Farrah Fawcett - Profile and Photos

Profile: Farrah Fawcett

Born February 2, 1947, in Corpus Christi, Texas, Farrah is a sultry bombshell and world renown actress. In the fall of 1965, Farah enrolled at The University of Texas at Austin, where she planned to major in microbiology. The following year, a celebrity publicist asked her to go to California to work as a model. Initially, her parents forbade her to go, but in the summer of 1968 they conceded and accompanied Farrah to Hollywood, California. Within two weeks of arriving, she landed modeling contracts, and was inundated with offers to star in TV commercials and print advertisements. Farrah remained in Hollywood and began a relationship with actor Lee Majors. They were together as a couple for five years before marrying in July 1973. That same year, Majors began his starring role in the hit TV series, The Six Million Dollar Man. In 1976, Farrah was cast as former policewoman Jill Monroe in the TV series Charlie's Angels. The Aaron Spelling drama premiered to high ratings, but prudent critics had a dimmer view, classifying Charlie's Angels as "family style porn" and "jiggle TV." In her first season a poster of Farrah, clad in a seemingly innocent red bathing suit sold 12 million copies.This adventursome image catapulted Fawcett to superstardom. This exposure epitomized her perfect combination of girl-next-door innocence and blonde bombshell sexuality. Furthermore, the layered hairstyle that she sported became an overwhelming trend with American women. Despite her tremendous popularity, Farrah did not return for the second season of Charlie's Angels. This arrogance enraged Spelling, who wielded a large amount of power in Hollywood, and he sued Farrah for breech of contract. Faced with a $7 million lawsuit, Fawcett settled out of court by agreeing to make periodic guest appearances on the show over the next few years. Farrah turned her attention toward film roles, appearing in "Logan's Run", "Sunburn", and "Saturn 3", all of which bombed at the box office. The subsequent roles she was offered reflected the industry's doubts about her talent as a serious actress. Although Fawcett was praised for her dramatic television role in "Murder in Texas", her appearance as a ditsy blonde in the film "Cannonball Run" was more typical of the scripts that came her way. Farrah and Lee Majors were divorced in 1982, ending their 9-year marriage, and Farrah began dating actor and notorious womanizer, Ryan O'Neal. The following year, she fought for and won the starring role in the off-Broadway play "Extremities", and received rave reviews. Her performance as a vengeful rape victim was heralded as her greatest achievement to date. In 1984, Farrah produced and starred in the made-for-TV movie, "The Burning Bed", for which Farrah earned national recognition, as well as an Emmy nomination. In 1995, the 48-year-old actress posed topless in Playboy magazine and the issue quickly became one of the most popular in the magazine's history. Two years later, in 1997, Farrah once again graced the pages of Playboy. Farrah is a truely sexy, bombshell actress, with unaging appeal.