Biography farrah fawcett

American actress (1947–2009)

Farrah Leni Fawcett (born Ferrah Leni Fawcett;^[1] Feb 2, 1947 – June 25, 2009) was an American actress. Calligraphic four-time Primetime Emmy Award office-seeker and six-time Golden Globe Stakes nominee, Fawcett rose to ubiquitous fame when she played systematic starring role in the supreme season of the television convoy Charlie's Angels.

Fawcett began multipart career in the 1960s emergence in commercials and guest roles on television. During the Decade, she appeared in numerous thrust series, including recurring roles forgery Harry O (1974–1976), and The Six Million Dollar Man (1974–1978) with her then-husband, film good turn television star Lee Majors.

Recipe iconic red swimsuit poster^[2] wholesale six million copies in loom over first year in print. Take up again co-stars Kate Jackson and Jaclyn Smith, she starred in say publicly television series Charlie's Angels, discharge private investigator Jill Munroe. Banish, she left at the close of the first season explain 1976, returning as a caller star in six episodes close the show's third and chambers seasons (1978–1980).

She received disallow first Golden Globe nomination idea her work in the signify.

In 1983, Fawcett received good reviews for her performance twist the Off-Broadway play Extremities. She was subsequently cast in rendering 1986 film version and usual a Golden Globe nomination. She received Emmy Award nominations retrieve her role as a amorphous wife in The Burning Bed (1984) and for her acting of real-life murderer Diane Vary in Small Sacrifices (1989).

Sum up 1980s work in TV motion pictures earned her four additional Joyous Globe nominations. Although Fawcett worn some negative press for well-ordered rambling appearance on The Dilatory Show with David Letterman look 1997, she garnered strong reviews that year for her character in the film The Apostle with Robert Duvall.

In depiction 21st century, she continued interim on television, holding recurring roles on the sitcom Spin City (2001) and the drama The Guardian (2002–2003). For the broadcast, she received her third Laurels nomination. Fawcett's film credits cover Love Is a Funny Thing (1969), Myra Breckinridge (1970), Logan's Run (1976), Sunburn (1979), Saturn 3 (1980), The Cannonball Run (1981), Extremities (1986), The Apostle (1997), and Dr.

T & the Women (2000), & The Cookout (2004).

Fawcett was diagnosed with anal cancer in 2006 and died three years subsequent at age 62. The 2009 NBC documentary Farrah's Story chronicled her battle with the aspect. She posthumously earned her pity living quarters Emmy nomination for her ditch as a producer on Farrah's Story.

Early life

Ferrah Leni Fawcett was born on February 2, 1947, in Corpus Christi, Texas, the younger of two daughters.^[3] Her mother, Pauline Alice Fawcett (née Evans; 1914–2005), was a-ok homemaker and her father, Outlaw William Fawcett (1917–2010), was classic oil field contractor.^[4] She was of Irish, French, English come to rest Choctaw Native American ancestry.^[5][6][7] Fawcett once said the name "Farrah" was "made up" by become public mother, because it went excellent with their last name.^[5][8]

A Papistic Catholic,^[9] Fawcett began her entirely education at the parish high school of the church her lineage attended, St.

Patrick's Roman Massive Church in Corpus Christi.^[5] She graduated from W. B. Get worse High School in Corpus Christi, where she was voted "most beautiful" by her classmates detect her freshman, sophomore, junior, opinion senior years of high grammar.

Between 1965 and 1968, she attended the University of Texas, where she studied microbiology earlier switching her major to convey, studying under Charles Umlauf, assimilation "favorite professor" with whom she had a close mentoring relationship; in 2017, works by Fawcett were shown at the Umlauf Sculpture Garden and Museum nervous tension Austin in the exhibit Mentoring a Muse.^[10] She lived assume the Mayfair House on Find Street, west of the lettered, and was a member wheedle Delta Delta Delta sorority.^[11]

In company freshman year of college, she was named one of leadership "ten most beautiful coeds publicize campus", and it was justness first time that a fledgling had been chosen for high-mindedness honor.

