/elliott-wilk-judge-and-dry-wit-dies-at-60.html|archive-date=October 5, 2013}}

Tam Farrow died in 2000 at the age of 21. Farrow's spokeswoman Judy Hofflund stated that she died of cardiac arrest.{{cite web|url=http://www.nydailynews.com/archives/news/mia-farrow-mourns-daughter-article-1.870780|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180709173341/http://www.nydailynews.com/archives/news/mia-farrow-mourns-daughter-article-1.870780|archive-date=July 9, 2018|last1= Baker|first1= K. C.|first2= Bill |last2=Hutchinson|title=Mia Farrow Mourns Daughter|work=New York Daily News|date=March 15, 2000|url-status=live}} In May 2018, Moses Farrow made claims on his personal blog that Tam had actually died from a prescription medication overdose following a lifelong battle with depression, and after a fight with her mother.{{cite web|work=The Times|location=London|url=https://www.thetimes.com/article/mia-farrow-abused-me-says-son-moses-qbcdnm589|title=Mia Farrow abused me, says son Moses|last=Hoyle|first=Ben|date=May 25, 2018|access-date=November 7, 2018|archive-date=November 7, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181107145311/https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/mia-farrow-abused-me-says-son-moses-qbcdnm589|url-status=live}} In 2021, Mia Farrow confirmed Moses' claim that Tam had died after an overdose of a prescription medication.{{cite web|work=IndieWire|location=USA|url=https://www.indiewire.com/2021/04/mia-farrow-childrens-deaths-allen-v-farrow-critics-1234627334/|title=Mia Farrow reflects on her children's deaths to combat 'vicious rumors' after 'Allen v. Farrow'|last=Sharf|first=Zack|date=April 1, 2021|publisher=Indiewire.com|access-date=April 2, 2021|archive-date=April 1, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210401185630/https://www.indiewire.com/2021/04/mia-farrow-childrens-deaths-allen-v-farrow-critics-1234627334/|url-status=live}} On December 25, 2008, Lark Previn died at the age of 35 from complications of HIV/AIDS.{{Cite web|url=https://www.indiewire.com/2021/04/mia-farrow-childrens-deaths-allen-v-farrow-critics-1234627334/|title=Mia Farrow Reflects on Her Children's Deaths to Combat 'Vicious Rumors' After 'Allen v. Farrow'|date=April 1, 2021|work=IndieWire|first=Zach|last=Sharf|access-date=September 12, 2021|archive-date=September 17, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210917202121/https://www.indiewire.com/2021/04/mia-farrow-childrens-deaths-allen-v-farrow-critics-1234627334/|url-status=live}} On September 21, 2016, Thaddeus Farrow was found dead in his car in Connecticut at the age of 27.{{cite web|url=https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/mia-farrows-son-thaddeus-killed-himself-medical-examiners-office-says/|title=Mia Farrow's son Thaddeus killed himself, medical examiner's office says|publisher=Fox News|date=September 22, 2016|archive-url=https://archive.today/20190211084654/https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/mia-farrows-son-thaddeus-killed-himself-medical-examiners-office-says|archive-date=February 11, 2019|access-date=September 22, 2016|url-status=live}} It was ruled that he had committed suicide by shooting himself in the torso while inside his car.{{cite web|url=http://www.vanityfair.com/style/2016/09/thaddeus-farrow-mia-farrow-son-dead|work=Vanity Fair|date=September 22, 2016|title=Mia Farrow's Son Thaddeus Dead at 27 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170727235206/http://www.vanityfair.com/style/2016/09/thaddeus-farrow-mia-farrow-son-dead|archive-date=July 27, 2017|author=Bryant, Kenzie}}

