Tisa Farrow

{{Infobox person

| name = Tisa Farrow

| image = Tisa Farrow.jpg

| caption = Farrow in Zombi 2, 1979

| birth_name = Theresa Magdalena Farrow

| birth_date = {{birth date|1951|7|22|mf=y}}

| birth_place = Los Angeles, California, U.S.

| death_date = {{death date and age|2024|1|10|1951|7|22|mf=y}}

| death_place = Rutland, Vermont, U.S.

| occupation = Actress

| othername =

| yearsactive = 1970–1980

| partner =

| spouse = Terry Deane (divorced)

| children = 2{{Cite web|url=https://www.timesargus.com/news/father-recalls-his-soldier-son/article_5242ba4a-1eb1-5884-945a-ecee62cb56d9.html|title=Father recalls his soldier son|first=Gordon Dritschilo Rutland|last=Herald|website=Times Argus|date=30 May 2008 }}

| father = John Farrow

| mother = Maureen O'Sullivan

| relatives = Patrick Villiers Farrow (brother)
Mia Farrow (sister)
Prudence Farrow (sister)
Ronan Farrow (nephew)
Moses Farrow (nephew)
Soon-Yi Previn (niece)

}}

Theresa Magdalena "Tisa" Farrow (July 22, 1951 – January 10, 2024) was an American actress and model.{{cite web|work=The New York Times|title=Some Call It Loving (1973) The Screen:'Some Call It Loving' Is Diffuse Fantasy|first=A. H.|last=Weiler|date=November 17, 1973|url=https://www.nytimes.com/movie/review?res=9D02E7D91731E63BBC4F52DFB7678388669EDE}}

Early life

Theresa Magdalena Farrow was born in Los Angeles, California, on July 22, 1951,{{Cite web |title=Tisa Farrow|url=https://www.rottentomatoes.com/celebrity/tisa_farrow |access-date=September 19, 2023 |website=Rotten Tomatoes}} a daughter of Irish-born actress Maureen O'Sullivan and Australian-born film director John Farrow. She was the youngest of their four girls and three boys; her siblings are Mia (b. 1945), Prudence, Stephanie, Michael Damien, Patrick Joseph, and John Charles.{{cite book|last=Ed Wright|title=Celebrity family trees|date=2006 |publisher=Barnes & Noble, 2006|isbn=0760783128|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/celebrityfamilyt0000wrig}}

Like most of her siblings, Tisa received a strict and mainly Catholic education. In her high-school freshman year she enrolled at the progressive New Lincoln School in New York City. She left school of her own volition in the middle of the 11th grade.{{cite journal |last1=Klemesrud |first1=Judy |title=Being Mia's Sister Was Tisa's Burden |journal=The New York Times |date=8 January 1970 |page=36 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1970/01/08/archives/being-mias-sister-was-tisas-burden.html |accessdate=30 December 2019 |issn=0362-4331}} She then worked as a waitress. In her own words, she also "spent a long time going around town trying out for commercials" - with no success: "I would always run into some career woman who disliked me right away because she didn't like my sister Mia."

Career

Farrow's first film role was in Homer.LIFE, 29 May 1970, Vol. 68, No. 20, p.46, {{ISSN|0024-3019}}. Farrow then starred in René Clément's And Hope to Die (1972), the drama Some Call It Loving (1973), and the comedy Only God Knows (1974).

Farrow was featured semi-nude in a photo article in the July 1973 issue of Playboy, photographed by Mario Casilli.{{cite web|url=http://members.i.playboy.com/Playboy-Magazine/Jul-1973-Issue/83|title=July 01, 1973, p83 - iPlayboy|accessdate=2012-01-06}}{{subscription required}}

In the second half of the 1970s, Farrow acted in the Italian-Canadian action thriller Strange Shadows in an Empty Room (1976) directed by Alberto de Martino, and starred in the made-for-television horror film The Initiation of Sarah (1978), James Toback's first feature production Fingers (1978) alongside Harvey Keitel, and in the Canadian film Search and Destroy (1979).

In Woody Allen's Manhattan (1979), she has a cameo appearance.

From mid-1979 to 1980, Farrow took leading roles in three Italian genre films: in Lucio Fulci's horror film Zombi 2 (1979), Antonio Margheriti's Vietnam War film The Last Hunter (1980), and Joe D'Amato's horror film Antropophagus (1980).