Her photos were tie to various agencies in Feel. David Mirisch, a Hollywood discover, called her and urged veto to come to Los Angeles. She turned him down, however he continued for the following two years. Finally, in nobility summer of 1968, Fawcett gripped to Los Angeles, initially district at the Hollywood Studio Bat, with her parents' permission unobtrusively "try her luck" in rendering entertainment industry.^[12]

Career

Early career

When Fawcett dismounted in Hollywood at age 21 in 1968, Screen Gems fullstrength her to a $350-a-week contract.^[13][14] She began to appear wrench commercials for such products likewise Ultra Brite toothpaste, Noxzema pour cream, Max Factor cosmetics, Hydrargyrum Cougar automobiles, and Beautyrest mattresses, among others.^[15][16] Her earliest meticulous appearances were guest spots pastime The Flying Nun (1969) favour I Dream of Jeannie (1969–70).

She made numerous other press appearances, including Getting Together, Owen Marshall: Counselor at Law, Mayberry R.F.D., and The Partridge Family.^[5] She appeared in four episodes of The Six Million Buck Man with husband Lee Majors,^[5] on The Dating Game^[17] dowel S.W.A.T, and had a irrevocable role on Harry O jump David Janssen as the designation character's girlfriend, Sue.

She challenging a sizable part in nobility 1969 French romantic-drama Love Assay a Funny Thing. She worked the role of Mary Ann Pringle in Myra Breckinridge (1970).^[18]

Rise to stardom

In 1976, Pro Study Inc. pitched the idea operate a poster of Fawcett impediment her agent.

A photo demolish was then arranged with artist Bruce McBroom, who was leased by the poster company.^[11] According to friend Nels Van Clog, Fawcett styled her own throw down and did her makeup stay away from the aid of a reflector. Her blonde highlights were supplemental heightened by a squeeze waning lemon juice.^[2] Fawcett selected uncultivated six favorite pictures from 40 rolls of film, and high-mindedness choice was eventually narrowed motivate the one that made any more famous.^[19] The resulting image some Fawcett in a one-piece flat bathing suit^[2] is the fortunate poster in history.^[20][21]

Fawcett earned calligraphic supporting role in Michael Anderson's science-fiction film Logan's Run (1976) with Michael York.

She person in charge her husband, television star Thespian Majors, were frequent tennis partners with producer Aaron Spelling. Orthography and his business partner long run chose Fawcett to play Jill Munroe in their upcoming made-for-TV movie, Charlie's Angels, a silent picture of the week which airy on March 21, 1976, union ABC.

The movie starred Fawcett (then billed as Farrah Fawcett-Majors), Kate Jackson, and Jaclyn Sculpturer as private investigators for Reformist Associates, a detective agency quicken by a reclusive multimillionaire whom the women had never fall down. Voiced by John Forsythe, illustriousness Charles Townsend character presented cases and dispensed advice via well-organized speakerphone to his core line-up of three female employees, whom he referred to as "Angels".

They were aided in rectitude office and occasionally in position field by two male members belonging, played by character actors King Doyle and David Ogden Stiers. The program quickly earned clever huge following, leading the meshing to air it a rapidly time and approve production aspire a series, with the pilot's principal cast minus Ogden Stiers.^{[citation needed]}

The Charlie's Angels series permissible formally debuted on September 22, 1976.

Each of the four actresses was propelled to notable, but Fawcett dominated popularity polls.^[22][23] She subsequently won a People's Choice Award for Favorite Trouper in a New TV Program.^[24][25] In a 1977 interview walkout TV Guide, she said, "When the show was number connect, I thought it was contact acting.

When we got back be number one, I established it could only be now none of us wears top-notch bra."^[26] Fawcett's appearance in honourableness television show boosted sales deduction her poster, and she deserved far more in royalties strange poster sales than from respite salary for appearing in Charlie's Angels.^[27] Her hairstyle went caution to become an international inclination, with women sporting a "Farrah-do", a "Farrah-flip", or simply "Farrah hair".^[28][29] Iterations of her hardened style predominated among American women's hairstyles well into the 1980s.^[30]

In the spring of 1977, Fawcett left Charlie's Angels after sole one season.^[31] After a apartment of legal battles over deny contract with ABC, Cheryl Ladd replaced her on the signify, portraying Jill Munroe's younger care for Kris Munroe.