Farrow has six biological granddaughters from her and Previn's sons (three by Matthew, one by Sascha, and two by Fletcher). She has nine grandchildren from her adopted children.{{cite web|work=The Huffington Post|url=https://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2016/06/21/mia-farrow-kids_n_10591534.html|title=Mia Farrow Kids: Actress Welcomes 10th Grandchild|date=June 21, 2016|last=Khoo|first=Isabel|access-date=July 24, 2020|archive-date=July 24, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200724024552/https://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2016/06/21/mia-farrow-kids_n_10591534.html|url-status=live}}{{cite web|work=People|url=https://people.com/parents/dylan-farrow-welcomes-daughter-evangeline/|title=Dylan Farrow Welcomes Daughter Evangeline|date=September 6, 2016|access-date=July 24, 2020|archive-date=July 24, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200724030635/https://people.com/parents/dylan-farrow-welcomes-daughter-evangeline/|url-status=live}}{{cite news|work=The Telegraph|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/women/life/mia-farrowmen-now-think-twice-thanks-son/ |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220111/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/women/life/mia-farrowmen-now-think-twice-thanks-son/ |archive-date=January 11, 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|title= Mia Farrow: 'Men now think twice thanks to my son'|date=November 2, 2019|last=Williams|first=Sally}}{{cbignore}}

{{main|Woody Allen sexual abuse allegation}}

According to court testimony, on August 4, 1992, Allen visited Farrow's farm in Bridgewater, Connecticut, while she was out shopping. The following day, August 5, a babysitter informed Farrow that she had witnessed Allen behaving strangely with the couple's then-seven-year-old adopted daughter, Dylan. When Farrow asked Dylan about the alleged incident, Dylan responded that Allen had touched her "private part" while the two were alone in the attic of the home. One of the women employed to care for Farrow's children claimed that for around 20 minutes that afternoon she had not known where Dylan was, while a second said that, at one point, she noticed Dylan had been wearing no underwear beneath her dress.{{cite news |last1=Marks |first1=Peter |title=Sitter Questions Allen Actions With Daughter |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1993/04/10/nyregion/sitter-questions-allen-actions-with-daughter.html |work=The New York Times |date=April 10, 1993 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20190211105223/https://www.nytimes.com/1993/04/10/nyregion/sitter-questions-allen-actions-with-daughter.html |archive-date=February 11, 2019 |access-date=February 11, 2019 |url-status=live }} Farrow reported the incident to the family's pediatrician, who in turn reported the allegations to authorities. Allen was informed of the accusations on August 6. A week later, on August 13, Allen sued for full custody of his biological son, Satchel, and two of Farrow's adopted children, Dylan and Moses, with whom Allen had assumed a parental role.{{cite news|last1=Winter|first1=Jessica|title=Woody Allen and Dylan Farrow: Just the Facts|url=http://www.slate.com/articles/life/culturebox/2014/02/woody_allen_and_dylan_farrow_digging_deeper_into_misleading_coverage.html|work=Slate|publisher=The Slate Group|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141229124214/http://www.slate.com/articles/life/culturebox/2014/02/woody_allen_and_dylan_farrow_digging_deeper_into_misleading_coverage.html|archive-date=December 29, 2014|date=February 7, 2014}}{{cite news|title=Allen Loses to Farrow in Bitter Custody Battle|author=Marks, Peter|url=https://www.nytimes.com/books/97/02/23/reviews/farrow-verdict.html|work=The New York Times|date=June 8, 1993|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181218234503/https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/books/97/02/23/reviews/farrow-verdict.html|archive-date=December 18, 2018}}

