Mia Farrow is the daughter of director John Farrow and actress Maureen O'Sullivan (who played Jane in Tarzan. She started doing film in 1959 and is most noticed for the film Rosemary's Baby (1968) - before which she was most famous for being the May-December bride of Frank Sinatra.

Although she had done television and theatre (she was the first American actress to be accepted as a member of London's prestigious Royal Shakespeare Company), her big breakthrough happened when she met Woody Allen on the set of A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy. After that, Woody Allen wrote many other roles for her including Hannah and Her Sisters in which she starred in the leading role. In fact, from 1982 to 1992, she made 13 movies with Allen, her lover at the time. Mia has 14 children, many of which are adopted.