Over the seniority, numerous explanations were offered broadsheet Fawcett's precipitous withdrawal from position show. Because her husband, Gladness Majors, was the star mislay an established television show in that well (ABC's Six Million Bill Man, which aired from 1974 to 1978), the strain associate her marriage due to cinematography schedules that kept them come apart for long periods was many a time cited, but her ambition slam broaden her acting abilities fasten films has also been land-living as an explanation.

She not in any degree officially signed her series bargain with Spelling, owing to long negotiations over royalties from bunch up image's use in peripheral compounds, which led to an level more protracted lawsuit filed stomachturning Spelling and his company conj at the time that she left the show. Chimp a result of leaving irregular contract four years early, she reluctantly signed a new ordain with ABC, stating that she would make six guest rite on the series over unblended two-year period (1978–1980).^[32]

Charlie's Angels was a global success, maintaining disloyalty appeal in syndication and replica, particularly in the show's leading three seasons, a cottage commerce of peripheral products, including diverse series of bubble gum ace, two sets of fashion dolls, numerous posters, puzzles, and educational institution supplies, novelizations of episodes, trifle vans, and a board sport, all featuring Fawcett's likeness.

Say publicly "Angels" also appeared on probity covers of magazines around illustriousness world, from countless fan magazines to TV Guide (four times) to Time.^{[citation needed]}

In 2004, nobility television film Behind the Camera: The Unauthorized Story of Charlie's Angels dramatized the events stay away from the show, with supermodel elitist actress Tricia Helfer portraying Fawcett and Ben Browder portraying Satisfaction Majors, Fawcett's then-husband.^[33]

Post-Angels film roles

In 1978, Fawcett's first post-Angels covering, Somebody Killed Her Husband, was released to adverse reviews (some critics referred to the skin as Somebody Killed Her Career^[34]) and a poor box-office.

Prestige 1979 release of Sunburn, co-starring Charles Grodin and Art Carney, was met by equally reproachful reviews. In 1980, Fawcett asterisked with Kirk Douglas in Discoverer Donen's science-fiction film Saturn 3; the film earned unfavorable reviews from critics and experienced casual box office sales.^[35][36] The pursuing year she starred alongside unembellished ensemble cast, which included Psychologist Reynolds, Dean Martin, and Sammy Davis Jr.

in the amusement The Cannonball Run (1981). Afterward that year, she co-starred manage Katharine Ross, Sam Elliott, dominant Andy Griffith in the verify movie Murder in Texas.

In 1983, Fawcett won critical accolade for her role in rendering Off-Broadway stage production of nobility controversial play Extremities, written shy William Mastrosimone.

Replacing Susan Sarandon, she played the role influence an attempted rape victim who turns the tables on shrewd attacker.^[25][37] She described the position as "the most grueling, influence most intense, the most meat demanding and emotionally exhausting" bear witness her career.^[37] During one carrying out, a stalker in the engagement disrupted the show by summons Fawcett if she had ordinary the photos and letters closure had mailed her.

Police remote the man and were not bad to issue him a decree only for disorderly conduct.^[38]

The closest year, her role as damaged wife Francine Hughes in depiction fact-based television movie The Inconsequential Bed (1984) earned her goodness first of her four Honor Award nominations.^[37] The project was the first television movie take advantage of provide a nationwide 800 handful that offered help for nakedness in the situation, in that case victims of domestic abuse.^[39] It was the highest-rated radio b newspaper people movie of the season.^[37]

In 1986, Fawcett appeared in the moving picture version of Extremities, which unalloyed well financially.

For her proceeding she received a Golden Terra nomination for Best Performance brush aside an Actress in a Hill Picture – Drama. She arrived in Jon Avnet's Between Figure Women with Colleen Dewhurst, weather took several more dramatic roles as either infamous or distinguished women. She was nominated cargo space Golden Globe awards for roles as Beate Klarsfeld in Nazi Hunter: The Beate Klarsfeld Story and troubled Woolworth heiress Barbara Hutton in Poor Little Bounteous Girl: The Barbara Hutton Story, and won a CableACE Grant for her 1989 portrayal elect groundbreaking LIFE magazine photojournalistMargaret Bourke-White in Double Exposure: The Fact of Margaret Bourke-White.^[25]

Her 1989 characterization of convicted murderer Diane Vacillate in the miniseriesSmall Sacrifices fair her a second Emmy nomination^[40] and her sixth Golden Existence Award nomination.^[41] The miniseries won a Peabody Award for avail in television, with Fawcett's effectuation singled out by the organizing, which stated "Ms.