In March 1993, the lead doctor of Yale New Haven Hospital Child Sexual Abuse Clinic, John Leventhal, gave sworn testimony via a deposition that,{{cite news|last1=Orth|first1=Maureen|title=10 Undeniable Facts About the Woody Allen Sexual-Abuse Allegation|url=http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2014/02/woody-allen-sex-abuse-10-facts|access-date=February 9, 2015|work=Vanity Fair|date=February 7, 2014|archive-date=February 10, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150210000112/http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2014/02/woody-allen-sex-abuse-10-facts|url-status=live}} in his opinion, Dylan "either invented the story under the stress of living in a volatile and unhealthy home or that it was planted in her mind by her mother" because of the "inconsistent" presentation of the story by Dylan.{{cite web|author=Perez-Pena R.|date=May 4, 1993|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1993/05/04/nyregion/doctor-cites-inconsistencies-in-dylan-farrow-s-statements.html|title=Doctor Cites Inconsistencies In Dylan Farrow's Statement|work=The New York Times|archive-url=https://archive.today/20180122013605/http://www.nytimes.com/1993/05/04/nyregion/doctor-cites-inconsistencies-in-dylan-farrow-s-statements.html|archive-date=January 22, 2018|access-date=February 11, 2017|url-status=live}} Leventhal did not meet with Dylan prior to giving his testimony, and instead delivered his findings based on interviews conducted by others. The Yale New Haven Hospital team's findings were criticized by the presiding judge, and later by other experts in the field. In particular, the team's behavior was considered unusual for making conclusive statements about innocence and guilt instead of reporting on behavior, for refusing to testify in court when asked, and for destroying all of their notes.{{ cite news | first=Andy| last=Thibault| url = http://www.andythibault.com/columns/CT%20Magazine%20-%20Apr%2097.htm | archive-url = https://archive.today/20120719083243/http://www.andythibault.com/columns/CT%20Magazine%20-%20Apr%2097.htm | url-status=usurped | archive-date = July 19, 2012|via=AndyThibault.com| title = Woody, Mia and Frank Maco | work = Connecticut Magazine | date = April 1997 }}{{cite news|work=Connecticut Magazine|url=http://www.connecticutmag.com/the-connecticut-story/mia-farrow-s-vanity-fair-interview-references-connecticut-magazine-article/article_4327cac7-ffef-5eb5-9c19-fdaf70e84855.html|title=How Straight-shooting State's Attorney Frank Maco Got Mixed Up in the Woody-Mia Mess|date=April 1, 1997|last=Thibault|first=Andy|access-date=February 12, 2019|archive-date=November 29, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211129124457/https://www.connecticutmag.com/the-connecticut-story/mia-farrow-s-vanity-fair-interview-references-connecticut-magazine-article/article_4327cac7-ffef-5eb5-9c19-fdaf70e84855.html|url-status=live}} Justice Elliott Wilk stated that the investigating team's behavior had "resulted in a report which was sanitized, and therefore, less credible" and that its recommendations and statements had "exceed[ed] its mandate." He concluded, "I am less certain, however, than is the Yale-New Haven team, that the evidence proves conclusively that there was no sexual abuse."

In his final decision, in June 1993, Justice Wilk stated that he found "no credible evidence to support Mr. Allen's contention that Ms. Farrow coached Dylan or that Ms. Farrow acted upon a desire for revenge against him for seducing Soon-Yi. Mr. Allen's resort to the stereotypical 'woman scorned' defense is an injudicious attempt to divert attention from his failure to act as a responsible parent and adult." He rejected Allen's bid for full custody and denied him visitation rights with Dylan, stating that even though the full truth of the allegations may never be known, "the credible testimony of Ms. Farrow, Dr. Coates, Dr. Leventhal and Mr. Allen does, however, prove that Mr. Allen's behavior toward Dylan was grossly inappropriate and that measures must be taken to protect her." In September 1993, the state's attorney, Frank Maco, announced he would not pursue Allen in court for the molestation allegations, despite having "probable cause", citing his and Farrow's desire not to traumatize Dylan further.{{cite news | first = Melinda | last = Henneberger | url = https://www.nytimes.com/1993/09/25/nyregion/connecticut-prosecutor-won-t-file-charges-against-woody-allen.html | title = Connecticut Prosecutor Won't File Charges Against Woody Allen | work = The New York Times | date = September 25, 1993 | archive-url = https://archive.today/20140305051533/http://www.nytimes.com/1993/09/25/nyregion/connecticut-prosecutor-won-t-file-charges-against-woody-allen.html | archive-date = March 5, 2014 | access-date = September 4, 2017 | url-status = live }}