Death

Farrow died in her sleep of cardiopulmonary demise,{{cite web|last1=Robinson |first1=Kimi |title=Tisa Farrow, Mia Farrow's sister who became a nurse, died of 'cardiopulmonary demise'|url=

https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/celebrities/2024/01/12/tisa-farrow-mia-farrow-sister-death-woody-allen-actress/72206881007/ |website=USAToday |access-date=January 16, 2024}}

in Rutland, Vermont, on January 10, 2024, at the age of 72.{{cite web |last1=Wu |first1=Valerie |title=Tisa Farrow, Actor and Mia Farrow's Sister, Dies at 72 |url=https://variety.com/2024/film/news/tisa-farrow-dead-actor-mia-farrow-sister-1235870296/ |website=Variety |date=12 January 2024 |access-date=January 12, 2024}}

Filmography

class="wikitable" \|+Film
Year ! Title ! Role ! Notes
1970 \| Homer \| Laurie Grainger \|
1972 \| La course du lièvre à travers les champs \| Pepper \| English title: And Hope to Die
1973 \| Some Call It Loving \| Jennifer \| Alternatively titled: Sleeping Beauty
1974 \| Only God Knows \| Terry Sullivan \|
1976 \| Una magnum special per Tony Saitta \| Julie Foster \| English title: Strange Shadows in an Empty Room
1978 \| The Initiation of Sarah \| Alberta 'Mouse' \| TV movie
1978 \| Fingers \| Carol \|
1979 \| Search and Destroy \| Kate Barthel \|
1979 \| The Ordeal of Patty Hearst \| Gabi \| TV movie
1979 \| Manhattan \| Party Guest \|
1979 \| Winter Kills \| Nurse Two \|
1979 \| Zombi 2 \| Anne Bolt \| English titles: Zombie, Zombie Flesh Eaters
1979 \| One Who Was There \| Young Mary Magdalene \| Short film
1980 \| Antropophagus \| Julie \| English title: The Grim Reaper {{small\|(commonly known)}}{{efn\|The film was also titled Anthropophagus: The Grim Reaper and The Anthropophagous Beast, where Farrow's voice was dubbed by Carolyn De Fonseca.}}
1980 \| L'ultimo cacciatore \| Jane Foster \| English titles: The Last Hunter, Hunter of the Apocalypse{{efn\|Farrow's voice was dubbed by Pat Starke.}}

class="wikitable"

|+Film

Year

! Title

! Role

! Notes

1970

| Homer

| Laurie Grainger

1972

| La course du lièvre à travers les champs

| Pepper

| English title: And Hope to Die

1973

| Some Call It Loving

| Jennifer

| Alternatively titled: Sleeping Beauty

1974

| Only God Knows

| Terry Sullivan

1976

| Una magnum special per Tony Saitta

| Julie Foster

| English title: Strange Shadows in an Empty Room

1978

| The Initiation of Sarah

| Alberta 'Mouse'

| TV movie

1978

| Fingers

| Carol

1979

| Search and Destroy

| Kate Barthel

1979

| The Ordeal of Patty Hearst

| Gabi

| TV movie

1979

| Manhattan

| Party Guest

1979

| Winter Kills

| Nurse Two

1979

| Zombi 2

| Anne Bolt

| English titles: Zombie, Zombie Flesh Eaters

1979

| One Who Was There

| Young Mary Magdalene

| Short film

1980

| Antropophagus

| Julie

| English title: The Grim Reaper {{small|(commonly known)}}{{efn|The film was also titled Anthropophagus: The Grim Reaper and The Anthropophagous Beast, where Farrow's voice was dubbed by Carolyn De Fonseca.}}

1980

| L'ultimo cacciatore

| Jane Foster

| English titles: The Last Hunter, Hunter of the Apocalypse{{efn|Farrow's voice was dubbed by Pat Starke.}}

class="wikitable" \|+ Television self-appearances
Year ! Title ! Notes
1969 \| The Generation Gap \| Contestant (season 1, episode 3)
2021 \| Allen v. Farrow \| Documentary miniseries (2 episodes)

class="wikitable"

|+ Television self-appearances

Year

! Title

! Notes

1969

| The Generation Gap

| Contestant (season 1, episode 3)

2021

| Allen v. Farrow

| Documentary miniseries (2 episodes)