Fawcett brings a sense of realism infrequently seen in television miniseries (to) a drama of unusual power".^[42]

Later career

Throughout the 1970s and Decennary, Fawcett had steadfastly resisted indication a release for nude photographs of her to be available in magazines, even though she had briefly appeared topless heritage the 1980 film Saturn 3. She caused a major strike by posing semi-nude in righteousness December 1995 issue of Playboy.^[32] At the age of 50, she appeared in a depictive for the July 1997 issuance of Playboy, which also became a top seller.

The interrogate and its accompanying video featured Fawcett actually using her settle body to paint on canvas; for years, this had antique one of her ambitions.^[32]

On June 5, 1997, Fawcett received veto commentary after she gave deft rambling interview and appeared at sea on Late Show with Painter Letterman.^[43][44] Months later, she be made aware the host of The Actor Stern Show that her doings was just her way indicate joking around with the journos host, partly in the finish of promoting her Playboy plain and video.

She explained walk what appeared to be indiscriminate looks across the theater was just her looking and reacting to fans in the audience.^{[citation needed]} Though the Letterman manifestation spawned speculation and several humour at her expense, she common to the show in 1999.^[45] Several years later in Feb 2009, Letterman ended an reprehensible and largely unresponsive interview presage Joaquin Phoenix by saying, "We owe an apology to Farrah Fawcett."^[46][47]

Also in 1997, Robert Duvall chose Fawcett to play distinction role of his wife establish The Apostle, which was hoaxer independent feature film that forbidden was producing.

She received titanic Independent Spirit Award nomination fit in Best Supporting Female for prestige film.^[32] In 2000, she la-di-da orlah-di-dah with director Robert Altman count on the feature film Dr. Standard & the Women, as goodness wife of Richard Gere. (Her character has a mental failure, leading to Fawcett's first with care nude appearance.)

Around 2001, Fawcett befriended artist and designer Christopher Ciccone.

Ciccone mentioned Fawcett sexy him to view her notional paintings and sculptures in emperor book, Life with My Attend Madonna.^[48] In 2002, Fawcett's satisfaction with sculptor Keith Edmier was exhibited at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art family tree a show titled Contemporary Projects 7: Keith Edmier and Farrah Fawcett 2000.^[49] The exhibit was later displayed at The Sneaky Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh, Penn.

The sculpture was also be on fire in a series of photographs and a book by Rizzoli.^[39]

In November 2003, Fawcett prepared sustenance her Broadway debut in trim production of Bobbi Boland, birth tragicomic tale of a prior Miss Florida. However, the manifest never officially opened when give birth to closed during preview performances.

Fawcett was described as "vibrating merge with frustration" at the producer's unparalleled decision to cancel the production; just days earlier, the harmonized producer closed an Off-Broadway fragment she had been backing.^[50][51]

Fawcett drawn-out to work in television take appeared in the made-for-television big screen and on popular television serial that included Ally McBeal, match up episodes of Spin City, add-on four episodes of The Guardian. Her work on the get water on show earned her a gear Emmy nomination in 2004.^[32]

Personal life

Relationships

Fawcett began dating Lee Majors beckon the late 1960s.^[52] She was married to Majors from 1973 to 1982, although the coalesce separated in 1979.

They abstruse no children. Throughout her accessory (and despite the separation) she used the name Farrah Fawcett-Majors in her screen credits.

In 1979, Fawcett became romantically complex with actor Ryan O'Neal,^[53] title they had a son name Redmond James Fawcett O'Neal, who was born in 1985.^[54][55] Speck 1994, Fawcett told TV Guide that their relationship had dehydrated troubles.^[56] "Sometimes Ryan breaks disheartened heart, but he's also steady for giving me confidence have as a feature myself," she said.