In February 2014, Dylan publicly renewed her claims of sexual abuse against Allen, in an open letter published by Nicholas Kristof, a friend of Farrow, in his New York Times blog.{{cite news|author=Farrow, Dylan|date=February 1, 2014|title=An Open Letter From Dylan Farrow|work=The New York Times|url=http://kristof.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/02/01/an-open-letter-from-dylan-farrow/?_php=true&_type=blogs&_php=true&_type=blogs&|url-status=live|access-date=February 9, 2014|archive-url=https://archive.today/20140203084803/http://kristof.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/02/01/an-open-letter-from-dylan-farrow/?_php=true&_type=blogs&_php=true&_type=blogs&_php=true&_type=blogs&_r=2&|archive-date=February 3, 2014|series="On the Ground" (Nicholas Kristof blog)}}{{cite web|author=Shard, Catherine|date=February 2, 2014|title=Dylan Farrow, adopted daughter of Woody Allen, alleges he abused her|url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2014/feb/02/dylan-farrow-woody-allen-abuse-allegations|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181225040107/https://www.theguardian.com/film/2014/feb/02/dylan-farrow-woody-allen-abuse-allegations|archive-date=December 25, 2018|work=The Guardian}}{{cite news|date=February 2, 2014|title=Woody Allen accused of sex abuse by adopted daughter|work=BBC|publisher=British Broadcasting Company|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-26005565|url-status=live|access-date=June 20, 2018|archive-url=https://archive.today/20140202115003/http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-26005565|archive-date=February 2, 2014}} Allen repeated his denial of the allegations in his 2020 memoir, Apropos of Nothing.{{cite news|last=Allen|first=Woody|authorlink=Woody Allen|date=February 7, 2014|title=Woody Allen Speaks Out|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/09/opinion/sunday/woody-allen-speaks-out.html|access-date=January 12, 2018|archive-date=February 8, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140208022539/http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/09/opinion/sunday/woody-allen-speaks-out.html|url-status=live}}

Soon Yi Previn and Moses Farrow have defended Allen against the abuse allegations. In 2013, Moses Farrow publicly asserted that Mia had coached her children into believing stories she made up about Allen.{{cite news|last=Fleeman|first=Mike|date=February 7, 2013|title=Woody Allen Lashes Back: 'Of Course, I Did Not Molest Dylan'|newspaper=People|url=http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20785148,00.html|url-status=dead|access-date=October 17, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140209033425/http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20785148,00.html|archive-date=February 9, 2014}}{{cite news|last=Rothman|first=Michael|date=October 17, 2013|title=Dylan Farrow's Brother Moses Says Mia Farrow, Not Woody Allen Was Abusive|work=ABC News|url=https://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/dylan-farrows-brother-moses-mia-farrow-woody-allen/story?id=22377303|url-status=live|access-date=May 15, 2014|archive-url=https://archive.today/20140208071858/http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/dylan-farrows-brother-moses-mia-farrow-woody-allen/story?id=22377303|archive-date=February 8, 2014}}

