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Award-winning actress and director, Carly Fawcett, has been acting and making films since she could figure out what her dad's Hitachi video camera was capable of at age 4. She has since then mastered the craft, diving deep in modern realism acting methods, and graduating from the Neighborhood Playhouse school of Theatre (N.Y.C.), where she ...
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Award-winning actress and director, Carly Fawcett, has been acting and making films since she could figure out what her dad's Hitachi video camera was capable of at age 4. She has since then mastered the craft, diving deep in modern realism acting methods, and graduating from the Neighborhood Playhouse school of Theatre (N.Y.C.), where she ...
Carly Fawcett has been acting and making films since she could figure out what her dad’s Hitachi video camera was capable of at age 4. A graduate of the Neighborhood Playhouse school of Theatre (N.Y.C.) she has worked on sets and stages in Vancouver, New York City, Montreal, Toronto and Kelowna.
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Mary Ferrah Leni Fawcett was born on February 2, 1947, in Corpus Christi, Texas, and was the younger of two daughters. Her mother, Pauline Alice Fawcett (née Evans; 1914–2005), was a homemaker and her father, James William Fawcett (1917–2010), was an oil field contractor. She was of Irish, French, English and Choctaw Native American ancestry.Fawcet...
Early career
When Fawcett arrived in Hollywood at age 21 in 1968, Screen Gems signed her to a $350-a-week contract. She began to appear in commercials for such products as Ultra Brite toothpaste, Noxzema skin cream, Max Factor cosmetics, Mercury Cougar automobiles, and Beautyrest mattresses, among others. Her earliest acting appearances were guest spots on The Flying Nun (1969) and I Dream of Jeannie (1969–70). She made numerous other television appearances, including Getting Together, Owen Marshall: Coun...
Rise to stardom
In 1976, Pro Arts Inc. pitched the idea of a poster of Fawcett to her agent. A photo shoot was then arranged with photographer Bruce McBroom, who was hired by the poster company. According to friend Nels Van Patten, Fawcett styled her own hair and did her makeup without the aid of a mirror. Her blonde highlights were further heightened by a squeeze of lemon juice. Fawcett selected her six favorite pictures from 40 rolls of film, and the choice was eventually narrowed to the one that made her...
Post-Angels film roles
In 1978, Fawcett's first post-Angels movie, Somebody Killed Her Husband, was released to adverse reviews (some critics referred to the film as Somebody Killed Her Career) and a poor box-office. The 1979 release of Sunburn, co-starring Charles Grodin and Art Carney, was met by equally unfavorable reviews. In 1980, Fawcett starred with Kirk Douglas in Stanley Donen's science-fiction film Saturn 3; the film earned unfavorable reviews from critics and experienced poor box office sales. The follow...
Relationships
Fawcett began dating Lee Majors in the late 1960s.She was married to Majors from 1973 to 1982, although the couple separated in 1979. They had no children. Throughout her marriage (and despite the separation) she used the name Farrah Fawcett-Majors in her screen credits. In 1979, Fawcett became romantically involved with actor Ryan O'Neal, and they had a son named Redmond James Fawcett O'Neal, who was born in 1985. In 1994, Fawcett told TV Guide that their relationship had some troubles. "Som...
Family
Fawcett's older sister Diane Fawcett Walls died of lung cancer just before her 63rd birthday on October 16, 2001. The fifth episode of her 2005 Chasing Farrah series followed the actress home to Texas to visit her father, James, and mother, Pauline.Pauline Fawcett died on March 4, 2005, at the age of 91. Fawcett's only child, Redmond James Fawcett-O'Neal, was fathered by Ryan O'Neal and was born on January 30, 1985. He has struggled with drug addiction for most of his adult lifeand has been i...
Cancer
Fawcett was diagnosed with anal cancer in 2006, and began treatment that included chemotherapy and surgery. On February 2, 2007 (Fawcett's 60th birthday), the Associated Press reported that Fawcett was cancer-free. The cancer recurred, and in May 2007 she was diagnosed with stage IV cancer that had metastasized to her liver (which has a 5-year survival rate of less than 20%); a malignant polypwas found where she had been treated for the initial cancer. Not wanting to undergo a colostomy, Fawc...
Fawcett died of cancer at 2:28 a.m. PDT on June 25, 2009, at age 62, in Saint John's Health Center, Santa Monica, California, with O'Neal and Alana Stewart by her side. A private funeral was held in Los Angeles on June 30, 2009. Farrah's son Redmond was permitted to leave his California detention center in order to attend the service, where he gave...
The red one-piece bathing suit she wore in her famous 1976 poster was donated to the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History (NMAH) on February 2, 2011. Designed by CFDA Award–winning fashion designer Norma Kamali, it was donated to the Smithsonian by her executors and was formally presented to NMAH in Washington, D.C., by her longtime co...
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- Born to Act Studios
Carly Fawcett is not only an award-winning actress and director but also the pioneering spirit behind Born to Act Studios. Her storied career ignited at the age of four with a fascination for her dad’s video camera, and has flourished through stages and film sets worldwide.