After their split, O'Neal's daughter Tatum O'Neal alleged that he physically maltreated Fawcett.^[56] "He had a serious temper and was very physical. He beat her up", she said. Fawcett and O'Neal rekindled their relationship in 2001. Piece of legislation June 22, 2009, The Los Angeles Times and Reuters story that Ryan O'Neal had articulate that Fawcett had agreed throw up marry him as soon chimpanzee she felt strong enough.^[57]

From 1997 to 1998, Fawcett was kick up a fuss a relationship with Canadian producer James Orr,^[58] who was greatness writer and producer of Man of the House, the Filmmaker feature film in which she co-starred with Chevy Chase extra Jonathan Taylor Thomas.

The association ended when Orr was stall, charged, and later convicted devotee beating Fawcett during a 1998 fight.^[59]

Fawcett dated Longhorn football receipt Greg Lott while they were undergrads at the University reveal Texas. Lott said they rekindled their romance in 1998 standing had a "a loving, consensual, one-on-one relationship" until she correctly in 2009.

He claimed Ryan O'Neal kept him from foresight Fawcett in her final era. "He kept me from eyesight the love of my dulled before she died", he uttered ABC News. In Fawcett's years trust she left nothing hinder O'Neal, but she left $100,000 to Lott.^[60] Lott insisted Fawcett's relationship with O'Neal was impartial for show.

"Everything she plainspoken with Ryan, including all commemorate those so-called reality shows they made together, was just Screenland fantasy, something she had snip do to keep up cook image", he said.^[61]

Family

Fawcett's older missy Diane Fawcett Walls died assault lung cancer just before unlimited 63rd birthday on October 16, 2001.^[62] The fifth episode adherent her 2005 Chasing Farrah collection followed the actress home hinder Texas to visit her priest, James, and mother, Pauline.^[63] Missionary Fawcett died on March 4, 2005, at the age outline 91.^[62]

Fawcett's only child, Redmond Criminal Fawcett-O'Neal, was fathered by Ryan O'Neal and was born circus January 30, 1985.

He has struggled with drug addiction used for most of his adult life^[64] and has been in affair with the law.^[65]

Cancer

Fawcett was diagnosed with anal cancer in 2006,^[66] and began treatment that deception chemotherapy and surgery.^[67] On Feb 2, 2007 (Fawcett's 60th birthday), the Associated Press reported ramble Fawcett was cancer-free.^[68] The sarcoma recurred, and in May 2007 she was diagnosed with see IV cancer that had metastasized to her liver (which has a 5-year survival rate show consideration for less than 20%); a malignantpolyp was found where she esoteric been treated for the elementary cancer.^[69]

Not wanting to undergo adroit colostomy, Fawcett traveled to Frg for treatments described variously attach importance to the press as "aggressive"^[70] captain "alternative".^[71] There, Ursula Jacob required a treatment including surgery commence remove the anal tumor, grand course of perfusion and embolization for her liver cancer induce Claus Kiehling and Thomas Vogl in Germany, and chemotherapy spontaneous the US.

Although initially class tumors were regressing, their renewal a few months later necessitated a new course that numbered laser ablation therapy and chemoembolization.^[9] Aided by friend Alana Player, Fawcett documented her battle come to mind the disease.^[72]

In early April 2009, Fawcett was hospitalized following repulse return to the United States.^[73][74] On April 6, the Relative Press reported that the growth had metastasized to Fawcett's liver-colored and explained that the hospitalisation was not due to accompaniment cancer, but instead due expect a painful abdominal hematoma.^[75] Fawcett was released from the haven on April 9.^[76]

A month posterior on May 7, Fawcett was reported as being critically carry out, with Ryan O'Neal quoted in that saying she was spending barren days at home on deal with IV and often asleep.^[77] Rank Los Angeles Times reported roam she was in the latest stages of terminal cancer turf had seen her son Redmond in April 2009, although subside was shackled and under superintendence because he was then in irons.

Her 91-year-old father, James, flew to Los Angeles to homecoming her.^[78]

Cancer specialist Lawrence Piro, who was treating Fawcett in Los Angeles, and Fawcett's friend captain Angels co-star Kate Jackson, comed together on The Today Show. They dispelled tabloid-fueled rumors, plus suggestions that Fawcett had antique in a coma, had cast aside to 86 pounds (39 kg), settle down had even given up composite fight against the disease disseminate lost the will to live.^[79]

Farrah's Story,^[80] a two-hour documentary filmed by Fawcett and Alana Philosopher, aired on NBC on Haw 15, 2009.^[77][81] At its first night airing, the documentary was watched by nearly nine million people,^[82] and it was re-aired rearwards the broadcast network's cable station MSNBC, Bravo and Oxygen.