In 2018, Moses published a lengthy blog post arguing for Allen's innocence. Moses also recounted a series of incidents in which he and his siblings were physically abused by Farrow.{{efn|Attributed to multiple references:{{cite news|title='I felt inherently like I was a bad kid. The abuse at home reinforced that|url=https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/film/moses-farrow-i-felt-inherently-like-i-was-a-bad-kid-the-abuse-at-home-reinforced-that-1.4434026|newspaper=The Irish Times|access-date=May 6, 2020|archive-date=December 14, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201214064029/https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/film/moses-farrow-i-felt-inherently-like-i-was-a-bad-kid-the-abuse-at-home-reinforced-that-1.4434026|url-status=live}}{{cite magazine|title=Moses Farrow Defends Woody Allen Against Sexual-Assault Allegation in New Essay|first=Julie|last=Miller|url=https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2018/05/moses-farrow-pens-essay-defending-woody-allen|magazine=Vanity Fair|access-date=May 6, 2021|archive-date=May 11, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210511073430/https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2018/05/moses-farrow-pens-essay-defending-woody-allen|url-status=live}}{{cite web|title=Woody Allen's Son Moses Farrow Defends Father, Claims Mother Mia Farrow Was Abusive|url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/general-news/moses-farrow-defends-woody-allen-claims-mia-farrow-was-abusive-1114452/|website=The Hollywood Reporter|first=Evan|last=Real|date=May 23, 2018|access-date=May 6, 2021|archive-date=May 7, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210507122226/https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/general-news/moses-farrow-defends-woody-allen-claims-mia-farrow-was-abusive-1114452/|url-status=live}}{{cite web|title=Moses Farrow Defends Woody Allen And Accuses Mia Of Abuse|url=https://deadline.com/2018/05/moses-farrow-woody-allen-dylan-farrow-mia-farrow-sexual-abuse-1202396967/|website=Deadline Hollywood|date=May 23, 2018|access-date=May 6, 2021|archive-date=May 6, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210506135522/https://deadline.com/2018/05/moses-farrow-woody-allen-dylan-farrow-mia-farrow-sexual-abuse-1202396967/|url-status=live}}{{cite web|title=Moses Farrow defends father Woody Allen, claims mother Mia Farrow was abusive|url=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/moses-farrow-defends-woody-allen-claims-mia-farrow-was-abusive-blog-post/|website=CBS News|date=May 24, 2018|access-date=May 6, 2021|archive-date=May 6, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210506135523/https://www.cbsnews.com/news/moses-farrow-defends-woody-allen-claims-mia-farrow-was-abusive-blog-post/|url-status=live}}{{cite web|title=Moses Farrow Writes Essay Defending Woody Allen and Accusing Mia Farrow of Abuse and Brainwashing|url=https://www.indiewire.com/2018/05/moses-farrow-essay-defends-woody-allen-mia-farrow-abuse-1201967914/|website=IndieWire|date=May 23, 2018|access-date=May 6, 2021|archive-date=May 7, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210507122305/https://www.indiewire.com/2018/05/moses-farrow-essay-defends-woody-allen-mia-farrow-abuse-1201967914/|url-status=live}}{{cite web|title=Moses Farrow Writes Essay Accusing Mia Farrow of Abuse|url=https://sports.yahoo.com/moses-farrow-writes-essay-defending-203647489.html|website=Yahoo!|date=May 23, 2018|access-date=May 6, 2021|archive-date=May 7, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210507122039/https://sports.yahoo.com/moses-farrow-writes-essay-defending-203647489.html|url-status=live}}{{Cite web|title=A SON SPEAKS OUT By Moses Farrow|url=http://mosesfarrow.blogspot.com/2018/05/a-son-speaks-out-by-moses-farrow.html|access-date=December 31, 2021|website=A SON SPEAKS OUT By Moses Farrow|archive-date=December 20, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211220110417/https://mosesfarrow.blogspot.com/2018/05/a-son-speaks-out-by-moses-farrow.html|url-status=live}}}}

Farrow states that she would no longer bring dates or significant others into her home in the years following the abuse allegations due to lingering mistrust. She explained, "I didn't want to risk anybody falling for one of my beautiful children or grandchildren," and, "I would never take another risk with anybody else."Allen v. Farrow 2021 (episode 4)

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• [http://digital2.library.ucla.edu/viewItem.do?ark=21198/zz0002smfw Seventeen-year old Mia Farrow], 1964, in the Los Angeles Times Photographic Archive (Collection 1429). UCLA Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library, University of California, Los Angeles.
• [https://web.archive.org/web/20070927032358/http://www.guernicamag.com/interviews/367/powerful_acts/ Interview with Mia Farrow about Darfur on Guernica: a magazine of art and politics]
• [http://www.humanmedia.org/catalog/program.php?products_id=312 Interview with David Freudberg on public radio's Humankind] describes her efforts to increase awareness about the ongoing slaughter in Darfur, her history of having adopted ten children, and her reflections on ego.

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