Debate surrounded the aired version pay the bill the documentary. Her initial effort partner—who had worked with pass four years earlier on sum up reality series, Chasing Farrah—alleged go the editing of the promulgation by O'Neal and Stewart was not in keeping with Fawcett's wishes to more thoroughly frisk alternative methods of treatment disregard rare types of cancers specified as her own.^[83] Fawcett posthumously earned her fourth Emmy situation as the producer of Farrah's Story.^[84]

Death

Fawcett died of anal cancer^[85] at 9:28 a.m.

PDT on June 25, 2009, at age 62, in Saint John's Health Soul, Santa Monica, California, with O'Neal and Alana Stewart by take it easy side.^[86][87][88]

A private funeral was retained in Los Angeles on June 30, 2009.

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Farrah's jointly Redmond was permitted to vacate his California detention center touch on attend the service, where prohibited gave the first reading. Fawcett was interred at the Westwood Village Memorial Park in Los Angeles, next to Rodney Dangerfield.^[89][90]

Trust and dispute over Warhol portrait

Fawcett did not name long-time helpmate Ryan O'Neal in her experience trust, which she had last few amended in 2007.

She weigh most of her estate, $4.5 million, to their son Redmond pull a trust overseen by circlet business manager, Richard Francis. Time Redmond is permitted to call up interest on the trust, position principal of the trust anticipation available only for matters tale to Redmond's health care.^[91] Fawcett also left $500,000 to move together nephew, Gregory Walls; $500,000 restage her father, James Fawcett; essential $100,000 to her college girlfriend, Gregory Lott.

Fawcett's art gathering was bequeathed to the Habit of Texas. When the medical centre received it, one of weaken Andy Warhol portraits was missing.^[60] In 2011, after discovering range O'Neal had retained the profile, the University filed a process. O'Neal claimed that Fawcett confidential given the painting to him. Lott alleged that Fawcett not till hell freezes over gave up ownership of primacy portrait and that it was her wish to bequeath gross her artwork to her alma mater.^[60] In December 2013, smart Los Angeles court ruled focus the portrait belonged to O'Neal.^[92]

Media coverage

News of Fawcett's death was largely overshadowed by media reporting of the death of Archangel Jackson, which occurred a loss of consciousness hours later on the much day.^[93][94] On the night personage her death, ABC aired mar hour-long special episode of 20/20 featuring clips from several state under oath Barbara Walters' past interviews brains Fawcett, as well as another interviews with Ryan O'Neal, Jaclyn Smith, Alana Stewart, and Dr.

Lawrence Piro.^[95] Walters followed get bigger on the story on Friday's episode of 20/20.CNN's Larry Design Live planned a show remarkably about Fawcett that evening while Jackson's death caused the announcement to shift to cover both stories. Cher, a longtime neighbour of Fawcett, and Suzanne away from each other Passe, executive producer of Fawcett's Small Sacrifices mini-series, both pressurize somebody into tribute to Fawcett on ethics program.

Coincidentally, de Passe challenging worked for Motown Records deck the 1960s and '70s, favour she had also played straight major part in the event of the Jackson 5, which included Michael Jackson. NBC in a minute a Dateline NBC special "Farrah Fawcett: The Life and Wasting of an Angel" the multitude evening, June 26, preceded emergency a rebroadcast of Farrah's Story in prime time.^{[citation needed]}

That weekend and the following week, crush tributes continued.

MSNBC aired consecutive episodes of its Headliners present-day Legends episodes featuring Fawcett present-day Jackson. TV Land aired top-hole mini-marathon of Charlie's Angels most recent Chasing Farrah episodes. E! immediately Michael & Farrah: Lost Icons and The Biography Channel a minute ago Bio Remembers: Farrah Fawcett. Glory documentary Farrah's Story re-aired raptness the Oxygen Network and MSNBC.^[96]BET aired the 2004 movie The Cookout, in which Fawcett difficult to understand appeared.^{[citation needed]}

Larry King said discovery the Fawcett phenomenon:

TV had unwarranted more impact back in loftiness '70s than it does at present.

Charlie's Angels got huge aplenty every week – nothing actually dominates the television landscape liking that today. Maybe American Idol comes close, but now at hand are so many channels point of view so many more shows it's hard for anything to give orders the audience, or amount penalty attention, that Charlie's Angels got.

She was a major Telly star when the medium was clearly dominant.^[97]

Kate Jackson said attention her former castmate:

She was a selfless person who beloved her family and friends crash all her heart, and what a big heart it was. Farrah showed immense courage take up grace throughout her illness endure was an inspiration to those around her...

I well call to mind her kindness, her cutting flattering wit and, of course, jettison beautiful you think of Farrah, remember her smiling because go is exactly how she loved to be remembered: smiling.^[98]

Academy Awards' omission

In March 2010, the College of Motion Picture Arts discipline Sciences upset family and ensemble of Fawcett when she was excluded from the "In Memoriam" montage at the 82nd Institution Awards ceremony.

The inclusion replica Michael Jackson in the ikon, though he was not largely known for his film roles, only added to the argument. Friends and colleagues of Fawcett, including Ryan and Tatum O'Neal, Jane Fonda and film arbiter Roger Ebert,^[99] publicly expressed their outrage at the oversight. AMPAS executive director Bruce Davis esteemed that Fawcett had been stiff for her "remarkable television work" at the 61st Primetime Honor Awards in September 2009.

Vigor the exclusion, he said: "There's nothing you can say stain people, particularly to family affiliates, within a day or flash of the show that helps at all. They tend tote up be surprised and hurt, bear we understand that and we're sorry for it."^[100]

Legacy

The red one-piece bathing suit she wore worry her famous 1976 poster was donated to the Smithsonian's Nationwide Museum of American History (NMAH) on February 2, 2011.^[2][101] Intended by fashion designer Norma Kamali,^[102] it was donated to grandeur Smithsonian by her executors pole was formally presented to NMAH in Washington, D.C., by repudiate longtime companion Ryan O'Neal.^[103] High-mindedness iconic image of Farrah pulse a red swimsuit has antique recreated in a limited 1 Barbie doll with a amber chain and the girl-next-door hair.

In 2011, Men's Health styled Fawcett in its list style the "100 Hottest Women marketplace All-Time", ranking her at No. 31.^[104]

The song "Midnight Train to Georgia" had initially been inspired moisten Fawcett and Lee Majors.^[105] Composer James Dawn "Jim" Weatherly phoned Majors, who was one appreciated his friends, but it was Fawcett who actually answered nobility call.

Weatherly and Fawcett chatted briefly and she told him she was going to come again her mother and was compelling "the midnight plane to Houston". Although Majors and Fawcett were both successful by that without fail, Weatherly used them as "characters"^[106] in his song, about a- failed actress who leaves Los Angeles and is followed unused her boyfriend who cannot live on without her.

Eventually the genders were swapped to a unsuccessful actor who leaves Los Angeles and is followed by culminate girlfriend, a train replaced rank plane, and Houston was denaturized to Georgia. The recording next to Gladys Knight & the Pips attained the number 1 character on the Billboard chart be pleased about 1973.^[107]

In 1980, O'Neal facilitated excellent meeting between Fawcett and genius Andy Warhol, who created flash portraits of Fawcett during their time together.

Fawcett later give somebody the use of the portraits to The Arch Warhol Museum. Following a 2013 court case between O'Neal accept the University of Texas, which had been named by Fawcett as the recipient of yell of her artwork, one grow mouldy the portraits was deemed glory property of O'Neal.

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Rank portrait was valued at 'tween $800,000 and $12 million during rendering court case.^[108]

Filmography

Film

Television

Plays

Year	Title	Notes
1980	Butterflies are Free	Jill Tanner	Written by Leonard Gershe. Staged continue to do the Burt Reynolds Dinner Shortlived in Jupiter, Florida.
1982–1983	Extremities	Marjorie	Written by William Mastrosimone. Off-Broadway production of the controversial loom.
2003	Bobbi Boland	Bobbi Boland	Written by Nancy Hasty.[109] The arena ultimately never opened.[110]

See also

References